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Project Gutenberg Australia, abbreviated as PGA, is an Internet site which was founded in 2001 by Colin Choat. It is a sister site of Project Gutenberg, though there is no formal relationship between the two organizations. The site hosts free ebooks or e-texts which are in the public domain in Australia. Volunteers have prepared and submitted ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
Project Diana: Online human rights library; division of the Avalon Project Yale Law School [49] Project Gutenberg: General 65,400+ Founded in 1971, this was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts. Project Gutenberg Australia: General Providing texts under copyright law of Australia: Project Gutenberg Canada: General
The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages (a play on words for Project Gutenberg). [2] In 2001, there was a dispute on Wikipedia regarding the addition of primary-source materials, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion. Project Sourceberg was suggested as a solution to this.
Books are scanned electronically and each page is uploaded to the proofreading website. A project is created for the book and is made available to the proofreading members. Each book is proofread in three stages called 'P1', 'P2' and 'P3'. During the first stage, errors in scanning and other minor errors are corrected.
id: the id at PGAU website.See "Usage" above for how to determine. name: The name of the author, or the title of the book.Can be anything doesn't have to match the Wikipedia page or the PGAU website.
The World Bank began financing the Kenya Forest Service’s Natural Resources Management Project in 2007. It promised to cover $68.5 million of the project’s $78 million budget in an effort to help the KFS “improve the livelihoods of communities participating in the co-management of water and forests.”
DP-contributed e-texts comprised more than half of works in Project Gutenberg, as of July 2015. On 31 July 2006, the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation was formed to provide Distributed Proofreaders with its own legal entity and not-for-profit status. IRS approval of section 501(c)(3) status was granted retroactive to 7 April 2006.