Nationalencyklopedin (NE) is the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia, initiated by a government grant. Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the An encyclopedia (or '''encyclopædia''') is a comprehensive written Compendium that contains Information on either all branches of Knowledge The government of Sweden is a Constitutional monarchy based on Parliamentary democracy. The printed version consists of 20 volumes with 172,000 articles; the Internet version is slightly larger (260,000 articles as of June 2005). The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks
The project was born in 1980, when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various publishers. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view This stage was finished in August 1985, when Bra Böcker in Höganäs became the publisher responsible for the project. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Höganäs is a city in Scania and the seat of Höganäs Municipality, Skåne County in Sweden. The project specification showed demands for a modern reference work based on a scientific paradigm as well as bringing out gender and environmental issues. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding The word paradigm ( Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigmacomposite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show" as a whole -roughly- meaning "example" Gender comprises a range of differences between men and women extending from the biological to the social See also Nature The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a terminology that is comprised of all living and
The anticipations on the work were unprecedented; before the first volume was published in December 1989, the encyclopedia had been ordered by 54,000 customers. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) The last volume came in 1996, supplemented with three additional volumes in 2000. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
Associated with the Nationalencyklopedin project are also:
- NE:s Ordbok, a dictionary in three volumes (1995-1996)
- NE:s Årsband, complemental volumes of current events and often changing information distributed annually since 1997
- NE:s Sverigeatlas, an atlas of Sweden (1998)
- NE:s Världsatlas, a world atlas (1998)
- NE-spelet, a quiz game with 8,000 questions (1999)
In 1997, the first digital form of the encyclopedia was released on 6 CD-ROMs (later on DVD as well), and in 2000 as an Internet subscription service. A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed Words in a specific language with definitions etymologies pronunciations and other information or a book of alphabetically Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar A digital system uses discrete (discontinuous values usually but not always Symbolized Numerically (hence called "digital" to represent information for CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The subscription business model is a Business model where a customer must pay a subscription price to have access to the product/service The online version contains the dictionary as well as an updated version of the original encyclopedia. It has 356,000 entries, 183,000 of which are encyclopedic articles. The service has been completed with several features not available in the printed version, e. g. , a Swedish-English dictionary. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
See also
External links
- Nationalencyklopedin - Official site (in Swedish)
- Svenska uppslagsverk - Christofer Psilander's comprehensive bibliography on Swedish encyclopedias
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