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

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.

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

Our
Mission
The epitaph for Caius Cestius, inscribed
along the Pyramid of Caius Caestius in
Rome, Italy

→ to establish a worldwide, free resource for
Ancient Epigraphy linked to Europeana

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome
Our
Goals

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

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).

Our Collections & Archives
→
→
→
→
→
EDR
EDH
EDB
Arachne
→
→
→
→
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

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

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

Funerary relief with the portrait of three brothers, Rome, Musei Capitolini
Our Partners

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

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

Our partners
Subcontractors
→ Europeana
→ QED Film Productions
→ Wikimedia Italia

Example of an inscription, displayed on a
rock wall within a Roman Quarry.
Our
Audience

Target Users
→
→epigraphy research
community
→ content providers
→ policy groups
→ students
→ teachers
→ tourists
→ general public

Challenges

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")

Outreach & User Engagement
Paternanus et Divixtus,
Epitaph, Unterlinden
Museum, Colmar,
France

EAGLE Mobile & Storytelling Apps

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

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

EAGLE & Wiki Loves Monuments

EAGLE Social Networks
→ Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/Eagleuropeana
→ Twitter Page:
twitter.com/Eagle_Project
FOLLOW US!

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

www.eagle-network.eu

Venue, date

Thank you!
‫תודה רבה‬
Silvia Orlandi
silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it
Raffaella Santucci
raffaella.santucci@uniroma1.it