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Open tools & workflows for digital writing, notetaking, publishing, reference & library management

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Workshop on open tools and workflows for writing, notetaking, publishing, reference and library management at Social Space Kaymakkin.

Workshop program

Digital writing tools and workflows
1. Why word processors suck.
2. Writing in Markdown.
3. Introduction to Obsidian for personal knowledge management.
4. Brief introduction to Logseq, a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.
Library and reference management.
1. What is and what is not a library.
2. Calibre for ebook management.
3. Zotero for bibliographic reference management.
Publishing
1. Pandoc for document conversion.
2. Hugo for static website building.
3. Sandpoints Hugo framework

Tools & software

Markdown (open standard, lightweight markup plain-text language)
Software for Markdown Zettelkasten workflows:
- Obsidian (Free software for writing and knowledge management)
- Logseq (FOSS for bullet journaling, knowledge and task management, PDF annotation, etc.)
PanWriter Markdown text editor with Pandoc integration
Pandoc (FOSS, universal document converter)
Calibre (FOSS for ebook management)
Zotero (FOSS for bibliographic reference managment)
Hugo (FOSS for building static websites)
Sanpoints (FOSS Hugo theme; open infrastructure of experimental digital publishing)

About
The workshop is free and open
Languages: Greek & English
Bring your own laptop

WADS ↑ ← → ↓

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:56:56 +0300

Co-curation of virtual exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2020 In Kepler’s Gardens (September 9-13, 2020). The exhibition involved 21 artists and consisted of 11 virtual environments developed in Mozilla Hubs.

Exhibition text

WADS (↑ ← → ↓) speaks of plurality and plentifulness, of conjoining principles, disciplines and possibilities. As a virtual space compiled of local artists, it sets out to explore the potential of digital hubs as grounds of artistic and technological co-creation. It imagines a garden of commoning where artists pollinate the digital by employing a technique derived from gardening: namely, grafting.

In this spirit and following its own mission, RISE invites local artists to pollinate the digital by employing a technique derived from gardening: namely, grafting. WADS, a digital garden of commoning formed by 21 local artists, sets out to explore the potential of digital hubs as grounds of artistic and technological co-creation. The digital exhibition is created and experienced in the online environment of Mozilla Hubs and will be accessible through the Ars Electronica Digital Platform.

Project presentation

WADS was exhibited at the Thinker Maker Space in Nicosia, on October 15-16, 2020.

Exhibition credits

Participating Artists

Raissa Angeli, Maria Andreou, Marina Ashioti, Pandelis Diamantides, Anastasia Dolitsay, Peter Eramian, Ibrahim Latif Ince, Stelios Ilchouk, Marina Kassianidou, Irini Khenkin, Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Panagiotis Mina, Faysal Mroueh, Lina Protopapa, Doros Polydorou, Despina Rangou, Kleanthis Rousos, Elena Savvidou, Nico Stephou

Graphic design

Nico Stephou

Curatorial team

Demetris Shammas, Constantinos Miltiadis, Emiddio Vasquez, Myrto Aristidou

With the support of RISE CY (now CYENS) and the Austrian Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: Accessing the Deep-Rooted Spatial Interfaces of Cities

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Artopoulos, Georgios, Constantinos Miltiadis, and Francesco Bagni. ‘Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: Accessing the Deep-Rooted Spatial Interfaces of Cities’. In Neighbourhood & City -Analogue and Digital Perspectives, edited by Marluci Menezes and Carlos Smaniotto Costa, 81–96. Lisbon: Edições Lusófona, 2018.

Daphne's Diary

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:56:19 +0300

Daphne’s Diary is a prototype for historical interactive location-based audio narrative Geocaching tours, developed during the COST Cyberparks Training School titled “Virtual Flâneur of Mediterranean Cities” that took place at the Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, during the week of 30.10-3.11.2017.

On February 2018, the Cyberparks COST Action awarded the project a short-term scientific mission (STSM) grant, for further development of the project with local cultural institutions in both sides of Nicosia, in collaboration with the Cyprus Institute. The STSM was conducted between March 22 and April 4, 2018.

Credits

Team members

Constantinos Miltiadis, Institute of Architecture and Media, TU Graz
Paul Schmidt, Media & Culture, Utrecht University
Aurimas Žemaitaitis, Kaunas University of Applied Sciences
Tamás Tóth, Széchenyi István University, Győr
Simonas Skarzauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius

Text, story & documentation: Constantinos Miltiadis
Voice acting & audio recordings: Paul Schmidt
Website design: Tamás Tóth
Videos & editing: Aurimas Žemaitaitis & Paul Schmidt
Location scouting: Aurimas Žemaitaitis, Paul Schmidt & Simonas Skarzauskas

Acknowledgements

The team would like to thank George Artopoulos of The Cyprus Institute for organising the workshop and supporting the project, as well as Nikolas Bakirtzis of The Cyprus Institute, and Elena Poyiadji of the Leventis Municipal Museum for their support with historical research and material.