Related Major Electronic Text Projects
Project Runeberg is proud to be part of a global network of
electronic text projects. Each project covers one or more
languages. The original idea belongs to Project Gutenberg and Michael
Hart. Starting there, the others have inspired each other into
existence.
- Project
Gutenberg, the original and best. American version.
- Books On-line
- Projekt
Gutenberg - DE is a German initiative to publish texts in
German language. After all, Johann Gutenberg was German. It started out at Hamburg University, but has now moved to a
commercial German Internet provider. (alternative address)
- L'Association des
Bibliophiles Universels is a French free e-text project. In
their bookshelf you will find works by Jules Verne, Descartes,
Moličre, Rosseau, Voltaire, and many more, all in French of course.
- Project Laurens
Janszoon Coster, Nederlandstalige klassicke literatuur in
elektronische edities. Electronic editions of classic literature in
the Dutch language. (There have been some Dutch historians who
believed that L J Coster was the real inventor of book printing and
Gutenberg merely stole the idea.) (23 Jan 1996)
- Antologica
della Letteratura Italiana, a collection of classic Italian
literature at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and
Development in Sardinia, Italy.
More Electronic Text
- Fornfræđi ā
Vesturlandi, Old literature in West-Iceland, presented in
Icelandic, and eventually also in
English, and Danish by a school project headed by Harpa
Hreinsdottir, Fjölbrautaskķla Vesturlands á Akranesi. 114 students in
5 groups compose web-pages of Icelandic sagas and Snorri Sturluson's
Edda, which is about Norse Mythology. (11 Oct 1995)
- Humanistisk
datasenter in Bergen, Norway has Ibsen and Wittgenstein
on-line. (8 Oct 1995)
- Språkbanken, the
language bank, at the department of Swedish language at Gothenburg
University, publishing Nordic e-texts since before Project Runeberg.
Now also publishing Old Norse
manuscripts in text and images. (8 Oct 1995)
- Author,
Author! A way to locate your favorite authors on the web.
(3 Sep 1995)
- The Electronic Text Center at Virginia University (OCR
Procedure) (21 July 1995)
- Edda homepage
maintained by Matthias Boehme in Chemnitz, Germany.
(27 March 1995)
- Angst-kultur
in Norway has published poetry by Sigbjørn Obstfelder and others.
(30 Jan 1995)
- Norske loWWWer - Norwegian law in free e-text. Collected in
Norway, accumulated at w3.org (was: CERN). Now also available direct from Oslo.
(20 May 1995)
- Estonian law in
free e-text, some of them also available in English
translation. Also available in free e-text is the Estonian law on
copyright.
- Cable Factory cultural centre,
Helsinki, Finland
- CURIA Project
based in Cork, produces Irish etexts.
- Pittsburg University
Electronic Text Project
- Marx and Engels
Online Library
- Etext archive
accessible by Gopher at the University of Michigan.
- The Gopher server at
wiretap.spies.com contains many etexts.
Special Persons (Authors) and their Societies
Catalogs of Electronic Text Projects
Related (or Maybe not so Related) Topics
- Bengt Hemlin
(in Swedish) tipsar dig om hur du bäst formulerar ett budskap och
framför det i skrift eller muntligt. Mycket användbart. (27 Jan
1996)
- The HUMBUL Gateway lists international resources for the
humanities. (8 Oct 1995)
- The award-winning Electronic
Beowulf is presented by University of Kentucky and the British
Library. This is a project in digital preservation of medieval
manuscripts. (8 Oct 1995)
- Virallistiedon
tietopalvelu ja Painatuskeskus Oy is the printing center of
the Finnish government. Gives you a chance to read "Virallinen
lehti" (Officiella tidningen) and "Valtioneuvoston Viikko"
on-line. An excellent example of Finland fast becoming a
single-language country. (8 Oct 1995)
- Swedish Libraries listed by Nikos Markowits. (8 Oct
1995)
- The Nobel Foundation
announces this year's Nobel Prize Lauraetes, and last year's, and the
year before that, and ... (6 Oct 1995)
- The United States Patent and
Trademark Office and Ladas
& Parry are two sources of information about intellectual
property rights, such as copyright and patents, from an American
perspective. (2 Oct 1995)
- GRID Arendal is
an open geographic database over the Baltic region. Maps, maps, maps!
(2 Oct 1995)
- Caere Corporation offers
hardware and software for scanning and Optical Character Recognition,
OCR. (30 Sep 1995)
- The World of the
Vikings project is a joint effort by The National Museum of
Denmark, The York Archaeological Trust, and Past Forward Ltd. Brought
to you on-line by British Demon Internet. They provide a wealth of
pointers to Viking resources on the net. (13 Sep 1995)
- Lexin-lexikon, an interactive Swedish-to-English and
Swedish-to-Finnish translation dictionary, sponsored by the Swedish
Schoolnet. (25 Aug 1995)
- English-to-Estonian and Estonian-to-English translation
dictionary, sponsored by the Institute of Baltic Studies, Internet
version by Marek Tiits.
- Swedish
cultural web sites, listed with personal comments (in Swedish)
by Gustaf Bosell. (10 July 1995)
- Russian
literature and language, at Oslo University. (You probably
need Cyrillic koi8 fonts installed to really enjoy this.) (13
March 1995)
- A brief History of
the Estonian Book from Estonia's National Library.
(12 March 1995)
- Datafrihet,
Erik Stenvall vid Chalmers.
- Dagens saga - a fairytale in Swedish
written only for you. (6 Dec 1994)
- Pojken och trollen - an
interactive fairytale in Swedish.
- Erik Naggum's file
archives on SGML at Oslo University.
- TEI P3 file list.
- Norwegian national
library
- Eesti-info server (all
kinds of info on Estonian matters)
You can also find your favorite Web server through maps over Europe or
the world.
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