Building of Complex and Representative Digital Literary Collections within the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) in Slovakia and in Ukraine

Abstract

The paper deals with problems of building representative digital literary collections of national literatures, in particular those of Slovak and Ukrainian literatures, within the international context of the project European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). At the beginning text characterizes the requirements laid down on creation and representativeness of such a national multilingual literary collection, which is established as a result of the project COST – Distant Reading for European Literary History (1840 – 1920) and analyzes various factors related to literary production in Slovakia and Ukraine. On the one hand, it includes a discrepancy between stronger partners of the project (socalled great European literatures) and weaker partners (so-called small literatures), on the other hand, the factor of accessibility of digital sources corresponding to the requirements of a project of this kind.

Keywords

• european literary text collection (eltec)
• distant reading
• national literatures
• literary history
• slovakia
• ukraine