EAGLE - Europeana Network of Greek and Latin Epigraphy A Digital Bridge to the Ancient World
by Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
pdf file of the presentation at the
EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
1. EAGLE - Europeana Network of
Greek and Latin Epigraphy
A Digital Bridge to the Ancient World
Eva/Minerva 2013
The Xth Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
Jerusalem, November 12-13, 2013
2. What is
EAGLE?
Rome, S. Sebastiano fuori-le-mura, memoria apostolorvm (memorial of the
Apostles). Devotional graffito of Dalmativs in new Roman cursive (ICVR, V 12932).
Second half of 3rd century.
3. E- Library for Ancient Inscriptions
→ the new online archive for Ancient Inscriptions
in Europe funded by the European Commission
(3.75 m euro)
→ for the first time, collections of the most important
European epigraphy archives are accessible
online through:
→ EAGLE Portal
→ Europeana
→ WikiMedia
7. Our Aims
→ contributing to Europeana with its collected
Ancient Epigraphy records, photographs,
translations
→ creating a Best Practice Network in the field of
Ancient Epigraphy heritage
→ offering users and content providers easy-to-use,
multilingual tools to upload, search, enrich,
contextualise & aggregate content
8. Our Collections
Rome, Basilica of S. Sabina, interior of the entrance-wall.
Mosaic building inscription of Peter of Illyria. Pontificate of
Celestine I (422-432).
9. Our Collections & Archives
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EDR
EDH
EDB
Arachne
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Hispania Epigraphica Online
Last Statues of Antiquity
Vbi Erat Lupa
Starc Collection
Petrae
Total Number of Items:
1.500.000
80% of recorded Roman Inscriptions
10. Rome, S. Lorenzo fuori-le-mura, basilica of Pelagius II, triumphal
arch. Mosaic decoration with the dedicatory inscription. Pontificate of
Pelagius II (579-590).
EAGLE
Best Practice Network
11. Who we are
→ 19 partners
(technological providers
& content providers)
→ 11 European Countries
→ 2 Subcontractors
Fragment with a gold-threaded inscription, Museo Nazionale Romano,
Rome, Italy
12. Funerary relief with the portrait of three brothers, Rome, Musei Capitolini
Our Partners
13. Content Providers
→ Eötvös Loránd University
→ Sapienza, University of Rome
(Project Coordinator)
→ Juraj Dobrila University
of Pula
→ University of Bari, "Aldo Moro”
→ Scientific Research
Centre of the Slovenian
Academy of Sciences
and Arts
→ Heidelberg University
→ The Chancellor, Masters,
and Scholars of the University
of Oxford
→ German Archaeological
Institute
→ University of Alcalà
→ The Cyprus Institute
→ Paris-Lodron University of
Salzburg
→ The British School in
Rome
→ Babes-Bolyai University
14. Our partners
Technology Providers
→ PROMOTER
(Technical
Coordinator)
→ Italian National
Research Council
→ University of Leuven
→ GOGATE
→ EUREVA
Marblestone found on the via Appia and preserved in the Mausoleum
of Cecilia Metella, Rome, Italy
19. IPR Issues
A map showing the level of Freedom of
Panorama (as seen from a general
audience standpoint) in the countries of
Europe.
OK, including works of art
OK for buildings only
OK for non-commercial use only
Not OK
unknown (only Andorra, San Marino,
and Monaco are marked as "unknown")
20. Outreach & User Engagement
Paternanus et Divixtus,
Epitaph, Unterlinden
Museum, Colmar,
France
22. EAGLE Virtual Exhibition
The Cyprus Institute
will set up a dedicated
Epigraphy Virtual
Exhibition
organised in
collaboration with
Europeana to bring
highlights of the EAGLE
collections to the
attention of a wider
audience.
Stele for the secutor (gladiator) Urbicus, from
Florence, killed after 13 fights aged 22, in the
mid-3rd century. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto,
2007
23. The EAGLE Promo
QED Film Productions will develop a
dedicated promotional video for EAGLE
The promo is conceived to
communicate the project to the widest
possible audience through a striking,
evocative concept
It will be both elegant and simple
It will feature high production values
that will make it stand out in the
crowded panorama of online video
26. Save the date
→ Current Practices and New Directions in Digital
Epigraphy, 19-20 February 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia
An Edit-a-thon of translations of Latin texts on the Eagle MediaWiki
→ EAGLE First International Conference, September
2014, Paris, France
