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Participants

Approx 6/7 people, max 10
Elise
Anna
Ylva

Schedule

WEEK 1
28/29 September
Sessions at Blaker with Ellef, Martin, Guttorm

October 1
SESSION at K HIO
Martin, Ellef ( Nicolas ) + Michael

Pixel + Character (representations for manipulations and composition)
Indexing (a book vs. a set of documents in the data(base) management sense)

WEEK 2
Monday 5th
group critique

WEEK 3
Wednesday, Thursday Oct 14 + 15
Supervision + Tutorials at K Hi O with all of us

14th evening:
Public presentation at Kio

Oct 22: End critique in Blaker with Martin, Ellef, + Guttorm;
install results in book house

Each STUDENT will select a single book,
which will need to "pass through" the digital to result in a "new book" (in whatever form)

* Etherpad as part of the toolset (how to use the API to extract text?)

Reading list / Examples
 

Resources / Links


Technology


* Focus on HOW to WORK across TOOLS !!!

Export to GIMP/photoshop from orderings

Topics
* Massive amounts of text available online : archive.org / gutenberg.org / aaaaarg / ...
The majority of these come from 
http://www.gutenberg.org/
* wikisource
* google books
* OCR

Software links  
Training tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract
Might not n-grams be an interesting topic for indexing OCR errors with spacing issues? https://pythonhosted.org/Whoosh/ngrams.html
ocropy .. https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy
BINDING related to the epub notion of reading order http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-overview.html#sec-nav and the spine element http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-spine-elem


https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/tesseract.1.html
HOCR + PDF output from tesseract!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOCR
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QQnIQtvdAC_8n92-LhwPcjtAUFwBlzE8EWnKAxlgVf0/edit#heading=h.56bz3edm9d98
(SPAM! ;)


Review of KHiO projects
=======================
1
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Malin
working with Orbis Sesualium Pictus
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/246/item/1
First dictionary / "reader" ... about teaching / learning how to read...
Danish, German, Latin
Sense of facts that aren't facts anymore...

some links of wikipedia projects...
http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/portfolio/project/iraq-war-wikihistoriography/
http://epicpedia.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28299

Maybe focus on a single page, or a single fact, or single sentence and trace through the different editions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
(TODO: API example / JSON plugin?)

6 October
Dimensions 
when learning a word in several languages, it enriches your understanding of the concept
from 2D to 3D
seeing a 2 dimensional image, learning the word adds a dimension, in a second language adds yet another
Short story: "Den dirrende streken"
image in four dimensions: image, danish, german, latin: "leafing" through a lesson
create new material, not derived from the original book
abstract stylized figure or maybe photgraph
key to the object's book form: the gesture of leafing through
what does leafing mean in a digital context?
rgb  equivalent to three languages? 
choose a specific page or "lesson"? The sun revolving around the earth?
The time passed since the original book
the time represented in the sun revolving around the earth
the time of reading the Orbis Pictus (ten years maybe?)
the time of leafing through this new edition
Look into later editions of the book where the "error" has been corrected? 

14 october
change idea?
find videos on youtube to illustrate 
work with the lesson from the book on "the book"
project video in the space of missing illustration 
use the original book as projection screen 

wants to discuss these ideas

Nicolas: Are you sure that you want to fill the gap?
Maybe you can use the gap/erasure to question the digital?
(the fact that the interactive element is what becomes a blank is an idea with lots of resonance potentially today)
waybackmachine ==> digital resources full of holes...

Projecting onto the blank part of an Orbis page
? http://www.wikigifs.org/#Altogether.gif
? Mundaneum demo clip (augmented card catalog)
Wayback machine: https://archive.org/web/ and the gaps from content that's fallen away

15 october
page with missing illustration
wikipedia article on geocentrism
the concept of rotation: gifs
wants to narrow down concept, discuss this

2
===
Ylva
"the book that shouldn't be touched"
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/246/item/38
"like the kindle... it has limitations (material limitations)
.... interest in the scarcity of the object
desire to learn python
desire to make a "reader" in python...
(text adventure Zork ...)
(TODO: text adventure engine?)
the title: a game in hell (Igra v adu)
A poem about a card game between the devil and sinners.
Authors: Aleksei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov
Graphic artists: Olga Rozanova, Kazimir Malevich
Illustrated book (17 x 12.8 cm) with 28 transfer lithographs
willfully made with cheap materials, and appeared 
purposely unrefined, as if it were a product of wild and 
primitive behavior."

Maybe useful: Text adventure engine in Python?
http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.wolf/PAWS.htm

Ekfraces?
(TODO: kurenniemi "peak" interface)

Has taken photos of glimpses into the "illegal" package of the original book 
a game in hell -- text adventure in Python
the title is important and that the rule-bound encounter with the book (don't touch etc.)
the readability of the terminal vs the book
print a paper book with the code of the game
Will you be able to open the book in the game? 
Does there exist translations of the poem that can be used

The original book is printed in black on one piece of paper (folded many times, then cut).
I will print the entire code in black on one, long piece of paper (printshop) then fold it into
a book (that you would have to read sideways). No point in separating the code to fit regular
pages. Would need some sort of dustjacket to hold it together. The code / the new book holds
the key to winning the game. If you understand how to read it. The style of coding is not too
advanced, I think people would be able to understand how to identify 'correct' answers. 
I could also add # comments to the code, but wouldn't that kill the fun?

example:
user_input = self.fix_user_input(raw_input())
if user_input == 'next':
    self.orbis()
elif user_input == 'previous':
    self.ida()
elif user_input == 'back':
    self.second()
elif user_input == 'go back':
    self.second()
elif user_input == 'read':
    print "\nNot so fast, have you washed your hands?"
    print "\n-",
    user_input = self.fix_user_input(raw_input())
    if user_input == 'yes':
        print "\nLiar."
        self.__init__()
    elif user_input == 'no':
        print "\nPlease wash your hands."
        self.igra(print_start = False)
    else:
        print "This isn't going anywhere..."
        self.igra(print_start = False)
        
Link to a copy of the current python document / code if anyone wants to try to run it on their computer: 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/52nszttoq876ou8/AACjQF2PcBvgjLbpTKYkmvUDa?dl=0
Guide for classmates: drag GameInHell_copy.py to your desktop. Open the terminal (application / black box that 
looks geeky) type: cd desktop (press enter). type: cd GameInHell_copy (press enter). type: python GameInHell_copy.py (press enter), and the game 
should start. (PS: Try typing 'eat apple' in the room full of books).

Need help finding an english translation of the poem. Getting lost in the google jungle.  - Update: ignoring the translation (Another game in hell...).
Need someone who's experienced to look at my code / give feedback.
Need a good way to import the code to InDesign without compromising the code 
(indents, paragraphs and spaces in particular).
Need more ideas on how to win the game / stages to complete before winning.

Picked up this book for inspiration at the Hasselblad center in Gothenburg:
Uncertainty in Games - Greg Costikyan (MIT press / Playful thinking series).

(You told us to use the pad). :-D

english translation  in Bergen?:
http://bibsys-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BIBSYS_ILS91043364x&indx=3&recIds=BIBSYS_ILS91043364x&recIdxs=2&elementId=2&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=2&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BIBSYS_ILS%29&frbg=&tab=library_catalogue&dstmp=1444832398528&srt=rank&mode=Basic&&dum=true&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=Velimir%20Khlebnikov&vid=UBO

http://monoskop.org/images/b/b5/Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_3_Selected_Poems.pdf
Can't open this link. Would you mind posting the quote here, Ellef? (Never mind!)
"A Game in Hell, hard work in heaven — 
our first lessons were pretty good ones 
together, remember?
We nibbled like mice at turbid time — 
In hoc signo vincesl" (Translation: In this sign you will conquer!)

https://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008637932

Try out Eliza style coding (Chat bot)? At least for some of the stages / levels.
http://automatist.org/eliza/edit.php?script=DOCTOR
http://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

Following your coding advice:
else:                         
    print choice([ # Provide a selection of comments when the wrong answer is typed."                                 
For the setup at Blaker I have a Rasberry Pi and a wireless keyboard, working on finding a screen / monitor. 
Need a bluetooth dongle to connect the keyboard and the pi. 


October 15
set up in Blaker: monitor, keyboard, Raspberry pi, code printed on one sheet of paper, folded into a leporello book
needs help with Elisa + keyboard

Need some fancy trick / code to restart script / start from the beginning from within the script.

https://archive.org/stream/gri_000r33125008637932/gri_000r33125008637932_djvu.txt (the prize / ocr content of the book).


Some links for raspberry pi:
    In case you need to get a "fresh image" .... https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
    I would try the "wheezy" image (it's been used for a longer time, so tutorials are probably connected to that)
    (in any case maybe just start with the image that's already on the SD card, and if there are problems, start from a fresh image)
    
    Pairing an Apple Wireless keyboard with the PI
    http://www.frankmitchell.org/2013/04/apple-pi/
    
    Automatically logging in on the PI:
    this page describes the process: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=59960
    which is to first:
        http://elinux.org/RPi_Debian_Auto_Login
    and then to add the "start command" to the file named .bashrc
        nano ~/.bashrc
 
 
3
===
Elise
http://magi.elisejakob.no/blaker/
religious notebook from egypt, year 668
supposedly a set of commandments, with owner's comments
written by muhammad akmed el baksomething

Handwritten RULES...
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/304/item/198
or maybe NAMES...
are the annotations quotes (or as guttorm said it was something else?)

Like looking at text when you don't know the meaning...
Looking at the letters as forms....

MAYBE links with OCR...
?? try tesseract on the arabic characters...
Emily Dickingson Pinned poems...

Interest in annotation...
(evt. link to W3C annotation...)
Links with Adrian Johns about the enforcement to leave margins...

A diary?
Does the endpoint have to be a book? 
wants to say: this is not a book
had problems with tessaract 
deep dream generator .com  looking for animal faces in images
rather than text as image --- work with the functionality of the book: commentaries, the intimacy
Consider Kurenniemi's work with Newton, mathematica:
http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/logbook/?p=172
http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/logbook/?p=476

http://www.futureofthebook.org/
http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving/
http://offprintlondon.com/ (Website designed as a book, Laurenz Brunner 2015)
http://webtypography.net/ Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style applied to the web

October 14
intimacy of a notebook
why isn't a blog a book
not sure if a digital book will ever exist
different strengths of different mediums
notebook for ever
automati scroll, speed of reading
database or local storage
you only see your own notes, drawings
consider "collective" view
Nicolas: Generic tool or something developed for a particular content or purpose

why did my colour change </3 - Because you n00bed. go away ylva You're in the pad now, Elise. I will never go away.
http://magi.elisejakob.no/blaker/book/


where to take this next? 
canvas not working 
ability to add textboxes in the margin 
bookmarks 
auto scroll 
numbered lines like in text editors for code 
- attach/upload images? sound? video? 
- needs database?
support for multiple users; websockets?

Embrace the privacy...
http://gibca.se/index.php/en/gibca2015/artists/meleko-mokgosi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomnema
http://bibliotecha.info/
http://piratebox.cc/
http://librarybox.us/
Radical Tactics of the Offline Library https://vimeo.com/95351775

LocalStorage is in fact a quite appropriate technology (the personal notes)
Benefits of digital offline
private vs public parts... play with the tension (and possibilities) of working digitally in a private mode, sharing via a local server, versus eventually publishing on the public Internet...
Quantity is important -- wants to raise navigation issues...
Build the reading speed test into the book itself?

oct 15
made the drawing mode work
wants to work on how to navigate the content

What happens to the digital 'notebook' if I reset my browser? you lose the game
When I reset safari, my etherpad user disappeared (the reason I'm not testing it myself, really hard to get the right shade of blue). 
"The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
   ,--./,-.    
 /,-._.--~\  
     )  (      
  \`-._,-`-,  
   `._,._,'   
                                                         
           ".                         ,#                
             `-._______ , –'=/                  
 _______`._ ---------- _,'_________  
                   `----------'                        


110 % hehe. *107 % *112% if you try really hard.

4
===
Id a?
5000 page hardware catalog...
It's an archive itself with "everything you need"
Idea that your surroundings define you -- how it defines how people are by their tools / needs / purchases...
BINDING of the book fascinating in that it allows new pages to be added... also how the aging of the  book
(very nice image of the different colors showing age)

(an example project to visualize a wiki article's history:
    http://www.bewitched.com/historyflow.html
)
EXTREME bindings...
(The unbound book?)...

Also interested in the necklace book
a scroll.. to be worn around your neck...

October 5
Undecided hardware catalog vs. ethiopian necklace or both
the bound and "unbound" character of the catalogue
repetition, infinitty, changeability
necklace: we don't know what's inside
infinity inside a USB stick
the usb stick and old necklace as closed, as magic, producing effects in the world
the vulnerability: using this unreadable book can change your life, make you happy or unhappy
virus, happiness

October 16
Ethiopian necklace / USB stick
You can use the USB stick, but it is secret what's on it
vapor ware
vapor wave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE
Virus?
How to frame the necklaces
What to put on it
processes beyon conscious communication

Jussi Parikka on computer viruses: http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/parikka_digital%20contagions.pdf

5
===
Vilde
Photo book by Brassai
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/item/1700/
Paris de Nuit
Atmosphere of the photographs: Whole page bleed, nice paper and deep black... the experience of the book is rich
As a PDF or just scans, loses the atmosphere... how to add to this lost atmosphere in the digital?
Could you add audio / music / or interactivity to add back to the experience of the book...
What to do with the descriptions of the photographs?
(or ignore them?)

http//librivox.org
SPIRAL binding
that give spreads...
(readers reading an algoirthmic treatment of an image)?

Has photographed the book
print the images and then scan them
the book is very beautiful
considers makin it more ugly 
has transcribed the entire text
read out loud by google translate 
Wants to create a photo book without images
trying "glitch" -- to mess up the images 
consider an audio book of the photo book
text to audio
auto translate
blind annotation?
text vs images


Oct 14

what would Brassai have done today?
Brassai around 30 years
Publishing via Instagram being the contemporary version... Using hashtags, post photos for a week... Collect responses (lack of responses could be a comment itself ... over saturation of interests / lack of attention) ... reprint as a book with instagram data.. Reflection on different qualities of photos / responses (likes and comments don't necessarily reflect the quality of the photo) ... Contrast of the complexity of the photo vs. the brevity of typical response
Instagram API: https://instagram.com/developer/
Anatomy of a tweet: http://halfblog.net/2010/04/20/anatomy-of-a-tweet/anatomy-of-a-tweet-2/
(another possible ex. Aaron Valdez Grand Canyon )... Photo book examples from Benjamin Li...
62 photos
remediate instagram account as bound book with spiral binding
transparent pages with instagram data in between the photos

Nicolas: Is the interest primarily in Instagram or in responses to Brassai? Important decision
Martin: Consider combining this with the initial idea to make audio version without images

What is an image description?
http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/logbook/?page_id=521


6
==============
Anna (  A           N           N           A  )
The Book of Job (  T  H  E     B  O  O  K     O  F    J                        O                          B  )
Baskerville bible...
Kerning / Typography
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/15/item/91
Size of book: it's quite large, but it's difficult to read the extreme ends ...

(again perhaps work with hOCR?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOCR

October 5
Bible has 82 chapters with chapter headings with more or less spacings
Has measured the spacings in all the headings manually 
variations depend on the length of words on adjacent lines and overall layout of the specific page
a digital tool for the generation of spacings inside words
Martin: Consider only the titles? 
Why is the kerning done in this way
Martin: the gut feeling of typography, sensibility, not rule-governed
Translate the layout to EPUB?
do we the kerning as more or less radical than when the book appeared
from bible to epub and back to paper?


October 14

More interested in space than in the letters
1 what information is in the spacings? 
2 alternative: positioning of the individual letters 
how does that work in epub? reflowable text, relative/absolute positioning 
3 Facial recognition? banana recognition

wants to test OCR software
what output can it give
other  ways of addressing the spaces?

Final output: not necessarily contain letters
Martin: negative space is si important in typography

15 October

Tried using Tessaract -- OCR scanning
combine different means of representing the pages
drawing out the pages manually and through software
EPUB on spacing, images of text

Technical assistance + conversation

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5976289/stretch-text-to-fit-width-of-div

7
===========
Pati
http://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/12/item/17
From 1474
Hybrid of typesetting and hand painted numerals...
Maybe we are in the same kind of "zeitgeist" of a transition between the digital and the analog...

Maybe a work that compares now with then...
Incunable?
Digitilize the font...
Use FontLab?

(Ref: Madame Crickx projects and font?)
http://osp.kitchen/foundry/crickx/
Maybe hack the typeface to produce different P's...

Digitalisation to form is not just a representation of the digitalisation but more a statement on where we are today?
Releasing a font as a means of longevity...

Western vs. reading of images... Iconographic reading vs. stream
http://sicv.activearchives.org/scanscape/README.html

http://www.yourworldoftext.com/
http://www.postmastersart.com/digit/art22w.html

6 October

Decides to work with the initials, both printed and hand painted 
photoshop function designed to remove object , filling in the gap with characteristics from adjacent areas of the image
Using this to multiply an initial, drawing images with the letter
make new font based upon initials
write images with letters
compare double initials with OCR-output?
relationship between letter and image of letter back then and today
text as text vs text as image

15 october 
This is not a font [[what does that mean]]
more product of research
has pulled out the characters
misusing context aware tool in photoshop
wants to discuss a context/output for his experiments
what is to be the content of the text?

TYPING IMAGES