Structure and form of entries

An entry in the DLBT consists of several parts. The bibliographic details are given in the DLBT standard citation format, and further information and data on the entry can be accessed via separate buttons to the left of and below. Each entry can be accessed via the search mask under the 'Online Search' tab. Depending on the type of text, data is assigned to one of two existing libraries: 'Translations and Adaptations' or 'Reception Documents'. Our example is a translation of Anne Frank's diary into Slovakian, published in Bratislava in 1996.
Here, you can find the bibliographic reference, which can be exported in various citation styles (see the 'How to perform a search' guide for more information).

On the left side of every entry, there are up to three buttons:

1. a box to select the entry and download it. After you have selected one or more entries you choose the appropriate citation format and in which format it should be exported in the Export selected-section below. After pressing the Save/Export button you get your results.
2. a button in the form of an eye (view reference), which can be clicked to access the reference details, i.e. further bibliographic information on the entry, an ID, i.e. a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and information on the creator.
3. a button in the form of an info button (Get more information), which provides access to external bibliographic databases, including the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) and WIKIDATA. Below is an optional display of the book cover, which can be enlarged with a mouse click.

If an entry is marked with keywords or it is connected to another entry (what is called in the DLBT a child-parent-relationship of documents, for more information see here) you will find a button labelled 'secondary literature' (sec. literature) below the entry. By clicking on it you get additional literature on the entry that is already stored in the DLBT.
The DLBT has a variety of metadata categories that make up a data record, and these can be searched for individually or in any combination. Titles are recorded in accordance with the principle of collecting as much information as possible about a single dataset. The categories 'title' and 'year' are predefined as mandatory fields. Proper names are standardised and reproduced in the DLBT according to the standard scholarly German spelling. Due to the authority files behind them, all possible spellings can be searched for without producing different results.