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* Where: | * Where: | ||
local? networked? physical space? | local? networked? physical/digital space? | ||
* When: | * When: | ||
temporary? always available? | temporary? always available? updating? | ||
* Why: | * Why: | ||
what is the goal? | what is the goal? | ||
* How to make it interesting and expandable? | * How to make it interesting and expandable? | ||
== Collecting the Library == | == Collecting the Library == | ||
Revision as of 21:42, 14 May 2018
XPUB LIB
A digital library for students, by students.
Brainstorm Session 10.05.2018: https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/xpub-library
Questions to answer:
- Who:
Who is using it? Only PZ? Who is contributing?
- What:
Most important features? Content?
- Where:
local? networked? physical/digital space?
- When:
temporary? always available? updating?
- Why:
what is the goal?
- How to make it interesting and expandable?
Collecting the Library
Gathering information on the existing book shelf @ the studio
Also good to look into: Xpub reader
Saturday Session 12.05.2018: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7Fn70y9Pf_uVacEeFzLkOtx9hU4OTRTd074dLuLjHw/edit#gid=0
Structure
Categories
- Tags?
- Thematic categories
- Allow users to make collections or 'stacks'
Metadata
- What info to extract, to make visible?
- reference info: title, author, year, publisher, ISBN / DOI
- file format
- reading time?
- price?
- abstract?
- source?
- upload data (date, time, note?)
Platform
?? What platform to use for the collection ??
- PI
- JSON / MySQL
- Mediawiki
- Calibre
Interface
Search?
- Search engine that allows for serendipity?
- Full text search?
List / Items
- How to design a reading interface that situates the items and explores its provenance?
- e.g. searching for a non-existant item will create a placeholder for that item, every subsequent query is tracked, so you also can see the searched for books (wishlist) along with the existing books
Annotation System
- Human annotations in browser? As a separate layer to the books? Visible to everyone?
- Machine annotations?
Reading Time
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/itl-tools
Sociality
- What modes of sociality can we embed into a library interface? Can we devise new ways to talk back to the data?
- How to hero the enunciative materiality of an academic library? Prioritize ecosystems and interactions instead of objects?
- What role does media piracy play for students around the world? In Western and non-western contexts, who is the pirate downloader and the outlaw uploader?
- What kind of community do we want to build? What is the priority: P2P? Platform for mass sharing?
- Can we find ways to bring digital transactions + physical relationships together?
- More here
3D Steganography version of the library
Access
- Which parts of the library should be private and which public? How many layers do we want to design into the interface?
- How to deal with copyright? Is there space to be creative with our licensing? SPAMSOC style?
- Who can upload / download / read / write? Should people make user profiles? Can people stay anonymous?
Future
How to keep it alive?
Planning
- by the 13th of May: List books in PZI bookshelf and download PDF's of them
- categories / catalogue system
- access: how and who
- research visual interface
- by 15th May: wiki pages of our proposal with each person's focus
- plan survey / discussion with research station
- 13 June: PANIC IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, PANIC IN THE STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM, PANIC AT THE DISCO –––––––––– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMykYSQaG_c
- 14 June: PRESENTATION OF PROTOTYPE
- 14 June: Hang the DJ