Zpřístupnění fondu Josefa Václava Sládka v LA PNP: jak digitalizovat
Making Accessible the Personal Papers of Josef Václav Sládek in the Literature Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature: How to Digitalize

Summary/Abstract: The two complementary articles are focused on the personal papers of the classical author of Czech poetry, J. V. Sládek (1845–1912), deposited in the Literature Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature, and are concerned with their digitalization. The first article deals with the gradual formation of the fond as a whole. It draws attention to the as yet unemployed potential of individual sources. Digitalization may serve to boost this potential for further studies in literary science and cultural history, in academic studies and in other publishing projects concerning Sládek’s literary and photographic work. In relation to the digitalization of the fond, attention is also paid to, for example, the genesis of Sládek’s translations of Shakespeare’s dramas (the manuscript being pasted over on a number of places); the gap concerning the as yet not published complete Sládek’s poems for children; the biographical and culturally historical information presented in the extensive family correspondence spanning from the years Sládek spent in America (1868–1870) up to the year of his death. We are also reminded of the testimonial value, both artistic and technical, of Sládek’s almost unknown photographic work, of his own glass and celluloid negatives as well as of professionally taken portraits preserved in family albums.The second paper emphasizes the technical problems connected with digitalization (scanning and photographing) of specific archive materials and of objects that are categorized in individual archives according to methodological rules. The paper also creates special methodological rules for the transferring of various materials to the digital format.

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