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A CONFERENCE on READING and PUBLISHING in the DIGITAL AGE Amsterdam & Den Haag 19-21 May Program Page Introduction www.e-boekenstad.nl/unbound A CONFERENCE ON READING AND PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Amsterdam & Den Haag 19-21 May PROGRAM PAGE INTRODUCTION THURSDAY, MAY 19 Pre-day Workshops 02 HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM THE UNBOUND 11.00 – 13.30 Open Publishing Tools 03 13.30 – 14.00 Lunch BOOK 14.00 – 17.00 Digital Enclosures 03 14.00 – 17.00 E-readers in Dutch Education (RAAK Session) 03 17.00 – 18.00 Food and Drinks A THREE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LITERACY AND PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL AGE FRIDAY, MAY 20 The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has rapidly grown outdated. Meanwhile the capacity Conference Day One 04 AULA ROOM, KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK (KB), to create digital book-like functions and forms is endless. DEN HAAG In a double sense the book is coming unbound, both from the bindings of the printed volume and also the boundaries 09.30 – 10.00 Doors Open, Coffee and Tea between multimedia content and modes of authorship in a 10.00 – 10.15 Opening Remarks by Joost Kircz vast, interconnected electronic space. 10.15 – 12.30 Session One: What is a Book? 05 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch These possibilities may be exciting, but the digital book is left 13.30 – 15.30 Session Two: The Unbound Book 06 without obvious contours. The entire concept of ‘bookness’ 15.30 – 15.45 Coffee and Tea Break needs reinvention. To do this well, we must go back to the 15.45 – 17.30 Session Three: Ascent of E-readers 08 basics. This means not only questioning the future of the 17.30 – 17.45 Book Launch: Critical Point of View: 10 book and its institutional and intellectual infrastructures, a Wikipedia Reader but also asking what we should retain of the familiar printed 18.00 – 20.00 Reception at the Meermanno Museum 10 volume, even as we embrace the digital future. Those developing these (sometimes competing) technologies and standards too often ignore perspectives outside of SATURDAY, MAY 21 immediate, market-driven concerns. It is therefore critical that cultural forces step in to affect how we design, utilize, Conference Day Two 11 THEATER VAN ‘t WOORD, and disseminate the book’s future forms. What new models OPENBARE BIBLIOTHEEK AMSTERDAM (OBA) can advance writing, collaborating, distributing, reading and interpreting knowledge? What affordances can affect 09.30 – 10.15 Doors Open, Coffee and Tea the formatting and designing of dynamic content? Through 10.30 – 12.30 Session Four: Future Publishing Industries 12 panel discussions, presentations, and workshops, the ­Unbound 12.30 – 01.30 Lunch break Book Conference brings together academics, designers, 13.30 – 15.30 Session Five: Books by Design 12 writers, librarians, software and hardware developers, and 15.45 – 17.20 Session Six: Horizons of Education and Authoring 14 publishers who want to take part in defining their roles 17.20 – 17.30 Closings Remarks by Adriaan van der Weel within this transformative landscape. 15.30 – 15.45 Coffee and Tea Break 17.30 – 18.00 Book Launch: I Read Where I Am 16 The Unbound Book is an initiative of the CREATE-IT Applied research centre at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the Book and Digital Media Studies at the University of Leiden, and the Institute of Network Cultures. Biographies 17 1 MAY 19, AMSTERDAM WORKSHOPS WORKSHOP 1 in daadwerkelijke testen en inhoudelijke 11.30 – 14.00, Room 03B11 discussie over de keten in de educatieve markt is hartelijk welkom. De workshop Open Publishing Tools is in het Nederlands. (A session in Dutch.) A grab bag show-and-tell of the latest Moderator innovative open-source resources for digital Joost Kircz (NL) P.19 book design, publishing, and print-on-demand techniques. Tomas Krag (P.19), founder of the booksprint, will demo his marathon- speed collaborative authoring software; WORKSHOP 3 John Haltiwanger (P.18) and Femke Snelting 14.00 – 17.00, Room 03B11 (P.22) of Open Source Publishing will lead us through the theories and methods behind Digital Enclosures generative typesetting and open-source typography, and Simon Worthington (P.24) Open or closed? Wired Magazine declared will give us the scoop on the customized open the death of the anything-goes World Wide source software driving Mute Magazine’s Web and the rise of the locked-down, closed impressive publishing projects. app; meanwhile clashing e-reader standards and Digital Rights Management (DRM) Moderator clamp down on digital book swapping. Too Morgan Currie (NL) P.18 often debates on these developments either champion inevitable piracy and ‘free’ and ‘open’ or defend traditional publishing and web 2.0 markets. But managing digital data is WORKSHOP 2 a much more nuanced conversation involving 14.00 – 17.00, Razdaal Room the livelihoods of authors, open access in ­scientific­publishing,­and­editors­­concerned­ E-lezers in Onderwijs with­quality­in­financially­­precarious­fields.­ E-readers in Education (a Session in Dutch) This session also shows that creative alterna- tives to standard copyright laws and DRM Deze workshop is geheel gewijd aan de are alive and kicking. The audience will resultaten en nog lopend onderzoek van het engage­with­serious­file­sharers,­independent­ Amsterdam E-boekenstad project. Dit project publishers, open-access gurus who take the in het kader van de Stichting Innovatie publishing cycle into their own hands, and Alliantie/Raak (www.innovatie-alliantie.nl) representatives from trade publishing who onderzoekt de veranderingen in de boeken- seek­to­(financially)­uphold­traditional­value- keten als gevolg van e-lezers met het accent adding editorial processes. On Thursday, 19 May 2011 the RAAK-SIA project op de educatieve markt. De afgesloten ‘Amsterdam E-boekenstad’ organizes three workshops deelprojecten en presentaties zijn allen te Moderator at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Rhijnspoorplein 1, vinden op de website www.e-boekenstad.nl. Leo Waaijers (NL) P.24 Amsterdam). These workshops function as conversa- Het lopend onderzoek staat op de wiki: tional discussion forums where speakers and audience www.e-boekenstad.wikispaces.com. In de Speakers alike can examine and develop concepts for pressing discussie met projectpartners en geïnteres- Sean Dockray (US) P.18 issues bearing on digital publishing and e-reading today. seerden zullen wij de eerste resultaten en de Gary Hall (UK) P.18 lopende projecten de revue laten passeren Nicholas Spice (UK) P.22 en plannen voor de rest van het jaar Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (NL) P.23 bespreken. Iedereen die geïnteresseerd is Saskia de Vries (NL) P.24 2 3 MAY 20, DEN HAAG CONFERENCE SESSIONS 09.30 SPEAKERS Doors open, coffee and tea (US) P.20 10.15 – 10.30 Alan Liu Opening remarks by Joost Kircz (NL) P.19 This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Shared Attention in the Digital Age 10.30 – 12.30 SESSION 1 A common response to an online book is that while it may be better or worse than a book, ‘this is not a book’. But new digital media also have a defamiliarizing effect, WHAT IS A BOOK? making us realize that physical books were Whether an occasion for private submer- themselves never truly books – if by ‘book’ sion, a totem of cultural credibility, or we mean a long form of attention designed an aesthetic object, the printed book is for the permanent, standard, and author- always foreclosed between two covers itative (that is, socially repeatable and and governed by a unique economy of valued) communication of human thought sale. The electronic networked book or experience. This is also the conclusion of changes all this: is a book the material recent scholarship in the history of the book container for reading, a printed page and­history­of­reading­fields­as­they­have­ or an e-reader, or is it content, an entity evolved into parallel forms of media theory. of externalized memory, a metaphor After looking at the not-book of _Agrippa for knowledge? Or perhaps something (a book of the dead)_ – a codex of 1992 that else entirely – an on-going conversation was transitional between physical and space for cultural exchange? Moving online books – this talk outlines methods from early print culture to electronic for discovering and tracking socially repeat- hypertext and today’s ereaders, the able and valued ‘long forms of attention,’ panelists will explore what the book whether past or present. The talk concludes means to us today. What forms of online with a look at the RoSE (Research-oriented communication operate best as linear Social Environment) created by the texts, versus others (the phonebook) that Transliteracies Project at the University have ceased to be books and mutated of California. instead into databases, webpages, and blogs? How has the book as an object of social capital evolved? What transmuta- (NL) P.17 tions of the book have succeeded and Arianne Baggerman what failed to take hold…and why? The Unbound Reader of the Future Moderator Which of books’ qualities are so essential Adriaan van der Weel (NL) P.23 that we must ensure their survival into the future? Is it possible to enrich new media – digital texts – with these older functions? This discussion often lacks a distinction between two forms of reading/readers who have no interconnection at all: ‘real’ readers and researchers. To quote Virginia Woolf: ‘The learned man is a solitary enthusiast, 4 5 MAY 20, DEN HAAG CONFERENCE SESSIONS who searches through books to discover be shown that reading practices in e-book SPEAKERS provided by the times a text is downloaded, some particular grain of truth upon which environments differ from the ones in p-book linked to, tagged or ‘liked’ as much as by he has set his heart’. Those restless seek- environments as private reading seems to traditional means of quality control – but (US) P.23 ers for snippets of information – scientists, be disappearing.
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