EAGLE Network

Available

• http://www.eagle-network.eu/

Directors

• Director and project coordinator: Silvia Orlandi
• Technical coordinator: Claudio Prandoni
• Outreach coordinator: Raffaella Santucci

Description

From the project website (accessed 2016-01-27):

EAGLE, The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy is a best-practice network co-funded by the European Commission, under its Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme. EAGLE will provide a single user-friendly portal to the inscriptions of the Ancient World, a massive resource for both the curious and for the scholarly.

The EAGLE Best Practice Network is part of Europeana, a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections. EAGLE will collect, in a single readily-searchable database, more than 1.5 million items, currently scattered across 25 EU countries, as well as the east and south Mediterranean. The project will make available the vast majority of the surviving inscriptions of the Greco-Roman world, complete with the essential information about them and, for all the most important, a translation into English.

The technology that will support the EAGLE project is state-of-the-art and tailored to provide the user with the best and most intuitive possible experience. Our services will include a mobile application, enabling tourists to understand inscriptions they find on location by scanning with a smartphone, and a story-telling application that will allow teachers and experts to assemble epigraphy-based narratives. A multilingual Wiki will be set up for the enrichment and enhancement of epigraphic images and texts, which will provide a basis for future translations of inscriptions into other European languages. The results of the EAGLE project will be disseminated as widely as possible, both within the scholarly community and within the public at large. To this end, EAGLE will publish its own Wikimedia Commons, and will also develop an inscription-themed documentary with a related teaser video.

Major components

• EAGLE search Engine Search from a basic or advance form, or loading an image for similarity searches
• EAGLE Vocabularies controlled vocabularies for inscriptions
• EAGLE Virtual Exhibition Selected inscriptions presented to the public in a virtual environment and a narrative hypertext
• EAGLE Mobile Application Performs Image recognition against images in the EAGLE portal using a smartphone
• EAGLE Storytelling Application Allows editing of stories mashing up several openly available contents
• EAGLE Media Wiki a collection of Translations of inscriptions open for contributions
• EAGLE Zotero bibliography a zotero open group bibliography