A biographical research group first formed at the Biographical Archive in the 1970s. The current version dates from 2016. As part of their ongoing archival and field research, staff collect biographical information about key Czech literary figures.
One goal of this work is to build the section’s analogue card index and publicly accessible online Czech Literary Biographical Database. Working with different sections of the CLB, the team also creates and updates records on individuals and corporate bodies (associations, publishers, companies, government agencies, institutions, NGOs, performing groups, etc.) and systematically researches literary pseudonyms and acronyms. No less significant is its role in a joint national-level project to establish and standardise authority files for individuals and corporate bodies. This project is organised and led by the Czech National Library. For some years, a parallel project has also been under way to align the ICL’s authority data for individuals with the national name authority file of the Czech National Library. This work is funded by the annual grant from the Public Libraries Information Service.
As part of its coordination role, the Biographical Archive Section offers expert advice and consultations to the general public. Staff also promote research and scholarship in their lectures and publications and provide other expert services including study tours for secondary school students. These trips are mostly linked to the Czech Academy of Sciences’s Open Science project for research-minded students.
Head: PhDr. Petra Večeřová, Ph.D.
Contact address: bioarchiv@ucl.cas.cz
Yesterday, we welcomed students from the Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej UAM in Prague, for whom we organized a tour of the ICL’s library and a workshop focused on the use of our databases and the VuFind search interface in the Czech literary studies. read more
The conference Wikimedia versus Traditional Biographical Dictionaries?, organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in collaboration with Wikimedia Czech Republic, will take place next Monday on the 31st of March in Prague. read more
The Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS announces the vacancies for the new positions in the Department of Czech Literary Bibliography. read more
On March 4-5, 2025, the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic will host an interdisciplinary meeting of researchers from various humanities disciplines engaged in the metadata-driven research. The event is organized by the Bibliographical Data Working Group of DARIAH-ERIC and the Czech Literary Bibliography. The aim of the workshop, titled Metadata-based Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, is to present current research projects and share… read more
We wish you a peaceful Christmas, many fulfilled expectations and pleasant surprises in the New Year. read more
If you happen to be in Opava tomorrow and are looking for a place to take refuge from the inclement winter weather while gaining some new knowledge, you will certainly find it at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Opava, where a bibliographic workshop is being held under the (in turn very kind) guidance of our colleague Marta Škubalová. read more
