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Distributed Proofreaders

Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors. As of December 2025, the site had digitized 50,000 titles.

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Owner
Distributed Proofreaders Foundation (DPF)
Available in
3 languages
Commercial
No
Content license
Public domain
Country of origin
United States
Current status
Active

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Distributed Proofreaders

Nodes56
Edges55
Triples105
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035714
Components1

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Distributed Proofreaders

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related to 10,000th e-book · 62
Distributed Proofreaders → Agriculture, Brinton, Bureau, Cakchiquels, Caldecott's First Collection, Carl, Carl Linnaeus, Central American Indian, Charles William Burkett, Como, Daniel, Dillmont, Discourse, Doc, Eighth, Encyclopedia, English, Folk History, Forest-Trees, Former Slaves
related to DP Europe · 16
Distributed Proofreaders → Arabic, As, Books, Distributed Proofreaders Europe, DP Europe, English, European, Hebrew, In January, November, October, Project Rastko, Serbia, This, Unicode UTF-8, Urdu
related to DP Canada · 9
Distributed Proofreaders → All, Although, Canadian, Distributed Proofreaders Canada, Faded Page, In, In December, Project Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg Canada
related to history · 4
Distributed Proofreaders → Charles Franks, November, On, Project Gutenberg
Available in · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → 3 languages
Commercial · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → No
Content license · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → Public domain
Country of origin · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → United States
Current status · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → Active
Founder · 1
Distributed Proofreaders → Charles Franks

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distributed proofreaders project gutenberg english dp site book text proofreading 000th projects software 000 one german 10 30 50 charles

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Distributed ProofreadersAvailable in3 languages1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersCommercialNo1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersContent licensePublic domain1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersCountry of originUnited States1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersCurrent statusActive1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersFounderCharles Franks1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersGeneral managerLinda Hamilton1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersLaunched2000; 26 years ago (2000)1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersOCLC number10874971291.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersOwnerDistributed Proofreaders Foundation (DPF)1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersRegistrationOptional1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersType of siteNot-for-profit1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersURLpgdp.net1.00infobox
Distributed ProofreadersWritten inPHP1.00infobox

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