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  Knowledge King - Project Gutenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The slogan of the project is "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy", chosen because the project hopes to continue the work of spreading public literacy and appreciation for our literary heritage that public libraries began in the early 20th century.
It was not until the year 2000 that Project Gutenberg was formally organized as an independent legal entity, and it is now a non-profit corporation chartered in Mississippi with an IRS ruling that donations to it are tax-deductible.
Project Runeberg is a similar project for the Nordic language texts, begun in 1992.
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 Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A slogan of the project is "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy", because its volunteers aim to continue spreading public literacy and appreciation for the literary heritage just as public libraries began to do in the early 20th century.
Project Gutenberg has been criticized for lack of scholarly rigor in its etexts: for example, in inadequate detailing of editions used and in the omission of original published prefaces and critical apparatus.
Project Gutenberg Australia hosts many texts which are public domain according to Australian copyright law, but still under copyright (or of uncertain status) in the United States, with a focus on Australian writers and books about Australia.
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 Project Gutenberg - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books.
The slogan of the project is "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy", chosen because the project hopes to continue the work of spreading public literacy and appreciation for the literary heritage that public libraries began in the early 20th century.
The Project holds a trademark on Project Gutenberg, and commercial use of the etexts under the trademark require a fee to be paid to Project Gutenberg.
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 Project Runeberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries.
It is named after the Finland-Swedish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg.
The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992, but today also has graphical facsimiles of old works, sheet music, and Latin works by Nordic authors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Project_Runeberg   (89 words)

  
 J.L. Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Runeberg was born into a relatively poor Swedish-speaking family in Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.
In 1847 Runeberg became rector of the college, and in 1852 his family moved to a new home, which was later transformed into a museum and opened to the public in 1882.
Runeberg himself was conservatively patriotic and loyal to the government.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /runeberg.htm   (1857 words)

  
 Project Runeberg's Electronic Facsimile Editions of Nordic Literature (About Project Runeberg)
Project Runeberg has since received some funding from the university, including the work leading to this paper, but also continued to rely heavily on voluntary efforts, as this improves productivity, moral, and legitimacy.
Project Runeberg's collections are dominated by literature which is old enough for copyright to have expired.
Project Runeberg uses a resolution of 600 dots per inch (dpi) for all bitonal scanning, which is the highest available resolution with most scanners, and generally produces good results.
runeberg.org /admin/19990511.html   (5186 words)

  
 User:LA2 - Meta
Project Runeberg uses a complex rats' nest of old scripts in various programming languages, that has grown over the past twelve years.
Project Gutenberg was started in 1971 as an e-text project and still doesn't publish scanned images.
Project Runeberg was started in 1992 as an e-text project for Scandinavian languages and in 1998 started to add scanned images.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/User:LA2   (2573 words)

  
 J.L. Runeberg
Runeberg's early erotic poems were inspired by Frederika or "Frigga" Juvelius, a pastor's daughter.
Runeberg was secretly engaged to Maria Juliana Nygren, but he married in 1831 Fredrika Charlotta Tengström; they had eight children.
Runeberg himself never served in any army, but he wanted to examine different human characters against the background of war.
kirjasto.sci.fi /runeberg.htm   (1857 words)

  
 Freely available texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart.
Texts from Project Gutenberg are available at a number of FTP sites, including `mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu' in file `/etext' and `oes.orst.edu' in file `/pub/almanac/etext'.
Project Runeberg publishes works of literature and art that are machine-readable, such as electronic texts and images; in a Scandinavian language, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, or created by an artist from a Nordic country; and free for duplication and distribution by anyone and for any purpose.
www.ijs.si /FreelyAvailableTexts.html   (496 words)

  
 Ibsen.net
Project Runeberg in Linköping has published digital facsimiles of what is called the Popular Edition of Ibsen's collected works.
In this connection it is natural to mention the ongoing project Henrik Ibsen's Writings that is in the process of establishing a new historico-critical and commented edition of Ibsen's writings.
The project will be publishing its texts in both book form and electronic format (see separate presentation on ibsen.net).
www.ibsen.net /index.db2?id=1397   (638 words)

  
 Summary of Query Responses
This project will start with various types of electronic material, but the structure is such, that it can incorporate library catalogues and "classical" bibliographic database entries as well." There is a description of the set of categories used for indexing.
Project "Runeberg" started in December 1992 and has published 170 titles of Nordic literature and art in full electronic text on the Internet.
Project Runeberg publishes only literature in Nordic languages, which are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Finnish.
www-personal.umich.edu /~jaheim/alcts/summ.htm   (2171 words)

  
 Project Runeberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Project began archiving Nordic-language in December 1992 but today also has graphical facsimiles old works sheet music and Latin works Nordic authors.
If you have questions on any aspect of Project Management, this is the book to consult.
From organizational behavior and structure to planning, scheduling and controlling processes vital to the successful practice of project management.
www.freeglossary.com /Projekt_Runeberg   (494 words)

  
 Electronic publishing (9)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This project is called Runeberg and is created on the basis of an American prototype called Project Gutenberg.
The Runeberg Project started in 1992, which is to be regarded as early considering Swedish Internet conditions.
While the Runeberg Project is principally directed at the public and covers a broad range of texts, the Internet version of Almqvist’s work is a transference of a scientific project to a digital media specially directed at researchers, universities, upper secondary school pupils and students at residential colleges for adult education.
www.kb.se /NVB/eng/ele9.htm   (586 words)

  
 Johan Ludvig Runeberg - netlexikon
(http://www.nzz.ch/2004/02/05/fe/page-article9CYWE.html) Johan Ludvig Runeberg - vor 200 Jahren geboren NZZ (05.02.2004)
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www.lexikon-definition.de /Johan-Ludvig-Runeberg.html   (143 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This text tries to explain the concepts of copyright, but this description is not complete, and the editors of Project Runeberg cannot guarantee that it is correct in all parts.
Project Runeberg publishes electronic editions of Nordic literature.
When one of Project Runeberg's editions is covered by copyright, a text of warning appears at the top of each page together with the copyright symbol, the letter C in a ring.
www.ling.helsinki.fi /~mlounela/kit/aineistot/copyright.txt   (529 words)

  
 Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to Nordic culture and history.
The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 2002, but today also has graphical facsimiles of old works, sheet music, and Latin works by Nordic authors.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Projekt_Runeberg.html   (69 words)

  
 Other Digital Library Projects (About Project Runeberg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This project involves 5 European partners and is part-funded by DG XIII of the European Commission.
A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, ILEJ aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
Project Runeberg is an open initiative to publish free electronic editions of Nordic literature on the Internet.
www.lysator.liu.se /runeberg/admin/foreign.html   (5029 words)

  
 Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg (runeberg.org) is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
Project Runeberg has regrettably few of his works online, but they are well represented on Danish websites that we link to from our page on Hans Christian Andersen.
Läs mer om Projekt Runebergs tillväxtprognos 2003-2007 (med diagram!).
www.runeberg.org   (1483 words)

  
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Texts released by Project Gutenberg are available by anonymous FTP on mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in /etext; please restrict transfers to times other than prime time.
Like Runeberg, this is a distributed effort, and all texts are placed in the public domain.
One of the primary goals of Project Gutenberg, OBI, and Wiretap are to give the general public free and unencumbered access to electronic books whose copyrights have expired.
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 PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - NEWSLETTERS -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 The Project Gutenberg FAQ
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works.
Project Gutenberg can publish only books that are in the public domain [C.10] unless we have the permission of the copyright holder.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are often quickly copied and reformatted, and posted on other sites like Blackmask at and Steve Sakoman's site at http://www.sakoman.net/.
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 User:LA2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is also the founder and coordinator of Project Runeberg, a volunteer effort to digitize classic Scandinavian literature [2].
And all projects use HTML forms for text editing, either for writing new articles (wiki) or for proofreading OCR text against scanned images of classic out-of-copyright printed works.
Of the above, Lars Aronsson (user LA2) is the founder and manager of susning.nu and Project Runeberg, and participates in the other projects.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:LA2   (2666 words)

  
 Project Runeberg Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Mutopia project -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Mutopia project is an effort to create a library of (Property rights that are held by the public at large) public domain (A musical composition in printed or written form) sheet music, in a way similar to (Click link for more info and facts about Project Gutenberg) Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books.
The music is reproduced from old scores that are out of (A document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work) copyright.
The new scores are typeset with (Click link for more info and facts about GNU LilyPond) GNU LilyPond and distributed in (Click link for more info and facts about PDF) PDF, (A note appended to a letter after the signature) PostScript, and LilyPond format.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mu/Mutopia_project.htm   (134 words)

  
 4.7 Finnish literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Links to the Project Runeberg pages are provided when they hold also other information.
These were the poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-77), the scholar Elias Lönnrot (1802-84), the author Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898) and the Hegelian philosopher and statesman Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806-81).
He was more modern and many-sided in his expression than Runeberg, but his image of the Finnish people was too "raw" and realistic for most people of his era, and he died in extreme poverty, suffering from a mental illness.
www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-6.html   (1837 words)

  
 Gutasagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The current electronic edition of Gutasagan is written in HTML, and is based on the previous freehomepages edition of 30 Jan 1994, which was a part of Project Runeberg's collection of various "small" works.
The source for this text is an offprint compiled by Tore Gannholm from Beowulf, gutarnas nationalepos.
In the first paragraph of chapter 5 (on Christianity), the copy has "botair af botair av acubeck", which has been corrected to "botair af acubeck" in the electronic edition.
www.powow.com /radio88/guta.htm   (133 words)

  
 Over het project Laurens Jansz. Coster
Bekende Engelstalige en de Duitstalige tegenhangers van dit project heten allebei Gutenberg en zijn genoemd naar de vermoedelijke uitvinder van de boekdrukkunst (in een wereld waarin we net doen alsof China niet bestaat).
Voorafgaand aan de Web-periode bestond Coster eerst korte tijd als een project in de nieuwsgroepen soc.culture.netherlands en nl.taal.: in april 1995 werd een maandlang bijna dagelijks een kort gedicht van Vondel geplaatst met een oproep om meer materiaal in te sturen.
Het is belangrijk dat er eerst een project met een zekere omvang ontstaat.
cf.hum.uva.nl /dsp/ljc/over.html   (1931 words)

  
 Gutenberg Project Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Kulturarw3 is a project of The Royal Library, National Library of Sweden, focusing on
Through this project, the library is building a collection of Swedish electronic publishing
Project Runeberg is built on voluntary co-operation -- with hundreds of
www.digicult.info /downloads/html/6/6-311.html   (295 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg FAQ - G-9 - Project Gutenberg
Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Project Gutenberg Europe, and Project Gutenberg of Australia use the "Project Gutenberg" trademark with permission, and they operate within the copyright rules of their respective countries.
Project Runeberg has no specific connection with Project Gutenberg; we both have the same aims, but Project Runeberg specializes in Nordic literature.
For more information about how new organizations can become formally affiliated with Project Gutenberg, see the shared mission and principals in the about us pages.
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