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Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource
This post was written by Charles Matthews, Wikimedian and Wikimedia UK volunteer.
The digitisation project for the Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) on Wikisource has reached the milestone of a complete posting for the biographies for the first edition, which was published in 63 volumes from to Wikisource is the text repository of Wikimedia, less well known than Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (media files), but which adds value to texts with author pages, portals and categories, and light annotation and hyperlinks.
The efforts of over 30 people since have put close to 30, DNB articles onto Wikisource. While in the UK the text of the old DNB is available freely through library cards on , the subscription site of the modern revised Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), the old DNB is still of interest, and this digitisation makes it much easier to use for the whole world&#; For example the DNB contains more genealogical and bibliographical research information. This major resource has in fact not previously been available straightforwardly on search engines.
The DNB was a remarkable legacy project of the publisher George Murray Smith. Typical of the unstoppable Victorian
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Dictionary of National Biography
- Dictionary of National Biography, , the original 63 volumes, published between and These biographies use the suffix DNB
- Dictionary of National Biography, supplement, first supplement of 3 volumes, published ; outlined in a prefatory note. These articles use the suffix DNB With Queen Victoria's death, 22 January , this era came to a close.
- Dictionary of National Biography, Index and Epitome, published as one volume, provided condensed versions of all previous DNB biographies.
- Dictionary of National Biography, Errata, published in a single volume. These corrections are being incorporated into applicable DNB00 and DNB01 articles.
- Dictionary of National Biography re-issued nearly every article from the 66 volumes contained in the original and first supplement. This reissue, contained in 22 volumes, occurred between and , and incorporated the Errata.
- Dictionary of National Biography, supplement, published in three volumes, includes articles from those who died between and These articles use the suffix DNB
- Dictionary of National Biography, supplement, published in one volume, includes articles from those who died between and
The Index was the last version of the DNB from the original publishers, Smith, Elder & Co. Subsequent versio
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Dictionary of Not public Biography
Reference significance notable Nation figures
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