User:Alexander Roidl/bookscanning

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transformative processes

  • transforming knowledge
  • creating new file
  • creating new »content«
  • new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
  • revealing information layers (printing technique)
  • turning an analog medium into a digital file
    • change of object, color, pages, reading flow
    • Kantian model of the book (object, that’s sellable & knowledge)
  • display is changing
  • reproducing the reproduced (Walter Benjamin -> next level)

light-sensitive color

  • print with light-sensitive color

-> see nothing / image when scanned or -> see the text when scanned, but it disappears after scanning

scanning as a tool

  • creating graphics / visuals out of scanned pages

-> draw an image from a scanned book pages -> AI? drawing images / abstract / concrete / emotion

  • missuse -> new unexpected results

big data

  • generating new data

(endless data generation)

bubbles

  • we live within a given framework
  • selection of texts leads to an opinion
  • filter
  • idea: chatbot trained only from scanned book pages
  • sherry turkle?

Research

Transformative processes.

When scanning books what happens?

  • Transforming knowledge
  • creating new file
  • creating new »content«
  • new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
    • revealing informationlayers (printing technique)
  • turning an analog medium into a digital file
  • display is changing


Access to…

  • digitale books
  • analog books
  • who has access / who hasn't and why?
  • how easy is access (com. digital / analog)


Adding/Deleting/Altering information of existing books

  • (piracy - connected to anonymous )

How digitisation is changing the view on sexism/feminism

  • books become searchable and more connected


Sources

The Mass Digitization of Books: http://www.kcoyle.net/jal-32-6.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Chartier

Discussion on Googles Book Scanning http://www.firstmonday.org/article/view/2101/2037

NYT article on Google’s bookscanning & bookscanning in general http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html

(Video) What is a book by Roger Chartier http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/b7ff39a973534d4c9583fcd935ee2c581d

Article on Roger Chartier and the past & Future of books http://www.booksandideas.net/The-Book-Its-Past-Its-Future.html