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{{Short description|Website about Dutch language and literature}}

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| commercial = | type =| registration =Dutch language>Dutch| num_users =| content_license = | programming_language =| owner = Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde| author = | editor = | launch_date = 1999| revenue =| current_status = Online| footnotes = }}The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, secondary literature and additional information, like biographies, portrayals etcetera, and hyperlinks. The DBNL is an initiative by the DBNL foundation that was founded in 1999 by the Society of Dutch Literature (Dutch: Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde).WEB,www.mdnl.nl/?page_id=22, Over de MdNL, Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 9 June 2020, nl, Building of the DNBL was made possible by donations, among others, from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek or NWO) and the Nederlandse Taalunie. From 2008 to 2012, the editor was René van Stipriaan.WEB,www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2008/04/04/van-abel-spel-tot-achterhuis-11515719-a1145015, Van abel spel tot Achterhuis: de basisbibliotheek – het Nederlands erfgoed in duizend sleutelteksten, NRC Handelsblad, p. 10–14, April 4, 2008, October 22, 2017, Somers, Maartje, nl, The work is done by eight people in Leiden (as of 2013: The Hague), 20 students, and 50 people in the Philippines who scan and type the texts.{{Wikidata property|P723}}{{As of|2020|post=,}} the library is being maintained by a collaboration of the Taalunie, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek (Flemish Libraries), and the Royal Library of the Netherlands.WEB,www.dbnl.nl/overdbnl/index.php, Over DBNL, Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren, nl, 9 June 2020,

Basic library: 1,000 key texts

The DBNL contains (or will contain in the near future), the complete so called (Canon of Dutch Literature|“basic library” (Dutch: “basisbibliotheek“) 1,000 deemed “key” texts) of the Dutch and Flemish cultural history. The chairperson of the committee that selected the 1,000 key texts is Paul Schnabel. Nevertheless, some classic texts of Dutch literature, like Gerard Reve’s 1947 novel The Evenings (Dutch: De avonden) and Willem Frederik Hermans’ 1966 novel Beyond Sleep (Dutch: Nooit meer slapen) are missing because of copyright reasons.

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• Translation from Dutch Pseudopedia article, version 3 June 2007, 14:18

External links

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• {{Official websitewww.dbnl.org}} {{in lang|nl}}

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