Reconstructing and Interpreting Large Datasets on Historical Translation Flows. Czech Literature in Translation in 1820-2020

0565643 - ÚČL 2023 RIV eng A3 - Přednáška/prezentace nepublikovaná
Vimr, Ondřej
Reconstructing and Interpreting Large Datasets on Historical Translation Flows. Czech Literature in Translation in 1820-2020.
[History and Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Tallinn, 25.05.2022-28.05.2022]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GJ20-02773Y
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378068
Klíčová slova: computational literary studies * history of translation, Czech literature * Czech literature
Obor OECD: Specific languages

This paper explores the challenges of reconstructing and interpreting a bibliographic dataset on the dissemination of Czech literature in 1850-2020 from a large-scale data perspective. Starting with over 2 000 000 bibliographic records on books licensed from the OCLC (WorldCat.org), it examines the processing and cross-enrichment, scrutinises the quality and reliability of the resulting dataset and finally examine the global trajectories of authorships and their clusters throughout almost two centuries. The results may serves as an inspiration for any historian of translation who suffers from a lack of bibliographical data especially in case of smaller national literatures.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339084