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Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (The Great Danish Encyclopedia) is the most comprehensive contemporary Danish language encyclopedia. The 20 volumes of the encyclopedia were published successively between 1994 and 2001; a one-volume supplement was published in 2002 and two index volumes in 2003. The work comprises 115,000 articles, ranging in size from single-line crossreferences to the 130-page entry Danmark (Denmark). They were written by a staff of about 4,000 academic experts led by editor-in-chief Jørn Lund. Articles longer than a few dozen lines are signed by their authors. Many are illustrated.
The onlineversion of the encyclopedia was released February 26th. 2009 to be free-of-charge.
The encyclopedia was published by Danmarks Nationalleksikon A/S (Denmark's National Encyclopedia), a subsidiary of Denmark's grand old publishing house Gyldendal set up for the purpose. The project was inspired by the almost contemporary Swedish Nationalencyklopedin; it received financial support from the Augustinus Foundation and was backed by a governmental inflation guarantee on pre-paid subscriptions. Eventually about 35,000 copies were sold.
The text of the paper encyclopedia was additionally published, but without illustrations, on CD-ROMs for Microsoft Windows in 2004 and for Mac OS in 2005. In January 2006 it was announced that a full online edition of the encyclopedia was expected to be available in later 2006 on a subscription basis, thanks to a renewed grant from the Augustinus Foundation. In March 2008, the publishing house announced that it failed to get sufficient numbers of subscribers and declared the project a failure.
The cdrom version of the encyclopedia is likely not to work without an update on never versions of xp/vista, due to a security fix from Microsoft. [1][2]
The free online version uses the MindTouch Deki wiki software[3].
Copyright
The original articles from Den Store Danske Encyclopædi can be used freely as long as one does not distribute it or use it commercially.[4]
The new articles (made by the users) can be used freely. If one uses it online one must reference the source using a deep link.[5]
Den Store Danske is covered by the Danish copyright law and it belongs to Gyldendal.[6]
References
- ^ Support page
- ^ theBookseller.com
- ^ Main page. All pages on Den Store Danske has a footer linking to MindTouch Deki.
- ^ Den Store Danske Encyclopædi: Copyright oprindeligeartikler
- ^ Den Store Danske Encyclopædi: Copyright nye artikler
- ^ Den Store Danske Encyclopædi: Vilkår og rettigheder