Established in 2019, the Lab is the research and innovation hub of the Czech Literary Bibliography Research Infrastructure. It employs a multidisciplinary approach that integrates bibliographic data science, advanced computational techniques, and established qualitative methods—including sociological and text-oriented approaches—to explore literary and translation studies from both local and global perspectives.
The Lab is dedicated to developing digital tools for analyzing and visualizing large-scale data on global literary exchange. A primary focus is the translation and international reception of Czech literature, a representative example of smaller European literature. To this end, it systematically maps the worldwide dissemination of Czech literature by collecting comprehensive bibliographic data on books and periodicals, alongside biographical data on translators.
Additionally, the Lab actively engages in international discussions on theories and methodologies designed to capture the complex, multi-layered nature of literary production, as well as the diverse trajectories of creators and the reception of their works. It further advances research in bibliographic methodology, promotes international data standardization, and champions the FAIR principles—ensuring that research datasets remain findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable for a broad range of scholarly activities.
Head: Mgr. Ondřej Vimr, Ph.D.
Contact address: vimr@ucl.cas.cz
The Digital Humanities Hackathon 2024 will take place in Helsinki between 15–24 May. Our colleague from the Global and Digital Literary Studies Lab, Charlotte Panušková, has signed up for the event on behalf of the Czech Literary Bibliography. read more
Last week (8–9 December 2023), the University of Hong Kong hosted the Translation Studies and the Digital Humanities conference. In one of the parallel sessions accompanying the main session, our colleague Ondřej Vimr spoke about his research focus. read more
On 9 November 2023, the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanties conference will take place at the Olomouc Department of Czech Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University. Its programme is dedicated to acquiring, processing, analysing and preserving humanities and social science data in digital form. read more
This week, an international workshop Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies was held in Berlin, attended by our colleagues Vojtěch Malínek, Ondřej Vimr and Charlotte Panušková. The two-day event was organised by Frank Fischer and Bart Soethaert from Freie Universität Berlin as a part of the Digital Observatory of World Literature project. read more
Like-minded agents and established consecrators: Czech-to-German poetry translators, 1948–1989, is the title of a study by Julie Miesenböck, one of the researchers of the project Global Trajectories of Czech Literature since 1945. The aim of the project is to map the worldwide dissemination of Czech literature in book form from the end of the Second World War to the present. read more
