SubbIt! and audiovisual cultural heritage

TV archives offer insights into important historical topics that have shaped our past and continue to shape our present. They can bring history to life with first-hand accounts and add value to education by fostering critical thinking and stimulating creativity. 

In order to make these archives accessible to more people we have produced English subtitles for them through an automatic process. We now need your support in checking those subtitles and revising them as needed.

Subbit! is an initiative of the Europeana Subtitled Generic Services project, which focuses on the theme of ‘Broadcasting Europe’. The project highlights the social, political, and economical changes that shaped European history, as documented on television from the 1930s onwards. It adapts AI technology to cultural heritage audiovisual material to produce high-quality closed captions and English subtitles for selected video content

 

Who can take part?

Language and media enthusiasts, translation lovers, and advanced language students fascinated by European television stories and cultural heritage are warmly welcomed to join these events.

If you:

  • speak English and Romanian; 
  • spell, punctuate and use grammar accurately;
  • have a good eye, can review and correct subtitles; 
  • have a good sense of editing and timing;
  • are able to dedicate some time to the contest;

...then we are looking for you!

 

 

How can I join?

Joining is free and open to everyone!

You can join the digital contest and register by clicking on the orange button above where it says “Enroll to this event”.

Note that this is an in-person event for the first day (25/10) open to those who can physically attend, but will also be streamed allowing online participation.
The event will then continue (until 28/10) online.

The event in organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Journalism from the University of Bucharest.

 

 

Schedule of the event

This in-person events will start with an in-person session in Bucharest on 25/10/2022.

On 25 October the event will happen at the TVR Headquarters, Dorobanților Avenue, no. 191, District no. 1, Bucharest (in Romanian: Calea Dorobanților, nr. 191, Sector 1, București).


The event will then continue online until the end of 28/10/2022.

Below is the schedule of the event for the 25th of October (times are expressed in Romanian time):

10:00 - 10:15 - Welcome coffee & Opening 

10:15 - 10:45 - Introduction and event rules 

10:45 - 11:15 - Demo + Training Session 

11:15 - 12:30 - Correction Activities

12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch break 

13:30 - 15:00 - Correction Activities 

15:00 - 15:15 - Coffee break 

15:15 - 16:30 - Correction activities 

16:30 - 17:00 - Call the end of the day 

 

In the following days partcipants will be free to continue the correction activities when they want until end of day on October 28th.

 

The winners will be announced online a week after the event.

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