A Study of the interactive relationship between the creation and reception of literary texts

本研究所建立了日本典籍联合目录数据库。虽然它最初的目的只是为了方便书目搜索，但由于它已经积累了大量的数据，它已被证明是一种意想不到的强大的调查资源，而不仅仅是参考。在这里，我们希望通过使用数据库来探索一种可能性，即对文学文本的创作与接受之间的互动关系进行统计研究。自1997年以来，我们获得的资助使我们能够发展一种新的文学类型分类系统，作为探究创作-接受关系的基础。我们已经将这项研究的结果反馈到联合目录数据库中，我们已经在互联网上广泛提供了该数据库的精华。（网址为：http: //quartet.nijl.ac.jp/IKDBpublic/IKDB.html）

In our institute (NIJL), we have constructed a union catalog database of Japanese classical books. Though its original aim is nothing but facilitating a bibliographiocal search, yet with the huge amount of the data already accumulated in it, it has proved to be an unexpectedly powerful resource for investigations beyond a mere reference. One possibility we here wish to explore through the use of the database is a statistical study of the interactive relationship between the creation and reception of literary texts. The grant we have received since 1997 has enabled us to develop a new classificatory system of literary genres as the basis for the inquiry of the creation-reception relationship. We have fed back the result of this research into the union catalog database, the essence of which we have made available widely on the internet. (The URL is : http : //quartet.nijl.ac.jp/IKDBpublic/IKDB.html)