User:Pedro Sá Couto/Prototyping 5th/Text Launderette Scripts

About Text Launderette

TITLE

XPUB workshops – Text Launderette

Station

Publication Station

Location/Classroom

BL.00.4

Tutor(s)

Simon Browne & Pedro Sá Couto

Description

We will 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. Ultimately, we will include them 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.

Participants should bring: a printed text, which they’d like to digitize and share.

Practical information

Under the name of .py.rate.chnic sessions, the second-year students from the Experimental Publishing Master program invite you to participate in a series of hands-on workshops, related to the topics of their graduation projects. Each workshop offers the participants an opportunity to engage with the students’ research by partaking in their processes, experiments, and discussions.

Minimal enrolment

5

Maximum enrolment

15

Number of sessions

1

Duration of a session

3h