Project Runeberg,
The last message was about proofreading. This one covers other news from Project Runeberg during May 2003.
The most important news was that the facsimile scanning of "Nordisk familjebok" was completed, the huge Swedish encyclopedia. The last volume was scanned in facsimile on May 11 and OCRed the same day. Actually, one volume still lacks OCR (supplement to the 1st edition) and needs to be rescanned before OCR can be run. And the color plates for some volumes remain to be scanned. But the most important 2nd edition is fully OCRed and ready for interactive proofreading. For years to come, this will be the flagship of our collection. http://runeberg.org/nf/
Creating a complete index of articles in this encyclopedia is still a very important project. We are receiving more contributions all the time, but still need more indexers.
Ten years (1869-1885 with some gaps) of the monthly magazine "Svenska Familj-Journalen" was scanned in facsimile a few years ago, but OCR and indexing of articles were never completed, until now. At the same time, the URL structure was redesigned (uh-oh, we promised never to do this!) to make each year or volume a subdirectory of the work title. This means an overview can be found on http://runeberg.org/famijour/ and the first year is found on http://runeberg.org/famijour/1869/ where the page header contains a pointer back to the title overview. Each year contains some 2 megabytes of text -- ready for proofreading.
The page header was slightly redesigned to allow this, replacing the dotted list to the right with a white-on-black horizontal navigation bar that connects to our logotype. The nav bar also contains a search box, that currently leads directly to Google. We hope to develop this search facility in the future. Right now there is no link to our author search tool, http://runeberg.org/SearchPage.pike from the works that use the new page header design.
During the last week of May, a new work was scanned, a few years of "Personhistorisk tidskrift", a Swedish journal for personal history and genealogic research. This title is still being published by the society for personal history (Personhistoriska samfundet) and we will discuss with them how best to develop this project. You can take a look already, http://runeberg.org/pht/