Translating:Europeana



Europeana (homepage) enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.

At translatewiki.net, it's possible to translate  Europeana 1914-1918 , a website with stories, films and historical material about World War I. User Siebrand manages the localisation of Europeana and Michelle.vanduijn is the project's contact (process documentation). Project developers are dan-nl and  Rwd.

[update March 4, 2015]

Dear Europeana 1914-1918 translators, First of all we would like to thank you for all your great work. With your big help we have been able to update and improve most of the already existing languages of the Europeana 1914-1918 interface. We noticed that some of you actually registered on the website to check out the online contribution procedure. We would like to encourage you all to do this as it may result in a better understanding of the site. We hope to add some of the new languages such as Luxemburgish, Macedonian and Bulgarian as soon as these are complete. The current languages that are unfortunately still severely under the threshold are Greek, Danish and Hungarian. It would be great if we could bring these to completeness. For future community collection initiatives we are aiming at having the website available at some point this year (preferably before Summer) in Turkish, Spanish (for community collection events in Latin-America) and additional Eastern-European languages, preferably Russian as well as the languages of the Baltic States, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian. We are looking for more volunteers to take care of these languages. For the most substantial contributors who can bring the above mentioned languages to a 100% we have a small present as a token of our appreciation: a 10” tablet sleeve with cultural heritage artwork on it.

Many thanks again for the fantastic work so far and do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions or remarks. Yours, the Europeana 1914-1918 team

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