Best practice for the Fruition and Promotion of Cultural Heritage: EAGLE & Wiki Loves Monuments
Italy
16 May 2014 - Events
The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) and the association Wikimedia Italia, the Italian branch of the Wikimedia Foundation that runs the Wikipedia project, will hold a special event to present the EU platform for sharing knowledge and good practices in the field of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy. The event will take place in Rome.
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.
This event, which has the support of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, aims to serve as a platform for sharing knowledge and good practices while stimulating reflections on the role of digital technologies in the preservation and promotion of cultural digital heritage. At the end of the event, will be announced also the Special EAGLE prize for WikiLovesMonuments Italy, for the best photograph of an ancient inscription within a participating monument of the WikiLovesMonuments contest.
To register to the event, follow this link:
http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/events/eagle-wiki-loves-monuments/registrazione/
