List of digital library projects
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This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.
- Project Gutenberg [1], founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
- Project Gutenberg Australia [2] is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
- Project Runeberg is a similar project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.
- Distributed Proofreaders is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
- American Literature Hypertexts [3]
- The Million Book Project [4] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2005.
- Early Canadiana Online [5] holds over a million page images of early Canadian book.
- Library of Congress Digital Library project [6]
- Perseus Project [7]
- Bibliotheca Universalis [8]
- ibiblio [9]
- Online Book Initiative
- l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain.
- The Online Books Page [10], while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
- Aozora bunko digitized Japanese language texts.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library focuses on making text available of Christian literature.
- Project Sugita Genpaku translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.
- Project Rastko [11] publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- The Romanian Digital Library
- Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [12] is gathering the digital versions of the Polish literature and foreign literature translated into Polish, also the scanned version of the medieval manuscripts (in Latin) eg. De Revolutionibius of the Copernicus.
- Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.
- Project Andria [13] focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The projet was initiated by the end of 2003.
- Jewpedia [14]
See also
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_digital_library_projects" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
