Project Runeberg () is a digital-archive initiative for digitization of written works significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries, with a focus on Scandinavian literature and writings. The Projekt Runeberg was founded by Swedish students of Linköping University, which began digitizing Nordic-language literature as early as 1991. when student Linus Tolke announced on the computer-club's conference-system LysKOM, to have started digitizing the Gospel of John of the Swedish Bible of 1917 (1917 års Bibelöversättning).
The Project began archiving its first Nordic-language literature pieces (parts of the Fänrik Ståls Sägner, of Nordic dictionaries and of a Bible from 1917) in December 1992.
As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the Nordisk familjebok, and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copy-editing of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, sheet music and other texts of cultural interest. The project provides an extensive project-timeline with given milestones, beginning in 1991 being maintained since.
Technology
By 2001, technology – image scanning and optical character recognition techniques – had improved enough to allow full digitization and text extraction of important target texts, e.g., of both print editions of the Nordisk familjebok (45,000 pages).
See also
- Open content
- Project Gutenberg
- List of Danish online encyclopedic resources