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Title:: Transcribathon participants
Creator:: Ingrid Oentrich
Date:: 2019
Institution:: Austrian National Library
Country:: Austria
Copyright:: CC BY

News Created: 15 November 2019 Georgia Evans

Enrich Europeana: launching the renewed Transcribathon platform

Crowdsourcing

The Enrich Europeana platform aims to make it possible for users to transcribe and enrich a wide variety of digital heritage collections. In this guest post, Ting Chung of the Austrian National Library - a project partner in Enrich Europeana - gives us an update on the launch of the project’s new crowdsourcing tool for transcribing, annotating, and georeferencing historical documents.

Title:: Frank Drauschke (Facts & Files) introducing the Transcribathon
Creator:: Ingrid Oentrich
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

News Created: 14 February 2019

First Series of Mini-Transcribathons at the #EuropeforCulture Conference in Vienna

Crowdsourcing

On 6th December 2018, three Mini-Transcribathons were held in Vienna as part of the #EuropeForCulture conference, the closing celebrations of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

Title:: Crowd Heritage project logo
Date:: 2018
Copyright:: CC BY

Project 1 September 2018 - 29 February 2020

CrowdHeritage

Crowdsourcing

CrowdHeritage developed a standalone online crowdsourcing platform for enriching metadata of selected cultural items from Europeana collections

Title:: John Jennings Esq., his Brother and Sister-in-Law
Creator:: Alexander Roslin
Date:: 1769
Institution:: Nationalmuseum
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: Public Domain

Project 1 September 2018 - 29 February 2020

Enrich Europeana

Crowdsourcing

EnrichEuropeana developed a crowdsourcing platform that enables citizens to transcribe and enrich cultural heritage material from Europeana Collections and national aggregator portals.

News Created: 24 March 2016

Five Tips For Your Next Academic Crowdsourcing Project

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is tied to a number of issues that need to be thought through before launching a campaign. Some of these issues are hard to work around in the university environment.

News Created: 17 March 2016 Frank Drauschke

Europeana 1989: Documenting Historic Turning Points Via Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

The historic events of 1989/1990 marked a turning point in European history, as 2015 may well prove to be. It is important to document such crucial phases in our history, and to start doing so as early as possible. Crowdsourcing can play a useful role here by helping to gather information through the collection and documentation of personal accounts and source materials.