E-text
An e-text (of electronic text ) is in a computer system of the present text , or more generally an electronic document with text content. If the content or form of the e-text is comparable to the medium of a book , it is more precisely referred to as an e-book . E-texts can come from retro-digitized publications, the content of which has been interpreted, for example, by means of text recognition or as text, or they can originally have been created as an electronic publication . E-texts are also referred to as full text when it should be emphasized that the characters are individually coded and are available and searchable ( full text search ).
Technical background
In order to be able to interpret data from a file as text, it must conform to a standard. The basis for electronic texts are the character encodings ASCII and Unicode . There are numerous document formats for further structuring and formatting, such as HTML , OpenDocument Format (ODF) , and LaTeX .
A simple text editor or special word processing software is sufficient to create and edit e-texts, depending on the format . Physical media must first be digitized for further processing .
E-texts on the net
There are many "free" texts in electronic form on the Internet, e.g. B. at Wikisource , at Project Gutenberg , in the Open Library , at Project Runeberg (Nordic texts), Perseus Project (Greek and Latin texts) and on document servers , which z. B. operated by several German university libraries.
See also
Web links
- Link catalog on archives of electronic texts at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ - GDZ Document Server
- http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/mdz/ - Digital Library - Munich Digitization Center MDZ
- http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/ Digital full texts from Bielefeld University Library