In addition to scanning books of our own, Project Runeberg is also overtaking scanned images from other projects. This is an increasing trend, especially with image sources such as the Internet Archive and Google Book Search, where we can add proofreading, structure and background information to books pertaining to Scandinavia.
In February 2007 we started to mark up our image sources in a standardized way. As part of our metadata, we use a field IMAGE_SOURCE to indicate from where we got the scanned images. For multi-volume works and journals, this metadata is provided per volume, not per work, since our sources typically provide a separate PDF for download for each volume, and ofter provide incomplete sets of multi-volume works. In the starting page of such a volume, this results in a logotype and a brief text at the end of the "preface to the electronic edition", just before the volume's table of contents. For this purpose, we designed the following logotypes:
At the time of writing, we don't yet have any way to search our works based on image source. This could be a nice feature for the future. Here is a brief timeline of what we have copied and when:
October 2003: One volume: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer.
January 2005: Three volumes: I utvecklingstid. En berättelse om flickor, Ivar or the Skjuts-Boy, Pictures of Sweden.
October 2005: One volume: Swenske songer eller wisor nw på nytt prentade.
November 2005: Two volumes: Jernvägs-skola, Lunds universitets historia.
December 2006: One volume: The Social Significance of the Modern Drama.
January 2007: One volume: Biographiske underrättelser om professorer vid kongl. universitetet i Lund, ifrån dess inrättning till närvarande tid.
February 2007: More than fifty volumes. These logotypes
introduced.
