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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
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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?)
    • other metadata related to the protocols (like the TCP/IP)
    • annotations that have happened manually for the purpose of the protocols (like for DNS connected to IP)

Platform

?? What platform to use for the collection ??

  • PI
  • JSON / MySQL
  • Mediawiki
  • Calibre

Interface

Search?

  • Search engine that allows for serendipity?
  • Full text search?
  • How the information after the search will be shown?

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

Reading a pirate library in public space

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? Would that be related to the search engine as the first access point?

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