Project Rastko - Internet Library of Serb Culture (Пројекат Растко - Електронска библиотека српске културе) is a non-profit and non-governmental publishing, cultural and educational project dedicated to Serb and Serb-related arts and humanities. It is named after Rastko Nemanjic. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ... The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. ... Saint Sava (1175 or 1176 - January 12, 1235 or 1236), originally the prince Rastko Nemanjic (son of the Serbian king Stefan Nemanja and brother of Stefan Prvovencani, founder of the Serbian medieval state), is the first Serb archbishop (1219-1233) and the most important saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church. ...

The project was established in 1997 as a part of a pan-regional Balkans Cultural Network Initiative. Its main activities are: Logo of Project Rastko. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

• electronic publishing in the fields of Serbian and Serbian-related arts and humanities
• scientific and cultural conferences and studies about Balkan cultural-civilizational integration
• bilateral and multilateral activities with other Balkan and world countries
• establishing regional centres
• technical training

The apex of the project is its electronic library with more than half a gigabyte of material, comprising electronic books and articles, photographs and comics. Though most texts are in Serbian language there is a body of material in other languages, again mostly in English and Russian, but also in French, German, Spanish and other languages. Electronic publishing can refer to the publication of ebooks and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries. ... The word Serbian might be: an adjective, meaning: of Serbs (Serbian tradition, Serbian religion) of Serbia (Serbian government, Serbian president) both of the above (Serbian flag) a noun, meaning: a Serb a Serb from Serbia (as opposed to Serb who is not from Serbia) citizen of Serbia (regardless of nationality... ... A digital library is, like a traditional library, a collection of books and reference materials. ... A gigabyte (symbol GB) is a unit of measurement in computers of one thousand million bytes (the same as one billion bytes in the short scale usage). ... An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version of a book. ... Article may refer to multiple things: in grammar: grammatical article in medicine: a joint between two bones In a journal, magazine, or newspaper, an article is a piece of writing or essay on a topic. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The library contains material in both the public domain and copyrighted texts published with the authors' permissions, dating from earliest medieval Serb texts to contemporary science fiction. The site of the project also hosts several sites not directly related to the project. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... A copyright is a form of intellectual property which secures to its holder the exclusive right to produce copies of his or her works of original expression, such as a literary work, movie, musical work or sound recording, painting, photograph, computer program, or industrial design, for a defined, yet extendable... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Contemporary is an adjective which in its basic form merely means that two individuals, events or movements overlapped in time. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

Project Rastko also hosts the European version of Distributed Proofreaders, which intends to supply Project Gutenberg with public domain texts in European languages. Project Rastko is organising a coalition of European e-libraries for the purpose of collecting public domain works, aiming to eventually have a node of Distributed Proofreaders in each European country. Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is a project to support the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg. ... Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. ...

Currently (2003) the project has following regional centres: 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. Belgrade (central project)
2. Romania (Project Rastko - Timisoara, e-library of culture and tradition Romanian-Serbian cultural ties)
3. Montenegro (Project Rastko - Cetinje, e-library of culture and tradition of Montenegro)
4. Subproject for Kosovo and Metohia (Project Rastko - Gracanica-Pec, e-library of culture and tradition of Kosovo and Metohia)
5. Boka Kotorska (Project Rastko - Boka, e-library of culture and tradition of Boka Kotorska)
6. Hungary (Project Rastko - Budapest-Szent-Andrea, e-library of culture and tradition of Hungaro-Serbian cultural ties)
7. Ukraine (Project Rastko - Kiev-L'vov, e-library of Ukrainian-Serbian cultural ties)
8. Bulgaria (Project Rastko - Bulgaria, e-library of Bulgarian-Serbian cultural ties)
9. Bosnian Krajina (Project Rastko - Banja Luka, e-library of culture and tradition of Bosnian Krajina)
10. Albania (Project Rastko - Shkoder, e-library of culture and tradition of Albano-Slavic cultural ties)
11. Lusatia (Project Rastko - Lusatia, e-library of culture and tradition of Sorbs)
12. Poland (Project Rastko - Poland, e-library of Polish-Serbian cultural ties)

Each of them is independent, and develops its projects and activities through local academic, cultural, media NGO-s and individuals, including strong co-operation with ethnic minorities centres. Future activities of Belgrade centre will include projects about Slovak, Jewish and Roma/Gypsy as well as for 29 other ethnocultural minorities in South-Eastern Europe. Belgrade (Serbian, Београд, Beograd  listen), is the capital (2003–) of Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia (1918–2003). ... Serbia and Montenegro  – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    – Vojvodina  – Montenegro Official language Serbian Capital Podgorica Former Royal Capital Cetinje President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Milo Đukanović Area  – Total  – % water  13,812 km²  n/a Population  – Total (2003)  – Density  616,258  48. ... Kosovo (known in Albanian as Kosova, in Serbian as Косово и Метохија / Kosovo i Metohija, and in English simply as Kosovo) is a province in southern Serbia. ... Boka Kotorska (Bay of Kotor, Bocca di Cattaro) in western Montenegro is a winding bay on the Adriatic sea. ... Bosanska Krajina (lit Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina enclosed by three rivers - Sava, Una and Vrbas. ... Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice), sometimes called Sorbia comprises a region in the southern parts of Brandenburg and eastern parts of Saxony, Germany. ... In sociology and in voting theory, a minority is a sub-group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Rroma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies. ...

See also: List of digital library projects This is a list of projects related to digital libraries. ...

External links

• http://www.rastko.org.yu - Site of the project (in Serbian)
• http://www.rastko.org.yu/strani/e-index.html - English index
• Project Gutenberg DP-EU announcement (http://www.gutenberg.net/newsletter/archive/PGWeekly_2004_01_21_Part_1.txt)
• Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka" (http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bo)