The Digital Library and Bibliography for Literature in Translation and Adaptation (DLBT) is a research infrastructure which stores, manages and analyses translations and their reception documents, and provides archiving services. Since its establishment at the University of Vienna in 2015, around 50,000 translation-related and over 20,000 reception document-related datasets in more than 100 languages have been created (see here for a detailed overview).
As an open-access infrastructure, the DLBT is not subject to any time-, space- or language-related restrictions. It offers an innovative, centralised system that combines a digital library of primary (translated) literature with a collection of digitised secondary sources and other assets. It also provides bibliographic metadata and additional links and tools for visualising full texts, metadata, and statistical overviews.
The DLBT also has an AI-based application called iConTxt, which creates translations an summaries of source texts and compiles information about authors and texts. This application is based on existing databases, web knowledge, and the DLBT knowledge database.
The DLBT's digital infrastructure links a repository, a bibliographic information system, and a web-based information and research tool.
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