BITRA: three Years of a Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation Studies

• Autores: Javier Franco Aixelá
• Localización: Quaderns: Revista de traducció, ISSN 1138-5790, Nº 11, 2004, págs. 223-234
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The article explains the results of a personal project, BITRA (Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation) after three years of existence on the Internet. This is a monthly-updated online database which already (September, 2003) comprises more than 20,000 entries and which aspires to cover all the literature on interpreting and translation taking advantage of information technology. BITRA is: 1) International, it includes works from any country and written in any language; 2) Annotated, it includes metatextual fields aimed at offering an abstract, commenting on special traits of the text or reproducing the table of contents; 3) Interactive, it allows users to propose changes in the existing data or the inclusion of new records; 4) Flexible, it allows searches to be performed using any criterion or combination of criteria; 5) Open and free, BITRA is easy to search and open to everybody without any sort of subscription or payment.