The Europeana XX: subtitle-a-thon is a crowdsourcing initiative that allows you to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual content. By sharing your language and subtitling skills, you will contribute to making audiovisual content more accessible to multilingual audiences and widely available. The subtitle-a-thon challenges are part of a raising awareness campaign about the value of multilingual access to AV archival footage and are not intended to compete with or replace professional level translation. Sign up to our events and join the challenge to Subtitle the Past, Translate for the Future.

Joining is free and open to everyone.

Subtitle-a-thon is an initiative that invites the public to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips coming from various European heritage collections available on Europeana.eu. The aim of the experience organised as part of the Europeana XX: Century of Change project is to make audiovisual material accessible to multilingual audiences and, for the currently underrepresented AV-heritage, to become more widely available.

The four online events are coordinated by four members of the project: the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum - DFF (Germany), Cinecittà (Italy), the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute - FINA (Poland) and, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision - NISV (The Netherlands). During the events, people with different language skills work together toward a common goal: to create and add different subtitles to archival media fragments coming from various European collections that may be further shown in the Europeana XX editorials. During the events, participants will have the opportunity to use specialized technology to subtitle the content.

Who can participate?

Get involved! Discover more about each of the four events here