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Project Runeberg
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<p>Project Runeberg is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the <a href="/facts/Nordic_countries/uaqX7z81">Nordic countries</a>. Patterned after <a href="/facts/Project_Gutenberg/2l0R6GgQ">Project Gutenberg</a>, it was founded by <a href="/facts/Lars_Aronsson/dtTE8AHa">Lars Aronsson</a> and colleagues at <a href="/facts/Link%C3%B6ping_University/VMySqUQe">Linköping University</a> and began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992. As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the <i><a href="/facts/Nordisk_familjebok/U58vUtfo">Nordisk familjebok</a></i>, and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copyediting of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, and sheet music and other texts of cultural interest. </p>