Alexandria
 Alexandria.dk logo | |
 Content in Alexandria over time | |
| Available in | English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German |
|---|---|
| Owner | Peter Brodersen |
| Website | alexandria |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | March 1, 2003 |
| Current status | Online |
Alexandria.dk is a public searchable database of Nordic roleplaying conventions and the games (scenarios, LARPS, designer board games) run on these. The site has been under development since 2000 and was publicly announced on the Danish webforum RPGFORUM at March 1, 2003. It was based on the database model for Project R'lyeh, also coded by Peter Brodersen.
As of November 2024 the site contains information for more than 17,000 scenarios, 9,000 persons, and 2,500 conventions (including 950 from Denmark, 700 from Sweden, 250 from Ireland, 200 from United States, and 100 from Norway).
Some game authors publish the full game as a digital download at the site. A diskette symbol next to a game title denotes that it has downloadable content. About 2,900 scenarios are available for download.
Furthermore, hundreds of periodicals such as magazines, fanzines and club newsletters have been registered with information of more than 8,000 articles. More than 450 issues of magazines have been put online for download as well.
The database is run by Peter Brodersen and opened in 2003. Several volunteers help maintaining and updating the information as editors. In 2020 the source code as well as an API to download all the content from the site was released.
USB mirror
In 2023 Alexandria produced 200 USB drives with the sponsorship of Bastard Café, Copenhagen. These USB drives contains an offline version of all of Alexandria as of April 2023, with more than 2,000 scenarios for download, taking up more than 35 GB of storage.
About 100 drives were handed out for free at Knudepunkt 2023 where Peter also organized a talk about the project. The purpose is to preserve the data and to make sure that the site isn't gatekeeping information.
