Danske Tidsskrifter 1740–1770 / Danish Periodical Journals 1740–1770.

Danish Periodicals 1740–1770 is a digital collection of selected periodicals from the mid-18th century, published in Copenhagen in Danish. The collection is the result of research carried out by Maria Nørby Pedersen, PhD, as part of the project “The Rise of Science and Fiction during the Danish Enlightenment” (SAF) at the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy. The data can be used for digital analyses of 18th-century Danish literature and culture. The collection consists of of three folders: one with image files sourced from the free online digital services of the Royal Library of Denmark and the Royal Library of Norway. A second with raw text files of the individual transcribed pages of each journal. A third with raw text files of the full transcribed content of each journal’s volume. The transcriptions were carried out in Transkribus. Further details regarding the construction of the dataset can be found in the following article:

Pedersen, Maria Nørby, 2026: “Re-animating early Danish periodical journals (1740–1770) as digital text: practices of historical transcription and loss of materiality.” Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, 10th Conference: Lost in Abundance – Encounters with the Non-Canonical, March 9–13, 2026, Aarhus, Denmark.

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