User:Bnstlv

Contents
1  LIFE BEFORE XPUB 
2  NEW LIFE, NEW XPUB 
2.1 SPECIAL ISSUES
2.1.1 SPECIAL ISSUE 19

2.2 PROTOTYPING
2.2.1 SOFTWARE

2.3  01 Kick-off: Tasks of the Contingent Librarian 
2.4  02 Print Screen 
2.5  03 Text, TBC 
2.6  04 Scribes Getting Personal ☞ 
2.7 WORKSHOPS
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2.8 SKILLS

3  STUDIO 
4  LIBRARY 
5  BRAIN DUMP 
 LIFE BEFORE XPUB Hoi! My name is Boyana [Бояна], but my friends call me Bobi, Bube, Bo.. Bulgarian. Child of the 80s. 
My work life before XPUB was centered around digital communications, branding, creative concepts, and content creation. I do my best to help sustainable businesses and civic organizations do good by expanding their message online and thus connecting with real people in a community-focused space. Excited to explore further the human-software interaction, experiment with creative coding, and publish things that play with both, digital and physical. Outside of that, I am into hiking, sailing, and cycling (thanks, Rotterdam!). 
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 NEW LIFE, NEW XPUB Saw a random poster on the street that said "Life is randomness" so here you'll find random stuff from my new life as one of six breadcubies. 
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What,How,Why
 01 Kick-off: Tasks of the Contingent Librarian Pad: Introduction to the Special Issue with Simon

In this Special Issue, How Do We Library That?, we will start by considering the word "library" as a verb; actions that sustains the production, collection and distribution of texts. We will question indexical attitudes that lean towards universalisms and search for proposals for how we "library" our particular collection.


This first session was about listening to Simon, to each other, and to ourselves. Simon shared with us the cards from Tasks of the Contingent Librarian. We took notes collectively on the pad on what has been said by each one of us or in pars. I think we all enjoyed the process and the chance to work together because we decided to do the assignment (make cards for the bootleg library) as a team. We made 6 cards in total. Have a look at the Pad below. 
Bootleg library
Pad to our Cards in bags
Scan and listen

 02 Print Screen Pad: Print & Publication Station & XML

It was interesting to have a look at the bootleg library and XML (experimental media lab). Simon gave us a task to select a text from the books in them and then to reflect on what's been read. I decided to work with one super cool book, Resonant bodies, voices, memories. I recorded 6 minutes of audio of me talking about the book. Then we used the files to make a transcription in vosk. It was fun to see if and how the software will (or will not) capture words, sounds, and pronunciations. My text file was super messy and nothing made sense. 
About VOSK
Vosk - all our transcriptions after we edited them to make them legible for the reader.
Zettlekasten - (zettle = (paper) slip / kasten = box)
100 unique copies of The Beatles’ White Album
CoolGuy - cool website of a cool guy
Baby by Justin Bieber But 800% Slower
 03 Text, TBC Pad: Dimensions of text - editorial, technical, social

We went to the Research station and we met W., the librarian/gardener.
 04 Scribes Getting Personal ☞ Pad: Different ways to indicate/index/point to things

Web-to-Print We had a full-day workshop on web-to-print at the Varia library (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam). 
Output: make more cards and work with the space at vvvvvaria.
Pandoc - web to print
Assignment - Devise a proof of concept for your "HTML gardening". Next week we meet again at Varia to materialise the outcomes.
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 LIBRARY Suggested readings
Books
 BRAIN DUMP Reading list
Notes & more random stuff