XPPL

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? How people are contributing?

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' - A stack is a number of books that are read at a certain point in time, alternating between them. They usually have a topic in common, or follow a certain study path that can bring you to a point of knowledge. Rather than a bookshelf, where books are lined up and often forgotten, the stack on your table/nightstand/toilet consists of books prone to be opened and reopened at any time.
• Cataloguing. An interesting way to search through them

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

Research

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

3D Steganography

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