Autonomous Archive/algorithm

An algorithmically curated publication populated by the documents from the Autonomous Archive.

Or in other words, a publication:

• that looks at the Poortgebouw archive from the inside
• it accompanies the hand-curated publication
• where its materials are selected by scripts
• where its composition is accomplished via scripts and templates
• one version, multiple versions, or multiple non-repeating versions can exist

Practicals

• 200 copies
• around 300€

Scaning Utils

https://git.xpub.nl/scan-utils/log.html

Software dependencies:

• scanning software
  • linux: sane,xsane
• Mac/Widows Canon Lide 120 drivers
• pdftk (Mac/Windows installer )
• imagemagick (Mac: brew install imagemagick)
• Git (Mac: brew install git)

Download them with git:

git clone https://git.xpub.nl/repos/scan-utils.git

imgs2pdf.sh

• Converts a directory of images onto a single PDF
• Usage:

  ./imgs2pdf.sh imgs-dir-name pdf-filename

• Note1: imgs-dir must be inside the scan-utils.git directory.
• Note2: If no pdf-filename is provided, output.pdf will the default file name

rotate.sh

• Rotates all images in one a directory a given number of degrees
• Usage: `./rotate.sh imgs-dir-name rotation-in-degrees`