Digital Library for Dutch Literature

The Digital Library for Dutch Literature is a website about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, secondary literature and additional information, like biographies, portrayals etcetera, and hyperlinks. The DBNL is an initiative by the DBNL foundation that was founded in 1999 by the Society of Dutch Literature.
Building of the DNBL was made possible by donations, among others, from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research and the Nederlandse Taalunie. From 2008 to 2012, the editor was. The work is done by eight people in Leiden, 20 students, and 50 people in the Philippines who scan and type the texts.
the library is being maintained by a collaboration of the Taalunie, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek, and the Royal [Library of the Netherlands].

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Basic library: 1,000 key texts

The DBNL provides the Basic Library of [Dutch Literature], containing 1,000 works of fundamental importance to Dutch and Flemish cultural history. The chairperson of the committee that selected the 1,000 key texts was Paul Schnabel. Nevertheless, some classic texts of Dutch literature, like Gerard Reve's 1947 novel The Evenings and Willem Frederik Hermans' 1966 novel Beyond Sleep are absent for copyright reasons.

Reliability

Questions have been raised as to the reliability of the information contained in this database by both authors and testators alike. The DBNL lacks a confirmation procedure as well as a complaints procedure.