(Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, operational programme Research, Development and Education, number of registration CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001743, 2017-2021)

This project aims to research Czech literature on the internet and to create a primary

information infrastructure for this dynamically growing field. The project will be dealt with along three basic key-activity axes, i.e. (a) compiling an analytical bibliography of the Czech literary internet; (b) developing software tools for analysing this data; (c) scholarly research into this material with the stress on the relationship between literature and new media, as well as on the internet and readership.

This project will focus on research into the Czech literary internet. Internet output has de facto made up part of contemporary literary discourse since the early days of the internet here at the end of the last millennium and in the first two decades of the new millennium its importance has constantly increased: the internet has become not only a common medium of communication for the individual protagonists in literary life (electronic journals, literary websites, web fanzines, social networks and the like), but it has also brought with it new inspiration for literature as such (online novels, text message poems, blogs and other hybrid literary forms), whereas not even an analytical bibliography of the Czech literary internet has been compiled, which would undoubtedly serve as an initial source of data for further research into this issue. We consider the creation of methodological procedures and technical and other devices, as well as the associated compilation of this bibliography to be one of the mainstays of the anticipated project, with the bibliographical compilation of this material opening up new opportunities for primary research. On the other hand, primary research, the second mainstay of the project, would help to better define and determine the basic starting points (methodological procedures) for drawing up an appropriate bibliography with the assistance of the Czech literary internet. As part of the project we also plan to prepare software tools (online utilities for analysing bibliographical data) to support both the aforementioned lines of research. Hence the team members will include leading scholars specializing in research into internet and digital literature and an experienced bibliographical team for the Czech literary bibliography research infrastructure and IT specialists with experience in digital humanities.