Pibliotheque workshop at Varia, Rotterdam
Two days workshop at Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
On September 20 and 21, I've had the opportunity to participate to a workshop at Varia (Rotterdam) dedicated to Pibliotheque, a tool I initially created for the Digital Design class at ERG (Brussels), where I teach together with Alexia Devischer. Alexia has been involved for the last two years in a research project called Les nouveaux habits du colportage with Alice Néron and Léonard Mabille. They invited me with Simon Browne from Varia to this workshop to test Pibliotheque and to talk about book sharing practices in local contexts.
Pibliotheque is peer-to-peer software that allows users to exchange documents within a local network and also to build a collective library containing all the documents on the network. This collective library is displayed in different ways depending on the computers connected: each computer can offer a different interface.
During the two-day workshop, we were able to share documents, propose interface ideas, develop modules for importing documents into Pibliotheque from other sources like Zotero (thank you Danny), and discuss potential new features.
