EAGLE project kick-off meeting

A very successful event for the formal launch of the project

Posted on: 16 April 2013

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On April the 2nd 2013, the Accademia dei Lincei hosted the EAGLE Kick-off Meeting, a very successful event which brought together more than 20 cultural institutions and archives, universities, research centres and innovative SMEs from all over Europe, including the director of the Europeana Foundation – Jill Cousins – and representatives of Wikimedia Italy.

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network (36-month project) that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute an authentic pillar of European culture.

 

 

In particular, it will supply inscriptions coming from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 M of images and related metadata, including translations of selected texts for the benefit of the general public. These represent approximately 80% of the total amount of inscriptions in the Mediterranean area.

[VIDEO: Kick-off meeting presentations]

The EAGLE kickoff meeting, organised with the support of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Sapienza University of Rome, represented the formal launch of the project.

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