Before I go into the first part of the Twitter Review of the Post-Digital Scholar Conference – Day 1, I’d like to thank everyone that joined this event. The Conference was certainly not my first conference this year, but it was (not surprisingly) one of my favorite.
But lets start with our favorite pickings of the first conference day – and don’t miss the outtakes on the bottom of this post or the other Reviews:
Session 1: The Futures of Writing
with @MrsBunz, @GeertLovink, @cb_hq, @berrydm
Now 1st #pdsc14 panel starting with @MrsBunz @GeertLovink @cb_hq @berrydm – promising lineup of speakers! pic.twitter.com/RMEZZG4bgl
— Lambert Heller (@Lambo) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @MrsBunz wants to see what the boundaries are, of digital critique, and how we push them to understand the futures of the digital
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
.@MrsBunz in times of DH, we must not 'technologise' the humanities but critique and theorise the relationship between tech and hums #pdsc14
— Samuel Moore (@samoore_) November 12, 2014
The publishing industry is going to have its #Napster moment soon, says @glovink at #pdsc14
— René König (@R_Koenig) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @glovink post-digital is not enough. It imagines that if we go post, we will go to the pre-digital. But books as we know it are done
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Geert Lovink arguing for the Mega-Digital Scholar #pdsc14
— Marcus Burkhardt (@bumatic) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 speaker doesn't see himself as post-digital but calls that's German melancholy. He'd rather be the super-digital in multimedia world
— Margo Bargheer (@margoline) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @glovink Old digital libraries look like out of nightmares – libraries without books r disaster.Postdigital has to be thought better
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Berry: can't talk about future of writing w/o talking about future of reading. #pdsc14
— Robert Montoya (@robdmontoya) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @berrydm Book sprint is not the abolishing of long-form and traditional writing – but to think of multiplicity of reading & writing
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 Clare Birchall: experiments in liquid books; writing and publishing as network/assemblage of many actors; post as in working through
— Esther Helena Arens (@botanicaletters) November 12, 2014
Slides I didn't get to at #pdsc14 :-) pic.twitter.com/lpmOZ8cd1I
— David M. Berry (@berrydm) November 12, 2014
Another slide there was no time for at #pdsc14 pic.twitter.com/iuIGa14pT3
— David M. Berry (@berrydm) November 12, 2014
Let us in! The Central role of the Library
with Corinna Haas, @spold, @lambo, Thomas Stäcker and @christianheise
"Let us in!" 2nd panel about The Central Role of the Library #pdsc14
— Esther Helena Arens (@botanicaletters) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 Corinna Haas – the infrastructure of physically networked libraries is a student on a bicycle to fetch and share physical books.
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 "We specialize in getting books from other libraries… There is a student with a bike that goes and fetches them" #jfc #postdigital
— David Dchtoo (@dcht00) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 Hass asks: Where does our post-digitality end? Solutions are in offline consortia and thinking beyond business models
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
"we live a condition in which digital means not accessible" Corinna Haas #pdsc14
— Silvio Lorusso (@silvi0L0russo) November 12, 2014
. @lambo librarian is the truffle-hunter [trueffelschwein (sp?)] searching for scholarly treasures for their users #pdsc14
— Samuel Moore (@samoore_) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @Lambo there is a strong discourse within libraries to find a way out of the digital trap – by being keeper of physical assets
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Libraries: a physical space which needs our scholarly attention for a super digital future. #pdsc14
— Ins.Network Cultures (@INCAmsterdam) November 12, 2014
"Scholars will not wait for specific tools to be made, they'll use what is already out there" @Lambo at #pdsc14
— Silvio Lorusso (@silvi0L0russo) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @spold looks at relnship between Digitization & Provitization in introducing the platform 'Ink After Print'http://t.co/XpTeH3wFjw
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Nice! Thomas Stäcker: Hack your collection! Digitize everything, OCR it, XML-tag it etc. Libs longing for eternity and for order! #pdsc14
— Lambert Heller (@Lambo) November 12, 2014
Digital publishing is not about PDFs but about the structure of writing or: writing structurally. Yes. #pdsc14
— Ins.Network Cultures (@INCAmsterdam) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 -> #icanhazpdf ! thx for bringing that up @Lambo
— Mercedes Bunz (@MrsBunz) November 12, 2014
“Open Access Button” – interesting project mentioned by a speaker at #pdsc14 https://t.co/tw8qQeXVHV
— David M. Berry (@berrydm) November 12, 2014
Good point from #pdsc14 audience: Both means and rules of knowledge production are hugely changing, e.g. with remix practices.
— Lambert Heller (@Lambo) November 12, 2014
Stäcker: Triangle of researchers, IT people and librarians, they should complement each other. #pdsc14
— Lambert Heller (@Lambo) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 libraries about publication advice, information literacy, preparation of data, also counter-force to mainstream digitization
— Esther Helena Arens (@botanicaletters) November 12, 2014
Session 3: The Philosophy of the Book and its Changes
with @kfitz, @christophblaesi and @MrsBunz
Now: The Philosophy of the Book and its Changes with @MrsBunz, @latelyontime, @christophblaesi and @kfitz #pdsc14 pic.twitter.com/yfS4CmaJq8
— Hybrid Publishing (@HyPub) November 12, 2014
Do we really know what a book is? The book as technology? 3rd panel about The Philosophy of the Books and its Changes #pdsc14
— Esther Helena Arens (@botanicaletters) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @kfitz: "We now collect books on devices rather than on shelves" #icanhazpdf
— Mercedes Bunz (@MrsBunz) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14, Kathleen's talk recalls the image of library as a cultural symbol for being human and mortal in the 1976 film Logan's Run.
— Margo Bargheer (@margoline) November 12, 2014
Talk by @kfitz: "a PDF is not print, but a PDF is also not not print" #pdsc14
— Jeroen Sondervan (@jeroenson) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 @kfitz: does a blog have an aura? Hopefully not. kfitz wonderful definition of blogging as authors caught thinking in social setting
— Margo Bargheer (@margoline) November 12, 2014
Thank you for joining the first #pdsc14 conference day! See you tomorrow at 10 am. More at http://t.co/lGrwpNFrs6
— Hybrid Publishing (@HyPub) November 12, 2014
Outtakes:
#pdsc14 We have started by talking about protecting the children – no smoking outside the Music School!
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Are you a rogue scholar? #pdsc14 pic.twitter.com/EOKAjNdvPL
— Ins.Network Cultures (@INCAmsterdam) November 12, 2014
#pdsc14 You know you are at a conference in Germany where people ask each other for WeeFee passwords :p
— latelyontime (@latelyontime) November 12, 2014
Home made book scanner #pdsc14 @ Leuphana Universität Lüneburg http://t.co/2kjmqGzJf1
— Danny Aldred (@danny_aldred) November 12, 2014
There is a power station now in the room downstairs (on opposite to the main hall). Come and charge… #pdsc14 pic.twitter.com/32cTcumEYF
— Hybrid Publishing (@HyPub) November 12, 2014
One driving force of today's Rogue Scholars is… #rs_confessions #pdsc14 pic.twitter.com/ss5SN4XyDe
— _RSRG (@_RSRG) November 12, 2014
Read all reviews of the conference here.
