Takk, Nasjonalbiblioteket!
Det norska Nasjonalbiblioteket (NB) har ett stort
digitaliseringsprojekt, det mest ambitiösa i norra Europa. Hela den
norska litteraturen ska bli digital.
På NBdigital.no kan man söka i
fulltext och fritt läsa och ladda ner de böcker som på grund av
ålder är fria från upphovsrätt, till exempel Asbjørnsen og Moe,
Norske Folkeeventyr (2. Udgave, 1852). Även böcker
som fortfarande skyddas av upphovsrätt digitaliseras, men deras
innehåll visas inte öppet för allmänheten, till exempel Egner,
Klatremus og de andre dyrene i Hakkebakkeskogen (1953).
Man kan med fördel söka på titlar och författare i katalogen
Bibsys och därifrån hitta länkar
till digitaliserade böcker i NBdigital. Då blir det lättare att välja
mellan olika utgåvor. Sökfunktionen på NBdigital gör detta svårare.
Det finns mycket gott att säga om NBdigital, men ännu lider
projektet av några brister. Det kan vara intressant att jämföra med
andra stora digitaliseringsprojekt som Internet Archive eller Google.
Kvaliteten på bilder och OCR-text är högre i
NBdigital än hos Google. Men bilderna är inte perfekta (ofta lite för
mörka) och texten är inte korrekturläst.
Här kommer Projekt Runeberg in. Vi är ett mycket mindre projekt,
men vi vet hur man korrekturläser inscannade böcker.
Sedan 2003 kopierar vi böcker som
andra har scannat och nu har vi lagt NBdigital till listan över
våra leverantörer. Som en början har vi tagit in följande titlar.
The following is a list of Norwegian books that Project Runeberg has
recently copied from the Norwegian National Library's very ambitious
digitization effort, NBdigital.no.
Norska böcker som Projekt Runeberg lånat från Nasjonalbiblioteket
I kronologisk ordning:
- Bernt Moe, Biographiske Efterretninger om Eidsvolds-Repræsentanter og Storthingsmænd i Tidsrummet 1814-1845 (1845)
- O.J. Broch, Kongeriget Norge og det norske Folk (1876)
- Chr. Johnsen, Norsk Haandlexikon (3 bd, 1881-1888)
- Kristian Koren, Fortegnelse over Filologer, Realister og Mineraloger fra Norges Universitet 1813-1884 (1885)
- Fridtjof Nansen, Paa ski over Grønland : en skildring af Den norske Grønlands-ekspedition 1888-89 (1890)
- F. Bugge, Den norske Statstelegrafs Grundlæggelse og Vækst (1890)
- Edvard Kolderup, Haandbog i Husbygningskunst (1891)
- Arne Garborg, Jonas Lie : en udviklingshistorie (1893)
- J.L. Nydahl, Afholdssagens historie (1896)
- Festskrift udgivet i Anledning af Trondhjems 900 Aars Jubilæum 1897 (1897)
- Kristian Koren, Trondhjems 900 Aars Jubilæum : Katalog for den historiske Udstilling i Trondhjem 1897 (1897)
- Ragnar Lundh, Norske posttjenestemænd 1814-96 (1897)
- Marius Hægstad, Norsk maalsoga for skule og heim (1907)
- John Sebelien, Læren om de saakaldte kunstige gjødningsstoffer (1907)
- J.H.L. Vogt, De gamle norske jernverk (1908)
- Jørgen Jørgensen, Norges lærerskoler i hundrede aar (1914)
- J.H.L. Vogt, Jernmalm og jernverk : særlig om elektrisk jernmalm-smeltning (1918)
- Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter : trykt og utrykt (23 bd, 1918-1940)
- Vetle Vislie, Aasmund Vinje (1920)
- Henrik Grevenor, Fra laugstiden i Norge (1924)
Listan omfattar 20 titlar och 44 volymer, totalt 18.586 boksidor,
motsvarande 0,93 hyllmeter. Mer än hälften (11.274 boksidor) utgörs
av Wergelands Samlede Skrifter. Hela Projekt Runeberg omfattar
596.000 boksidor (30 hyllmeter) och det norska nytillskottet utgör 3%
av våra samlingar. (Vi räknar schablonmässigt 20.000 boksidor som en
hyllmeter.)
Thoughts on developing Project Runeberg
by Hans Persson, also
posted on
Facebook
Project Runeberg has looked and worked in the same way for a rather
long time now, and there is surely room for improvement. This note is
my personal attempt at brainstorming by throwing a number of thoughts
out in the hope of getting some feedback.
The notes below are not sorted in any way, just thrown out
there. The most important itme may be anyone of them -- or your own
idea! Any comments are welcome!
Today, users that are logged in to the Project Runeberg forum have
a few extra features. This should be made more apparent, and used
more. Each user should have a page with personal settings, determining
for instance things like how they want their proofreading page to look
(show proof text under or beside the scanned image, and things like
that).
The statistics pages today only show site statistics, and they are
not updated continously. There should also be statistics per user, so
that it is possible to see who has done the most proofreading in the
last day/week/month/year/ever, uploaded the most works, and so
on. This makes frequent contributors more visible, and fostering a
little competition between users should be good for productivity.
Make the front page of http://runeberg.org/ more dynamic. Perhaps some kind of automatic
updates with works uploaded and/or finished proofreading within the
last week? Items on the front page should allow user
comments. Basically, the front page should be more of a news blog.
When proofreading, the user has the option of checking a box called
"whole page ok" to specify that proofreading of the current page
should be considered finished. This should be extended so that the
user can specify independently that the proofreading of the text on
the page is ok, that the markup on the page is ok, and that the
indexing of the page is ok. Each page displayed to a reader should
also show the number of people that have marked the page as ok, so
that the reader knows how finished the page is.
Today, the obscure status page
http://runeberg.org/status/
lists works with certain status levels (un-OCR:ed, indexing finished,
proofed, etc). This should be integrated with the search page. The
works should also be presented with their complete titles, not just
the cryptic codes from the URL:s.
There should be an easy way for proofreaders to find works that
only have a few non-proofread pages left. This way, entire works can
be moved to the status of proofreading finished instead of lingering
with a few pages left.
Harness the power of social networking as much as
possible. Encourage people to share our content via Facebook,
Delicious and so on. Every page should have a number helpers at the
bottom to help sharing and tagging (like on
http://networkedblogs.com/p12028758). Post periodic updates (new
works, etc) to fans on Facebook and other similar places.
Allow users to upload their own readings of texts we have
published. Or perhaps not. It may be better to simply integrate our
pages with those of http://librivox.org/.
Today, it is already possible for users to cut out images from
texts to better integrate them in the finished proofed version of
texts. This makes the proofed version of a work look better, but it
does not fully harness the usefulness of the images. It should be
possible to tag each image with a number of tags, and to search for
images with certain tags. This material should be useful to people who
are in need of illustrations for various purposes, including but not
limited to Wikipedia. Tagging should be possible for entire works,
single poems and so on as well, and not limited to just images.
Currently, the page head on the site looks different in different
sections of the site, making it more difficult than necessary to find
stuff.
The recent changes page http://runeberg.org/rc.pl should be filterable for certain types
of changes or changes by certain users.
The site currently displays a mixture of static pages generated by
scripts and dynamic pages. To make sure everything is always up to
date, all pages should be dynamically generated, but for performance
rea
Hello Bing! We like Google a lot at Project Runeberg, so much
that we never developed our own full text search engine, but
redirected all searches to them. When you enter a search in the box at
the top of one of our pages, we just add "site:runeberg.org" and
forward your query to Google.
Since it started in 1998, Google has revolutionized web search and
gained a top position worldwide. But as their dominance continues to
grow, it also becomes a threat to our independence and security, and
to future innovation. In May 2009, Microsoft launched Bing, a competing search engine. Some
interpret the name as B.I.N.G. = "Bing Is Not Google". While not
entirely unique, this is one of the more impressive such attempts in
recent years.
We have now redesigned our search box, so that it randomly
distributes searches to Google, Yahoo, and Bing on equal terms. It
might be that Google still yields the best result for most queries.
But in the long term, we're best served by a multitude of competing
web search engines. If you don't like the results you get, use your
browser's BACK button and try the same query again. Hopefully you
will end up at another search engine that gives more useful results.
