User:Simon/Trim4/Text Laundrette

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Text Laundrette

Text Laundrette is a workshop in which we use a home-made, DIY book scanner, and open-source software to scan, process, and add digital features to printed texts brought by the participants to the workshop. These are included in the “bootleg library”, a shadow library accessible over a local network.

Shadow libraries operate outside of legal copyright frameworks, in response to decreased open access to knowledge. This workshop aims to extend our research on libraries, their sociability, and methods by which we can add provenance to texts included in public or private, legal or extra-legal collections.

First workshop 03.02.20

The workshop ran over 2 hours with invited guests from the academy. It was an ambitious workflow, but we managed to run through several iterations of watermarking, scanning, processing and uploading. The realisation of how much work is involved in digitising and processing texts was certainly a take-home for participants. An interesting moment occurred when uploading - who was the author of the altered text?

Some photos here:

  • the bookscanner

  • poster

  • watermarked annotations from artemis, verso

  • watermarked annotations from artemis, recto

  • the physical bootleg library

  • space for watermarks

  • watermarks on cybertext

  • watermarks on cybertext, verso

  • watermarks on cybertext, recto

  • folded instruction sheet and acetate

  • running OCR script

  • inside the bookscanner

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