User:Simon/Workshop Rietveld Library

09.05.19 at the rietveld library

Session at the Rietveld Library, with Eva Weinmayr, An Mertens, Martino Morandi, Anita Burato, Lieven Lahaye, & XPUB1. Central to the session was a presentation on the Rietveld's cataloguing system, which employs open-source software and also a semi-permanent library.

cataloguing system

The Rietveld Library uses Evergreen open-source software to catalogue its books. They have developed it with the aim of making the infrastructure of the library cataloguing system more visible. This in line with workshops with students to address the fact that students use both analog and digital books, as well as many files, docs etc that are usually disorganised.

republishing as EPUBS

The EPUB format offers a lot of potential in its structure - composed of HTML files, and stored in folders according to chapter - offers a lot of potential in its structure to "bring books together" or to make "a book of a book". Based on Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality, Rietveld librarians have republished books by scanning, OCR processing and converting to EPUB.

splotr (semi-permanent library of the rietveld)

splotr (Calibre server running on a Raspberry Pi) is a small repository that is connected to the main catalogue of the library. This allows students to gather digital files in a device that is accessible over a local network, and associate them with files and books in the more stable, "permanent" catalogue.