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The Europeana Science Run closes today.
From insects and handwritten calculations to scientific notes and correspondence, every page offers something different to discover.
Join the Run: europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#CitizenScience #DigitalHumanities #Transcription #OpenScience
What might you notice in a 500-year-old botanical illustration? 🌿
Explore Gart der Gesundheit and contribute to the Europeana Science Run before 30 September.
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Join the Science run: europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#Transcribathon #BotanicalHistory
Hyacinths, poppies and a double-flowered variety — all in a German herbal from 1590. 🌿
Explore it in the Europeana Science Run:
europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#BotanicalHistory #CitizenScience #Europeana
Europeana Science Run: who was Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer? A naturalist, chemist, and teacher whose handwritten notes are now available to explore. 👉 europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#HistoryOfScience #CitizenScience #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities #HandwrittenHistory
In 1865, Gounod had to choose between three rival sopranos. He wrote about it by hand.
That letter is now on Transcribathon. Still not fully transcribed. Who did he choose?
Finish the letter to find out → europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#DigitalHeritage #InfinityEccch
Day 2 of the INFINITY ECCCH project meeting — networking and planning under the sun of Barcelona.
Our CROWD Use Case is taking shape. The crowdsourcing work our volunteers do every day feeds into a 22-project Horizon Europe infrastructure. More to come.
#INFINITYProject
"Je n'ai pas le sol." (I don’t have the means.)
Sophie Arnould. October 1778. The most celebrated soprano in France. She created the role of Iphigénie in Gluck's opera. This letter is on Transcribathon. europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#CitizenScience #Europeana #InfinityEccch
"Je sais par votre chère Marianne que votre Claudie était chez vous pour environ un mois." Gounod to Viardot, 1875. Unread for 150 years.
433 letters (Berlioz, Liszt, George Sand…) on Transcribathon. #Transcribathon #MusicHistory #Europeana #InfinityEccch europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
May 1, 1945. Hitler was dead. Berlin was burning.
Agnes Unger kept writing — searching for her son missing since 1944. One came back: "Zurück." The man had vanished too.
43 letters. 0% transcribed.
Read one → 1945.transcribathon.eu/docum…
#Berlin1945 #InfinityEccch #WWII #Europeana
Workers' Memorial Day.
In 1881, Germany documented every factory in Saxony to write its first worker protection law.
145 years later, 68% of that document is still unread. Still unsearchable.
Help transcribe it → europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
A sculptor went to war.
On 6 March 1916, he carved a female figure out of snow for his fellow soldiers at the front.
His notebooks are now on Transcribathon — waiting to be transcribed.
This World Heritage Day: help preserve what survived the war.
Link in comments
ALT FRBNSA-039 Marcel Cottereau, sculpteur - Europeana 1914-1918, Europe - CC BY-SA.
Can you read this? 🖋️
Paris. 1778. 18th-century French cursive.
Written by the most famous opera soprano in France.
Thousands more documents like this on Transcribathon.
Can you read old scripts?
👇👇👇
europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#Transcribathon #Europeana #InfinityEcch
Flowers, poems, and handwritten memories 🌸
These pages from Emilie Gerlitz's Poesiealbum (1912–1913) are filled with dedications in old German cursive (Kurrent).
Now volunteers are transcribing them on Transcribathon.
→ transcribathon.eu
#Europeana #Infinity #Kurrent
ALT Poesiealbum von Emilie Gerlitz - Europeana 1914-1918, Europe - CC BY-SA.
ALT Poesiealbum von Emilie Gerlitz - Europeana 1914-1918, Europe - CC BY-SA.
ALT Poesiealbum von Emilie Gerlitz - Europeana 1914-1918, Europe - CC BY-SA.
The Women's History Month Run 2026 results are in!
🥇 Wolfgang Dekeyser
🥈 Stefanie Wolter
🥉 Sophie Jouglard
Every character transcribed is a woman's voice that can finally be read and searched. Thank you to everyone who took part in #WomensHistoryMonth Run on @transcribathon
🤖 Made with AI
Last day of Women's History Month.
Laure Cinti-Damoreau was Rossini's go-to soprano.
Star of the Paris Opera.
Then she wrote a vocal method still in print 175 years later.
Her documents are on Transcribathon.
One page. Today.
👉 europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#europeana #infinity
ALT Laure Cinthie Montalant, dite Cinti-Damoreau / Pierre-Roch Vigneron - 1823 - National Library of France, France - No Copyright - Other Known Legal Restrictions.
![[Lettre autographe signée de Damoreau-Cinti (sans lieu) (sans date)] (manuscrit autographe) by Cinti-Damoreau, Laure (1801-1863). Auteur de lettres - National Library of France, France - No Copyright - Other Known Legal Restrictions.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEvvWwsaQAEoPwn.jpg?name=orig)
ALT [Lettre autographe signée de Damoreau-Cinti (sans lieu) (sans date)] (manuscrit autographe) by Cinti-Damoreau, Laure (1801-1863). Auteur de lettres - National Library of France, France - No Copyright - Other Known Legal Restrictions.
She translated Benito Pérez Galdós into German.
She corresponded with him directly.
#History forgot her.
Ellen Goldenberg — translator, late 19th century.
Her #letters are on #Transcribathon this Women's History Month. Transcribe one. Restore her name.
europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
🤖 Made with AI
ALT Source: Public domain
ALT Source: Public domain
ALT Source: Public domain
She was a Grand Duchess.
She co-founded a women's association.
In 1859.
Grand Duchess Luise of Baden didn't wait for change — she built it.
Her letters are on Transcribathon this Women's History Month.
Transcribe one. Keep her work alive.
👉europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
ALT Sorce: Public domain
ALT Source: Public domain
Her name is almost unknown. She edited a 30,000-entry Byzantine encyclopedia. The Nazis dismissed her from the university.
Ada Adler (1878–1946). Transcribe one page for her →
europeana.transcribathon.eu/…
#WomensHistoryMonth #CitizenScience #Transcribathon
She performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She supported Czech independence during WWI. They placed her under house arrest for it.
Her name was Ema Destinnová (1878–1930). Transcribe her story and join the run. Link in bio #WomensHistoryMonth #Europeana
