About
Transcribathon aims to enrich digital cultural heritage using the power of the crowd.
Join us in widening our understanding of historical documents, increasing their accessibility, and preserving this knowledge for generations to come.
The first prototype of the Transcribathon tool was created in 2014 by Facts & Files and Olaf Baldini/Piktoresk and funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). The tool was further developed in 2016 into the Transcribathon Europeana 1914-1918 website, which focused on the transcription and enrichment of documents from the Europeana 1914-1918 collection, funded by the European Commission. In 2019, the Transcribathon platform was updated, improved and extended within the framework of the Enrich Europeana project, which, among other improvements, now allows for the incorporation of multiple digital heritage collections. The Enrich Europeana project is jointly developed by the Austrian Institute of Technology, Facts & Files, Europeana, NET7, the Biblioteca Judeteana "Octavian Goga" Cluj, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, and co-funded by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.