Project Runeberg,
At the end of July, our collections contained 209755 pages in digital facsimile, of which 37254 were proofread. This is 9436 and 2900 pages, respectively, more than the beginning of the month.
If we are to be able to double our collection in the coming year, as we did in the last year, we will have to digitize 200,000 pages in 12 months or an average of 16,667 pages per month, so 9436 pages is not enough. However, 7000 of the pages were scanned in the last two days of the month, so I think we still have a good chance. The proofreading is approaching 40,000 pages or 2 linear metres of shelving, and this calls for some kind of celebration.
Actually, the real threat right now is that our disks are filling up. I will return to this in another message.
The most recently scanned works are "Djurens lif", the Swedish translation of the German zoologist A.E. Brehm's "Thierleben" from around 1880, and 25 year runs of "Fataburen", the yearbook of Nordiska museum in Stockholm. The latter is still in preparation and has not yet been OCRed.
http://runeberg.org/brehm/ http://runeberg.org/fataburen/
These are still a bit early to announce, and our front page for August instead features the collected works by Henrik Ibsen (that we scanned in June). I hope this will help us to attract more Norwegian proofreaders and volunteers.
During July, a total of 4888 proofreading contributions (edits) were received from 50 identified volunteers. The following volunteers were the most active:
Edits Signature ----- --------- 1000 Steen.Roennow 694 farbror.mats (+fm) 619 agneta 602 fh 549 tomi 417 anders.thapper 94 hartwig.alpers 82 janerikz 81 elagerstroem 67 ryde 64 lars 47 christer.romson 38 publ 30 lena.meyer 30 jan.frelin 26 mats 17 klash
Edits were made to 4185 different pages in 102 different works. Most edits were made to the following works:
Edits Work Title ----- -------- ----- 1247 dbl Dansk biografisk Lexikon 893 faltskar Fältskärns berättelser 582 strindbg Samlade skrifter av August Strindberg 435 nf Nordisk familjebok 196 fribyt Fribytaren på Östersjön 117 runeberg Samlade skrifter 101 oxygen Oxygen och Aromasia 88 lenngren Samlade Skaldeförsök 84 vira Handledning i vira 79 hellas Hellas. De gamla grekernas land och folk 74 tidsford Vetenskapliga tidsfördrif 73 sarek Sarekfjällen 66 tiphyche Tidsskrift for Physik og Chemi 65 sqvinnor Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor 62 gudasaga Fädernas gudasaga m.m. 57 hvar8dag Hvar 8 dag 47 norge80 Norge. Uddrag af ældre og nyere Forfatteres Skrifter 47 hagberg Shakspeare's dramatiska arbeten 46 svstsaku Svensk stats- och samhällskunskap: Lärobok 42 aktamaka Äkta makar