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The need and then creation of a system to identify every particular book in an archive or repository has a long history.  An invention and iterative development of a card catalog, as we know it today,  a universal discrete machine which stores, processes and transfers data[^paper_machines] took several centuries. However, only in late 1960. when computer technology began to become an important part of trade publishers came up with a standardized numeric identifier (ISBN[^isbn]) describing (only) a geographical or language area, publisher and a specific edition and title of the book.

It's hard to imagine a book today which is not prepared and processed as a digital file before it gets published. Still, unique book identifier in use is created by bureaucracy (for bureaucracy) and as a consequence it only reflects book's context related to commerce - nothing else.

Today's available digital books are coming from many different sources: a comprehensive scanning projects like Internet archive, National Library of

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In What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?[^i] Robert Darnton considers how a complete collapse of the social order (when absolutely everything – all social values – is turned upside down) would look. Such trauma happens often in the life of individuals but only rarely on the level of an entire society.

In 1789 the French had to confront the collapse of a whole social order—the world that they defined retrospectively as the Ancien Régime—and to find some new order in the chaos surrounding them. They experienced reality as something that could be destroyed and reconstructed, and they faced seemingly limitless possibilities, both for good and evil, for raising a utopia and for falling back into tyranny.[^ii]

The revolution bootstraps itself.

In the dictionaries of the time, the word revolution was said to derive from the verb to revolve and was defined as “the return of the planet or a star to the same point from which it parted.”[^iii] French political vocabulary spread no further than the narro

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In Zagreb, from May 27th - June 07th the Public Library will get into another iteration in the form of a conference and an exhibition organized by Multimedia institute [^mi2] and WHW[^whw]. Public Library is the synergy of two efforts. First, it makes the case for the institution of public library and its principle of universal access to knowledge. Second, it is an exploration and development of distributed internet infrastructure for amateur librarians.

Public Library was launched at HAIP Festival in Ljubljana in 2012 and after its start the project got a lot of recognition and invitations for lectures, workshops and presentations (e.g. Transmediale (Berlin), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), 98weeks (Beirut), Impakt festival (Utrecht)...[^timeline]).

After Ljubljana and Stuttugart, organized in partnership with Württembergischer Kunstverein & Akademie Schloss Solitude (2014), the event in Zagreb will be the third time that program is conceptualized after the claim that certain place is transformed into public 

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import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui
from PyQt4 import QtCore
from PyQt4 import QtWebKit


app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)

webview = QtWebKit.QWebView()
webview.setUrl(QtCore.QUrl("http://www.python.org"))

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# Streamify FTW

When Andrea and I started to talk about this talk the first proposal was to talk about music industry and in particular streaming services like Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, Groveshark but also Soundcloud, Mixcloud or more from the past like Last.FM. I said Nooo. Talking about music industry and what they do reminds me about so much whining, blaming, complaining and in general frustration. And that all happens at the time when music was never this accessible and as much easy to create, distribute and enjoy. I don't want to say that the current time where we live in is the time we shouldn't complain about, shouldn't be frustrated or even raged about. Or that the way how technology is in use by corporations to make profit is a good thing. Or that asymmetries of power are something we should be quiet about.  No. Of course not. Exactly the opposite.

Still I couldn't get rid of the music references. These are the first two which came to my mind and draft I sent to Andrea right after our first conversa

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| Project | Notes |
| ----- | ----- |
| [all foundation](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/suggested-project-all-foundation/) | `*****` |
| [anastasia kin domains](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-anastasia-kin-domains/) | `*****` |
| [archeology of desire](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-archeology-of-desire/) | `*****` |
| [bgr community organizing to maintain indigenous land rights in the pacific](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-bgr-community-organizing-to-maintain-indigenous-land-rights-in-the-pacific/) | `*****` |
| [casa nuvem](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-casa-nuvem/) | `*****` |
| [chamapesa](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-chamapesa/) | `*****` |
| [common good food](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-common-good-food/) | `*****` |
| [common house](http://projects.robinhoodcoop.org/proposed-project-common-house/) | `*****` |

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<a href="https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/marcell_bw.gif" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/marcell_bw.gif" align="middle" width="40"></a>Nenad Romić (aka Marcell Mars, b. 1972). [Advanced internet user](http://ki.ber.kom.uni.st).

Marcell is one of the founders of [Multimedia Institute](http://www.mi2.hr) - mi2 (1999) and  club [mama](http://www.mi2.hr) in Zagreb (2000). He initiated GNU GPL publishing label EGOBOO.bits (2000); started [Skill sharing](http://wiki.razmjenavjestina.org) (2004) informal meetings of technical enthusiasts in mama + regional hacker gatherings '[Nothing will happen](http://www.nsnd.org)' (2007).

Mars started his research "[Ruling Class Studies](https://www.scribd.com/collections/3523982/Ruling-Class-Studies)" at [Jan van Eyck](http://www.janvaneyck.nl/) (2011-12), continued at [Akademie Schloss Solitude](http://www.akademie-solitude.de/) (2013) and since spring 2015, he is a PhD student at Leuphana Univ

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#Public Library Workshop, Lüneburg, April 17-19

In Lüneburg at [DCRL](http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/) , from April 17-20, the [Public Library](http://www.memoryoftheworld.org) will gather together software and hardware developers, amateur librarians and researchers working on the topics and issues of curation, cataloging, and sharing books; rethinking user interfaces for reading, editing, compiling digital books; workflows of digitization; durability, longetivity and robustness of today's (shadow) libraries.

Amateur librarians ([Dubravka Sekulić](http://monoskop.org/Dubravka_Sekuli%C4%87), [Anthony Iles](http://monoskop.org/Anthony_Iles), [Spideralex](http://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Calafou.xhtml), [Tomislav Medak](http://monoskop.org/Tomislav_Medak))  will continue to care about books and collections at https://library.memoryoftheworld.org. A collections like K_O_K (Katalog oslobođenih knjiga, en. Catalogue of Liberated Books)[^kok], The Midnight Notes[^mn], femin

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