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Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after 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."....
 that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries
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....
. The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992, but today also has graphical facsimiles of old works, sheet music, and Latin works by Nordic authors.

ect Runeberg is named after Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
's national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finland poet, and is the national poet of Finland. He wrote in the Swedish language.Runeberg studied first in the cities of Vaasa and Oulu, later on at the Royal Academy of Turku, where he befriended Johan Vilhelm Snellman and Zacharias Topelius....
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Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after 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."....
 that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries
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....
. The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992, but today also has graphical facsimiles of old works, sheet music, and Latin works by Nordic authors.

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Project Runeberg is named after Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
's national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finland poet, and is the national poet of Finland. He wrote in the Swedish language.Runeberg studied first in the cities of Vaasa and Oulu, later on at the Royal Academy of Turku, where he befriended Johan Vilhelm Snellman and Zacharias Topelius....
. The name also has a double meaning as Rune (letter in the Runic alphabet
Runic alphabet

The runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using Letter known as runes to write various Germanic languages prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter....
) and berg (mountain) can, in most of the Nordic languages, be translated loosely to "Mountain of letters". Finally, the name is similar to "Gutenberg".

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  • Open content
    Open content

    Open content, a neologism coined by analogy with "open source", describes any kind of creative work published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual....
  • 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."....
  • Lysator
    Lysator

    Lysator is an academic computer club at Link?ping University, Sweden with roughly 500 members. Lysator was founded 29 March 1973. Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden in February 1993, among the first 10–15 in the world....
    , which hosts the Project


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