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The Digital Library

TextGrid has acquired the online library of zeno.org, a comprehensive collection of texts from the beginning of printing until the first decades of the twentieth century in digital form. This collection is of particular interest for Germanic language and literature studies because it contains nearly all the important canonical texts and numerous relevant literary texts for which the term of copyright has expired. The same is true for philosophy and the social sciences. For the most part, the texts are the critical editions and therefore citable; that applies to the leftovers, which is trace back to the digitalisation of first prints.

TextGrid will make these texts available to the general public, not only for reading, but mainly for processing, for example in editions and corpora. Therefore, the XML-files will be converted into a valid TEI-format during the duration of the project to facilitate research using the text. More information about the "Digital Library" project and its current status is available on this page.

Texts from the online library of zeno.org

The texts from the online library of zeno.org fall into the following categories:

The following dictionaries and encyclopedias are also available:

The entire catalogue of all authors/texts of the online library is available for download here.

Future Plans

TextGrid will initially make the texts of the online library available as HTML versions. After that, a conversion into a valid TEI-format during the duration of the project is planned.

Preliminary Work Schedule: