Literature and Translation in Hungary’s Cultural Heritagehdl:21.15109/ARP/5LZUPSARP2025-12-141Józan, Ildikó; Scheibner, Tamás, 2025, "Literature and Translation in Hungary’s Cultural Heritage", https://hdl.handle.net/21.15109/ARP/5LZUPS, ARP, V1Literature and Translation in Hungary’s Cultural Heritagehdl:21.15109/ARP/5LZUPSJózan, IldikóScheibner, TamásJózan, IldikóScheibner, TamásJózan, IldikóScheibner, Tamás2025MagyarországOpen Encyclopedia System (OES)Zotero150848ARPScheibner, TamásScheibner, TamásScheibner, Tamás2025-10-14Arts and HumanitiesMűvészetek és humán tudományokTranslatorsTranslationsTranslators in literatureLiterary historyThis dataset contains the data outputs of the four-year NKFI Advanced project “Literature and Translation in the Hungarian Cultural Heritage” (150848, 2025–2028). The project’s broader areas of interest include: methodological issues of writing translator biographies; the curation and processing of translators’ archival estates; the methodological challenges of writing translation history; the traces of translation in institutional archives; and the translation programs of world literature book series and literary journals. Within the project, the Hungarian Historical Lexicon of Literary Translators—abbreviated as FordLEX—is being developed. It is a digital knowledge base that aims to map and revisit the history of Hungarian literary translation through translators’ life trajectories, decisions, and mediating roles. The lexicon contains biographical, thematic, and institutional entries, along with structured data and a systematically organized bibliography linked to the entries. FordLEX is an open, continuously expanding, scholarly edited lexicon based on linked relational data.190020252025-01-01HungaryHungarian translators lived worldwide, and since the FordLEX database covers their entire career, the geographic scope is also global despite the dataset's primary relevance to the literature and culture of Hungary.individualsinstitutions/organizationsmachine-readable textGuidleines for interviews provideddesk researcharchival researchoral history interviewtargeted interviewsemi-structuredWikidata SPARQL query for "műfordító" (April 2025) and then filtered for deceased personsMagyar Nemzeti Névtér (Hungarian Namespace), OSZK (Hungarian National Library) https://magyarnemzetinevter.hu/ Query for "műfordító" filtered for deceased personsNéppont query for "műfordító" (April 2025) https://www.nevpont.hu/Magyarul Babelben, fordítók listája (list of translators) https://www.magyarulbabelben.net/index.php?page=translatorsHomepage of the Hungarian PEN Club, members (April 2025) https://magyarpenclub.hu/tagsag/All databases consulted are publicly accessible. To obtain the list of translators recorded in the Hungarian National Namespace, we sought assistance from the National Library’s Digitális Filológiai és Webarchiválási Osztály (Department of Digital Philology and Web Archiving), the resource’s provider and maintainer, which furnished a script-generated extract.consistency checking, fact checkingThe data is currently also stored on Google Drive and portable hard drives.The original datasets were retrieved from the Hungarian National Namespace, Wikidata, the Névpont project, the Magyarul Bábelben project, and the Hungarian PEN Club homepage. The project also collected data from analogue sources through desk research.The dataset is embargoed until August 30, 2028.The collection contains one master csv file with additional reference files.The data is continuously collected and enriched. The dataset is expected to be released in new versions in the coming years, until at least 2028.There is no need to sign a confidentiality declaration if access is permitted to the dataset.The dataset is closed for public view and use until August 30, 2028.Users of the dataset are required to reference the dataset appropriately and send their publications that were based on the dataset to the Dataset Contact.The dataset does not contain sensitive data.mufordito-adatbazis_readme.txtKey data handling procedures.text/plainMufordito_adatbazis-FORDLEX-1.0.csvList of persons (translators) with associated data.text/csv