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Project Runeberg, May 2024
May 2024
Nordisk familjebok Svensk uppslagsbok Kunskapens bok 1:a upplagan, 1876–1899 �Ugglan�, 1904–1926 3:e upplagan, 1923–1937 4:e upplagan, 1951 1:a upplagan, 1929–1939 2:a upplagan, 1947–1955 5:e upplagan, 1954–1955 2002 2003 NY! 2022 NY! NY! NY! L�get i juni 2024: 21 % 10 % 3 % Klar! L�get i juli 2024: 21 % 25 % 6 % L�get i augusti 2024: 21 % 25 % 25 % L�get i september 2024: 26 % 25 % 25 % Fler svenska uppslagsverk!
I mer �n tjugo �r har �Ugglan� eller andra upplagan avNordisk familjebok varit Projekt Runebergs huvudnummer. Det �r genom henne vi har gjort st�rst nytta. Svenska Wikipedia, som grundades 2001, har idag �ver 30.000 l�nkar (k�llh�nvisningar) till Projekt Runebergs digitalisering av Nordisk familjebok.
Nu g�r vi vidare och drar ig�ng digitaliseringen av flera stora svenska uppslagsverk, d�r den mest efterl�ngade utan tvekan �r andra upplagan av Svensk uppslagsbok. Vi g�r detta �ver l�ng tid och ett band i taget. Det handlar inte om att ers�tta Ugglan med ett mer uppdaterat uppslagsverk, som m�nga hem, skolor och bibliotek gjorde p� 1950-talet, utan om att erbjuda flera uppslagsverk fr�n olika tider sida vid sida. St�mmer de �verens? Har fakta �ndrats, eller �ven tidsandan och perspektivet? Har de inspirerat eller kopierat fr�n varandra? Kan ny teknik m�jligg�ra s�dana unders�kningar?
Insamlingskampanj 2024/25
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Uppdatering: Under tre m�nader, fr�n 24 maj till 24 augusti, har 100 donationer kommit in, till lika fj�rdedelar (kvartiler) uppg�ende till h�gst 100 kronor, 100-200 kronor, 200-300 kronor och �verstigande 300 kronor. Mediang�van �r 200 kronor, men medelv�rdet �r 484 kronor. D�rmed �r 19 % av m�let n�tt. Stort tack till alla som donerar! Kampanjen g�r vidare.
April 2024
Greenland
Recently we have improved our books about Greenland. There are quite a few, including dictionaries for the Greenlandic (Eskimo) language.
Greenland was discovered and colonized in 982 AD by Erik the Red, exiled from Iceland, and later recolonized in 1721 by Hans Egede, a Danish-Norwegian missionary. He went there to preach among descendants of the first Scandinavian settlers, but instead he found Eskimos, who now populated the coasts.
Gr�nland
Vi har sett �ver, ut�kat och f�rb�ttrat v�ra b�cker om Gr�nland och det gr�nl�ndska spr�ket.
Visste du att n�gra norrm�n under ledning av meteorologen Hallvard Devold den 28 juni 1931 gick i land p� nord�stra Gr�nland, hissade norska flaggan, och h�vdade att de ockuperat landet?
January 2024
Happy Public Domain Day 2024!
From 1 January 2024, there is no more copyright for works byauthors who died in 1953. This includes names such as:
- Elsa Beskow, Sweden
- Sigrid Boo, Norway
- Emil B�nnelykke, Denmark
- J�rgen J�rgensen, Denmark
- Nils Wilhelm Lundh, Sweden
- Henning von Melsted, Sweden
- Herman Neander, Sweden
- Georg Stoopendaal, Sweden
- Albert T�rnlund, Sweden
- Eirik Vandvik, Norway, translator of Greek and Latin classics
- Karl Vilhelm Zetterst�en, Sweden, translator of the Quran (1917)
- Hans Aanrud, Norway
More iron and steel!
Several titles about iron production in Sweden have been added to our page Tema Metals:
- �stman, J�rnhandtering i Norrbotten under 1600- och 1700-talen : n�gra minnesblad (1910)
- �kerman, N�gra ord om jernhandteringens st�ndpunkt i Sverige vid b�rjan af �r 1873 (1873)
- �kerman, N�gra ord om utvecklingen af Sveriges jernhandtering fr�n 1860 till och med 1880 (1882)
- Delling De svenska j�rn- och metallmanufakturindustriernas utveckling (SOU 1923:44)
- T�rnlund, Det svenska j�rnet genom seklerna (1931) - a Public Domain Day 2024 addition
Looking back
A year ago, at Public Domain Day 2023, the copyright expired for authors who died in 1952. Among them were two giants, Norwegian writerKnut Hamsun and Swedish explorerSven Hedin. And we let go of both of them, thinking that others will surely digitize their works and we can wait and avoid duplicated effort. So how did it go?
Most of Hamsun's works in Norwegian have beendigitized by Nasjonalbiblioteket, but not many translations. For example, the Swedish translations by Harry Blomberg (who died in 1950) are not made publicly available, perhaps because NB doesn't know when he died. NB has 16 English texts by Hamsun, but only one (Hunger, 2009) is available outside of Norway.Project Gutenberg presents 23 works by Hamsun in a variety of languages. Swedish Litteraturbanken pays little attention to Hamsun's works (in Swedish translation) as translations are not "Swedish" literature. However, a few fragments have been found. Wikisource has a page for Hamsun in a handful of languages, but not in Norwegian. The only work in Swedish is Markens gr�da, translated by Hugo Hultenberg. Three titles are available in English, one in Polish, none in French or German.
A reasonable approach for Project Runeberg is to copy NB's digitization of Hamsun's collected works in Norwegian, and then to keep watching for translations as they become available. We can claim to cover Hamsun, without spending much effort.
For Sven Hedin, we have compiled a list of available digitizations. Litteraturbanken presents (in Swedish only, no translations) several books from his explorations, but none of his works on war. Wikisource has just one work, a pamphlet, Ett varningsord (1912).Project Gutenberg presents 14 titles.
There are no "collected works" by Hedin. His works span many genres. We will start out by including Hedin's Adventures in Tibet (Tibetantska �fventyr, 1904) in as many languages as we can find. This is not a scientific treatise, but written as an adventure book for boys, with explicit reference to Marco Polo, Cooper, Defoe and Jules Verne.
So, did we win or lose from waiting to digitize works by these authors? We certainly saved effort by not digitizing ourselves what others have already digitized in past years, e.g. the 15 volumes of Hamsun's collected works. It seems that Wikisource has contributed very little, Project Gutenberg a bit more. Litteraturbanken offers several books by Hedin, but with a bias for explorations. We still have an opportunity to find and fill gaps. On the other hand, our website has a constant number of visitors, which doesn't really increase with new additions. It is really hard to estimate the benefit of any new addition, and to compare this against the effort. A good strategy is to save on the effort.
2023/24 Fundraiser completed
Between 24 September 2023 and 4 January 2024 we successfully raised 50,000 SEK (US$ 4870), mostly in small donations of 100 to 200 SEK (US$ 10 to 20). Thanks to all who donated! Our banners now return to asking for contributions to Ukraine:
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Since 24 November 2023 our website is (finally!) running https with encrypted and supposedly more secure connections. Old links to http://runeberg.org will be automatically redirected to https.
September 2023
Nedan f�rtecknas n�gra av oss nyligen tillg�ngliggjorda verk. I flera fall �r de digitaliserade av andra, men vi har indexerat och delvis korrekturl�st dem.
Litteraturhistoria
- Elster, Illustrert norsk litteraturhistorie (6 delar, 1934-1935)
- Lamm, Dickens och hans romaner(1947)
- Sch�ck, Allm�n litteraturhistoria(7 delar, 1919-1926)
- Sch�ck & Warburg, Huvuddragen av Sveriges litteratur (3 delar, 1917-1918)
- Sch�ck & Warburg, Illustrerad svensk litteraturhistoria (7 delar, 1926-1932)
Missionshistoria
- Bodding, Santalmissionen : 50 aars missionsarbeide (1917)
- Larsson, Tio �r i Ryssland (1948)
- Pettersson, �ventyr i Central-Afrika : skildringar fr�n Kongomissionens f�rsta tid (1923)
Person- och sl�kthistoria
- Elgenstierna, Den introducerade svenska adelns �ttartavlor (9 delar, 1925-1936)
- Elgenstierna, K�ping stads tj�nstem�n 1605-1905 : personhistoriska anteckningar (1907)
- Rehbinder, �tten Rehbinder genom �tta sekler (1925)
Insamlingskampanj 2023/24
Fr�n den 24 september genomf�rs v�r insamlingskampanj f�r �ret. Det �r den femte vi genomf�r och den g�rs likadan som de f�rra. En liten reklamskylt (banner, som ovan) syns p� n�gra av v�ra webbsidor, uppmanande till donationer med ett givet m�l, 50.000 kronor f�r verksamhets�ret 2023/24. Bannern tas bort n�r m�let uppn�s, och �terkommer n�sta �r. Sedan l�nge finns en l�nk "Donate" i sidhuvudet till alla v�ra webbsidor. L�s mer p� v�r sida f�r donationer.
2023/24 Fundraiser
Starting on September 24, a small banner (the one above) is seen on some of our web pages, promoting donations toward our aim of raising 50,000 SEK for the fiscal year 2021/22. The banner will be removed when the aim is reached, and will reappear next year. We have long had a link "Donate" in the header of all our web pages.Read more on our donation page.
January 2023
The world according to Poe
If you are tired of all the Henrik Ibsens and August Strindbergs of the turn of the century 1900, regularly using trains, telegraphs and even telephones, perhaps you prefer to take a step back to the first half of the 19th century and the time ofEdgar Allan Poe? We have updated our presentation of this great American author and have found some of his texts in Swedish and Norwegian translation.
From this era, we have also added or improved the following titles:
- Svenskt konversationslexikon (4 vols., 1845-1851), the first encyclopedia originally written in Swedish, compiled by P. G. Berg.
- Ordbok �fver svenska spr�ket (2 vols., 1850-1853), a detailed dictionary of the Swedish language by A. F. Dalin.
- Journal f�r animal magnetism (all 5 issues, 1815-1821), edited by P. G. Cederschj�ld.
- Sveriges store m�n, snillen, statsm�n, hjeltar och fosterlandsv�nner samt m�rkv�rdigaste fruntimmer(1840-1849), and
- 427 portr�tter af namnkunniga svenske m�n och fruntimmer (1847), two Swedish illustrated biographic dictionaries, both compiled by G. H. Mellin.
Datasets
Are you a student or researcher of data mining, natural language processing (NLP) or artificial intelligence (AI)? Perhaps you want to train your own version of ChatGPT? Look no further, now you can download an entire Danish encyclopedia as a dataset.
Project Runeberg, 2024-11-14 23:49 (runeberg)
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