Projekti Lönnrot

Projekti Lönnrot is a Finnish book-digitization project that turns public-domain Finnish- and Swedish-language literature into free electronic books. Named after Elias Lönnrot, the nineteenth-century Finnish scholar who travelled around Finland collecting folk poetry and compiled the national epic Kalevala, the project describes its mission as collecting and rescuing old, often hard-to-find and endangered Finnish literature for future generations. It digitizes works that have fallen out of copyright under the European Union's so-called 70+ rules and distributes them freely over the internet. The project is volunteer-driven. Its production process includes selecting and acquiring a book, clarifying its copyright status, scanning and OCR recognition, pre-processing, proofreading, post-processing and checking, placing the finished work on its own website, and — within the limits allowed by copyright — uploading it to Project Gutenberg servers around the world for free use by anyone. Finished works are usually offered as clean text files, which makes them easy to use and to convert into other file formats. The project maintains close cooperation with Project Gutenberg and has also had contact with Projekt Runeberg. Projekti Lönnrot has been independent since 2005. Its catalogue can be browsed by author or in order of completion, with the most recently published titles listed first, and users can either download a work to their device or read it online in a browser. If a desired book is not in the collection and is free of copyright, users can propose it for production by contacting the project. In June 2013 the project reported 877 completed books. The project is a non-commercial, community-based digital library rather than a conventional company, and it operates primarily in Finnish and Swedish.

Projekti Lönnrot is a Finnish digitization project that aims to digitize Finnish- and Swedish-language books with the help of volunteers. It has been independent since 2005, while cooperating with Project Gutenberg and having had contact also with Projekt Runeberg. The project is named after Elias Lönnrot, the Finnish language researcher who travelled around Finland collecting folk poems, which he compiled into the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. The project's stated goal is to collect and rescue old Finnish literature that is often difficult to obtain and under threat of destruction, preserving it for future generations. It digitizes works that have been released from copyright under the European Union's so-called 70+ provisions, producing electronic books for free internet distribution. Works are generally made available as clean text files, so that they can be used in many ways and converted into other file formats as needed. Production is carried out by volunteers, mainly as offline work, although modern online solutions are also used where possible. The production process includes selecting and acquiring a book, clarifying copyright, scanning and OCR recognition, pre-processing, proofreading, post-processing and checking, placing the work on the project's website, and — within the limits permitted by copyright — placing it on Project Gutenberg servers around the world for free use by anyone interested. The project maintains close cooperation with Project Gutenberg. Finished e-books can be browsed by author, starting from an alphabetical list of authors, or viewed in order of completion, with the most recently published first. From either page, a work can be downloaded to a device or read online in a browser. If a desired book is not found in the collections and is free of copyright, users can propose that it be produced by contacting the project via the email address given on its site. In June 2013 the project had 877 completed books.

• 2013

  In June 2013 the project has 877 completed books.

• 2005

  Projekti Lönnrot becomes independent.

A non-commercial, volunteer-based digital library preserving and freely distributing public-domain Finnish and Swedish literature.

• Digitized public-domain e-books in Finnish and Swedish

• Plain-text electronic editions

1. 1Projekti Lönnrot official websitelonnrot.net
2. 2Projekti Lönnrot – Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Projekti Lönnrot – Wikipedia (Swedish)sv.wikipedia.org