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Nordisk familjebok (en. Nordic familybook) is a Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
 encyclopedia
Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
, published between 1876 and 1957.

The first edition was published in 20 volumes between 1876 and 1899. The first edition is known as the "Iğunn edition" because of the picture of Iğunn
Iğunn

I?unn is a goddess in Norse mythology. I?unn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 on the cover. The second edition was published between 1904 and 1926 in 38 volumes, and is thereby the most comprehensive encyclopedia published in the Swedish language.






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Nordisk familjebok (en. Nordic familybook) is a Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
 encyclopedia
Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
, published between 1876 and 1957.

The first edition was published in 20 volumes between 1876 and 1899. The first edition is known as the "Iğunn edition" because of the picture of Iğunn
Iğunn

I?unn is a goddess in Norse mythology. I?unn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 on the cover. The second edition was published between 1904 and 1926 in 38 volumes, and is thereby the most comprehensive encyclopedia published in the Swedish language. It is popularly known as Uggleupplagan ("The Owl
Owl

The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
 Edition"), because it has an owl on the cover. Two more editions were published before 1957. The copyrights have since expired from the two first versions, and they are now in the public domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
.

In the 1990s, the University of Linköping started Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg

Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries....
 with the intention of providing digital copies of old printed Nordic
Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
 – just as Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works, as founder Michael Hart said "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."....
 aims to do with English Literature. In 2001, technology had improved enough to allow a full scale digitalization of the entire encyclopedia using scanning and OCR (optical character recognition
Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or Electronics translation of s of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-editable text....
) techniques. All 45,000 pages (counting both encyclopedias) have so far been scanned and OCR read, and are publicly available on the Runeberg Webpage . However, there still remains much proof reading to be done.

See also

  • Nationalencyklopedin
    Nationalencyklopedin

    Nationalencyklopedin is the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia, initiated by a Government of Sweden grant. The printed version consists of 20 volumes with 172,000 articles; the Internet version is slightly larger ....
     (1989-1996)
  • Images from Nordisk familjebok at Wikimedia Commons
    Wikimedia Commons

    Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, from which uploaded files can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either...


External links

  • – both editions (45,000 pages) are available online through Project Runeberg
    Project Runeberg

    Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries....