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Project Runeberg () is a digital-archive initiative for digitization of written works significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries, with a focus on Scandinavian literature and writings.Ingemar Breithel, Ed., 2015, "Posten: Projekt Runeberg" in, at Nationalencyklopedin (online encyclopedia), see [1], retrieved 22 April 2015. Marcus Boldemann, 2003, ""Kultur: Ugglan" hoar gratis på nätet" in, Dagens Nyheter (online), 23 April 2003, see [2]. Retrieved 22 April 2015. The Projekt Runeberg was founded by Swedish students of Linköping University, which began digitizing Nordic-language literature as early as 1991 – The project's name “Runeberg” is a word-play of similar-natured Project Gutenberg and old Nordic literature often being written in Runes.
It is patterned after the similar-named English-language cultural initiative Project Gutenberg and its similar effort, whereas the project's name is a word-play of the fact that old Nordic literature are often being written in Runes, and PG's ties to the name of German inventor Johannes Gutenberg – Inventor of the printing-press, which works eventually helped to quickly accelerate the spread of the Bible.
The initiative seeks to publishes free electronic versions of formerly digitized books and writings as Ebooks in various formats such as EPub or PDF.
The Project began archiving its first Nordic-language literature pieces (parts of the Fänrik Ståls Sägner, of Nordic dictionaries and of a Bible from 1917) in December 1992.
As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the Nordisk familjebok, and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copy-editing of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, sheet music and other texts of cultural interest. The projekt provides a extensive project-timeline with given milestones, beginning in 1991 being maintained since.
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