Presidential and national library of Russia began implementing a project to create a national electronic encyclopedia. It should be an alternative to Wikipedia, which, taking into account the opinion of the authors of the project, contains a lot of biased data.

The presidential library has already received more than 50 thousand books and archival documents from 27 libraries regions of Russia. "The materials have become the Foundation of a Presidential library in conjunction with the Russian national library (RNB) regional electronic encyclopedia. Hence, began the creation of candidacy Wikipedia test this resource has demonstrated that he is not able to thoroughly and accurately informed about the domestic regions, life, power, says TASS.

Russian encyclopedia will be available on the websites of the Presidential library and the national library. The basis will be the documents, touches of Russian territory. To collect materials connected entities of the Russian Federation, which proposed to introduce in the new resource its own regional encyclopedia on the development of regions, districts, cities and villages. According to the experts, they released more than five hundred.

"As expected, regional electronic encyclopedia will become a leading popular among resources of Runet, " said the public relations division of the Presidential library.

The idea of forming an electronic encyclopedia on the basis of library resources announced in early April 2014 CEO of NLR Anton Likhomanov at the meeting of the Academic Council. Earlier Presidential library spoke about the participation in the creation of the portal "Regional encyclopedia of Russia", which should combine resources regional printed directories, published in the Russian regions.
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