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WT3 - EAGLE Portal

Grant agreement for: CIP-Best Practice Network
Annex I - "Description of Work"
Project acronym: EAGLE
Project full title: " Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy "
Grant agreement no: 325122
Version date: 2013-03-22
Table of Contents
Part A
A.1 Project summary ...................................................................................................................................... 3
A.2 List of beneficiaries ..................................................................................................................................4
A.3 Overall budget breakdown for the project ............................................................................................... 5
Workplan Tables
WT1 List of work packages ............................................................................................................................1
WT2 List of deliverables .................................................................................................................................2
WT3 Work package descriptions ................................................................................................................... 5
Work package 1......................................................................................................................................5
Work package 2......................................................................................................................................9
Work package 3....................................................................................................................................14
Work package 4....................................................................................................................................19
Work package 5....................................................................................................................................23
Work package 6....................................................................................................................................27
WT4 List of milestones .................................................................................................................................31
WT5 Tentative schedule of project reviews ................................................................................................. 32
WT6 Project effort by beneficiaries and work package ................................................................................33
A1:
Project summary
Project Number
325122
1
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
One form per project
General information
Project title
Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
3
Starting date
01/04/2013
4
Duration in months
5
36
Call (part) identifier
6
CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6
Objective most relevant to
7
your topic
Free keywords
8
:
Europeana, epigraphy, inscription, Classical, Latin,
Greek, European identity, aggregation, multilingual,
mobile app, storytelling, tourists, schools, interoperable,
Wikipedia, teaser video, TV
Abstract
9
EAGLE is a Best Practice Network 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 a veritable 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. Furthermore, EAGLE will implement an inscription-specific metadata
model based on standards and recommendations developed through related Europeana projects and a bespoke
service platform for epigraphy to allow for multi-format ingestion and multi-device distribution of content and to
bring new content providers and users to Europeana. Two Flagship Applications will be integrated to validate
the project’s results with real users and to step up the mass adoption of EAGLE: a mobile application to enable
tourists to understand inscriptions they find on location, and a storytelling application to allow teachers and
experts to assemble epigraphy-based narratives for the benefit of less experienced users. A multilingual wiki will
be set up for the enrichment and curation of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis on translations
- providing a basis for future translations of inscriptions in other European languages. The results of EAGLE
will be disseminated to the epigraphers community and to the general public to ensure the sustainability of the
project. To this end, EAGLE will foster a tight integration of its collections with Wikipedia through their publication
to Wikimedia Commons and it will develop an inscription-themed documentary with a related teaser video.
EAGLE will coordinate its activities with Europeana and with its sister projects therein to ensure full integration of
services.
325122 EAGLE - Part A - Page 3 of 5
A2:
List of Beneficiaries
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
List of Beneficiaries
Name
Short name
Country
Project entry
10
month
Project exit
month
1
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
UNIROMA1
Italy
1
36
2
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI "ALDO MORO"
UNIBA
Italy
1
36
3
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG
UHEI
Germany
1
36
4
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF OXFORD
UOXF
United Kingdom
1
36
5
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA
UAH
Spain
1
36
6
PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITÄT SALZBURG
PLUS
Austria
1
36
7
UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI
UBB
Romania
1
36
8
EÖTVÖS LORÁND TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM
ELTE
Hungary
1
36
9
SVEUCILISTE JURJA DOBRILE U PULI
UNIPU
Croatia
1
36
10
ZNANSTVENORAZISKOVALNI CENTER SLOVENSKE AKADEMIJE
ZNANOSTI IN UMETNOSTI
ZRC SAZU
Slovenia
1
36
11
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
AUSONIUS
France
1
36
12
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
K.U.LEUVEN
Belgium
1
36
13
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
CNR-ISTI
Italy
1
36
14
DEUTSCHES ARCHAOLOGISCHES INSTITUT
DAI
Germany
1
36
15
THE CYPRUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
CYI
Cyprus
1
36
16
EUREVA SAS
EUREVA
France
1
36
17
THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
BSR
Italy
1
36
18
GOGATE SRL
GOGATE
Italy
1
36
19
PROMOTER SRL
PROMOTER
Italy
1
36
No
A3:
Budget breakdown
Project Number
325122
1
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
One Form per Project
Participant
number in
this project
Participant
short name
Personnel costs
Sub contracting
Other direct costs
Total costs
Max EU
Contribution
Requested EU
contribution
1
UNIROMA1
590,400.00
19,000.00
65,000.00
674,400.00
539,520.00
539,520.00
2
UNIBA
141,250.00
0.00
13,000.00
154,250.00
123,400.00
123,400.00
3
UHEI
278,600.00
15,000.00
15,000.00
308,600.00
246,880.00
246,880.00
4
UOXF
86,400.00
0.00
13,000.00
99,400.00
79,520.00
79,520.00
5
UAH
208,000.00
0.00
13,000.00
221,000.00
176,800.00
176,800.00
6
PLUS
242,400.00
0.00
15,000.00
257,400.00
205,920.00
205,920.00
7
UBB
34,200.00
0.00
13,000.00
47,200.00
37,760.00
37,760.00
8
ELTE
61,200.00
0.00
13,000.00
74,200.00
59,360.00
59,360.00
9
UNIPU
35,460.00
0.00
13,000.00
48,460.00
38,768.00
38,768.00
10
ZRC SAZU
65,000.00
0.00
17,000.00
82,000.00
65,600.00
65,600.00
11
AUSONIUS
54,000.00
0.00
13,000.00
67,000.00
53,600.00
53,600.00
12
K.U.LEUVEN
154,000.00
0.00
13,000.00
167,000.00
133,600.00
133,600.00
13
CNR-ISTI
390,600.00
25,000.00
15,000.00
430,600.00
344,480.00
344,480.00
14
DAI
285,785.00
0.00
15,000.00
300,785.00
240,628.00
240,628.00
15
CYI
206,800.00
0.00
19,000.00
225,800.00
180,640.00
180,640.00
16
EUREVA
135,000.00
0.00
21,000.00
156,000.00
124,800.00
124,800.00
17
BSR
62,100.00
0.00
13,000.00
75,100.00
60,080.00
60,080.00
18
GOGATE
30,270.00
0.00
5,500.00
35,770.00
28,616.00
28,616.00
19
PROMOTER
296,800.00
0.00
28,000.00
324,800.00
259,840.00
259,840.00
3,358,265.00
59,000.00
332,500.00
3,749,765.00
2,999,812.00
2,999,812.00
TOTAL
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5. Duration
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Workplan
Tables
Project number
325122
Project title
EAGLE—Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Call (part) identifier
CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6
Funding scheme
CIP-Best Practice Network
WT1
List of work packages
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
LIST OF WORK PACKAGES (WP)
Lead
beneficiary
55
number
WP
53
Number
WP Title
Person56
months
WP 1
Project management
1
75.00
1
36
WP 2
Networking and best practices
3
136.00
1
36
WP 3
Metadata model, mapping and ingestion
15
274.00
1
36
WP 4
EAGLE Aggregation and Image Management
infrastructure
13
76.00
1
36
WP 5
End-user dedicated services
14
99.00
1
36
WP 6
Dissemination and exploitation
1
84.00
1
36
Total
325122 EAGLE - Workplan table - Page 1 of 33
744.00
Start
End
57
58
month
month
WT2:
List of Deliverables
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
List of Deliverables - to be submitted for review to EC
Deliverable
Number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
WP
Lead
benefiindicative
number
ciary number person53
months
Nature
62
Dissemination level
Delivery date
64
63
D1.1
Quality
assurance plan
1
19
6.00 R
RE
3
D1.2
First periodic
report
1
1
23.00 R
RE
12
D1.3
Second periodic
report
1
1
23.00 R
RE
24
D1.4
Final report
1
1
23.00 R
RE
36
D2.1
Networking
infrastructure
and terms of
reference
2
3
12.00 R
PU
6
D2.2.1
Content
harmonisation
guidelines,
including
GIS and
terminologies first release
2
3
17.00 R
PU
12
D2.2.2
Content
harmonisation
guidelines,
including
GIS and
terminologies second release
2
3
12.00 R
PU
24
D2.3.1
Best practices
on user
engagement
with epigraphic
content,
including IPR
requirements first release
2
6
15.00 R
PU
12
D2.3.2
Best practices
on user
engagement
with epigraphic
content,
including IPR
requirements second release
2
6
10.00 R
PU
24
D2.4
EAGLE first
conference
proceedings
2
1
10.00 R
PU
18
WT2:
Deliverable
Number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
WP
Lead
benefiindicative
number
months
Nature
62
Dissemination level
Delivery date
64
63
D2.5
EAGLE
multilingual Wiki
2
1
34.00 O
PU
36
D2.6
EAGLE final
conference
proceedings
2
1
10.00 R
PU
36
D2.7
Epigraphy Virtual
Exhbition
2
15
16.00 O
PU
36
D3.1
EAGLE
metadata model
specification
3
5
44.00 R
PU
9
D3.2
Ingestion plan
3
15
34.00 R
PU
12
D3.3.1
Report on the
contributions to
Europeana - first
release
3
15
100.00 R
PU
18
D3.3.2
Report on the
contributions
to Europeana second release
3
15
32.00 R
PU
24
D3.3.3
Report on the
contributions
to Europeana third release
3
15
32.00 R
PU
30
D3.3.4
Report on the
contributions
to Europeana fourth release
3
15
32.00 R
PU
36
D4.1
AIM
Infrastructure
Specification
4
13
14.00 R
PU
6
D4.2.1
First Release
of AIM
Infrastructure
4
13
40.00 P
PU
12
D4.2.2
Second
Release of AIM
Infrastructure
4
13
22.00 P
PU
24
D5.1
EAGLE portal
and services
requirements
and
specifications
5
14
12.00 R
PU
9
D5.2
EAGLE portal
5
19
12.00 P
PU
18
D5.3.1
First release
of the flagship
mobile
5
16
12.00 P
PU
21
WT2:
Deliverable
Number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
WP
Lead
benefiindicative
number
months
Nature
62
Dissemination level
Delivery date
64
63
application and
SDK
D5.3.2
Second
release of the
flagship mobile
application and
SDK
5
16
9.00 P
PU
30
D5.4.1
First release
of the flagship
storytelling
application
5
14
12.00 P
PU
21
D5.4.2
Second release
of the flagship
storytelling
application
5
14
9.00 P
PU
30
D5.5
Validation plan
5
14
12.00 R
PU
21
D5.6.1
Validation report
- first release
5
14
12.00 R
PU
27
D5.6.2
Validation report
- second release
5
14
9.00 R
PU
36
D6.1
EAGLE project
website
6
19
12.00 P
PU
3
D6.2
Dissemination
and awareness
plan
6
1
15.00 R
PU
6
D6.3.1
Dissemination
materials - first
release
6
1
5.00 O
PU
9
D6.3.2
Dissemination
materials second release
6
1
5.00 R
PU
18
D6.3.3
Dissemination
materials - third
release
6
1
5.00 R
PU
30
D6.4
Inscriptionthemed teaser
video and
documentary
6
1
8.00 O
PU
24
D6.5
Dissemination
report
6
1
20.00 R
PU
36
D6.6
Sustainability
plan
6
1
14.00 R
PU
36
Total
744.00
WT3:
Work package description
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
One form per Work Package
Work package number
WP1
53
Work package title
Project management
Start month
1
End month
36
Lead beneficiary number
55
1
Objectives
This work package regards the management of the project and leading the BPN activity and aims to:
• Ensure that the governing and operative bodies are set up and made fully operative and receive full
administrative support.
• Ensure the efficient and effective management of the project, providing coordination and facilitating teamwork
among all project partners.
• Ensure that project tasks are completed within time, budget and resource constraints.
• Assure the quality of project deliverables and reports issued to the Commission through efficient quality control
procedures.
• Clarify all management, administrative and financial procedures to all participants.
• Support the efficient and effective communication and information sharing among participants.
• Manage all financial transactions and carry out financial reporting of the whole project to the Commission.
Description of work and role of partners
WP1 is responsible for the management of the project activities, according to agreed methods, structures and
procedures as described in section B3.3.
This work package consists of the following tasks:
T1.1 Administrative management [UNIROMA1]
Executive management. The Project Coordinator will maintain and, if applicable, modify the Consortium
Agreement that will regulate the procedures and rules for the management, reporting, dissemination and
exploitation activities, in collaboration with all the participants. She will assure that the Steering Committee
is set up, made fully operative and receives full administrative support. She will also schedule and organize
the meetings related to the activities of WP1. The Project Coordinator will be responsible for communicating
management, administrative and contractual issues to all the participants who will carry out the related
assignments and will liaise with the European Commission on all organizational issues.
Financial management. The Project Coordinator will elaborate detailed financial plans for the activities for the
approval by the Steering Committee. She will collect financial statements and relevant certificates elaborated
and/or provided by all the participants and verify their compliance with their performance and the planned
activities, deliverables and milestones before submitting them to the European Commission. The situation of the
individual participants will be monitored closely and, if required, reported to the Steering Committee which will
carry out suitable risk assessments regarding the financial situations of the relevant participants. The Project
Coordinator will distribute funding to the participants according to the rules of the Grant Agreement and the
Consortium Agreement and provide accurate records of the financial transfers to the European Commission.
T1.2 Technical management [PROMOTER]
The Technical Coordinator will monitor the development of the project from a technical point of view, in close and
regular liaison with all partners. This includes: providing the means for communication and sharing, mediating
between the partners and ensuring and modulating the flow of information to make sure that all the milestones
are met, supervising the evolution of technical activities, organizing and scheduling the activities, meetings,
inputs and outputs of the overall project, monitoring resources usage to assure that this fits both the activity plan
and the results provided by the partner and to verify that the actual costs relate correctly to the expected costs.
WT3:
T1.3 Quality assurance and performance measurement [PROMOTER]
This task regards the quality assurance of project results, through the elaboration and implementation of a
Quality Assurance Plan and through the establishment of peer review procedures of the project deliverables.
This task will also facilitate teamwork among partners through ICT-based collaboration, communication and
documentation.
T1.4: Project documentation and relationship with the EC [UNIROMA1]
General reporting to EC: The Management Team will coordinate the management and monitoring of overall
delivery against contractual targets. It will ensure the timely delivery of the appropriate periodic annual report/mid
term report, annual audit certification, annual Summary Performance Reports (SPR). These will be provided
to the Commission and/or their nominated agent. This will ensure that the project delivers the strategic and
technical aims and objectives in a timely manner within the allocated budget to the EC on behalf of the
Consortium. The Technical Coordinator, under the supervision of the Project Coordinator, will be responsible
for preparation of the periodic project reports. These reports will be made from the individual reports from all the
partners, which will include information on:
• technical progress, content delivery progress
• results obtained (e.g. deliverables),
• percentage of achievements and compliance or discrepancies with the project programme.
Financial reporting: Overall financial management of the project will be the responsibility of the Project
Coordinator. Reports to the EC will include a financial expense summary incorporating a comparison with the per
year cost expense summary presented at the kick-off meeting. The Technical Coordinator, under the supervision
of the Project Coordinator, will prepare a yearly consolidated overview of the budgetary situation of the project
on the basis of information from the partners. This will ensure that:
• all financial obligations are met and the EC's financial requirements are appropriately monitored and
maintained
• all partners provide appropriate and adequate financial reporting, and that this is appropriately
• recorded and reported to the EC
• external auditing of all financial activity is undertaken and that appropriate documentation is provided to the EC.
Roles of the partners
• The work package leader is UNIROMA1, supported by PROMOTER in the role of Technical Coordinator.
• Some effort is allocated to all the project partners to undertake the administrative tasks like reporting of
activities and use of resources.
Person-Months per Participant
Participant number
10
Participant short name
11
Person-months per participant
1 UNIROMA1
30.00
2 UNIBA
1.00
3 UHEI
1.00
4 UOXF
1.00
5 UAH
1.00
6 PLUS
1.00
7 UBB
1.00
8 ELTE
1.00
9 UNIPU
1.00
10 ZRC SAZU
1.00
11 AUSONIUS
1.00
12 K.U.LEUVEN
1.00
13 CNR-ISTI
1.00
WT3:
Participant number
10
11
14 DAI
1.00
15 CYI
1.00
16 EUREVA
1.00
17 BSR
1.00
18 GOGATE
1.00
19 PROMOTER
28.00
Total
75.00
List of deliverables
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
D1.1
Quality assurance plan
D1.2
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
Dissemination
63
level
62
Delivery date
64
19
6.00 R
RE
3
First periodic report
1
23.00 R
RE
12
D1.3
Second periodic report
1
23.00 R
RE
24
D1.4
Final report
1
23.00 R
RE
36
Total
75.00
Description of deliverables
D1.1) Quality assurance plan: Description of the procedures which will be implemented to ensure the project
monitorning and quality assurance. [month 3]
D1.2) First periodic report: Report on activities and use of resources which covers months 1 to 12. It includes a
publishable summary, an overview of the activities carried out by the project and of the results achieved and it
will be accompained by the Cost Statements. [month 12]
D1.3) Second periodic report: Report on activities and use of resources which covers months 13 to 24. It
includes a publishable summary, an overview of the activities carried out by the project and of the results
achieved and it will be accompained by the Cost Statements. [month 24]
D1.4) Final report: Report on activities and use of resources which covers months 25 to 36. It comprises a final
publishable summary report covering the results, conclusions and socio-economic impact of the project and it
will be accompained by the Cost Statements. [month 36]
Schedule of relevant Milestones
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS1
Kick-off
1
1
MS6
First review
1
12
MS14
Second review
1
24
Comments
WT3:
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS18
Final review
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
1
36
Comments
WT3:
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Work package number
WP2
53
Work package title
Networking and best practices
Start month
1
End month
36
55
3
Objectives
This work package is part of the consensus building and networking activities that aim:
• To analyse and identify the requirements for content harmonisation, curation and re-use, including user
engagement, translations, IPR restrictions, GIS and terminologies to be adopted.
• To agree on the best practices and standards to be adopted.
• To reach a same level of expertise within the BPN.
• To give inputs to the activities of WP3 and WP5.
• To attract new content providers to the EAGLE network, in order to increase the quantity and quality of the
EAGLE digital resources and to ensure the wide array of scattered collections is covered appropriately.
• To engage professional users of the content in the sustained development of the EAGLE digital resources.
• To liaise with Europeana and related projects.
WP2 aims to build a shared vision of the envisaged digital resource on epigraphy and a web-based
discovery-to-delivery (d2d) model and to reach consensus on the large-scale implementation of a
demand-supply chain with Europeana by producing a set of best practices and standards which encompass all
aspects of the demand-supply chain and d2d logistics, including homogenising metadata and terminologies,
multi-linguality, georeferencing, delivery services and rights management.
WP2 tasks result in the publication of Best Practices reports and in the organisation of a number of dedicated
events that will be used both for internal and external networking and dissemination purposes in close liaison
with WP6.
Finally, WP2 ensures also liaison and concertation with Europeana and related projects.
T2.1 Networking procedures and enlargement of the network [UHEI]
This part of the work-package is dedicated to the overall orchestration of the BPN networking procedures and
infrastructure and to fostering the enlargement of the EAGLE network. It will support in putting in place the
network of relationships and collaborations across national, institutional and sector boundaries, so that expertise,
experience and knowledge can be applied to the identification of best practice. The project consortium has
access to a wealth of expertise, embodied in the personnel of the partners, as well as their own portfolios of
contacts and collaborators.
The terms of reference and operating model will be identified as well as the output of the discussions, which
need to be compliant to a pre-defined report format suitable for interpretation and integration y the wider project
consortium. These results will be important inputs to the EAGLE project deliverables.
Emailing lists and dedicated areas in the project website will be put in place in order to facilitate the activities of
BPN.
Best Practice reports will be delivered to summarise the results of the networking activities, with the aim on the
one hand to harmonize strategies and practices of the BPN, on the other hand to guide the content providers
and consumers (both the BPN participants and the users who want to join the EAGLE community) on how to
apply the agreed standards and practices.
Content providers from outside the Consortium will be encouraged to join the Best Practice Network and to
contribute their content. The partners who already expressed their interest and the intention to cooperate with
WT3:
the project (see Annexes) will be the starting point for the enlargement of the network. External cooperations will
be formalised by mean of a Cooperation Agreement, whose signature will grant access and participation to the
EAGLE Working Groups and to the Advisory Board (see B3.3.5).
T2.2 Content curation and translation [UNIROMA1]
This task will set up a multilingual wiki for the enrichment of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis
on translations, for the benefit of the general public. The already available translations will be published first, with
reference to the author to avoid copyright problems. Starting from these, the aim is to cover the translation into
English of all the main databases involved in the project and the preparation of English texts for the outreach
activities.
This task will be performed through the cooperation of Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia Italia, the Italian
chapter of Wikimedia, will provide EAGLE projects with competences and experience in Wikimedia projects,
creating the structure (e.g. templates, categories) for the massive upload of content in Wikimedia Commons.
Wikimedia Commons is a free repository of multimedia files, containing nearly 13 millions items in free license.
Commons hosts only free and reusable resource, in public domain or Creative Commons-Attribution-Share
Alike licenses, which means free of charge and reusable, for every purpose and any user. Moreover, Commons
is the central repository of multimedia files for all the Wikimedia projects, including all the Wikipedias in any
language. Providing EAGLE content through Commons will increase hugely the visibility of the resources, which
could be available for every user and will act as a framework for crowdsourcing of content curation. Providing
Commons with EAGLE resource will enable Wikipedian communities of volunteers to use the images (and
related metadata) directly embedding them into Wikipedia articles, and Wikisource communities to use the
images and transcription to populate their library of ancient texts and translations.
T2.3 Content harmonisation guidelines, including GIS and terminologies [UHEI]
Aim of this task is to provide guidelines and recommendations to ensure the continuous addition of qualitative
and quantitative attractive content by the EAGLE BPN, including the definition of vocabularies and terminologies
to be used to enrich and harmonise the content and the analysis of the tools and practices to adequately
georeference it. Best practices will be identified on how to include in EAGLE metadata model the most suitable
vocabularies and terminologies and how to harmonise the georeferencing of the epigraphic content.
T2.4 IPR and user engagement: best practices and guidelines [PLUS]
This task analyses and evaluates strategies and practices to foster the re-use of the epigraphic content provided
in EAGLE, including:
• studies of user behaviour
• identification of user groups
• concepts for active participation of user groups
• concepts of specific services for specific user groups (e.g. school projects)
• concepts to establish communication between the users including also benefit-cost analysis of social
networking services as Facebook et. al.
• analysis of the rights management issues and requirements to be taken into account
The groups addressed in this task will encompass the general public (e.g. the tourists), the public with a special
interest in cultural heritage and in classical Greek and Latin culture, the subject specialists and academic experts
(researchers, students, teachers).
Based on the analysis of user behaviour (how do users get to the web services / what services are demanded
most frequently…) best practice and guidelines will be worked out to provide services (e.g. an interactive
workspace) that support community building and user to user interaction with cutting edge usability, including
reccommendations on how to tackle rights issues relevant to different materials in relation to the provision
of online access (copyright, portrait rights, privacy rights, etc.), the liabilities and obligations of heritage
institutions in relation to contracts (loans, deeds, etc.), laws (inheritance, criminal, etc.), use regulations (fair use,
educational use, use for research, etc.) and use licenses.
T2.5 BPN Workshops and Conferences [UNIROMA1]
This task involves communicating all the agreed methods, standards and practices to all the participants of the
BPN and to the potentially interested external users of the EAGLE platform and services to attract new content
providers and stakeholders. Six focused workshops and two dedicated EAGLE conferences will be organised
with the aim to present and illustrate the agreed methods, standards and practices to all the participants of
the BPN and to other possible interested users and in general to disseminate the results of the project to a
wider public. Moreover, two dedicated training events will provide the opportunity (in satellite events) to offer to
WT3:
interested content providers tutorial education on digitization, metadata, conceptual models, etc., and training on
the use of the tools and procedures developed by EAGLE.
T2.6 Concertation and clustering with Europeana and sister projects [CNR-ISTI]
The overall aim is to raise awareness of EAGLE within sister Europeana projects, amongst policy makers, as
well as within the institutions that fund EAGLE participants. This should lead to a better appreciation of the
EAGLE digital collections and of the costs involved for digitisation, preservation, access.
To promote the EAGLE digital resources in the wider institutional context of Europeana, targeted promotional
strategies will be developed in collaboration with Europeana. These will include setting up a Virtual Exhibition
on Epigraphy, as well as organising 2 international conferences (T2.5), scheduled to dovetail with major ‘sister’
conferences.
Within the realization of the Epigraphy Virtual Exhbition also the 3D aspect will be considered. An assessment of
the 3D objects publication and feasibility study of 3D interactive Virtual Exhibition will be performed considering
open source/free software or low cost software.
Further synergies with other Europeana sister projects will be achieved mainly through cross-mailings and
co-ordination of web activities. Close connections with other relevant initiatives will be facilitated by the fact that
some of the consortium partners are directly involved in other projects, such as ECLAP, EuropeanaConnect,
Euscreen, Linked Heritage. In addition, the subcontract with Europeana Foundation will ensure participation
of the consortium in the Europeana decision-making and dissemination instruments, such as the Europeana
shared site and the working groups at Europeana and at the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators
(CCPA).
Moreover, this task follows the development of the Europeana Data Model and participates in the Europeana
Community for sharing practices. It will exploit the opportunities for full alignment, compatibility and integrated
services between EAGLE and Europeana. WP2 will make full use of the expertise in this community in areas of
semantic interoperability, multi-linguality and multi-culturality. In other areas, the BPN will contribute expertise
from the domain of primary sources of epigraphy.
• The work package leader is UHEI, which is responsible for orchestrating the overall BPN networking
procedures (in cooperation with UNIROMA1, PROMOTER and PLUS) and which leads the Working Group on
content harmonisation (including GIS and terminologies).
• UNIROMA1 leads the Working Group on content curation and translation and is responsible for the
organisation of the EAGLE workshops and conferences in collaboration with the hosting partners: ZRC SAZU,
CYI, and EUREVA.
• PLUS leads the Working Group on IPR and user engagement.
• CNR-ISTI is responsible for liaising with Europeana for all the technical-related aspects.
• CYI is responsible for setting up the Virtual Exhibition.
• All the content providers contribute to the identification of the requirements and best practices for content
harmonisation, curation and re-use.
Participant number
10
11
1 UNIROMA1
2 UNIBA
22.00
3.00
3 UHEI
24.00
4 UOXF
3.00
5 UAH
16.00
6 PLUS
20.00
7 UBB
3.00
8 ELTE
3.00
9 UNIPU
3.00
WT3:
Participant number
10
11
10 ZRC SAZU
5.00
11 AUSONIUS
3.00
12 K.U.LEUVEN
6.00
13 CNR-ISTI
4.00
14 DAI
6.00
15 CYI
6.00
16 EUREVA
2.00
17 BSR
3.00
19 PROMOTER
4.00
Total
136.00
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
62
Dissemination
63
level
Delivery date
64
D2.1
Networking infrastructure and terms
of reference
3
12.00 R
PU
6
D2.2.1
Content harmonisation guidelines,
including GIS and terminologies - first
release
3
17.00 R
PU
12
D2.2.2
Content harmonisation guidelines,
including GIS and terminologies second release
3
12.00 R
PU
24
D2.3.1
Best practices on user engagement
with epigraphic content, including IPR
requirements - first release
6
15.00 R
PU
12
D2.3.2
Best practices on user engagement
with epigraphic content, including IPR
requirements - second release
6
10.00 R
PU
24
D2.4
EAGLE first conference proceedings
1
10.00 R
PU
18
D2.5
EAGLE multilingual Wiki
1
34.00 O
PU
36
D2.6
EAGLE final conference proceedings
1
10.00 R
PU
36
D2.7
Epigraphy Virtual Exhbition
15
16.00 O
PU
36
Total
136.00
D2.1) Networking infrastructure and terms of reference: Description of the procedures, terms of reference and
technology to support the activities of the Working Groups. [month 6]
WT3:
D2.2.1) Content harmonisation guidelines, including GIS and terminologies - first release: Best practice
document which describes the activities and the intermediate results of the Working Group on content
harmonisation, GIS and terminologies. First release. [month 12]
D2.2.2) Content harmonisation guidelines, including GIS and terminologies - second release: Best practice
document which describes the activities and the results of the Working Group on content harmonisation,
GIS and terminologies, including guidelines on how to include in EAGLE metadata model the most suitable
vocabularies and terminologies and how to harmonise the georeferencing of the epigraphic content. Final
release. [month 24]
D2.3.1) Best practices on user engagement with epigraphic content, including IPR requirements - first release:
Best practice document which summarises the the activities and the intermediate results of the Working Group
on user engagement and IPR. First release. [month 12]
D2.3.2) Best practices on user engagement with epigraphic content, including IPR requirements - second
release: Best practice document which summarises the the activities and the results of the Working Group on
user engagement and IPR, including guidelines on how to tackle rights management issues relevant to the
re-use of epighraphic content. Final release. [month 24]
D2.4) EAGLE first conference proceedings: This deliverable describes the work that has been performed
to organise the First EAGLE International Conference (to be held in Paris) and it includes the Conference
proceedings . [month 18]
D2.5) EAGLE multilingual Wiki: Wiki containing the enrichment of the epigraphic records and images available
through Wikimedia Commons, including the translation of the texts. [month 36]
D2.6) EAGLE final conference proceedings: This deliverable describes the work that has been performed
to organise the Final EAGLE International Conference (to be held in Rome) and it includes the Conference
proceedings . [month 36]
D2.7) Epigraphy Virtual Exhbition: This deliverable describes the activities related to the development and
setting up of the Virtual Exhibition on Epigraphy. [month 36]
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS3
Working Groups established
3
6
MS7
First international conference
1
18
MS17
Final international conference
1
36
Comments
WT3:
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Work package number
WP3
53
Work package title
Metadata model, mapping and ingestion
Start month
1
End month
36
55
15
Objectives
This work package focuses on the aggregation of content and on its provision to Europeana. It aims:
• To achieve the large scale implementation of agreed standards and best practices at the local/institutional level
across the BPN.
• To define the common EAGLE metadata structure to enable BPN metadata harmonization.
• To define mappings from local BPN metadata structures to the common EAGLE metadata structure.
• To define mappings from EAGLE metadata structure to Europena Data Model, to ensure full interoperablity
with Europeana.
• To ingest content into EAGLE and Europeana.
• To check, enrich and contextualise the aggregated metadata.
• To improve the quality of content and metadata across the BPN.
WP3 concerns the supply of quality metadata and content from the individual institutional partners to the EAGLE
Aggregation and Image Management (AIM) infrastructure to be implemented in WP4.
It defines a common EAGLE metadata structure to ensure full interoperability with Europeana. This will be the
basis for the local mappings.
Then it addresses all the specific activities that are needed locally to harmonise the content coming from
different sources and to prepare it for the ingestion process: the implementation of the agreed standards and
protocols, the preparation of the necessary mappings for the metadata conversions, the actual ingestion and
publication of the content to Europeana, including appropriate disambiguation, since some of the items are
present in more than one repository, etc.
Finally content providers can check, enrich and contextualise their metadata thanks to the data curation tools
developed in WP4.
T3.1 Definition of the EAGLE metadata model [UAH]
The first phase of task deals with the definition of a robust structure required by EAGLE application domain and
with the management of the records life cycle in order to proceed with elaboration of the information elements.
The metadata system will consist of a set of appropriate metadata elements based on the conceptual information
model of records domain and on a framework that can support the semantic refinement and interoperability
required by the specific application domain. The requirements needed for the metadata schema creation will
be studied and a conceptual study considering the long term management and preservation, as well as the
accessibility, interoperability and re-usability will be performed, in order to make the process of information
management transparent and open. It will be elaborated a theoretical framework for metadata principles and its
uses, in order to meet the functional requirements of applications and services required by community, based on
syntactic, semantic and operational features of information resources in the domain, by analysing the conceptual
features of community information resources, the community requirements, the guidelines, etc. The assessment
and the analysis of the conceptual domain will be useful to realize the core principle of metadata and to create
metadata elements to describe the types of resource managed by the project.
The second phase deals with the specification of the EAGLE data model at the more syntactical level. An
inventory will be made of the metadata standards and schemas applied locally by the participants and the
WT3:
local practices for producing surrogates (thumbnails, low res scans, video leaders, etc.) and the use of unique
identifiers for referential integrity. This task will then specify a common metadata structure needed to assure
interoperability within EAGLE and full-interoperability with Europeana. This will include:
• Specification of the overall metadata framework.
• Agreed support of standards for metadata and content representation.
• Agreed common format for cross searching.
• Requirements for resolvable identifiers.
• Surrogate content specifications (resolution and formats).
• Europeana ingest specifications.
T3.2 Metadata mapping [UAH]
This task will consist of the preparation of the necessary mappings for the metadata conversions in order to
allow the alignment of proprietary provider's metadata schemata with the EAGLE schema. All content providers
will map their local metadata schema to the common EAGLE metadata structure through the mapping worksheet
prepared in WP4. These mapping rules will be used in WP4 for transforming the provider's metadata into EDM
metadata ready to be harvested by Europeana.
T3.3 Planning and preparing the ingestion [CYI]
Each content provider will carry out work on selecting the content, harmonising the metadata, enriching and
creating additional metadata if necessary, preparing the master object files for ingestion in the repository,
preparing the surrogates, applying unique identifiers, etc.
The EAGLE content planning has the following aims:
• To ensure that the EAGLE content providers make their content available according to the project schedule;
• To ensure that the content providers provide the content that is required of them;
• To ensure that the content providers have cleared the related IPR issues by the time they provide their content.
T3.4 Implementing and monitoring the ingestion [CYI]
Each content provider applies the best practices and implements locally the necessary workflows and
procedures to ensure the continuous provision of metadata + surrogates + digital content for ingestion to the
EAGLE Aggregator (WP4) and to Europeana.
This task concerns the monitoring of the progress of the ingestion of new content into Europeana as planned
in T3.3. A periodic report will be issues starting from month 18, and periodically updated every 6 months.
This report will summarise all the work done by all the content providers and by the people working on the
coordination to ingest 1.5 M new content into Europeana.
Aim of this task is:
• To ensure that the work of aggregation keeps pace with the releases of Europeana;
• To ensure that the work of metadata mapping keeps pace with the releases of Europeana;
• To ensure that the work of ingestion keeps pace with the releases of Europeana;
T3.5 Duplicates identification [K.U.LEUVEN]
This task consists of the integration of essential metadata provided by the partners in the platform Trismegistos
(ww.trismegistos.org). By standardizing publication references, collection information, material, provenance
and date, the overlap of the various databases will be mapped and doubles will be identified. Afterwards a
unique numeric identifier, the Trismegistos number, will be assigned to each document and this will be spread
across the partner databases. The disambiguating Trismegistos numbers now already cover the late period
material from ancient Egypt, but is currently expanded to include older Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean.
Pilot projects for the Roman province of Macedonia and the Italian Regio X Venetia et Histria have already
been completed. The presence of the TM identifier will facilitate communication between databases and the
standardization implemented for disambiguation can be used as first step towards further integration.
T3.6 Metadata enrichment and contextualisation [UNIROMA1]
The EAGLE repository will be populated by metadata records following the EAGLE schema through the
harvesting and aggregation services. This task focuses on all those content-related activities which aim to
check and edit the aggregated metadata records through a web based editor developed in WP4, thus preparing
them for external applications (e.g. the two Flagship Applications developed in WP5) to take and process them.
Content providers will be able to browse their contributed items in the EAGLE schema, filter them based on
specific elements and values and, group edit the resulted item set in order to perform:
• Data cleansing: correct typographical errors, conform with typographical conventions (capitalization etc.).
• Data reconciliation: align elements with authority files, vocabularies or thesauri, link resources to external data
sources and semantic binding.
WT3:
• Manual enrichment: link and explore external data sources to extract and reuse information about resources
(i.e. locations, time-spans, agents etc.) associated with provider's items.
• Contextualisation: link the epigraphs to monuments, sites, ancient topography and any available related
information in order to see them in their broader historical and cultural context and to reconstruct the history of
collections and the transfer of inscriptions from one place to another.
• The work package leader is CYI.
• UAH is responsible for the EAGLE metadata model specifications and mapping.
• K.U.LEUVEN is responsible for the metadata disambiguation service.
• All the content providers contribute to the mapping and ingestion of their content to the EAGLE Aggregator
(WP4) and to Europeana. The different amount of person months foreseen for the preparation and
harmonisation of content is not strictly and necessarily related to the amount of digital content provided. More
relevant is the different stage of experience of the different partners in this kind of projects: some of them can
rely on a long experience in digital initiatives (like, for example, the universities of Heidelberg, Bari, Salzburg,
Alcalà), while other partners are "new entries" (like, for example, Budapest, Cluj Napoca, Lublijana, Pula) and
need, therefore, more effort in harmonising their content to the guidelines of the whole project.
Participant number
10
11
1 UNIROMA1
26.00
2 UNIBA
12.00
3 UHEI
22.00
4 UOXF
12.00
5 UAH
36.00
6 PLUS
18.00
7 UBB
12.00
8 ELTE
12.00
9 UNIPU
12.00
10 ZRC SAZU
12.00
11 AUSONIUS
12.00
12 K.U.LEUVEN
13.00
13 CNR-ISTI
3.00
14 DAI
28.00
15 CYI
32.00
17 BSR
12.00
Total
274.00
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
D3.1
EAGLE metadata model specification
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
5
Nature
44.00 R
62
Dissemination
63
level
PU
Delivery date
64
9
WT3:
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
Dissemination
63
level
62
Delivery date
64
D3.2
Ingestion plan
15
34.00 R
PU
12
D3.3.1
Report on the contributions to
Europeana - first release
15
100.00 R
PU
18
D3.3.2
Europeana - second release
15
32.00 R
PU
24
D3.3.3
Europeana - third release
15
32.00 R
PU
30
D3.3.4
Europeana - fourth release
15
32.00 R
PU
36
Total
274.00
D3.1) EAGLE metadata model specification: Specification of the EAGLE inscription-specific metadata model for
epigraphic content. [month 9]
D3.2) Ingestion plan: Planning of the delivery of EAGLE content to Europeana, partner by partner. [month 12]
D3.3.1) Report on the contributions to Europeana - first release: Report on the progress of the ingestion of
EAGLE content into Europeana. First release. This report summarises the work done by all the content providers
and by the people workng on the coordination to ingest the first set of content into Europeana. [month 18]
D3.3.2) Report on the contributions to Europeana - second release: Report on the progress of the ingestion
of EAGLE content into Europeana. Second release. This report summarises the work done by all the content
providers and by the people workng on the coordination to ingest the second set of content into Europeana.
[month 24]
D3.3.3) Report on the contributions to Europeana - third release: Report on the progress of the ingestion
of EAGLE content into Europeana. Third release. This report summarises the work done by all the content
providers and by the people workng on the coordination to ingest the third set of content into Europeana. [month
30]
D3.3.4) Report on the contributions to Europeana - fourth release: Report on the progress of the ingestion
of EAGLE content into Europeana. Final release. This report summarises the work done by all the content
providers and by the people workng on the coordination to ingest the last set of content into Europeana. [month
36]
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS4
EAGLE metadata model
MS8
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
Comments
5
9
375.000 items available for Europeana
15
18
MS12
750.000 items available for Europeana
15
24
MS15
1.125.000 items available for Europeana
15
30
WT3:
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS16
1.500.000 items available for Europeana
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
15
36
Comments
WT3:
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Work package number
WP4
53
Work package title
EAGLE Aggregation and Image Management infrastructure
Start month
1
End month
36
55
13
Objectives
This work package is part of the implementation activity that aims:
• To implement a large-scale demand-supply chain between the scientific institutions members of the BPN and
Europeana.
• To build a data infrastructure capable of:
o Supplying a set of services to support metadata aggregation, curation and provision.
o Supplying a set of services to support image indexing, searching and recognition.
o Supporting properties of high scalability, robustness, openness to external services integration and
sustainability.
• To design and implement the infrastructure so that the provided services are accessible both by a
human-driven interface (browser) and by a program-driven interface (application of cloud services).
WP4 is responsible for the actual implementation of the EAGLE Aggregator Infrastructure (including Storage,
External Interfaces, Identifiers Managers, Index, Search and Browse Services, and Curation Services and Tools)
and of the Image Recognition Infrastructure. WP4 also aims to realise APIs for publishing the metadata and
surrogates collected by the Aggregator.
The software implementation activity performed will conform to RUP best practices. In particular, starting from a
high level architectural design, an appropriate system configuration will be identified and deployed.
The technology used to implement the EAGLE Aggregator Infrastructure will be based on existing solutions: the
D-NET platform, and additionally toolkits and solutions in the Open Source, whenever possible and appropriate.
WP4 is also responsible for the implementation of the image search engine and the image recognizer, which
include the visual feature extractor, the indexer, the CBIR index and the processing of the training sets. The
implementation will capitalize on the tools and the experience gained by ISTI-CNR in previous projects.
The deployment of the software sub-systems on the target hardware and the maintenance of the Aggregated
Information Space is integral part of the work.
T4.1 Aggregator infrastructure detailed design, implementation and maintenance [CNR-ISTI]
This task will first produce the detailed design of the EAGLE Aggregator Infrastructure. It will define the main
sub-systems which are to be implemented:
• Aggregation kernel
• Storage
• External Interfaces (for Europeana, EAGLE Portal and external sites)
• Identifiers Manager
• Index
• Search & Browse
• Curation
The software components implementing the needs of the EAGLE community are a customisation of the D-NET
platform. Examples of such customisation are the implementation of wrappers and harvesting services tailored to
the specific operational context, the customisation of the search functionality to comply with specific user needs,
the adaptation of the harvesting and aggregator services to the source metadata formats, etc.
WT3:
Special emphasis will be devoted to ensure interoperability with the Europeana metadata ingestion tool that
is tasked with harvesting, schema mapping, semantic normalizing and importing metadata. During the project
lifetime, this tool will develop as new requirements are submitted by Europeana Local projects. The WP4
sub-systems will need to adapt continuously to these developments.
A number of services will be implemented to guarantee the most desirable quality of the aggregated metadata
from information sources. These will support the enrichment, cleaning and curation of metadata values
performed both at harvesting time and on the stored content (see T3.6).
To this end, the implementation of services for metadata editing and authority files management - to be used at
different times for the harmonisation of the ingested metadata - will be undertaken and will be available to CPs
as web tools, namely the Metadata Editor and the Authority File Manager.
CPs will also benefit from two more web tools, the Content Checker and the Vocabulary Checker, that can be
effectively used to check the quality of the implemented mappings.
The task takes care of the test of the implemented infrastructure against the Use Cases produced by WP5.
All methods and procedures supplied by the D-NET platform will be employed to guarantee the most reliable
results. The task will also take care of the maintenance of the infrastructure through the whole project lifetime in
terms of system availability, backups management, etc.
T4.2 Deployment of the aggregation workflow [CNR-ISTI]
This task executes the aggregation workflow (see Figure 3 in section B3.2a.3) in close liaison with WP3 and
Europeana. Data is collected from/supplied by the content providers, the aggregated and enhanced data are
returned to them for check and curation, the mapped metadata records with direct links to the digital objects are
supplied to Europeana and the external discovery services.
T4.3 Image recogniser infrastructure detailed design, implementation and maintenance [CNR-ISTI]
This task will produce the detailed design of the Image Search Engine and the Image Recogniser, the
development of the corresponding services, and the design and development of the services to build the index
structures to support the efficient search and recognition.
The main services to be developed are the image feature extractor, the image indexer, the CBIR index, the
image training database, and the image recognizer.
• The image feature extractor extracts local and global features, which will become the representation of images
in the index.
• The image indexer, analyzes the visual features and prepare them to be inserted in the CBIR index.
• The CBIR Index allows similarity searches on image visual descriptors to be executed very efficiently even in
presence of huge quantity of images.
• The image training database contains the visual descriptors of the images contained in the training sets of the
selected epigraphs and provide efficient retrieval functionality on these descriptors.
• The image recognizer, given an image query, uses the image training database to decide if the query image
contains one of the recognizable epigraphs.
In this task EUREVA will also provide and further implement intelligent data-caching mechanisms to abstract the
complexity of the interconnected systems and to provide timely response time to applications on any devices;
more specifically for the mobile flagship application developed in WP5.
T4.4 Deployment of the image recognizer infrastructure [CNR-ISTI]
By using the tools developed in T4.3, this Task will deploy the services in the EAGLE infrastructure and actually
build the CBIR index and the Image Training Set data base. The images extracted from the ingested material will
go through the visual feature extractor that will extract local and global features, based on a strategy determined
by testing some subsets of the images. The right mixture of features is very important in order to obtain the best
accuracy during the query phase. Through the indexer, the extracted features will be stored in the CBIR index
structure, which will allow a fast and efficient similarity search during the query phase. The index structure will
support the scalability of the image data base up to over 100 million images, being based on the one used by
ISTI-CNR in other projects.
In addition, for those epigraph where a set of images is available (the training set), each training set will be
processed to extract the main features characterizing the object. The training sets and the characterizing
features will be stored in another index, to be used by the image recognizer in order to decide if a received
image (during the query phase) can be classified as belonging to one of the existing sets or not. In this way, in
many cases, the recognizer would be able to properly recognize the content of a query image even if the image
given in the query was never stored in the data base.
T4.5 Provision of infrastructure services as cloud resources [CNR-ISTI]
WT3:
This task will focus on the customization and deployment of the D-NET services used by EAGLE to ensure that
they will appear (also) as “cloud services” and therefore will be capable of supporting the dynamic request of
resources in a transparent and seamless way.
D-NET services are conceived and deployed as a cloud of services implementing functionalities for the
aggregation, storage, processing, and search of metadata records. In this way, applications and users have
the perception of accessing a single D-NET point of access for such functionalities, while the D-NET services
running in the production system can be dynamically varied in number and typology to cope with changing
resource demands. For example, the number of active processors can be increased to satisfy with equal
response time an increasing number of queries, the size of storage space can be adjusted to the size of the
ingested data, the degree of reliability can be increased by increasing the number of storage replicas, etc.
Another aspect, equally important, is that the infrastructure, implemented and deployed as a set of cloud
services will appear to the applications and to the end users as being completely independent from the actual
hardware and software systems providing those services. Depending on the sustainability plan, at the end of
the funded period, this will allow to consider the possibility of moving the whole infrastructure from the CNR’s
systems that will support it during the project’s life-time to another organization or a commercial cloud services
provider, without causing any discontinuity to the applications and the end users activities.
• The work package leader is CNR-ISTI.
• EUREVA will provide the intelligent data-caching mechanisms.
Participant number
10
11
13 CNR-ISTI
70.00
16 EUREVA
6.00
Total
76.00
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
62
Dissemination
63
level
Delivery date
64
D4.1
AIM Infrastructure Specification
13
14.00 R
PU
6
D4.2.1
First Release of AIM Infrastructure
13
40.00 P
PU
12
D4.2.2
Second Release of AIM Infrastructure
13
22.00 P
PU
24
Total
76.00
D4.1) AIM Infrastructure Specification: Design and specification of the technical infrastructure, including
metadata mapping and curation tools, aggregator and image management. [month 6]
D4.2.1) First Release of AIM Infrastructure: First release of the technical infrastructure, including metadata
mapping and curation tools, aggregator and image management. [month 12]
D4.2.2) Second Release of AIM Infrastructure: Final release of the technical infrastructure, including metadata
mapping and curation tools, aggregator and image management. [month 24]
WT3:
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS5
Ingestion and mapping infrastructure
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
13
12
Comments
WT3:
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Work package number
WP5
53
Work package title
End-user dedicated services
Start month
1
End month
36
55
14
Objectives
This work package is focused on the relationship with the real users and it aims:
• To gather the requirements of user groups who access and use epigraphy collections coming from different
discovery services and with different purposes.
• To ensure the seamless locate/request/deliver services in the d2d chain with Europeana and other discovery
services.
• To enrich the EAGLE Portal with new services, including search & browse of the EAGLE information space and
access to curation services.
• To provide visibility of the BPN results by providing a multilingual Flagship Mobile Application for visitors (all
over Europe) of sites displaying inscriptions aggregated in the central repository.
• To provide visibility of the BPN by providing a Flagship Storytelling Application for researchers and classical
Greek and Latin culture enthusiasts.
WP5 is responsible for the actual implementation of the EAGLE Portal and End-user Dedicated Services that
can be shared by all the participating content providers and users. This activity will contribute to the project’s
objective to achieve economies of scale both in terms of technical infrastructure and technical expertise.
The first step will consist in drawing up the requirements for the use case of web-based discovery to delivery
(d2d) to produce the high-level design, to agree on the d2d web logistics model to be implemented (based on the
use cases and requirements) and on the content supply chain model to be implemented, detailing the necessary
requirements.
The software implementation activity will conform to RUP best practices. Starting from the high level architectural
design, this work package will detail the requirements specifications and the implementation design. The
technology used to implement the EAGLE Portal and Services will be based on existing open source
solutions. The choice for the most appropriate solutions will be made at the beginning of WP5, by mapping the
requirements to the existing solutions.
The deployment of the Services on the target hardware and the maintenance of the Services Infrastructure is an
integral part of the work.
T5.1 EAGLE platform and services requirements and specifications [DAI]
This task will draw up the services’ requirements specifications (business, functional, technical) based on the
first use cases analysis gathered in T2.4 and will produce the detailed design of the whole EAGLE Services set.
It will define the components that are to be implemented and an implementation plan and iteration schedule will
be made. The build and release process will be iterative, adding functionality with each release.
This identification of the most appropriate technological solutions will be carried out in two steps: 1) desktop
comparison of the specifications of existing solutions with the requirements resulting in best candidates; 2)
piloting the best candidate solutions and testing how those addresses the requirements in practice. A choice will
be made at the end of the test pilot and a list of remaining requirements (not addressed by the chosen solutions)
will be drawn. Decisions concerning these remaining requirements and how to deal with them will be made.
T5.2 Upgrade the EAGLE portal [PROMOTER]
WT3:
The portal - constituting the EAGLE front-end - will provide a seamless access to the various resources
constituting the EAGLE information space and infrastructure. The definition of the portal is the outcome of an
accurate analysis of the requirements of the specific communities.
This particular activity will be carried out with the technical support of WP4 for appropriately interfacing the Web
Portal with the EAGLE Information Space created by the aggregator and maintained through the infrastructure.
The existing portal will be integrated with the search, browse and multilinguality services offered by the
underlying D-NET Service Infrastructure technology and with the curation services implemented by WP4.
The EAGLE portal will be launched to the public as soon as the portal development and initial editorial work have
been completed and a sufficient mass of content has been made available through the work of WP3.
The EAGLE portal will be developed starting from the already existing portal www.eagle-eagle.it, which allows
searches across the four confederate databases EDR, EDH, EDB and HE at the same time, looking for
information, simple or combined, related to the following fields: text, provenance, and bibliography.
T5.3 Flagship mobile application [EUREVA]
To increase the visibility of the BPN and to better exploit the wealth of data aggregated in the central repository,
this task will implement an application targeted at “common end user”, i.e. end users who are not scholars in
Greek and Roman epigraphy. In collaboration with the partners providing content to the repository, a subset
of the material that has one (or more) pictorial representation (images) associated with it will be selected. The
selected images will be indexed in a dedicated data base (WP4), after enrichment with additional historical
and touristic material. The application will allow a visitor of a site where one of the stored epigraphy is visible
(museum, street, archaeological site, etc) to take a picture with a mobile phone, send the picture to the central
repository and receive back the enriched information associated with that picture. Moreover, crowd-sourcing
functionalities will be developed in the application to accelerate the adoption of the EAGLE and epigraphic
content.
This tasks consists of two different steps:
1. Selection and enrichment of the inscriptions to be used in the Application. In collaboration with the partners
providing content, a subset of the inscriptions will be selected (based on historical and/or touristic relevance) and
will be annotated and enriched with additional information.
2. Design and implementation of the Application Interface. This includes the mobile interface through which
users can take pictures of an inscription, query the EAGLE repository, and receive all relevant information
retrieved for inscription actually matching the captured one.
In addition of the crowd-sourcing mechanisms, an SDK (Software Development Kit) to ease the develop of
mobile apps will be provided to allow smooth integration of EAGLE content into specific mobile applications that
museums, touristic sites or institutions would like to develop.
T5.4 Flagship storytelling application [DAI]
This task focuses on the implementation of the storytelling application, whose aim is to support EAGLE content
providers to contextualize their objects, thus providing a panoramic view of the field. The application will allow
the dragging-and-dropping of items not only from the EAGLE webpages, but also from webpages of other
online resources that are relevant to epigraphy, archaeology, history, philology, etc. Hence, it will work as a
general-purpose tool that can be used to provide analogous ‘anthologic’ narratives based on other repositories,
for the benefit of novice historians, archaeologists, etc. Aim of the storytelling application is to be able to pluck
items from discipline-specific repositories, such as EAGLE. Building the app will thus require drawing a list of
‘target repositories’, and then, for each of them, implementing parsing rules for its graphic content, so as to
enable the dragging-and-dropping of items appearing on their pages. The architecture will allow the addition of
further ‘target repositories’ in the future, so as to future-proof the app against the opening of new repositories,
and/or against changes in the interface of existing ones.
The author of one such narrative will be able to decide access and editing privileges for it. That way, a given
narrative can work as a wiki (=accessible and editable by anybody), as a one-to-one lecture, etc. Narratives thus
constructed will be exportable as HTML, PDF, or even just text.
Particular attention will be paid to the design and ergonomics of the app, so as to make it as intuitive and as
easy-to-use as possible.
T5.5 Testing and validation [DAI]
User groups will be formed based on different profiles: general public (e.g. the tourists), public with a special
interest in cultural heritage and in classical Greek and Latin culture, subject specialists and academic experts
(researchers, students, teachers). Each user group will produce one test cases describing how the user expects
to follow the d2d navigation path and which interactions take place along the way. The test cases will be
co-authored by systems analysts and end users from each group.
WT3:
When the EAGLE Portal and End-user Dedicated Services are available, the selected user groups will validate
the proposed approach and the offered functionalities against the test cases and the requirements that have
been collected. Feedback will be collected from the users in order to gain input into refinements to the system.
The approach will be process-driven, identifying the workflow stages in which the system will be used (workflow
use cases defining ingest, storage, administration, access, delivery, etc.). Evaluation criteria for assessing the
open source community (stakeholders, development activity and available resources, roadmap, support, etc.)
will be part of the requirements.
• The work package leader is DAI, which is responsible for the requirements and specifications of the EAGLE
portal and services (with the support of CNR-ISTI and PROMOTER) and for the storytelling application.
• PROMOTER (with the support of GOGATE) is responsible for the upgrade of the EAGLE Portal.
• EUREVA (with the support of CNR-ISTI) is responsible for the development of the Flagship mobile application
user interface.
• UNIROMA1, UNIBA, UHEI, UAH, PLUS and CYI contribute to the piloting activities (selection and enrichment
of the inscription to be used in the mobile and storytelling applications) and to the validation phase under the
coordination of DAI.
Participant number
10
11
1 UNIROMA1
13.00
2 UNIBA
7.00
3 UHEI
7.00
5 UAH
10.00
6 PLUS
7.00
13 CNR-ISTI
12.00
14 DAI
23.00
15 CYI
3.00
16 EUREVA
8.00
18 GOGATE
5.00
19 PROMOTER
4.00
Total
99.00
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
62
Dissemination
63
level
Delivery date
64
D5.1
EAGLE portal and services
requirements and specifications
14
12.00 R
PU
9
D5.2
EAGLE portal
19
12.00 P
PU
18
D5.3.1
First release of the flagship mobile
application and SDK
16
12.00 P
PU
21
D5.3.2
Second release of the flagship mobile
application and SDK
16
9.00 P
PU
30
WT3:
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
62
Dissemination
63
level
Delivery date
64
D5.4.1
First release of the flagship
storytelling application
14
12.00 P
PU
21
D5.4.2
Second release of the flagship
storytelling application
14
9.00 P
PU
30
D5.5
Validation plan
14
12.00 R
PU
21
D5.6.1
Validation report - first release
14
12.00 R
PU
27
D5.6.2
Validation report - second release
14
9.00 R
PU
36
Total
99.00
D5.1) EAGLE portal and services requirements and specifications: Definition of the user requirements for the
implementation of the EAGLE end-used dedicated services (portal, mobile app, storytelling app). [month 9]
D5.2) EAGLE portal: Implementation of EAGLE end-users dedicated portal. [month 18]
D5.3.1) First release of the flagship mobile application and SDK: Implementation of EAGLE flagship mobile
application. First release. [month 21]
D5.3.2) Second release of the flagship mobile application and SDK: Implementation of EAGLE flagship mobile
application. Final release. [month 30]
D5.4.1) First release of the flagship storytelling application: Implementation of EAGLE flagship mobile
application. First release. [month 21]
D5.4.2) Second release of the flagship storytelling application: Implementation of EAGLE flagship mobile
application. Final release. [month 30]
D5.5) Validation plan: Planning of the testing phase, including validation criteria. [month 21]
D5.6.1) Validation report - first release: Report on the results of the testing and validation process. First release.
[month 27]
D5.6.2) Validation report - second release: Report on the results of the testing and validation process. Final
release. [month 36]
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS9
EAGLE portal online
19
18
MS10
Release of the mobile application
16
21
MS11
Release of the storytelling application
14
21
Comments
WT3:
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Work package number
WP6
53
Work package title
Dissemination and exploitation
Start month
1
End month
36
55
1
Objectives
The dissemination WP has the following aims:
• To raise awareness about the objectives and results of the project.
• To disseminate and promote the activities of EAGLE amongst key European stakeholders and potential future
content providers.
• To ensure the broadest outreach and uptake of the project services, mainly through a strong Web presence
(particularly on the mobile Web), but also through a themed documentary with a related teaser video and the
integration with Wikipedia and Wikisource.
• To ensure the sustainability of the project results.
WP6 is devoted to all outward-reaching activities, whose goal is two-fold: attracting new users to the EAGLE
portal and attracting new content providers and stakeholders to the EAGLE consortium, in close liason with
WP2.
Moreover WP6 is also responsible for the business case underlying the project objectives and for developing an
agreed exploitation plan by the end of the project, which will define the steps and actions needed to ensure a
continued use of the EAGLE portal at the end of the funded period, both on the part of the content providers and
on the part of scholars and general public, thus assuring the sustainability of the project results.
T6.1 EAGLE dissemination and communication planning [UNIROMA1]
The aim of this task is to produce the specifications and overall planning of the dissemination activities.
The drafting of the Dissemination and Awareness Plan will take into account the classes of target users identified
in WP2 and WP5, and recommend targeting actions for each of them. It will guide all the activities of WP6.
Target organisations are primarily the other European epigraphy institutions that are not part of the EAGLE
Consortium. Each of the EAGLE participants will contribute to this task by organising training sessions and
awareness-raising presentations within their own language region, participating to relevant events and
contributing to keep the project website up-to-dated. This will be done in close liaison with WP2, by reusing and
translating the best practices and by exploiting the workshops and international events organized as part of
T2.5. This task also covers the organisation of the EAGLE presentations at the relevant international epigraphic
conferences which the project partners will attend.
T6.2 Production of dissemination materials [UNIROMA1]
This task produces the print designs and materials that will be used for the actual dissemination activities: flyers,
brochures, posters, dissemination kits, etc.
The first step is the design and definition of the EAGLE logo, tagline and graphic elements (including the
website graphics and layout that will be used in T6.3, T5.2, T5.3 and T5.4). The design of the logo will be done
in consultation with the other partners, by examining different proposals and voting the winner. The chosen
layout will be used throughout the subsequent design phases (main graphic elements, website front-end, mobile
app, dissemination materials, etc.), which will be supervised by PROMOTER (web-based dissemination) and
UNIROMA1 (paper-based dissemination).
T6.3 EAGLE Web presence [PROMOTER]
WT3:
This task will publish the EAGLE project website with information about the project and access to all the
published results from the project. The aim of this promotional task is to target the general public through the
Web, with particular emphasis on tourists on the go. The task includes putting online the Project Web Site
(starting from M3) and keeping it up to date, with particular regard to EAGLE highlights.
Most of the task consists of all the necessary actions for promoting the Web presence of EAGLE, as detailed
in the Dissemination and Awareness Plan. This will be achieved by priming interest in the project via targeted
comments and sharing of links and media in online fora and social networks. Discussion and special-interest
groups will also be addressed via dedicated newsletters using existing mailing lists and digests, which have
proven very effective in past Europeana projects.
Showcases on other popular online resources for culture will also be featured, such as the Digital meets Culture
portal (www.digitalmeetsculture.net) featured by PROMOTER. The interactive approach drives the users’
engagement thus bouncing the web presence, and the Digital meets Culture portal can effectively contribute to
the dissemination tasks of any project: by giving wide visibility to the projects’ activities and achievements, by
deepening their topics through interviews and related articles, and also by offering a repository service for the
projects’ results.
Sharing of the project teaser video and media over social networks will be particularly encouraged, as well as the
downloading of the free Flagship Applications, for which examples of use will be featured amongst the website
highlights. Due to the importance of tourism for the possible future sustainability of EAGLE, the download of the
Mobile Application will be promoted and facilitated as much as possible.
The efficacy of promotion and dissemination will be checked against user profiling data harvested through
the EAGLE portal (with a simple tool, such as Google Analytics) – and the various activities will be throttled
accordingly.
Finally, communities of volunteers will be contacted to increase awareness regarding the EAGLE content and
foster inclusion and integration through Wikipedia and Wikisource.
T6.4 Inscription-themed teaser video and documentary [UNIROMA1]
A teaser video tailor-made for the Web will be produced in two versions, so as to promote and facilitate its viral
sharing. Fresh, up-to-date visual language, insightful commentaries into the content of some of the inscriptions
and an overall impish editorial approach shall contribute to this, showing how EAGLE and its Flagship Mobile
App can open windows into the personal lives of people who existed two thousand years ago. The about 4.5
minutes of animation will result in two commercials tailored for a specific target audience – for instance, tourists
and schools. The commercials will be mastered in HD, chiefly for delivery over the web, but with the possibility of
theatrical and broadcast exhibition. A lower-definition version for mobile devices will also be rendered.
All IPR associated with the promo will be cleared to allow its free distribution: more precisely, the makers will
grant a non-exclusive license to the EAGLE Consortium, so that the video can be distributed as widely as
possible via embedding, DVD give-aways, and - if possible- broadcast and theatrical exhibition. A single Vimeo
page used for all embedding will provide a set of useful metrics to measure the impact of the video (number of
embeds, number of total and partial plays, geographical spread of users, etc.).
Moreover, the following factors make further development of an inscription-themed documentary a very sensible
option:
- the eminent dramatic weight and suitability of epigraphic content;
- the readily-available access afforded by EAGLE to a critical mass of inscriptions and to a plethora of experts;
- the availability of a teaser video which would greatly help illustratig the chosen visual and dramatic approach;
- the fact that an eventual broadcast commission for a documentary would constitute one of the few realistic
exploitation perspectives for EAGLE content (through the licensing of images by content providers);
- the long-standing working relationships within the broadcast industry (especially with commissioners) of both
the project leader, Silvia Orlandi, and the video director, Luca Giberti;
- the recent success on BBC2 of the Meet The Romans series, to which Orlandi significantly contributed;
- the fact that perspective commissioners, having the development costs already covered, would find our
proposal more economically viable than other ones.
The documentary will be researched, scripted and pitched to perspective commissioners.
T6.5 Business cases and sustainability planning [UNIROMA1]
This task is responsible for the business case, which is the basis for the EAGLE project and the sustainability
and exploitation plan. The business case describes the vision of the demand-supply chain and d2d logistics
organization in which the large-scale implementation will be deployed. It is the basis for the exploitation plan that
outlines the organisation, the process, roles and responsibilities, the costs and finance model (on the basis of
cost recovery). The exploitation plan includes information on the success factors and performance indicators
and financial forecasts for the exploitation stage (after the project duration). It will devise the exploitation model
WT3:
for the project results, based on the preliminary starting points laid out in part B2.2. It will take governance,
organisational and financial aspects into account. It will investigate how to get funds to finance the preparation of
the content to be made available over mobile phones in order to increase its quantity. The resulting exploitation
plan will be a document that all EAGLE partners will commit to.
Roles of the partners.
• The work package leader is UNIROMA1.
• UNIROMA1 is the responsible for the business and sustainability planning, with the participation of CNR-ISTI,
DAI, EUREVA and PROMOTER.
• PROMOTER is responsible for the EAGLE project website and for the design of the graphic elements to be
used for the dissemination activities.
• Some effort is allocated to all the project partners to undertake dissemination activities like by organising
training sessions and awareness-raising presentations within their own language region, participating to relevant
events and contributing to keep the project website up-to-dated.
Participant number
10
11
1 UNIROMA1
32.00
2 UNIBA
2.00
3 UHEI
2.00
4 UOXF
2.00
5 UAH
2.00
6 PLUS
2.00
7 UBB
2.00
8 ELTE
2.00
9 UNIPU
2.00
10 ZRC SAZU
2.00
11 AUSONIUS
2.00
12 K.U.LEUVEN
2.00
13 CNR-ISTI
3.00
14 DAI
3.00
15 CYI
2.00
16 EUREVA
3.00
17 BSR
2.00
19 PROMOTER
17.00
Total
84.00
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
D6.1
EAGLE project website
19
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
12.00 P
62
Dissemination
63
level
PU
Delivery date
64
3
WT3:
Deliverable
Number
Lead
beneficiary
number
Deliverable Title
61
Estimated
indicative
personmonths
Nature
Dissemination
63
level
62
Delivery date
64
D6.2
Dissemination and awareness plan
1
15.00 R
PU
6
D6.3.1
Dissemination materials - first release
1
5.00 O
PU
9
D6.3.2
Dissemination materials - second
release
1
5.00 R
PU
18
D6.3.3
Dissemination materials - third
release
1
5.00 R
PU
30
D6.4
Inscription-themed teaser video and
documentary
1
8.00 O
PU
24
D6.5
Dissemination report
1
20.00 R
PU
36
D6.6
Sustainability plan
1
14.00 R
PU
36
Total
84.00
D6.1) EAGLE project website: Implementation of the project public website. [month 3]
D6.2) Dissemination and awareness plan: Planning of the dissemination and awareness activities to be carried
out during the project. [month 6]
D6.3.1) Dissemination materials - first release: Design and production of materials to be used for the actual
dissemination activities (e.g. flyers, brochures, posters, dissemination kits, etc.). First release. [month 9]
D6.3.2) Dissemination materials - second release: Design and production of materials to be used for the actual
dissemination activities (e.g. flyers, brochures, posters, dissemination kits, etc.). Second release. [month 18]
D6.3.3) Dissemination materials - third release: Design and production of materials to be used for the actual
dissemination activities (e.g. flyers, brochures, posters, dissemination kits, etc.). Third release. [month 30]
D6.4) Inscription-themed teaser video and documentary: Production of a teaser video tailor-made for the Web (in
two versions) and development of a related inscription-themed documentary. [month 24]
D6.5) Dissemination report: Report of the dissemination and awareness activitied carried out during the project.
[month 36]
D6.6) Sustainability plan: Plan for the sustainability of the EAGLE network and for the exploitation of the project
results after the end of the project. [month 36]
Milestone
59
number
Milestone name
MS2
Launch of the project web site
MS13
Inscription-themed teaser video and
documentary
Lead
beneficiary
number
Delivery
date from
60
Annex I
Comments
19
3
1
24
WT4:
List of Milestones
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
List and Schedule of Milestones
Milestone
59 Milestone name
number
WP number
MS1
Kick-off
WP1
1
1
MS2
Launch of the project
WP6
web site
19
3
MS3
Working Groups
established
WP2
3
6
MS4
EAGLE metadata
model
WP3
5
9
MS5
Ingestion
and mapping
infrastructure
WP4
13
12
MS6
First review
WP1
1
12
MS7
First international
conference
WP2
1
18
MS8
375.000 items
available for
Europeana
WP3
15
18
MS9
EAGLE portal online
WP5
19
18
MS10
Release of the
mobile application
WP5
16
21
MS11
Release of
the storytelling
application
WP5
14
21
MS12
750.000 items
available for
Europeana
WP3
15
24
MS13
Inscription-themed
teaser video and
documentary
WP6
1
24
MS14
Second review
WP1
1
24
MS15
1.125.000 items
available for
Europeana
WP3
15
30
MS16
1.500.000 items
available for
Europeana
WP3
15
36
MS17
Final international
conference
WP2
1
36
MS18
Final review
WP1
1
36
53
Delivery date
60
from Annex I
Comments
WT5:
Tentative schedule of Project Reviews
Project Number
1
325122
Project Acronym
2
EAGLE
Tentative schedule of Project Reviews
Review
Tentative Planned venue
65
timing
of review
number
Comments, if any
RV 1
12 Brussels
first review
RV 2
24 Brussels
second review
RV 3
36 Brussels
final review
WT6:
Project Effort by Beneficiary and Work Package
Project Number
325122
1
Project Acronym
EAGLE
2
Indicative efforts (man-months) per Beneficiary per Work Package
Beneficiary number and
short-name
WP 1
1 - UNIROMA1
WP 2
WP 3
WP 4
WP 5
WP 6
Total per Beneficiary
30.00
22.00
26.00
0.00
13.00
32.00
123.00
2 - UNIBA
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
7.00
2.00
25.00
3 - UHEI
1.00
24.00
22.00
0.00
7.00
2.00
56.00
4 - UOXF
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
5 - UAH
1.00
16.00
36.00
0.00
10.00
2.00
65.00
6 - PLUS
1.00
20.00
18.00
0.00
7.00
2.00
48.00
7 - UBB
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
8 - ELTE
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
9 - UNIPU
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
10 - ZRC SAZU
1.00
5.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
20.00
11 - AUSONIUS
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
12 - K.U.LEUVEN
1.00
6.00
13.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
22.00
13 - CNR-ISTI
1.00
4.00
3.00
70.00
12.00
3.00
93.00
14 - DAI
1.00
6.00
28.00
0.00
23.00
3.00
61.00
15 - CYI
1.00
6.00
32.00
0.00
3.00
2.00
44.00
16 - EUREVA
1.00
2.00
0.00
6.00
8.00
3.00
20.00
17 - BSR
1.00
3.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
2.00
18.00
18 - GOGATE
1.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
5.00
0.00
6.00
28.00
4.00
0.00
0.00
4.00
17.00
53.00
75.00
136.00
274.00
76.00
99.00
84.00
744.00
19 - PROMOTER
Total
1. Project number
The project number has been assigned by the Commission as the unique identifier for your project. It cannot be changed.
The project number should appear on each page of the grant agreement preparation documents (part A and part B) to
prevent errors during its handling.
2. Project acronym
Use the project acronym as given in the submitted proposal. It cannot be changed unless agreed so during the negotiations.
The same acronym should appear on each page of the grant agreement preparation documents (part A and part B) to
prevent errors during its handling.
53. Work Package number
Work package number: WP1, WP2, WP3, ..., WPn
55. Lead beneficiary number
Number of the beneficiary leading the work in this work package.
56. Person-months per work package
The total number of person-months allocated to each work package.
57. Start month
Relative start date for the work in the specific work packages, month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all other start
dates being relative to this start date.
58. End month
Relative end date, month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all end dates being relative to this start date.
59. Milestone number
Milestone number:MS1, MS2, …, MSn
60. Delivery date for Milestone
Month in which the milestone will be achieved. Month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all delivery dates being
relative to this start date.
61. Deliverable number
Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates: D1 – Dn
62. Nature
Please indicate the nature of the deliverable using one of the following codes
R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other
63. Dissemination level
Please indicate the dissemination level using one of the following codes:
• PU = Public
• PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services)
• RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services)
• CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)
• Restreint UE = Classified with the classification level "Restreint UE" according to Commission Decision 2001/844 and
amendments
• Confidentiel UE = Classified with the mention of the classification level "Confidentiel UE" according to Commission Decision
2001/844 and amendments
• Secret UE = Classified with the mention of the classification level "Secret UE" according to Commission Decision 2001/844
and amendments
64. Delivery date for Deliverable
Month in which the deliverables will be available. Month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all delivery dates being
relative to this start date
65. Review number
Review number: RV1, RV2, ..., RVn
66. Tentative timing of reviews
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to this start date.
67. Person-months per Deliverable
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PART B
Number:
325122
Acronym:
EAGLE
Full title:
Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Date:
March 21st, 2013
Name of coordinating person:
Silvia Orlandi
Associate Professor in Latin Epigraphy
Sapienza University of Rome
List of participants:
Participant no.
Participant organisation name
Country
1 (Co-ordinator)
Università degli Studi
Roma “La Sapienza”
Università degli Studi di Bari
“Aldo Moro”
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet
Heidelberg
Oxford University
Universidad de Alcalà
Paris-Lodron-Universitaet
Salzburg
Universitatea Babes Bolyiai Cluj Napoca
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest
Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u
Puli
Znanstvenoraziskovalni
Center SlovenskeAkademije
Znanosti in Umetnosti
Institut Ausonius, Université
de Bordeaux III - CNRS
Katholieke
Universiteit
Leuven
Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche – Istituto di Scienza
e
Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut
Cyprus Institute
Eureva
British School at Rome
Gogate Srl
Promoter Srl
Italy
2 (Participant)
3 (Participant)
4 (Participant)
5 (Participant)
6 (Participant)
7 (Participant)
8 (Participant)
9 (Participant)
10 (Participant)
11 (Participant)
12 (Participant)
13 (Participant)
14 (Participant)
15 (Participant)
16 (Participant)
17 (Participant)
18 (Participant)
19 (Participant)
Participant
short
name
di UNIROMA1
UNIBA
Italy
UHEI
Germany
UOXF
UAH
PLUS
UK
Spain
Austria
UBB
Romania
ELTE
Hungary
UNIPU
Croatia
ZRC SAZU
Slovenia
AUSONIUS
France
K.U.LEUVEN
Belgium
CNR-ISTI
Italy
DAI
Germany
CYI
EUREVA
BSR
GOGATE
PROMOTER
Cyprus
France
Italy
Italy
Italy
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Table of Contents
PROJECT PROFILE .................................................................................................................................................... 4
B1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................. 7
B1.1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES .......................................................................................................................................... 7
B1.1.1 Background and problems............................................................................................................................ 7
B1.1.2 The project concept in brief.......................................................................................................................... 7
B1.1.3 Project objectives and qualifying points ....................................................................................................... 8
B1.1.4 Alignment with EC objectives ....................................................................................................................... 9
B1.2 CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVE .........................................................................10
B2. IMPACT .................................................................................................................................................................11
B2.1A. TARGET OUTCOMES AND EXPECTED IMPACT .....................................................................................................11
B2.1a.1 Outcomes..................................................................................................................................................11
B2.1a.2 Impact ......................................................................................................................................................11
B2.1a.3 European approach ..................................................................................................................................12
B2.1a.4 Barriers and Risks ....................................................................................................................................12
B2.1B. UNDERLYING CONTENT ....................................................................................................................................15
B2.1b.1 EAGLE Content ........................................................................................................................................15
B2.1b.2 IPR issues .................................................................................................................................................22
B2.1b.3 Multilingual and/or multicultural aspects ..................................................................................................23
B2.1b.4 Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................23
B2.2. LONG-TERM VIABILITY.......................................................................................................................................25
B2.2.1 The Business Case and Exploitation Plan ....................................................................................................25
B2.2.2 Legal aspects ..............................................................................................................................................26
B2.2.3 Cost recovery model for maintenance and service costs ...............................................................................26
B2.2.4 Operational model ......................................................................................................................................26
B2.2.5 Exploitation and culture ..............................................................................................................................26
B.2.3. WIDER DEPLOYMENT AND USE ..........................................................................................................................28
B2.3.1 Target users................................................................................................................................................28
B2.3.2 The Flagship Mobile Application ................................................................................................................31
B2.3.3 The Flagship Storytelling Application .........................................................................................................32
B2.3.4 Networking, dissemination & awareness activities.......................................................................................32
B3. IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................................................................................................34
B3.1. CONSORTIUM AND KEY PERSONNEL ....................................................................................................................34
B3.1.1 Consortium as a whole ................................................................................................................................34
B3.1. 2 Partner Descriptions and key personnel ....................................................................................................35
B3.2A. CHOSEN APPROACH .........................................................................................................................................53
B3.2a.1 Managing the project, performance monitoring and evaluation (WP1) ......................................................53
B3.2a.2 Consensus building within the BPN and enlarging the network (WP2) .......................................................53
B3.2a.3 Large-scale implementation in real-life context (WP3, WP4, WP5) ............................................................54
B3.2a.4 Disseminating the results, awareness-raising and definition of a suitable sustainability and exploitation plan
(WP6)....................................................................................................................................................................59
B3.2B. WORK PLAN ....................................................................................................................................................60
B3.2b.1 Timing of Work Packages and their components ........................................................................................60
B3.2b.2 Performance monitoring table ...................................................................................................................62
B3.3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT .....................................................................................................................................64
B3.3.1 Project structure .........................................................................................................................................64
B3.3.2 Steering Committee .....................................................................................................................................65
B3.3.3 Management Team......................................................................................................................................66
B3.3.4 WP Leaders ................................................................................................................................................68
B3.3.5 Advisory Board ...........................................................................................................................................69
B3.3.6 Consortium Agreement ...............................................................................................................................69
B3.4. SECURITY, PRIVACY, INCLUSIVENESS, INTEROPERABILITY, STANDARDS AND OPEN-SOURCE ..................................70
B3.5. RESOURCES TO BE COMMITTED ...........................................................................................................................71
B3.3.1 Personnel costs ...........................................................................................................................................71
B3.3.2 Detailed breakdown of other cost items .......................................................................................................72
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B3.3.3 Detailed breakdown of subcontracting costs ................................................................................................74
B3.6. DISSEMINATION / USE OF RESULTS .....................................................................................................................76
ANNEX 1: EUROPEANA FOUNDATION LETTER OF SUPPORT ........................................................................81
ANNEX 2: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT WORLD LETTER OF SUPPORT ..............................82
ANNEX 3: U.S. EPIGRAPHY PROJECT LETTER OF SUPPORT ..........................................................................83
ANNEX 4: CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM LATINARUM LETTER OF SUPPORT ..................................................84
ANNEX 5: KING’S COLLEGE LONDON LETTER OF SUPPORT ........................................................................85
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PROJECT PROFILE
Acronym: EAGLE
Full title: Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Information on the Best Practice Network
Objectives
Classical Greek and Latin are at the roots of European Culture. EAGLE is the Best Practice Network that
brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Epigraphy,
to provide Europeana with a critical mass of quality content that is so far completely missing. The EAGLE
project bridges this gap within Europeana by making available to everyone a comprehensive collection of
unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture.
The main objectives of the project are:
 To contribute to Europeana with inscriptions and related metadata coming from 25 EU countries,
providing more than 1.5 M 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.
 To create a bespoke cloud-based service platform, with innovative tools for image recognition and
creative re-use of content to enable meaningful understanding of EAGLE’s collection of epigraphy by
any public on any device.
 To bring new content providers and users to Europeana.
 To set up a curation service for the enrichment of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis
on translations – thus providing a basis for future translations of inscriptions in other European
languages.
 To validate the project's approach and results with real users coming both from the tourism sector and
from the epigraphers’ community.
 To disseminate and communicate the project's outputs to the epigraphers community and to related
initiatives and agencies, to ensure the project's results widest spreading and to preserve and give
visibility to a part of the European heritage that is largely unknown to the public.
 To define a clear exploitation plan to ensure project’s sustainability.
 To coordinate with Europeana and its sister projects to ensure full integration of the solution.
Activities and Outcomes
Content-related activities:
 Analysis of the metadata models, terminologies and vocabularies used by the EAGLE consortium
content providers.
 Implementation of an inscription-specific metadata model for eidetic epigraphic content, based on
standards and recommendations developed through related Europeana projects.
 Collection and aggregation of the content provided by the EAGLE Partners and its delivery to
Europeana.
 Set up of a multilingual wiki for the enrichment of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis
on translations, for the benefit of the general public.
 Setting up of two “Flagship Applications” to validate the EAGLE approach and to encourage the use of
Europeana:
o a multilingual mobile application to allow mobile users, such as tourists, to access the EAGLE
repository when on location and thus being able to read, understand and contextualise the
inscriptions they find on site;
o a storytelling application to enrich, contextualise and link the inscriptions to each other and
with other related information available in Europeana’s Linked Open Data cloud.
Technical-related activities:
 Interoperability and integration of the content providers’ third party systems and archives with
Europeana, in order to aggregate the epigraphic content.
 Alignment of metadata with the Europeana model and publication of content to Europeana.
 Identification, creation, maintenance and mapping of terminologies and vocabularies in the field of
epigraphic eidetic content.
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Development of suitable indexes for epigraphic images content, to support an efficient search and
retrieve of images provided as a query.
 Development of the cloud-based EAGLE platform to allow multi-format integration and multi-device
distribution of content and metadata.
 Exposure of EAGLE infrastructure services as cloud resources to be accessed not only through a
Graphical User Interface but also programmatically.
Dissemination and networking activities:
 Integration of EAGLE collections with Wikipedia through the publication of the EAGLE collections to
Wikimedia Commons, to allow general users of Wikipedia to directly access a plethora of significant
historical sources and Europeana to tap into the large user base of Wikipedia.
 Development of an inscription-themed documentary and production of a related teaser video tailored
for the Web to exploit and give visibility to the vast repertory of human characters and dramatic events
evoked or portrayed in the various EAGLE items.
 Set up of dedicated Working Groups to define best practices for harmonising epigraphic content including IPR issues, terminologies, multi-linguality and georeferencing - and engaging with it.
 Disseminate the results through a number of focused events, workshops and training seminars.
Outcomes:
 The EAGLE collection of inscriptions made publicly and easily available, understandable and
supported by the major European epigraphic institutions.
 A highly-interoperable and scalable platform allowing for multi-format ingestion and multi-device
distribution of content and metadata.
 An active, engaged community of institutions in the field of ancient epigraphy, working together on a
set of recommendations for best practice which will enable users across Europe to aggregate, store,
access, and re-use epigraphic content.
Consortium
Eighteen partners from thirteen different European countries form the Consortium.
Fourteen partners are content providers and all of them are well-established research institutions (mostly
universities) in the field of ancient epigraphy. All the content providing partners fulfil an important role in
awareness-raising and recruiting new content providers across Europe and UNIROMA1 is responsible for
coordinating these activities. UNIROMA1 will optimise the chances of uptake of the BPN approach and
results by sister institutions and strengthen sustainability by inclusion of new content providers.
The technology partners CNR-ISTI, EUREVA, GOGATE and K.U.LEUVEN are leading players in the
field, with strong connections to relevant European projects, in particular OpenAIRE, EuropeanaConnect
and Europeana itself. CNR-ISTI will set-up the necessary services infrastructure for the demand-supply
chain, connecting Europeana and the EAGLE aggregator. CNR-ISTI has also a strong expertise in the field
of image indexing and recognition, and would provide the underlying technology, which will be exploited
by EUREVA to develop the user interface for the Flagship Mobile Application. K.U.LEUVEN, with its
experience in the portal Trismegistos, will be responsible for the process of disambiguation, since some of
the items are present in more than one repository.
The strategic partnership with Europeana Foundation will ensure liaison and concertation with Europeana
developments and create synergies in best practice areas such as content harmonisation, multi-linguality,
multi-culturality and semantic interoperability, thereby enhancing the quality of content discovery.
The Co-ordinator UNIROMA1, in addition to being a content provider, has a long-time experience of
managing EU projects from technical and administrative points of view and has a long-standing tradition of
organising conferences and workshops, promoting several student/researcher exchanges with partners and
collaborating institutions over the past 50 years. In this project UNIROMA1 will delegate the technical
coordination and quality assurance tasks to PROMOTER, whose experience in the technical coordination of
EU projects relies on the activities of support and cooperation to the management of several projects in
Programmes as diverse as FP5, FP6, FP7, eTEN, eContent+ and CIP ICT-PSP.
Impact
The expected impacts of the EAGLE project are the following:
 Higher quantity of quality content available through Europeana. The EAGLE BPN represents a
community of research institutions documenting the most recent progress in the study of Classical
Epigraphy. By aggregating digital content from unique and authoritative collections in its domain, the
BPN brings together a significant quantity of information about ancient writings on ancient artefacts to
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the wide Europeana audience, thereby enhancing the quality of the historical experience and
stimulating discovery in primary source materials never disclosed before to users on such a large scale.
Enhance the visibility of Europe’s ancient history heritage and the richness of the collections will
hopefully lead to improved acknowledgement of its importance as a resource for scientific research
and as unique evidence of Europe’s past and identity;
Improved access and discovery to the digital collections will increase the awareness of the importance
of digital curation and therefore the need for sustained investments in a robust infrastructure for
service delivery. This will be helpful for the content providing institutions in their quest for
national/local/regional financial support.
Cultural role for casual users. Users will be exposed to extensive and well structured content that will
facilitate and enrich their knowledge of ancient history and adjacent domains (such as archaeology) in
the European context. And this will be eased by the development of a mobile and a storytelling
applications targeted to the general public. The ancient history and epigraphy resource available
through Europeana is based on the historiographical knowledge and expertise of the EAGLE partners
and is an authoritative and independent resource, by contrast to new commercial/technology driven
sources such as Google Books.
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B1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
B1.1. Project objectives
B1.1.1 Background and problems
Classical Greek and Latin culture is the very foundation of the identity of modern Europe. A variety of modern
subjects and disciplines as practised in today have their roots in the classical world: from philosophy to
architecture, from geometry to law. Only a small fraction of the total production of texts from ancient Greece
and Rome has survived up to the present day, leaving many ample gaps in the historiographic record.
Inscriptions are invaluable ‘time capsules’ that provide us with a myriad of useful facts in this respect, for
example by allowing us to cast light on otherwise undocumented historical events, or to gain new knowledge of
local laws and customs, and even to determine the date and producer of a given piece of lead piping. Epigraphy
also documents the evolution of languages and scripts, albeit indirectly; in some cases, such as that of the
Rosetta Stone, it can provide those key insights that allow for the successful deciphering of an unknown script.
Three main problems have, up to now, affected epigraphy.
The first one is that, as a field of study, classic epigraphy has evolved into three strictly separate disciplines, i.e.
Greek, Latin and Christian epigraphy, characterised by separate collections and corpuses used for reference,
separate publications, separate populations of scholars and researchers.
The second one is that inscriptions have traditionally been featured in geographically-separated archives, with
the result that often various inscribed documents that should be collated because of thematic or historic
commonalities are scattered across multiple collections. All these factors have so far seriously hindered
research.
The third one is that, given the nature of the archives, their disjointedness and the lack of available translations,
ancient inscriptions have for the most part remained the preserve of the specialist, and their enjoyment by the
general public has been impossible. This is true for schools as well, whose history syllabi would benefit from
the possibility of accessing inscriptions online.
B1.1.2 The project concept in brief
EAGLE is aimed at solving the three above problems. It will do so by:
 aggregating the major epigraphic collections in Europe in a large, integrated online repository of
ancient inscriptions, as part of Europeana;
 mapping metadata from the various partner archives into a common intermediate format, which will
enable customised EAGLE-specific services, as well as ease the job of mapping into the proper formats
as requested by Europeana;
 providing an easy-to-use content management system for epigraphic archives and institutions;
 providing tools for automated metadata extraction harvesting and enrichment; the rich metadata will
also enable cross-linking by specialists;
 providing and curating a comprehensive set of metadata which include translations of the most
important texts, so as to make epigraphic texts available for the first time in large quantity to the
general public;
 providing an infrastructure for extending the scope of translations, in the form of a wiki, which will
enable specialists to add translations in other European languages even after the project expires;
 providing a multilingual and not OS related “Flagship Mobile Application” for users of Smartphones to
enable them to get information about one visible inscription by taking a photo and sending it to the
EAGLE portal for recognition and for accessing the associated information in EAGLE;
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providing a “Flagship Storytelling Application” to enrich, contextualise and link the epigraphs one to
each other and with other related information available in Europeana’s Linked Open Data cloud, thus
contributing to reconstruct the thematic and historic commonalities between different inscriptions that
are scattered across multiple collections;
establishing a Best Practice Network for the upkeep of the above common global resource, committed
to its further expansion by attracting both new institutions and experts, and thus effecting the
collaboration and interdisciplinarity which have so far been lacking in epigraphy;
B1.1.3 Project objectives and qualifying points
The EAGLE project has the following seven main objectives:
1. To contribute more than 1.5 M epigraphic images to Europeana, and their related transcriptions (with
solution of the abbreviated words) with a good number of translations, provided by fourteen different
European institutions, but related to material coming not only from 25 EU countries, but also from the
Southern and Eastern coasts of the Mediterranean sea. These represent approximately 80% of the total
amount of inscriptions in the Mediterranean area;
2. To elaborate a metadata model which addresses the specific needs of epigraphy, based on existing
standards and recommendations from other Europeana projects;
3. To set up a curation service for the enrichment of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis
on translations – thus providing a basis for future translations of inscriptions in other European
languages.
4. To create a bespoke cloud-based service platform for epigraphy targeted to attracting new users
interested in accessing epigraphic content via Europeana, but also new content providers willing to
contribute to Europeana with their collections;
5. To increase the value of the project and validate its results with two Flagship Applications – a mobile
application and a storytelling application – with the aim of involving real users in real-life conditions,
in particular in the educational and tourism sectors;
6. To effect a dissemination and communication campaign to many complementary targets (cultural
institutions, local authorities, tourism associations, governmental bodies, universities and academies,
epigraphers community and related initiatives and agencies, etc) to ensure the project's results widest
spreading, to ensure the project’s sustainability and to preserve and give visibility to a part of the
European heritage that is largely unknown to the public;
7. To coordinate with Europeana and with its sister projects to ensure a solution that is fully integrated
with Europeana.
In terms of broader goals, the aim of EAGLE is:
 to enrich Europeana with a new type of content which is totally missing now and which can provide
additional insight and knowledge about the roots and the development of the European culture;
 to attract tourists and mobile users to Europeana, who will be able to access quickly info and
translations pertaining to inscriptions of interest; thus, to establish a new community of mobile users
revolving around access to inscriptions;
 to provide specialists and Classical Greek and Latin culture enthusiasts (epigraphists, curators,
researchers, students, etc) with a new unified resource and with rich metadata sets available as Linked
Opean Data for making the most of it;
 to support the above community services through a dedicated ICT infrastructure.
Key qualifying elements of EAGLE are:
 quantity and quality of provided content, which addresses a deficiency in present-day Europeana;
 quality control for the selection process of content, ensured by the fact that the EAGLE partners
comprise some of the best epigraphy institutions in Europe;
 content is relevant to a vast number of users - mainly tourists on the move, but also researchers,
students and interested users;
 selected content is made accessible to the users either through a web portal, or via a simple, easy-touse, multilingual and not OS related (i.e. for Android, iPhones and Windows phones) mobile
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application. Moreover EAGLE infrastructure services will be also available as cloud resources to be
accessed by application programs.
B1.1.4 Alignment with EC objectives
In terms of the objectives of the Work Programme, EAGLE will:
 aggregate epigraphic content from a plethora of European institutions, thus providing Europeana with a
hitherto missing -and yet fundamental- feature of our common cultural heritage;
 align metadata and mappings with the specifications of Europeana;
 expose its services and functionalities as cloud resources to exploit the potential of cloud computing for
aggregating, storing and re-using content
 provide a common CMS for the EAGLE consortium, chosen for ease of use and of interoperability with
Europeana.
In particular:
 it will provide a critical mass of epigraphic content, by aggregating the major epigraphic collections in
Europe;
 quality control on the above content will be of the highest standard, since partners comprise some of the
most authoritative epigraphy institutions in the world;
 selection criteria have already been identified, based on historical-cultural significance and strong
thematic unity (see B2.1b);
 as already noted, the cultural relevance of the provided content for Europe is unquestionable, as
epigraphy is a staple of European history, pertaining to the common Greek, Latin and early Christian
roots of the European civilization;
 inscriptions will be accessible by users at item (=image) and sub-item (=word) level;
 IPR issues are very limited or non existent on translations: when existing translations will be used, they
will be fully quoted and referenced, as it is customary in epigraphy and in scientific literature in
general;
 IPR issues on images have been cleared for more than 99% of content declared in B.2.1b; permission to
use is being agreed for the remainder, and is expected to be granted within the next few months, and in
any case before the start of the project;
 the EAGLE consortium is for the most part comprised of qualified content providers;
Performance indicators to measure the project progresses against the planned objectives are provided in Section
B3.2b.2.
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B1.2 Contribution to the European Digital Library initiative
The EAGLE BPN fulfils the purpose of bringing ancient inscriptions into Europeana and making them
accessible through its website: a particular type of content - until now almost totally absent - characterised by a
strong thematic unity and easily recognisable, but coming from different countries and different cultural
organisations. One of the aims of the project is also to resolve the problem of the current dispersion of the
archaeological materials through a rich set of metadata that will allow the virtual reconstruction of their original
context of origin.
Through close liaison between the content providers, the technology partners and Europeana Foundation,
EAGLE will be well positioned to ensure interoperability and shared solutions and technology. Europeana’s
metadata format (the European Data Model or EDM) has been published and it is going to replace the more
basic Europeana Semantic Elements Schema in the short term, thus enabling to make better use of the richness
of the material provided by EAGLE. Europeana is therefore a moving target and close liaison will be crucial for
the EAGLE project. The ingestion of metadata from EAGLE into Europeana is expected to be done on the
model followed now by the Europeana Local projects. The EuropeanaLabs test site has been set up in the
Europeana development and testing facility in Pisa (at CNR-ISTI) for content-providing projects to ingest their
metadata and make sure the ingest works and the metadata displays correctly.
As Europeana is moving into Open Source and Community sharing practices, the opportunities for full
alignment, compatibility and integrated services will grow. The EAGLE BPN will participate actively in the
Europeana Community and make full use of existing best practices. All the work done within EAGLE on
standardisation (necessary for compatibility across formats) and on protocols (required for exchanging content)
adheres to the W3C recommendations (XML, URI, etc.), to international best practices and standards in the
cultural heritage sector (MARC21, EAD, Dublin Core, METS, etc.), to open interoperability standards (OAIPMH, SRU, etc.) and makes use of existing solutions (e.g. the ARK identifier scheme and the CNRI-Handle
system for resolving persistent identifiers).
The EAGLE BPN will provide widespread access to its resources through Europeana, thereby enriching the
discovery experience of users. It will not only improve the Europeana service by increasing the quantity of
quality content, but also by ensuring the quality of the supply process and of the delivery process: by setting up
a unique aggregator that is geared to supplying content to Europeana, the supply process is much more efficient
than if each EAGLE participant supplied directly to Europeana. The EAGLE aggregator can assure quality
control before ingest in Europeana, alleviating the burden of Europeana to normalise all the data. As supply
aggregators develop into sustainable and trustworthy suppliers, Europeana - as a demand aggregator - can focus
its effort more on the demand side, developing user-centred services.
The two Flagship Applications provide further added value and service improvement by significantly enriching
the user experience. This is because they have been thought from the start as qualified tools that answer actual
existing user needs, rather than as mere technology demonstrators as it often happens.
EAGLE has been conceived and drafted by taking into account the recommendations of the EC Digital Agenda
for Europe, of the Report Of The ‘Comité Des Sages’, of several conferences devoted to European cultural
heritage and its online presence. In particular, some key objectives of the Digital Agenda are clearly addressed
by EAGLE (see preceding section B1.1 for more details on EAGLE actions and objectives):
Enhancing digital literacy, skills and inclusion. With its emphasis on the tourist and on the classical Greek and
Latin culture enthusiasts user-base, as well as on the ease of access of its services, EAGLE fosters better and
more widespread knowledge of a key part of the European cultural heritage, as well as more widespread use of
modern tools for digital literacy, such as mobile devices.
ICT-enabled benefits for EU society. Mobility applications of EAGLE functionalities promote a virtuous circle
in which tourists and interested users are attracted to content which is relevant to European cultural heritage,
and contribute to local economy through their presence and actions.
Interoperability and standards. EAGLE will actively promote better interoperability between the digital archives
of its member partners and Europeana, as well as the adoption of common open standards for data and
metadata.
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B2. IMPACT
B2.1a. Target outcomes and expected impact
B2.1a.1 Outcomes
The target outcomes of the EAGLE project are the following:
1. To achieve the aggregation of existing digital cultural content to make it searchable and accessible
through Europeana (WP3) (through digital content selection and gathering, metadata improvements
and mappings; through the aggregator function between the individual content providers and the
Europeana platform; etc.)
2. A metadata aggregator (WP4) that collects the available metadata and surrogates of digital objects
(thumbnails, low-res scans, etc.) and ensures interoperability with the Europeana platform. The
aggregator supplies the metadata and surrogates to Europeana by use of the Europeana metadata ingest
tools.
3. The EAGLE Portal (WP5) upgraded by use of web services based on Europeana and D-NET
technologies. D-Net is an open source system developed by the DRIVER project, enabling the creation
and maintenance of infrastructures for the collection and management of digital objects, and the
development of services for accessing and using those objects.
4. A set of end-user dedicated services and applications, comprising the two Flagship Applications
(WP5), a translation Wiki (WP2) and other tools and services implemented by WP4 for metadata
contextualisation, editing, mapping, reconciliation and enrichment.
5. Improved quality of the content, the metadata and the service delivery through sharing best
practices in metadata harmonisation, IPR management, GIS, digital curation, and re-use of content
(WP2). The BPN will seek to adhere and to contribute to Europeana guidelines and solutions through
the Europeana open source and community space.
6. Engagement of the community of classicists and epigraphists (WP2) through awareness-raising,
best practice sharing, offering support and access to the BPN-facilities and by taking new content
providers on board as the project proceeds.
7. Dissemination of the results of the project to the broad public (WP6) by means of targeted
dissemination activities such as the development of an inscription-themed documentary, the production
of a related a teaser video tailored for the Web and the integration of EAGLE collections with
Wikipedia through the publication of the EAGLE collections to Wikimedia Commons.
8. Continued use of the EAGLE portal (WP6) after the end of the funded period through the
implementation of a suitable sustainability and exploitation plan. The portal will be used by content
providers to provide further epigraphic material to Europeana, and by scholars and general public to
access the content and the services provided by EAGLE.
B2.1a.2 Impact
The expected impacts of the EAGLE project are the following:
 Higher quantity of quality content available through Europeana: the BPN presents the most important
collections of inscribed documents and monuments relevant for the history of Europe to the wide
Europeana audience, thereby enhancing the quality of the historical experience and stimulating
discovery in primary source materials never disclosed before on such a large scale.
 More visibility of Europe’s ancient history heritage and the richness of the collections will hopefully
lead to improved acknowledgement of its importance as a resource for scientific research and as unique
evidence of Europe’s past and identity;
 Improved access and discovery to the digital collections will increase the awareness of the importance
of digital curation and therefore the need for sustained investments in a robust infrastructure for service
delivery. This will be helpful for the content providing institutions in their quest for
national/local/regional financial support.
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Cultural role for casual users. Users will be exposed to extensive and well structured content that will
facilitate and enrich their knowledge of ancient history and adjacent domains (such as archaeology) in
the European context. The ancient history and epigraphy resource available through Europeana is based
on the historiographical knowledge and expertise of the EAGLE partners and is an authoritative and
independent resource, by contrast to new commercial/technology driven sources such as Google Books.
Content enrichment and contextualisation. Data curation tools will be developed in WP4 to allow
content providers to enrich and contextualise their metadata, thus enabling EAGLE content to be easily
linked by other resources. A storytelling application will be set up to contextualise and link content
which is related to the same topic, thus enriching it and fostering its diffusion and re-use.
B2.1a.3 European approach
The current situation of inscription archives in Europe mirrors the geographical dispersion of classical works of
art across our continent: centuries of unregulated amassing by disparate individuals and institutions in different
EU member states have managed to produce an extremely fractioned landscape, whereby items pertaining to
the same age, and/or geographical area, now lie scattered across several different, geographically-separated
collections. This is why only a holistic, pan-European approach is conceivable in order to restore the lost unity
that characterised our common past. EAGLE was born exactly to satisfy this need, with respect to inscriptions,
which are primary historical sources of great importance. EAGLE aggregates for the first time the collections of
some of the most important epigraphy archives and institutions in Europe.
B2.1a.4 Barriers and Risks
The achievement of the desired impact relies on a few assumptions, such as:
1. Best practices have matured and are relatively easily applied.
2. The open source movement will continue to grow in Europe, making it easier for heritage institutions to
invest in shared and sustainable technical solutions.
3. The digitisation effort (and funds) will continue at a steady rate.
The main expected barriers to achieve the impacts are:
 Language/communication: the EAGLE partners all speak different European languages and the “lingua
franca” is not necessarily English (to be addressed by WP6: dissemination and WP1: internal
communication).
 Different levels of expertise in the BPN (to be addressed by WP2: consensus building).
 Different levels of institutional capacities and available resources (small and big institutions, to be
addressed by WP2: training and WP3: support for the mapping and ingestion).
The most important foreseeable risks for the EAGLE are:
 The capability of all BPN participants to adopt and adhere to the agreed standards and best practices
and to apply these during the local implementation phase of the project. Some partners are institutions
with little technical capacity and know how, but for all partners it holds true that EAGLE challenges
them to attain a high level of technical expertise within the project timeframe and to be able to apply it
in practice as well. Some participants will require more time than others to achieve significant progress
and sufficient skills to start with the local implementations and provision of content to the EAGLE
portal.
 Copyright issues are clearly a potential risk, always present in the domain of digital information made
available through the Internet. This is particularly true for content of which the IPR owners cannot be
traced back. A practice that is followed by many heritage institutions is to provide online access to such
material (only surrogates), until the owner formally claims his right. This practice brings some risks to
the institutions, but they consider it necessary in view of their mission to provide access to their
collections. This practice needs to be evaluated by the Working Group on IPR in WP2. N.B.: rights for
EAGLE content have been cleared for more than 99% of content.
 Developing a feasible business model for sustaining the epigraphy resource and the EAGLE largescale implementation on the long-term at both institutional and scientific community levels. Risks
should be considered seriously, from the start of the project, in order to find suitable solutions.
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Description of possible risk
Impact
Language/communication:
the
EAGLE partners all speak different
European languages and the ‘lingua
franca’ is not necessarily English.
Misunderstandings,
difficulties
in
disseminating the project
results
Different levels of expertise in
participating to EU projects.
The effort to co-operate in
a BPN and to check the
use of resources may
require more time for
some participants.
High
Copyright issues are clearly a
potential risk, always present in the
domain of digital information made
available through the Internet. This
is particularly true for content of
which the IPR owners cannot be
traced back.
Different skills in the BPN.
Not all the content may be
available to be used in the
piloting and dissemination
activities (e.g Flagship
Applications, integration
with Wikipedia, etc.)
Low
The effort to adopt and
adhere to the agreed
standards
and
best
practices may require
more time for some
participants.
High
Lack of sustainability after the end
of the project and of the EC funding.
The EAGLE community,
platform and services may
cease to exist after the end
of the project.
Low
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Probability of
occurrence
(low, medium,
high)
Low/Medium
Remedial Actions
WP1 will support all the partners in
the internal communication and
WP6 will ensure the translation of
the main dissemination materials in
the various languages spoken by
EAGLE partners. The support
action will be greatly aided by the
fact that the co-ordinator has a
long-standing working relationship
with the content providers,
spanning many years.
WP1 will ensure the liaison
between the partners and will
clarify
the
management,
administrative
and
financial
procedures to all participants. In
particular it will support the
partners during the financial
reporting phases.
IPR issues have been cleared for
more than 99% of provided
content. The remaining part
consists of minor subsections of the
partners holdings, which will be
cleared in the course of the project.
Some partners are institutions with
limited technical capacity and
know-how, but for all partners it
holds true that EAGLE challenges
them to attain a high level of
technical expertise within the
project timeframe and to be able to
apply it in practice as well. One of
the aim of WP2 is to reach the
same level of expertise within the
BPN through networking and
consensus
building
activities.
Dedicated
tutorial
sessions
(supported by the technical
partners) will be organized in
connection with other EAGLE
events (workshops, conferences,
meetings, etc).
The EAGLE infrastructure has
been designed for extremely low
long-term
maintenance
costs.
Given the lightweight nature of the
holdings, and given the everincreasing
performance
of
commodity hardware and ISP
connections, no problems of
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future. Basically, once the archive
and service platform are up, they
will stay up so long as the content
providers, which are all public
institutions, will continue to exist.
The Consortium Agreement will
contain a clause whereby, in case a
partner institution ceased to exist in
the future, the remaining partners
would host the corresponding
EAGLE content. This will avoid
any decrease in the number of
items. Having said this, a business
model for sustaining and further
spreading the use of the EAGLE
platform will be investigated and
detailed in the Business Case and
Exploitation Plan.
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B2.1b. Underlying content
B2.1b.1 EAGLE Content
EAGLE partner institutions are going to add an important and vast collection of ancient writings on ancient
artefacts to Europeana. The identified content has been provided only for a very small amount (30000 items that
are going to be provided through the European project Linked Heritage) to Europeana, where the sources
relevant for the history of Europe until the XIV century are underrepresented if not completely lacking, and will
therefore fill a significant gap in its collections.
The content that the EAGLE partners will provide has been chosen with the two-fold criterion of historicalcultural significance and strong thematic unity. This will allow users to take advantage of a guaranteed highquality and unified repository consisting of all the inscribed material relevant to the ancient history of Europe
and of the Mediterranean basin.
EAGLE will enrich Europeana with a great variety of inscriptions written in Greek, Latin and other ancient
languages, providing scholars with an authoritative resource to verify the reliability of historical
reconstructions, and the broad public with a way to understand interesting and curious inscriptions,
geographically dispersed, only apparently difficult to appreciate. EAGLE wants to become a European
Information Space for this particular kind of historical record: made by experts and for experts, it will make
accessible a wide range of information even to non experts, surmounting the barriers represented by ancient
languages, and democratising access to culture and knowledge. This aggregator of content will give both
learned and common users the chance to improve their knowledge of the ancient world: in fact, EAGLE
collections span not only relevant historical events and characters, but also the daily life, made of funerary and
religious practice, prices of food, production and commerce, feelings and mentality. The ancient roots of the
European culture will be, in this way, made accessible and, at the same time, defended by the risks of thefts,
collapses, war events, and the simple time passing, that put at risk the preservation of these important
documents of our history.
Inscribed monuments include authentic masterpieces of ancient architecture such as – only to cite a few
examples among the many possible – the Pantheon and the Trajan Column in Rome, the aqueduct of Segovia in
Spain, the Maison Carré of Nîmes in France, or the ancient Christian basilicas in Rome, Aquileia and so on.
Inscriptions are present also on famous works of ancient scuplture, such as the bronze statue called “the
Ellenistic prince”, a marble statue of a Dacian prisoner coming from the Trajan Forum, as well as many ivory
diptychs and beautifully carved sarcophagi.
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Inscriptions were also often used to publicly display laws: examples like the bronze tables of the lex de imperio
Vespasiani or the large number of municipal laws in Spain are not only priceless historical documents, but also
real milestones of ancient Roman law -- on which modern law, in Europe and in most of the Western world, is
largely based.
Thanks to EAGLE, all these materials will be provided for the first time to Europeana.
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Content-providing partners will aggregate almost one and a half million images and texts in digital form. This
has to be considered a critical mass, since it comprises the vast majority of all inscribed material known at
present, coming from the wide geographical area of the classical world, corresponding to a large portion of
modern Europe, and including also the countries of the Southern and Eastern coasts of the Mediterranean basin
from Morocco to Turkey.
The content provided by EAGLE matches the current strategy of Europeana of moving from quantity to quality.
This is because the national institutions participating in the project, thanks to their authoritative and
comprehensive knowledge of the provided materials, are in the best conditions to make EAGLE a trusted
source for cultural heritage. Moreover, the high-quality content provided, often checked directly against the
originals, will always be available for further amendments, both by heritage professionels and by “common”
users. The large set of metadata that enrich the digital images (photographs, drawings, scanned notes,
manuscripts and archive material, ancient books out of copyright) includes the important semantic enrichment
given by geographic information, provided in close collaboration with the Pleiades project of a digital Atlas of
the ancient world (http://pleiades.stoa.org), operated by the New York University’s Institute for the Study of the
Ancient World (see Letter of Support, Annex 2).
A large number of items is represented by scanned pages of ancient books, dating form the XVI to the XIX
century, preserved in different European libraries and collecting the inscribed monuments known at that time.
These books, along with the epigraphic manuscripts drawn during the Renaissance, are particularly important,
since they are in many cases our only source of knowledge about many documents, as they include texts and
drawings of thousands of inscriptions, many of which are now partially or completely lost.
The mass of content accessible via Europeana will also be indirectly increased by linking the EAGLE content to
other external epigraphic and photographic repositories, such as, for example, the U.S. Epigraphy project
(http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/index.html) (see Letter of Support, Annex 3), the Census database of ancient
works known to the Renaissance (http://www.census.de/census), the Searchable Greek Inscriptions funded by
the Packard Humanities Institute (http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/) and the Archivium Corporis
Electronicum of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (http://cil.bbaw.de/dateien/datenbank.php) (see Letter of
Support, Annex 4).
Partner
UNIROMA1
Overview of content provided
EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma), an online, freely accessible, database (www.edredr.it), hosted by Digilab – Mediateca delle Scienze Umanistiche at Sapienza
University of Rome, is going to provide all the about 60.000 Greek, Latin and
bilingual inscriptions, from the VII century B.C. to the VII century C.E., discovered
in the area of ancient Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia. EDR plays an important
role in EAGLE, since – for a limited number of items – has been already recognized
as Content provider of Europeana, within the Linked Heritage project.
UNIBA
EDB (Epigraphic Database Bari), an online, freely accessible, database
(http://www.edb.uniba.it), hosted by the University of Bari Aldo Moro, is going to
include all the 45.000 Christian inscriptions of Rome until the end of the VII century
C.E., recording texts in Greek, Latin, ancient Hebrew and old English.
EDH (Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg), hosted by the University of Heidelberg
and sponsored by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, includes three online, freely
accessible databases: Epigraphic, Photographic and Bibliographic (http://www.uniheidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/index.html). They all are focused on the
Greek, Latin and bilingual inscriptions (including Punic texts) from the former
provinces of the Roman Empire. UHEI will play a leading role for the whole project
in the field of georeferred metadata, hosting a Geographic Database of Ancient
Places in cooperation with the Pleiades Project sponsored by the Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World of the New York University.
UHEI will also provide 3000 photographs of Greek and Byzantine inscriptions of
UHEI
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Aphrodisias made available by the King’s College London (see Letter of Support,
Annex 5).
UOXF
The Oxford University will provide the content of ‘Last Statues of Antiquity’, a
1.500 entries catalogue entries of the Greek and Latin inscriptions for statues - many
with digitized accompanying photographs - set up all over the empire from AD 284
onwards.
UAH
HE (Hispania Epigraphica Online), an online freely accessible database
(http://www.eda-bea.es) hosted by the University of Alcalà de Henares, includes all
the ancient (Greek, Latin and Palaeohispanic) inscriptions from the Roman
provinces of the Hiberic peninsula, corresponding to the modern countries of
Portugal and Spain.With the cooperation of the Archivo Epigrafico de Hispania,
about 235.000 digital items related to these epigraphic texts will be provided,
including photos, file cards and scholarly notes, drawings from manuscripts.
CHC (Research Group for Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Computing), hosted
by the University of Salzburg, will provide in total 51.000 photographs of Roman
stone monuments and inscriptions, including 50.000 object photos of the UBI ERAT
LUPA database (http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/platform_e.shtml), and 1000 scientific
images concerning the archaeometric provenancing of the objects.
PLUS
UBB
The Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca will provide about 4000 digital images
of Greek and Roman inscriptions from the Roman province of Dacia and from
Drobogea.
ELTE
The University of Budapest will contribute with 1500 images of the stone
monuments found in the excavations of the Roman town of Brigetio.
UNIPU
The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula will provide 2000 images (photographs and
drawings) of the Latin inscriptions from the ancient Roman towns of Colonia Iulia
Pola and Colonia Iulia Parentium and their territory.
ZRC SAZU
ZRCEpigr. (Epigraphic Archives of Slovenia), hosted by the Institute of Archaology
of Ljubljana, will provide about 400 images (photographs, drawings and maps) of
the Latin inscribed monuments from Emona - the most eastern city of ancient Italy and its territory.
The Institut Ausonius - CNRS - University of Bordeaux 3 will contribute with its
archive of 5000 images of Greek and Latin inscriptions from France, Spain, Tunisia,
Turkey, Russia, Ukraine.
The Deutsches Archäologisches Institut will contribute with its archive of 1.000.000
images (photographs, itchings, drawings, scans of ancient books and the old volumes
of the CIL) of Greek and Latin inscriptions, ancient monuments with inscriptions,
sites where inscriptions were found from the whole Mediterranean and the NorthWestern provinces of the Roman Empire.
The Cyprus Institute will contribute with epigraphic inscriptions, translations,
comments and images of ancient cypriot literature and archaeology.
The British School at Rome will contribute with photographs of Greek and Latin
inscriptions from Libya (Cyrenaica and Tripolitania) and South Etruria (Italy)
AUSONIUS
DAI
CYI
BSR
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Table on underlying content
Quantity and Quality of the Content
Provider1
Quantity and Subject
type2
matter (topic
or theme that
content
is
about).
Sapienza
60.000 images Greek, Latin
University
of (photographs
and bilingual
Rome
and drawings) inscriptions
(UNIROMA1) /
from ancient
Epigraphic
Italy,
Database Roma
including
(EDR)
Sicily
and
Sardinia
Language
Format3
Existing Metadata4
IPR
Greek,
Latin,
Etruscan,
ancient
Hebrew
jpg and (to
be added)
pdf
rich metadata set (including
archaological and geographical
information, bibliography, text),
partly already available, partly to
be added, at the moment in html
format, to be moved into xml
Languages: Italian/Latin/to be
added: English
University
of
Bari (UNIBA) /
Epigraphic
Database Bari
(EDB)
45.000 images
(photographs
and drawings)
Christian
inscriptions of
Rome
Greek,
Latin,
Jewish,
Old
English
ipg and pdf
(to
be
added)
rich metadata set (including
archaological and geographical
information, bibliography, text),
partly already available, partly to
be added, at the moment in html
format, moving into xml.
Languages: Italian/Latin/to be
added: English
University
of
Heidelberg
/
Epigraphische
Datenbank
Heidelberg
(UHEI)
65.000 images
(mostly
photographs,
but
also
drawings and
manuscipts)
3000 images
(photographs)
made
available by
the
King’s
College
London
1.500
Greek, Latin,
Punic
and
Iberic
inscriptions
from
the
former Roman
provinces
Greek
and
Byzantine
inscriptions of
Aphrodisias
Greek,
Latin,
Punic,
Iberic
tiff
(average
resolution:
1400
x
2000 pixel)
and jpg
metadata available in html format
(to be moved into xml).
Languages: German/English
The Greek and
Greek
jpg
html.
Oxford
&
1
General
agreement
with
the
Ministero dei
Beni e delle
Attività
Culturali
valid for all
the
inscriptions
belonging to
the
Italian
State
for
provision of
content
to
Europeana.
General
agreement
with
Pontifical
Commission
of
Sacred
Archaeology,
(Vatican
State) valid
for all the
inscriptions
in its own
availability
(cf.
Italian
law n. 121 del
25/03/1985,
art.
12,
comma 2) for
provision of
content
to
Europeana
photographs
completely
publicly
visible
as
thumbnails,
available
where rights
for
onlinepublication
confered to
EDH by the
IPR
Agreement
Short name of the participant who provides the content
E.g. 1000 books, 5000 audio files, 500 photographs
3
E.g. Format of content [digital (file format, resolution etc) / objective 2.3: to be digitised (paper, photographic prints/slides
etc.)]
4
Is metadata available and, if so, in which format/standard/language.
2
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University
(UOXF) / ‘Last
Statues
of
Antiquity’
(LSA)
catalogue
entries, many
with digitized
accompanying
photographs
Latin
inscriptions
for statues set
up all over the
empire from
AD
284
onwards
Latin. All
also with
English
translations
University od
Alcalà (UAH) /
Hispania
Epigraphica
Online (HE)
235000
objects,
including c.
200000 file
cards
with
data; 10000
papers,
pictures,
scholarly
notes,
and
unpublished
material from
Mss; 25000
digital records
and pictures
51.000 digital
items,
including
50.000 object
photos of the
Ubi erat lupa
digital
archive, and
1000
scientific
images
concerning
the
archaeometric
provenancing
of the objects
scheduled to
be added
4000 images
(photographs
and drawings)
Greek, Latin
Palaeohispanic
inscriptions
from Portugal
and Spain
Latín,
Greek,
Iberian,
several
Celtic
dialects.
TIFF,JEPG,
PDF
and
text
Full Metadata and a RDF-Liked
data server with geographic and
other related information. A TEI
data description schema for the
rest.. Metadata description /label
languages: Spanish, /English (the
Portuguese version is on the
works).
Roman stone
monuments
and
inscriptions
Greek,
Latin
images
provided in
jpg,
originally
stored
in
tiff
Metadata in the required standard
will be provided via a “Media
Center
Interface”.
Languages: German/English
Greek
and
Latin
inscriptions
from
Dacia
and Drobogea
Latin
inscriptions
from Brigetio
Greek and
Latin
ipg, tiff, pdf
none; to be added according to the
standards of EDH
Latin
jpg and pdf
standards of EDH
Eötvös
Loránd
University of
Budapest
Latin
inscriptions
from Colonia
Iulia Pola and
Colonia Iulia
Parentium and
their territory
Latin
jpg and pdf
standards of EDR
Latin
inscribed
monuments
from Emona
Latin
jpg and pdf
none; to be added according the
standards of EDR
Agreements
with
the
involved
museums
(Pula, Porec,
Rovinj,Umag,
Novigrad) for
provision of
content
to
Europeana
Agreement
with
the
National
Museum of
University
of
Salzburg
(PLUS)
/
Research Group
for
Archaometry
and
Cultural
Heritage
Computing
(CHC)
Babes-Bolyai
University
of
Cluj
Napoca
(UBB)
Eötvös Loránd
University
of
Budapest
(ELTE)
Juraj
Dobrila
University
of
Pula (UNIPU)
ca.
1500
images
(photographs
and drawings
of
Roman
inscriptions)
2000 images
(photographs
and drawings)
Epigraphic
Archives
Slovenia,
Institute
400 images
(photographs,
drawings,
maps)
of
of
All discursive material in English
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obtained
where
necessary for
provision of
content
to
Europeana.
Much of the
material is the
project’s own
IPR property,
except
for
some
historical
documents in
National
Library and
other
Archives.
Ubi erat lupa
has the right
to display all
the photos of
the database
via internet:
every photo
comes with a
copyright
notice, that is
valid
for
inquiries for
high
resolution
images
needed
in
printed
publications.
Most of the
content
is
publicly
available
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and
territory
Institut
Ausonius
University of
Bordeaux 3 CNRS
(AUSONIUS)
5000 images
(photographs
and drawings)
Deutsches
Archäologisches
Institut (DAI)
1.000.000
images
(photographs,
itchings,
drawings,
scans
of
ancient books
and the old
volumes
of
the CIL)
its
Greek
and
Latin
inscriptions
from France,
Spain,
Tunisia,
Turkey,
Russia,
Ukraine
Greek
and
Latin
inscriptions,
ancient
monuments
with
inscriptions,
sites
where
inscriptions
were
found
from
the
whole
Mediterranean
and the NorthWestern
provinces of
the
Roman
Empire
Greek and
Latin
jpg and pdf
Metadata to be moved into xml
standard. Languages: French,
Spanish, English, Russian
Greek and
Latin
Images in
.tiff
and
.jpg,
metadata
In order to guarantee highest data
interoperability
the
Arachne
database provides all its data
mapped to several metadata
formats, based on the OAI PMH
(Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting) standard
interface. The interface protocol
consists of 6 different request
verbs, each delivering specific
information:
Identify
ListMetadataFormats
ListSets
ListRecords
ListIdentifiers
GetRecord
Arachne data represented in
Dublin Core
Dublin Core is the agreed minimal
standard convention of any OAI
PMH interface, describing data
with a reduced set of terms. While
on the one hand this means loosing
most of the semantic information
within the data, the simplicity of
this metadata format on the other
hand results in a huge amount of
repositories as well as harvesters
all around the world.
Arachne OAI PMH CidocCRM
In order to preserve the semantic
information within one database
object and its context to related
database objects (such as places,
dates or pictures and vice versa),
the Arachne OAI PMH interface
delivers data request mapped to
Cidoc CRM. This metadata
standard can express relations
between information given to one
object, allowing to set these in
context to another by nesting
statements. For semantic reasons
relationships are expressed by
referring identifier since this
allows dedicated request of all
relatives.
Right now, out of 33 content
relevant database categories with
approx. 1150 fields there are 23
mapped into Dublin Core and 17
mapped into Cidoc CRM.
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Slovenia for
provision of
content
to
Europeana
The content is
publicly
available or
belongs
to
participants
in the projcets
(scholars of
Ausonius)
The content is
online
available in
the database
Arachne. The
DAI is the
owner of ca.
60 % of the
scans, others
belong to the
CodArchLab
or are free
available as
the
ancient
books. The
photos come
with
a
copyright
notice that is
valid
for
inquiries for
high
resolution
images
needed
in
printed
publications.
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Arachne OAI PMH Raw XML
data
Arachne delivers request results
also as raw XML data, reflecting
the actual storage of an object
within the database. While we
limited the Cidoc CRM statement
about the relationship between the
requested object and other stored
objects to the identifier for
semantic reasons, this raw XML
output shows all information of
the relativs, nested as children.
The
Cyprus
Institute (CYI)
442 images
(photographs)
British School
at Rome (BSR)
1356 images
(photographs)
Ancient
Cypriot
Literature;
Cypriot
Archaeology
Greek
and
Latin
inscriptions
from
Libya
(Cyrenaica
and
Tripolitania)
and
South
Etruria, Italy
Ancient
Greek;
Latin;
Modern
Greek
Greek and
Latin
JPG
Proprietary (STARC metadata);
.xml. English
The Cyprus
Institute;
Creative
Commons
tiff
Metadata in xml, METS encoding
standard (only for Cyrenaica and
South Etruria)
Metadata in XML for Tripolitania
(to be provided by EAGLE taken
from King’s College, London)
IPR belongs
to BSR
Note: All beneficiaries submitting metadata to Europeana shall do so pursuant to the Europeana Data Exchange
Agreement (hereinafter 'DEA'). Metadata submitted to Europeana shall be released as Open Data in accordance
with the terms of the DEA. This requires that the IPR status of the digital objects thus made accessible is
described by appropriate rights labels attached to them to allow users to know what uses they are allowed to
make of the object. Such objects shall be labelled in accordance with the 'Europeana Rights Guidelines'
available at http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/technical-requirements.
B2.1b.2 IPR issues
Most of the EAGLE content providers have already solved IPR issues:
a) the whole EAGLE consortium has a general permission of the Italian Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività
Culturali to put on line all the images (downloadable at low definition) of the ancient inscriptions
belonging to the Italian State;
b) EDB has a general agreement with Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology (Vatican State), valid
for all the inscriptions in its own availability (cf. Italian law n. 121 del 25/03/1985, art. 12, comma 2),
that will be soon extended to EDR;
c) EDH photographs are completely publicly visible as thumbnails, but available only where rights for
online-publication has been conferred to EDH by the IPR owner;
d) much of the material of “Last Statues of Antiquity” is the project’s own. Agreement has been obtained
where necessary.
e) Hispania Epigraphica Online material has IPR property, except for some historical documents in
National Library and other Archives;
f) the UBI ERAT LUPA database has the right to display all the photos via internet, with a copyright
notice that is valid for inquiries for high resolution images needed in printed publications;
g) Most of the images of the Dacian inscriptions provided by the University of Cluj Napoca are publicly
available;
h) the University of Budapest owns the rights of the images of the monuments from Brigetio;
i) the University of Pula is going to sign special agreements with the main museums involved (Pula,
Porec, Rovinj, Novigrad, Umag);
j) ZRC-Ljubljana has an agreement with the National Museum of Slovenia;
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k) the content provided by the Institut Ausonius of the University of Bordeaux 3 is publicly available or
belongs to participants in the project (scholars of Ausonius).
l) DAI is the owner of ca. 60 % of the scans, others belong to the CodArchLab or are free available as the
ancient books.
m) the content provided by the Cyprus Institute is owned by the Institute and provided with a CC license.
n) IPRs of the content provided by the British School at Rome belongs to BSR.
B2.1b.3 Multilingual and/or multicultural aspects
The multilingual and multicultural aspects of the EAGLE content, including ancient texts and ancient artifacts
produced by different ancient civilizations, using different ancient languages and alphabets (Latin, Greek,
Punic, Hiberic, ancient Hebrew, old English) increase the relevance of the project. On the other hand, its
usefulness is ensured by the aim of making this multilingual and multicultural content accessible through a
single portal leading to metadata written in different modern languages, and including at least an English
translation of the most relevant texts. To this end, a dedicated multilingual wiki platform will be created (WP2),
so as to dispose, even after the end of the project, of an easy-to-use infrastructure for further future translations
by specialists in other European languages.
B2.1b.4 Bibliography
History of the EAGLE
edr.it/Italiano/Documenti_it.php.
project
until
2008:
Documents
collected
in
http://www.edr-
In general: F. FERAUDI-GRUÉNAIS, Latin on Stone: Epigraphy and Databases, in Latin on Stone: epigraphic
research and electronic archives, ed. by F. Feraudi-Gruénais, Lanham, Maryland 2010, pp. 1-19; An Inventory
of the Main Electronic Archives of Latin Inscriptions, ibid., pp. 157-160.
A. FELLE, Esperienze diverse e complementari nel trattamento digitale delle fonti epigrafiche: il caso di
EAGLE ed EpiDoc, in Diritto romano e scienze antichistiche nell’era digitale. Convegno di studio (Firenze, 1213 settembre 2011), Torino 2011, pp. 47-54.
About EDR: S. EVANGELISTI, EDR: History, Purpose, and Structure, in Latin on Stone: epigraphic research
and electronic archives, ed. by F. Feraudi-Gruénais, Lanham, Maryland 2010, pp. 119-134.
G. TOZZI, Bilingual Inscriptions of Rome and their Digital Edition in EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma) poster presentato al 143° Annual Meeting dell'American Philological Association (5-8 gennaio 2012,
Philadelphia, PA).
About EDB: A. FELLE, La documentazione epigrafica della catacomba di Domitilla a Roma alla luce
dell'Epigraphic Database Bari (http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/html/webposters/30_Felle.pdf).
Further studies and developements:
G. BODARD, EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange, in Latin on Stone:
epigraphic research and electronic archives, ed. by F. Feraudi-Gruénais, Lanham, Maryland 2010, pp. 101117.
F. L. ÁLVAREZ GARCÍA – E. GARCÍA-BARRIOCANAL – J. L. GÓMEZ-PANTOJA, Sharing Epigraphic Information
as linked data EPIDOC, in Metadata and Semantic Research. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
MTSR 2010 (Alcalà de Henares, October 2010), Berlin – New York 2010, pp. 223-234
(http://uah.academia.edu/FernandoLAlvarezGarcia/Papers).
For the broad public:
C. CARLETTI, Le antiche iscrizioni sulle ali di un’aquila, in L’Osservatore Romano, 6 novembre 2008, p. 5.
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F. GHEDINI – M. VERZAR - C. ZACCARIA, I progetti di schedatura informatizzata, in Forma Urbis, XV, 12,
Dicembre 2010 (monograpic volume about Aquileia), pp. 39-42.
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B2.2. Long-term viability
Defining and providing solutions for the long-term viability of Europeana collections is, in general, a difficult
task, since the landscape of online content consumption is mutating very rapidly. The momentous evolution of
platforms, standards and technologies shapes new user habits and expectations, and this in turn makes it risky to
commit significant resources to long-term strategies. Moreover, a general reluctance of users to pay for access
to content is well documented by market studies. This is why the project comprises several steps, which will be
undertaken to assess the potential markets for EAGLE content and thus identify the best strategies for ensuring
sustainability. These steps are described in the following paragraphs.
Having highlighted the above difficulties that tend to hamper exploitation, we must also notice that the
sustainability of the EAGLE platform beyond the duration of the EC project is greatly facilitated by several
factors. These are:
 the fact that EAGLE brings together the most prominent European institutions, research centers and
archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, whose core activity already includes the
digitisation and preservation of epigraphic content;
 the fact that, to strengthen the sustainability of the project, EAGLE aims to foster access to epigraphic
content also to large target segments of the general public (schools and tourists) by means of the Mobile
and Storytelling Flagship Applications -- in Europe, high school and university students of history and
classic literature are in the millions, whilst tourists visiting ancient Greek and Roman sites can be
estimated to be tens of millions every year; depending critically on the penetration rate that the above
Apps manage to achieve, this could provide a useful revenue stream for the EAGLE Consortium after
the project is over (see B2.2.1);
 the fact that EAGLE content is very lightweight, therefore deteriming minimal hardware requirements
for the necessary IT infrastructure, as well as for the Mobile Application, and ease of scaleability
should the expected number of users increase;
 the fact that the EAGLE IT infrastructure has been designed for minimal maintenance needs (basically
once EAGLE is up, it stays up);
 the fact that EAGLE will deliver already approximately 80% of the total amount of inscriptions in the
Mediterranean area – thus implying little future increase in terms of the size of its collections;
 the fact that EAGLE, like other Europeana sister projects, is a distributed platform, thus resilient to one
or more partners defaulting, to the point that the whole of EAGLE could even be hosted by a single
partner;
 the fact that most content providers are large, well-established publicly-funded bodies, therefore
unlikely to disappear in the future;
 the fact that tools and interfaces developed for the Mobile App could be fruitfully employed in
museums and in other tourist sites where inscriptions feature prominently (runic, Maya, etc.); this opens
up the possibility of licensing to these sites the use of the service platform developed for EAGLE as a
further measure towards sustainability;
 the fact that, as a future extension, new applications can be explored in the field e.g. of GIS to
strengthen the relationships with the cultural tourism sector.
The above factors -which we have always born in mind since the conceivement of the project- indicate that it is
possible, and indeed very likely, to keep the EAGLE services running in the long term even in the absence of a
successful, profit-making exploitation activity. The cost recovery model described in B2.2.3 aims at finding
alternative strategies within this less desirable scenario.
B2.2.1 The Business Case and Exploitation Plan
The Business Case (WP5) rests on the notion that the Flagship Mobile and Storytelling Applications, given a
sufficiently wide uptake, could intercept a significant number of students and tourists around Europe.
Depending on their entity, these numbers could sustain a market of targeted advertising via banners in the GUI.
This constitutes the basis for the Business Case and Exploitation Plan (WP5 deliverable), which, whilst
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outlining the organisation, the process, roles, costs and finance model for the above advertising activity, will
also assess other options for sustainability, such as:
 possible licensing to museums and other tourist sites (even outside the EU) of the service platform
developed for the Mobile App;
 possible licensing of content for the media industry
 possible new uses of EAGLE content in the field of GIS.
The Plan will include information on the success factors and performance indicators and financial forecasts
after the project duration. The business model canvas by Osterwalder and Pigneur, which has become a popular
reference point in the heritage domain, will be used as a starting point.
Given the limited resources that EC projects are allowed to invest in dissemination and publicity, forecasting at
this stage reliable figures for the mass uptake of the Mobile and Storytelling Applications in the schools and in
the tourist market is simply not possible. This is why it makes sense to draft the Business Case and Exploitation
Plan only when actual figures about the impact of EAGLE in the various target user communities become
available, i.e. towards the end of the project. A best-case and a worst-case scenario will be considered for this,
with the likely outcome falling between the two.
B2.2.2 Legal aspects
The exploitation plan will investigate the need to make EAGLE a legal entity in order to ensure the necessary
activities for the maintenance of the project results. The implications of the chosen legal entity form and of its
chosen fiscal domicile in terms of expected revenues and of other cost recovery options will be examined.
B2.2.3 Cost recovery model for maintenance and service costs
The EAGLE results will consist of:
1. the agreed standards and best practices,
2. a user community with support functions,
3. a services infrastructure,
4. data curation tools and
5. portal facilities.
The Exploitation Plan will indicate the maintenance and service costs (hosting of servers and applications;
storage and backup; software maintenance, support and help wiki) and formulate provisions to ensure that these
costs will be covered in the future, after the project lifetime. To this end a cost recovery model will be devised.
B2.2.4 Operational model
To effect the Exploitation Plan, an EAGLE steering committee will be formed, comprising members from all
the Consortium partners. The steering committee will take charge of implementing the organisational model,
including the budgeting and fee-raising aspects.
Three main actors are foreseen for the service organisation:
 General service manager (incl. IT maintenance and updating)
 Data providers
 Advertising accountancy and payment of related revenues (only if the Business Case is implemented)
B2.2.5 Exploitation and culture
Finally, we would like to point out what is an objective truth: namely, that for culture the case for profitable
exploitation cannot always be made. In fact, many activities and disciplines that our society deems culturally
significant are simply not profitable in today’s economy. Opera is a perfect case in point: if our society wants to
keep opera stagings as they have always been conceived (i.e. with dozens of actors and musicians playing live,
with large sets, in venues that can hold no more than O(10^3) viewers), it must be accepted that opera has to be
publicly subsidised, at a financial loss for the state.
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We should bear this in mind whilst we realistically assess the commercial potential of EC projects. In the case
of EAGLE, whilst we will undertake every effort towards making the project commercially successful, we think
it’s more sensible to be realistic and recognise that -especially given the very limited budget that we are allowed
to allocate to publicity (i.e. to Dissemination)- the chances of its successful commercial exploitation are slim.
This is why, having noted the very lightweight nature of the EAGLE IT infrastructure, we think it’s much more
realistic to base its future sustainability on a cost-recovery model that seeks to absorb the minimal maintenance
costs of EAGLE within the much larger annual expenditures of some of our public partners.
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B.2.3. Wider deployment and use
B2.3.1 Target users
Target user
description
Cultural
tourists
Needs
Want to know
meaning and
context of
inscriptions in
Latin or Greek
they meet
when
sightseeing
How EAGLE
addresses their needs
The Flagship Mobile
Application will allow
access at item level to
the comprehensive
EAGLE collection of
images, texts and
translations, as well as
to selected flagship
content which will be
specially prepared for
the App, enabling users
to automatically identify
a given inscription and
access its translation.
Database curation and
enrichment will be
provided through an
admixture of EAGLEproduced translations
and a supervised wiki
which will allow the
addition of further usergenerated translations.
Local
inhabitants
High school
Involvement & role
Everyone will be able to
download the application
for free on their mobile
devices.
Appropriate cross-linking
to the download URL will
be posted on the relevant
user groups, social
networks, specialist
mailing lists, bulletin
boards, as well as
encouraged for inclusion
on institutional websites.
Integration of EAGLE
with Wikipedia will allow
tremendous ease of access
to EAGLE for the tourist
looking for info ahead of
her/his trip.
Tourists from all
over the world
Sites/inscriptions
in Italy, France,
Spain, Portugal,
Germany,
Belgium, UK,
Greece, Bulgaria,
Romania, Cyprus,
Turkey, Russia,
Ukraine, Syria,
Lebanon, Israel,
Egypt, Libya,
Tunisia, Algeria,
Morocco
This will also have the
non-negligible effect of
boosting the PageRank of
the EAGLE Portal, which
will thus feature more
prominently in related
Google searches.
Want to know
meaning of
inscriptions in
their city or
region
Same as cultural tourists
Additionally, contacts are
under way with a number
of Museums for a pilot
deployment of the
Flagship App through
their website and possible
further (=post-EAGLE)
integration of the App
with access to their
collections.
Same as cultural tourists
Want to be
Teachers will be able to
As a useful by-product,
inhabitants will be able to
relate to their shared past,
thus strengthening their
shared cultural identity
Appropriate cross-linking
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Country coverage
Sites/inscriptions
as above
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High school
teachers
High school
pupils
University
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archaeology
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able to directly
access
significant
historical
sources at item
level
(=individual
inscriptions)
for their
explanations
during classes,
for
completeness
and more
compelling
lessons
During school
trips, want to
be able to
ground their
history
explanations in
real-world
examples from
the sites being
visited, for
more
compelling
lessons
Want exciting
and interesting
classes and
possibilities to
directly access
content/histori
cal sources
with rich
contextual info
Want to be
able to directly
access
significant
historical
do so through the
EAGLE Portal, which
will also offer
comprehensive search
facilities.
The Storytelling App
will provide further
narratives by experts
which can be exploited
by teachers for
preparing their lectures.
Flagship Mobile
Application (see cultural
tourists).
to the EAGLE Portal will
be posted on the relevant
user groups, social
networks, specialist
mailing lists, bulletin
boards, as well as
encouraged on
institutional websites.
Sites/inscriptions
as above
Integration of EAGLE
with Wikipedia will allow
tremendous ease of access
to EAGLE for the teacher
looking for info whilst
preparing lessons.
The last two initiatives
will also have the nonnegligible effect of
boosting the PageRank of
the EAGLE Portal, which
will thus feature more
prominently in related
Google searches.
Same as high school
teachers.
Entire EU
Sites/inscriptions
as above
Storytelling App (see
high school teachers).
EAGLE will empower
teachers with a useful
tool for more
compelling and
interactive lectures.
Same as high school
teachers.
Entire EU
Sites/inscriptions
as above
The EAGLE Services
Portal will provide
pupils with inscription
translations.
The EAGLE Portal will
offer access at item level
to the comprehensive
EAGLE database of
images, texts and
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Same as high school
teachers.
Entire EU
Sites/inscriptions
Most EAGLE Partners are as above
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sources for
their
explanations
during classes,
for
completeness
and more
compelling
lessons
University
teachers classics,
history,
archaeology
University
students classics,
history,
archaeology
University
students classics,
history,
archaeology
Epigraphy,
history,
archaeology
scholars
Want to enable
students to
directly access
and compare
epigraphic
historical
sources for
their essays
and research
Want to be
able to directly
access and
compare
epigraphic
historical
sources for
their essays
and research
Want to be
able to access
and compare
translations,
interpretations
and
commentaries
related to
inscriptions thus gaining
hermeneutical
practice/experi
ence by
example
Want to be
able to directly
access and
compare
epigraphic
historical
sources for
their research
translations, which will
institutions, which will
comprise also full search greatly facilitate the
facilities.
adoption of EAGLE
within their communities,
The admixture of
as well as in sister
EAGLE-produced
institutions.
translations and of the
supervised translation
Dissemination within
wiki, combined with the relevant journals and
Storytelling App, will
conferences will also be
foster fruitful exchange
pursued.
and interplay of ideas.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
The EAGLE IT
infrastructure will be
built on open standards,
thus allowing
technically-versed users
to apply or develop
further software tools
useful for scholars, such
as tools for text
collation, frequency
analysis, sequence
matching, etc.
Ditto
Ditto.
Ditto.
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Want to be
able to
contribute and
make use of an
IT platform for
providing,
sharing and
collectively
editing
contextual and
hermeneutical
information
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Epigraphy scholars will
also have super-user
privileges for
authoritative editing of
wiki entries by other
users.
B2.3.2 The Flagship Mobile Application
Imagine the following scenario. A tourist is visiting Pisa, and in “Piazza dei Miracoli” (the cathedral square,
with the famous Leaning Tower) is struck by an inscription on one of the walls of the cathedral. She wonders
why it is there, and what could it say, so she takes a picture with her smartphone and sends it to the EAGLE
portal. In a few seconds she receives back the translation of the inscription, and a brief description which
explains that the marble stone is coming from the town of Ostia, near Rome, a summer resort for wealthy
families in Roman times, with many villas and mansions. It becomes now clear that in 1100 A.D., (the time
when the Pisa cathedral was built), being Pisa a powerful maritime republic, it was cheaper to take marble
stones from ruined Roman villas in Ostia and carry them to Pisa by ships, rather than getting them from the real
marble quarries in Carrara, which is less than 60 kilometers away from Pisa.
Other examples of this type can be found in Rome, where on the walls of many palaces of noble families appear
stones with Latin inscriptions. The Coliseum was used as a ‘low cost’ marble quarry until mid 1700, when Pope
Benedict XIV declared it a sacred place (because many early Christians had been martyred there) and
prohibited further removal of marble and stones. In this case as well, a tourist visiting Rome and seeing a Latin
inscription on the wall of a palace can send a picture to the EAGLE portal and discover that the inscription is
coming from the Coliseum.
The two examples above illustrate the purpose of the “Flagship Mobile Application”. A picture of an inscription
found somewhere in Europe can be taken with a Smartphone and sent to the EAGLE portal. There the software
will recognize the picture from within a database of selected inscriptions, and will provide all the information
associated with that picture. The application will sort and display information based on content type (e.g.
translation, history, related inscriptions, tourist information) as well as on ‘user level’ (e.g. epigraphy scholar,
interested casual user, tourist, child). The partners providing content will select relevant items within the
EAGLE repository and further enrich them with additional information, which will be provided to ISTI-CNR.
Here, the graphic features of the pictures of the selected inscriptions will be extracted and indexed. Upon
receipt of an image, the application, using sophisticated image recognition technologies (developed and
consolidated at ISTI-CNR), will select from the index the image that with the highest probability matches the
received image, and will provide all the associated information.
The initial application will index a few thousands inscriptions, chosen so as to ensure maximum visibility and
usefulness for the target users – i.e. tourists and the casually interested. Scholars in this field (epigraphy
specialists, historians, archaeologists, etc.) may also find the application interesting when visiting previously
unknown places (cities, museums, archaeological sites), where new inscriptions can be found.
The EAGLE Mobile Application, multilingual and not OS related (i.e. for Android, iPhones and Windows
phones), will be designed and engineered so as to enable the inclusion in the GUI of targeted ads in the form of
banners. This is one of the few realistic perspective for post-project exploitation. The logistics, costs and
finance model of this possible application will be studied in WP5, as part of the exploitation plan.
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B2.3.3 The Flagship Storytelling Application
A very large repository such as that which EAGLE will provide is meaningful insofar as a person accessing it
can easily and fruitfully make use of it. Since different users have different skills and needs, it is important that
the information contained in EAGLE can be accessed and retrieved through a variety of strategies. The two
most trivial ones are keyword searches and browsing. However, less knowledgeable users would benefit greatly
from approaches that take them a bit more by the hand, so to speak. This is because large repositories can all
too easily appear like featureless landscapes to the novice user: a mass of records lacking any meaningful
structure. As a matter of fact, good metadata provides context at the level of the single item, but there is a
definite lack of ‘superstructures’ that might allow one to gain a panoramic view of the field.
This is the gap that the storytelling application was born to fill. The scenario we foresee is that expert users –
chiefly teachers- will assemble epigraphy-based narratives through a dedicated storytelling app, modeled on the
Storify interface ( www.storify.com ). These narratives will work as Ariadne’s threads for the novice user,
providing an introduction to themes and stories that link various apparently-unrelated inscriptions together. For
example, a story could link all the epigraphies related to public works done by one emperor, thereby providing
insights in his way of thinking. Another narrative could explain why so many inscriptions were commissioned
by liberti – former slaves that have been freed – and their peculiar mindset and standing in the social scale of
the Roman world. Apart from such collections of inscriptions there are also single pieces that can tell stories
and that enlighten the past. One of the most striking examples is the cenotaph of Marcus Caelius, a centurion
who came from Bologna and died in the battle of Varus in 9 AD. The stone is not only the only secure
archeological proof for the battle, in which Augustus lost three entire legions, but provides furthermore
information about cultural norms, political and military organization as well as about social structures in the
Roman World in the time of Augustus. The EAGLE portal will allow to get all the information out of it and to
connect them. It therefore helps to understand the past. Narratives like the ones mentioned here as examples for
the App will feature prominently on the EAGLE portal and will be an important asset for the overall
dissemination strategy.
The application will allow the dragging-and-dropping of items not only from the EAGLE webpages, but also
from webpages of other online resources that are relevant to epigraphy, archaeology, history, philology, etc.
Hence, it will work as a general-purpose tool that can be used to provide analogous ‘anthologic’ narratives
based on other repositories, for the benefit of novice historians, archaeologists, etc. In contrast to this, Storify
was conceived for narratives based on social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), i.e. Storify allows the draggingand-dropping of items only from a limited list of social websites – those appearing in the tabs on the right of the
interface. This is one of the reasons why we are foreseeing a dedicated application: we want to be able to pluck
items from discipline-specific repositories, such as EAGLE. Building the app will thus require drawing a list of
‘target repositories’, and then, for each of them, implementing parsing rules for its graphic content, so as to
enable the dragging-and-dropping of items appearing on their pages. The architecture will allow the addition of
further ‘target repositories’ in the future, so as to future-proof the app against the opening of new repositories,
and/or against changes in the interface of existing ones.
The author of one such narrative will be able to decide access and editing privileges for it. That way, a given
narrative can work as a wiki (=accessible and editable by anybody), as a one-to-one lecture, etc. Narratives thus
constructed will be exportable as HTML, PDF, or even just text.
Particular attention will be paid to the design and ergonomics of the app, so as to make it as intuitive and as
easy-to-use as possible.
B2.3.4 Networking, dissemination & awareness activities
The networking activities will be carried out by EAGLE in WP2, which is devoted to consensus building.
Aim of the project is to establish a broader community consisting of both professionals in the epigraphy
domain, and of perspective groups of end-users. Initially, community engagement will focus on existing
relationships between partners and other scholars in the field, as well as on the existing end-users of the partners
(e.g. students, scholars). This will be extended further:
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1. firstly, by organizing and participating in relevant events for stakeholders, archives and institutions to
publicise the project's goals and results and by gathering new contacts;
2. secondly, EAGLE will approach specific target user groups (e.g. school students by age groups) for use
cases to be taken as input for the testing and validation phase planned in WP5.
An Advisory Board will be set-up, whose members will be nominated by the external partners which sign a
Cooperation Agreement to allow them to actively participate to the activities of the project (peer review,
networking activities, testing and validation, etc.).
Three Working Groups are planned to be established:
 the first one on content curation and translation, led by UNIROMA1;
 the second one on content harmonization (including GIS and terminologies), led by UHEI;
 the third one on IPR and user engagement, led by PLUS.
The WP2 leader is UHEI, which will be responsible for orchestrating the overall BPN networking procedures,
supported by UNIROMA1, which will organise the EAGLE workshops and conferences in collaboration with
the hosting partners: ZRC SAZU, CYI, and EUREVA.
A dedicated Work Package,WP6, is responsible for the dissemination & awareness activities.
All partners will be actively contributing to this activity and are committed to share their own contact networks
and to set up promotional and dissemination strategies in its undertaken activities. All dissemination activities
will be conducted under the co-ordination of UNIROMA1, which will ensure the delivery of a consistent
message to the outside world.
A Dissemination and Awareness plan will be prepared during the first months of the project and it will be
reviewed and updated throughout the entire project period to reflect possible refocusing of user-oriented and
exploitation work.
Targeted dissemination (e.g. at the main international conferences), an inscription-themed documentary with a
related teaser video tailored for the Web and the integration of EAGLE collections with Wikipedia are geared
towards maximizing the impact and visibility of EAGLE and scheduled in the Dissemination and Awareness
plan. Direct cooperation with Europeana and other sister projects will be achieved mainly through the
organization of a dedicated Epigraphy Virtual Exhibition, cross-mailings and co-ordination of web activities.
Museums will be also involved in the dissemination activities, in particular those which own important
epigraphic collections (e.g. British Museum, Musei Capitolini), and can be interested in making them virtually
available through the EAGLE platform.
Further details on the dissemination & awareness activities to facilitate wider deployment and use of the results
of the project can be found in section B3.6. Dissemination / Use of Results.
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B3. IMPLEMENTATION
B3.1. Consortium and key personnel
B3.1.1 Consortium as a whole
In order to carry out the planned activities and achieve project objectives, a well-balanced Consortium of
eighteen partners from thirteen different European countries has been formed, including small, medium sized
and larger institutions, each with the following complementary competences and roles:
 Fourteen partners are content providers and all of them are leading European research centres (mostly
universities), with a long tradition of co-operation in the field of digital epigraphy.
 All the content providing partners fulfil an important role in awareness-raising and recruiting new
content providers across Europe and UNIROMA1 is responsible for coordinating these activities.
UNIROMA1 will optimize the chances of uptake of the BPN approach and results by sister-institutions
and strengthen sustainability by inclusion of new content providers.
 The technology partners CNR-ISTI, EUREVA, GOGATE and K.U.LEUVEN are leading players in
the field, with strong connections to relevant European projects, in particular OpenAIRE,
EuropeanaConnect and Europeana itself. CNR-ISTI will set-up the necessary services infrastructure for
the demand-supply chain, connecting Europeana and the EAGLE aggregator. CNR-ISTI has also a
strong expertise in the field of image indexing and recognition, and would provide the underlying
technology, which will be exploited by EUREVA to develop the user interface for the Flagship Mobile
Application. K.U.LEUVEN, with its experience in the portal Trismegistos, will be responsible for the
process of disambiguation, since some of the items are present in more than one repository.
 The strategic partnership with Europeana Foundation (see Letter of Support, Annex 1) will ensure
liaison and concertation with Europeana developments and create synergies in best practice areas such
as content harmonisation, multi-linguality, multi-culturality and semantic interoperability, thereby
enhancing the quality of content discovery. It will support the project as subcontractor in order to:
o harvest, enrich and make available the content;
o give advice on standards and metadata;
o give access to the Europeana Content Checker, Ingestion Service and to EuropeanaLabs;
o ensure participation of the consortium in the Europeana decision and dissemination making
instruments such as the Europeana shared site and the working groups at Europeana and Council of
Content Providers and Aggregators (CCPA).
 The Coordinator UNIROMA1 has a long-time experience of managing EU projects from scientific
and administrative points of view and has a long-standing tradition of organizing conferences and
workshops, promoting several student/researcher exchanges with partners and collaborating institution
over the past 50 years. Prof. Silvia Orlandi, the Project Coordinator of the present proposal, has been
studying for more than twenty years the Latin inscriptions of Rome, and has a long experience in
learning and coordinating people working for the Epigraphic Database Rome, an international
recognised digital archive of all the Italian ancient inscriptions, awarded in 2009 as “research of
excellence” of the Sapienza University of Rome. UNIROMA1 participates to the project with DigiLab,
the newly formed Centre for Research on Digital Arts & Humanities, that pulls together the know-how
and resources of twelve departments from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and from the Facutly of
Engineering (Computer Science). DigiLab personnel have taken part in several FP6 and FP7 European
Projects such as SEWASIE, DELOS, Interop, WORKPAD, SM4All, APARSEN, ECLAP, Linked
Heritage. In this project UNIROMA1 will delegate the technical coordination and quality assurance
tasks to PROMOTER, whose experience in the technical coordination of EU projects relies on the
activities of support and cooperation to several projects in Programmes as diverse as FP5, FP6, FP7,
eTEN, eContent+ and CIP ICT-PSP. The deep knowledge of EU programmes and what they expect
from their consortia is a valuable expertise that PROMOTER will bring to EAGLE, in order to ensure
that it meets the requirements and priorities of the CIP ICT-PSP Programme. PROMOTER will
nominate a Technical Coordinator with the aim of assisting the Project Coordinator in the successful
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management of the project, thus ensuring that EAGLE will meet the requirements and priorities of the
CIP ICT-PSP.
B3.1. 2 Partner Descriptions and key personnel
1. Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy)
With 148000 students and 4500 teachers, the Sapienza University of Rome is one of the 100 most important
universities in the world, the largest in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.
The DigiLab, newly formed Centre for Research on Digital Arts and Humanities, puts together twelve
departments from both the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Faculty of Engineering (Computer Science)
and provides a unique environment for exploring fundamental research and practical applications stemming
from the rich interplay between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Arts, Humanities
& Social Sciences. Research at the DIGILAB comprises interconnected developments in an unusual range of
disciplines, such as arts, humanities, archaeology, anthropology, music, new media, computer science, 2D-3D
design, interactive cinema and television, new forms of storytelling and new approaches to research and
teaching. Our educational approach hinges on the unique combination of learning-by-doing with a solid
theoretical base. Attention to the latest developments in technology and the fostering of teamwork and
collaborative projects are two of the distinctive traits of our institution. DigiLab staff have taken part in a
number of FP6 and FP7 European Projects such as SEWASIE, DELOS, Interop, WORKPAD, SM4All,
APARSEN, ECLAP-The E-Library of Performing Arts, Linked Heritage.
The collection that will be provided by EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma: www.edr-edr.it) is the richest in
metadata digital collections of Italian ancient inscriptions, including at the moment almost 36.000 texts (in
Greek, Latin, ancient Hebrew) and images, and going to collect all the known inscribed material from the
ancient boundaries of Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. Thanks to a form of “crowd sourcing” and to a double level of
validation, most of the content has been carefully checked and ensure a high quality standard.
Key Personnel
Prof. Silvia Orlandi. Associate Professor in Latin Epigraphy at Sapienza University of Roma since 2006,
Silvia Orlandi has studied for about twenty years the inscriptions of the Roman world, in collaboration with the
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma and other institutions. To the epigraphic materials of the Colosseum is
dedicated one of her main research fields, whose results have been published in many articles and books,
dealing not only with the building history of the monument, but also, and above all, with the senatorial
aristocracy in the Late Empire, and, in general, with epigraphy in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. She
studies also the history of epigraphy as a science, and the Renaissance collections of antiquities, with particular
attention to the epigraphic manuscripts by Pirro Ligorio, that have just been published for the first time, within
the general project of the National Edition of his works. In the last years, much of her attention and effort has
been paid to new technologies applied to the epigraphic research: on line databases and publications, digital
drawings and reconstructions, projects using 3Dscanner, and so on.
Prof. Giovanni Ragone. Full Professor of Cultural Strategies and Communication at the University of Rome
“La Sapienza”, he teaches in several institutions and courses. His research interests span four main areas: the
new possibilities of research offered by digital audiovisual tools, social and media studies, theory and practice
of e-learning, marketing and communication strategies.
Dr. Raffaella Santucci. PhD in Digital Technologies Applied to the Arts and Humanities at the University of
Rome "La Sapienza", Raffaella Santucci has won PhD scholarships at both Brown University and La Sapienza.
In the last few years her work was focused on the exploration of the potential of new media technologies for
the enhancement of education and research in the arts and humanities. She is Project Bamboo representative for
Italy with Luca Giberti on behalf of University of California Berkeley and teaches a course at the Language
School of Middlebury College, (VT, USA). She is also in charge of the networking activities of the Eu-funded
project ECLAP - E-Library for the Perfoming Arts.
Dr. Luca Giberti. Director and producer. He has apprenticed with Marco Bellocchio and Abbas Kiarostami
and has been assistant director to Silvio Soldini. His theatre shows have been performed in several venues, from
the Piccolo in Milan to the Edinburgh Fringe, from the Oxford Playhouse to the Teatro Stabile in Genoa. In
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, he shared the directing credit with Bruce Myers from Peter Brook’s
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CIRT and with Raffaella Santucci. He has won prizes as a film director, as a screenwriter, as a
cinematographer. In 2004, he was guest video artist at the Italian Academy of Arts in Rome (Accademia
Nazionale di San Luca). For two years he was also full-time producer/director for the Italian Council for the
Physics of Matter (INFM), in charge of the video output in its entirety – comprising short documentaries and
promos. He has lectured on directing at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at Middlebury College,
Vermont. He originally graduated in Physics at Genoa University and at Oxford University.
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Content provider
Responsible for WP6 (Dissemination and exploitation)
Leader of the WG on content curation and translation (T2.2) and responsible for the organisation of the
EAGLE workshops and conferences in collaboration with the hosting partners (T2.5)
2. Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy)
Founded in October 1924, the University of Bari "Aldo Moro" is presently constituted by 15 Faculties
distributed in three different sites: Bari, Taranto and Brindisi. It is the largest University of the Apulian Region,
counting about 60,000 students, 2,000 professors and 1,500 Administrations. The University of Bari is the chair
of CUM – Consortium of Mediterranean Universities, which was created in 1983 and is recognized by
UNESCO as a supernational organization which includes 158 universities from all the Countries of the
Mediterranean Basin. Furthermore, the University of Bari participates in the Santander Group and CIRCEOS
(Interuniversity Centre for Research and Cooperation with Eastern and South-Eastern Europe), which was
founded in Bari in 2003 with the aim of promoting and strengthening cooperation relations with the universities
of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Always mindful of international education, the University of Bari yearly
welcomes about 250 international-mobility students and favours the participation of over 300 of its own
students to study courses in other European universities. It promotes the implementation of a number of cultural
cooperation agreement and participates in many international research and cooperation projects.
Among them, EDB (Epigraphic Database Bari: www.edb.uniba.it) has the aim to archive in an on line digital
repository all the Christian inscriptions in Rome till the entire VIIth century C. E., a large dossier of 45.000
texts and images, documenting the postclassical European culture, that will be for the fisrt time completely
digitised and made available for everyone.
Key Personnel
Carlo Carletti. Full Professor of Christian Epigraphy and Antiquities since 1980. Since 1970 Carletti studied
epigraphic documents of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Age. He edited about 1000 funerary and devotional
inscriptions, devoting, in more than 100 scientific papers and books, particular attention to different themes and
problems: technical execution and palaeographical aspects; cultural interaction between traditional and
Christian epigraphic praxis; devotional epigraphy connected to pilgrimage; origins of epigraphy “of the
Christians”; historical and cultural elements in monumental inscriptions.
Antonio E. Felle. Associate Professor of Christian and Medieval Archaeology. Since 2006 he teaches Christian
Epigraphy at International Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome. Member of the Editorial Board of
the scientific review Vetera Christianorum. Member of Scientific Committee of Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae
(ICI). “Frei Mitarbeiter” in START Projekt "Die Domitilla-Katakombe in Rom. Archäologie, Architektur und
Kunstgeschichte einer spätantiken Nekropole" (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Research lines:
updating of Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae VII saec. antiquiores; interference-phenomena of Greek and
Latin in Late Antique inscriptions; use of the Bible in the inscriptions; edition of Inscriptiones Christianae
Italiae (ICI) and Inscriptiones Medi Aevi Italiae (saecula VI-XII) (IMAI), particularly for Apulia.
Implementation and alimentation of Epigraphic Database Bari.
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3. Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (Germany)
Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) (www.epigraphische-datenbank-heidelberg.de) is a research project of
the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Its aim is to integrate Latin inscriptions from all parts of
the Roman Empire into an extensive database. Greek inscriptions from the same chronological timespan are
also being entered.
It consists of three databases the Epigraphic Text Database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic
Database. It exists at an international level alongside other database projects, which serve as a working tool for
the swift and simple collection, viewing, supplementing and interdisciplinary analysis of epigraphic material.
Furthermore it is possible to create KWIC indices and to combine the stored information as freely as possible.
At present, the Epigraphic Text Database contains over 65.200 inscriptions and thus includes most of the
especially noteworthy inscriptions published outside the main editions. The database may be characterised by
the presentation of revised and often corrected versions. Control of this sort is above all necessary in the case of
earlier publications, which do not fulfill the standards of modern textual editorial practice. Moreover, the
database is not confined to the mere texts, but links them to all the available bibliographical data (at the moment
about 14.000 items), to digital photos (at the moment about 24.500 items), and information on the inscriptions
proper and on the monuments or objects they are inscribed upon. Thanks to this method of working, timeconsuming and elaborate though it is, the database meets high scholarly demands. The great public and
scholarly interest in the material published by EDH is proved by the constantly growing database queries.
Key Personnel
Prof. Dr. Christian Witschel:
b. 17 December 1966, Würzburg, Germany; nationality german
since 2005
Full Professor of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg
2003–2005
Lecturer in Ancient History, Dept. of Ancient History, LMU Munich
2004
Habilitation at the LMU Munich
1999–2003
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ancient History, LMU Munich
1998
PhD (summa cum laude), University of Frankfurt a.M.
1994–1999
Research Assistant, Dept. of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg
1993–94
Doctoral student, University of Frankfurt a.M.
1993
M.A., Free University Berlin
1986–1993
Studies in Ancient and Modern History, Classical and Prehistorical Archaeology, Free
University Berlin and University of Oxford
Dr. Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais:
b. 5 February 1969, Hamburg, Germany; nationality italian
since 1997
Head Researcher at the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH)
1989-1997
student / graduate assistant at the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH)
1997
PhD in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg
1993
M.A., University of Heidelberg
1987-1993
Studies in Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, and Classical Philology, University of
Heidelberg and LMU Munich
Dr. Frank Grieshaber:
b. 11 April 1970, Hamburg; nationality german
since 2010
Research Team Member (IT) Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH)
2008-2010
Database Administrator thinprint AG (Berlin)
2006-2008
Software Tester/Technical Writer MIK AG (Konstanz)
2002-2006
Freelancer DTP (Cologne, Berlin)
2002
PhD Egyptology (University of Tübingen)
1998
MA Egyptology/Ancient History (University of Tübingen)
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Content provider
Responsible for WP2 (Networking and best practices) and leader of the WG on content harmonization
(including GIS and terminologies) (T2.3)
4. Oxford University (UK)
Oxford University is the major centre in the UK for classical research, covering both the Greek and Roman
worlds, and the widest range of disciplinary approaches. In the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, it
has particular expertise in the fields of both epigraphy and digitization.
Oxford University is currently engaged in preparing a full catalogue of all the evidence for late Roman statuary,
across the whole of the Roman empire – a project entitled ‘The Last Statues of Antiquity’ (LSA). The majority
of the evidence for these statues (some 1.500 of 2.500 entries) consists of the inscriptions on surviving, or
recorded, statue-bases. This means that our project intersects very closely with the EAGLE initiative, with
which we have been in close consultation at every stage.
Key Personnel
Bryan Ward-Perkins. Historian and archaeologist, with a full-time post in Oxford’s History Faculty, he has
worked extensively in the Mediterranean region, with a particular expertise in late antique urbanism and public
building. He is the author of two major books From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and The Fall of Rome
and the End of Civilization, and a co-editor of Volume XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History. Through the
Last Statues of Antiquity project he has extensive and detailed experience of working with epigraphy, and in the
effective electronic collection, sorting, and presentation of data.
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5. Universidad de Alcalà (Spain)
The Universidad de Alcalá (est. 1978) is a public institution with a wide educational,/research offer, both on the
Humanities and basic Sciences as in Technical/Professional training. Alcalá has a long historical tradition on
Humanities and Classics and now places a strong emphasis on innovative technologies as Robotics and
Computing, including the research and applications development for e-Culture. Drawing on both strength, we
will contribute to Europeana a digitalized version of Archivo Epigrafico de Hispania, which includes more than
250.000 records, publications, notes and pictures on ancient inscriptions from Portugal and Spain; and software
and expertise to describe and link together those dataset.
Key Personnel
Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja. ([email protected]) Professor of Roman History at U. Alcala’s Facultad de
Filosofia y Letras. His main research interest is the historical use of ancient inscriptions, on which he has
written several books and about one hundred papers. Assistan director of the Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania,
at Universidad Complutense de Alcalá and Assistant editor of the serial Hispania Epigraphica, published by the
same University. Editor of Hispania Epigraphica Online (www.eda-bea.es) .
Miguel A. Sicilia ([email protected]), Professor of Information Engenieering at University of Alcalá’s
Politechnical School, His main research interest are Data mining, the Semantic Web and the technological
issues behind e-lerning. He is one of the organizers of the annual Metadata and Semantic Research meeting as
well as editor and advisor of several Computing Science journals.
For a listing of his publications, see http://www.ieru.org/wiki/index.php5?title=Miguel-Angel_Sicilia.
Isabel Velázquez ([email protected]), Professor of Classics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Director of the Archivo Epigrafico de Hispania and editor of Hispania Epigraphica. Her main research interest
are Visigothic and Late-Antiquity inscriptions.
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Responsible for the EAGLE metadata model specifications and mapping (T3.1, T3.2)
6. Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Research Group for Archaeomety and Cultural Heritage
Computing (Austria)
CHC (Research Group for Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Computing) established at 2005, is a interdisciplinary research group of geo-scientists, archaeologists, classic historians and IT-specialists which focus on
the scientific analysis of artefacts and the development and operation of databank based information systems.
CHC is located at the University of Salzburg, Dept. of Geography and Geology with close cooperation to the
Dept. of Classical Studies. CHC is aimed at the documentation and procurement of contents concerned with the
cultural heritage of mankind using modern state-of-the-art computer technologies. Thematically CHC
concentrated on classics and archaeometry.
Activities are focused on the creation of archaeological & archaeometric database and information systems,
interactive cartography and archaeometric research.
In detail: development and maintenance of scientific database for archaeological artefacts (UBI ERAT LUPA &
HISPANIA EPIGRAPHICA), spatial archaeological information systems for the general public (MAIN LIMES
MUSEUMS, AIS-UPPER AUSTRIS, FONTERES OF ROMAN EMPIRE & HISTORIC QUARRIES) and
expert systems to support specialists in the process of evaluation and interpretation and analysis of large
amounts of data with specially designed tools for visualization (FACEM & SAXA LOQUUNTUR).
Cooperation partners come from universities and other scientific institutions, national heritage institutions and
administrations as well as schools, museums and libraries.
Key Personnel
Dr. Christian F. Uhlir. Born at 13.06.1963 in Salzburg, graduated as Mag.rer.nat (1993) and Dr. phil (1997) at
the University of Salzburg in Geology. Professional career: 1994 – 2000: Geologic consultant for infrastructure
& hydropower in Nepal; 2000 – 2002: Consultant for popular scientific projects in Salzburg/Austria; 2002 –
2008: Post-Doc research in the Field of archaeometry, computer cartography and database development at the
Department of Classics & Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg; since 2009 administrative head of
the Research Group for Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Computing, University of Salzburg (see
www2.sbg.ac.at/chc/). Teaching activities: field courses and lectures on general geology and archaeometry.
Publications in: Engineering Geology, Archaeometry, Historic ornamental stones
Mag. Kurt Schaller. Born at 08.05.1957 in Linz, graduated as Mag.Phil. (1996) at the University of Vienna in
Archaeology. Professional career: 1992 – 2000: Participation in numerous archaeological ventures, mainly in
Austria and Greece; 2001: Staff-member of the project “Roman Stone Monuments”, Forschungsgesellschaft
Wiener Stadtarchäologie, responsible for database-development and digitising; 2002-2005: Staff-member of the
“Ubi Erat Lupa” web-database project. Co-author of conceptual design and executive management of the multinational project,IT- and partner-coordination, database development, software design, dissemination; 20052012: Staff-member of the CHC-project, University of Salzburg. Responsible for archaelogical issues, IT- and
database development. Coordination of software development. Teaching activities: database development in
classics. Publications in: Archaeology and Information Technology
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7. Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai - Cluj Napoca (Romania)
Babeş-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca (UBB) is one of the most reputed education and research
institutions from Romania. The university is trying to promote an education system based on systematic and
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innovative knowledge, as well as the forming of a permanent learning culture. Through its many faculties,
chairs and research centres, it helps and enables the professional and personal development of the enrolled
students and researchers. The concept of development is dependent upon increasing the university dimensions,
the numbers of students and teachers, revenues, increasing the activity of the university on international level,
as well as the number of specialties and of didactic programmes. The current scientific policies, capable of
generating innovation, development and economical growth, are based on a solid infrastructure, capable of
upholding education, research and fundamental quality.
UBB has been, through its research staff, part of numerous European projects. We will list some of the most
important and recent ones:
 Historic Quarries – heritage – CULTURA
 Asigurarea calităţii prin formarea resursei umane şi orientarea spre piaţa muncii – continuous
education – POSDRU
 Întărirea unui invăţământ superior orientat spre competenţe – quality of higher education – POSDRU
 Formarea continuă a personalului didactic din unităţile de învăţământ pentru deficienţi de auz:
dezvoltarea competenţelor pedagogice prin utilizarea limbajului mimico-gestual românesc şi a
instrumentelor TIC - continuous education – POSDRU
 Trecutul de lângă noi. Istoria orală a comunităţilor locale – local history – POSDRU
 Studiile doctorale factor major de dezvoltare al cercetarilor socio-economice si umaniste – PhD studies
– POSDRU
 Programe postdoctorale pentru dezvoltare durabilă într-o societate bazată pe cunoaştere – post
doctoral studies – POSDRU
 Modernizarea educaţiei academice prin introducerea unui sistem informatic pentru managementul
universităţilor româneşti – SIMUR – higher education management – POSDRU
 Reconstrucţia statutului femeii - de la discriminare la dezvoltare profesională şi egalitate de şanse –
gender studies and social development – POSDRU
 Sistem electronic aplicativ integrat de educaţie al Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai – informational
technology – POSCCE
 Viitorul Trecutului - program de practică pentru studenţi – students’ practical education – POSDRU
 TICAD Tisa catchment area development – zone development - Programul de Cooperare
Transnationala Sud-Estul Europei
Key Personnel
Professor PhD Ioan Piso is a well-known epigraphist and classical historian. The results of his work,
concerning the epigraphy of Roman Dacia and more, are well known in scientific circles. Maybe the most
important of them are the two inscriptions compendia published in the last ten years: the Inscriptions d'Apulum
(Inscriptions de la Dacie Romaine) III/5 (Paris, 2001), that filled an important gap in the study of the urban
civilization of Dacia and Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg / Carnuntum, 1.
Die Inschriften (Wien, 2003) that was a step forward for the general knowledge of the Roman world in its
details. As well, he is currently principal investigator in a national project, has been scientific manager of two
national major research grants and took part in several international projects.
Junior researcher PhD Florian Matei-Popescu is currently the coordinator of the coordinator of the Greek
and Roman Archaeology and Epigraphy section of the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute (Bucharest). He based his
career development on the study of the province Moesia Inferior, as his PhD thesis concerns the army of the
aforementioned province.
PhD Rada Varga is a research assistant at the Centre for Roman Studies. Her PhD thesis, defended on
February 2012, analysed the peregrines of Roman Dacia. Her current research is focused on the epigraphy of
the lower classes in the provincial societies of the Empire.
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8. Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (Hungary)
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The Eötvös Loránd University – the oldest in Hungary – was established in 1635. When the university was
moved to Pest (actual Budapest) in 1777, as one of the oldest departments of the Faculty of Philosophy, the
Archaeological Department was also established by István Schönvisner. During the 20th century the department
has received a scientific profile of research and education, which reaches from the prehistory through Classical
and Roman provincial archaeology and Migration Period to the Hungarian Middle Ages. In 1995 the Institute of
Archaeological Sciences was founded under the leadership of Professor Miklós Szabó. Thanks to this
reorganisation, four departments belong to this institute, which is the only archaeological institute in Hungary,
which covers all archaeological fields and periods not only in education, but also in research from the
prehistory to the Middle Ages. All departments have their scientific staff and equipments, investigations and
profile. The Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology, which is one of the candidates of this
international cooperation, has traditionally great experience in the field of epigraphy. Not only the founder of
this Department, István Schönvisner has published epigraphical works, but also later professors of the Institute,
like Andreas Alföldi and Andreas Mócsy belonged to the internationally most known representants of this
discipline. One of the profiles of the actual Department is the research in the field of epigraphy of Roman
Pannonia and of the Danubian limes area, first of all in Roman Brigetio, actual Komárom in Hungary. After
numerous predecessors, an actual catalogue of the stone monuments of the Roman military complex on the
Danubian limes in Pannonia, called Brigetio (actual Komárom in Hungary) was published in 2006 as result of a
long project. Stone monuments, among them numerous inscriptions from this municipality and legionary
fortress were preserved in thirteen Hungarian, Austrian and Slovakian collections, which are the testimony of
nearly 400 years of Roman history. The Department of Classical and Roman Archaeology deals with systematic
archaeological excavations in this area since 1992. The final task of the project would be a concise history of a
Roman town on the frontier of the Roman Empire. To complete this, we have a systematically composed
database of the stone monuments of Roman Brigetio, focused not only on the text, but also on the decoration.
This material could serve as basis of the EAGLE project.
Key Personnel
László Borhy
since 2010 – Head of the Archaeological Doctoral (PhD) Programme
since 2006 – Professor of Roman provincial archaeology
since 2005 – Head of the Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology
2004 – Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Heidelberg, Germany
since 2004 – Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1996 – PhD degree
1993-1994 – Assistant at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
since 1992 – Head of the excavations in Roman Brigetio (actual Komárom in Hungary)
1990-2006 – Assistant, later Senior Lecturer of the Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology
1988 – MA degree in History, Ancient History, Archaeology (Classical and Roman Provincial)
Dávid Bartus
since 2010 – Senior Lecturer of the Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology
2006-2010 – Assistant Lecturer of the Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology
2007 – PhD degree
2003-2006 – PhD scholarship in the Archaeological Doctoral Programme of the Eötvös Loránd
University
2003 – MA degree in Archaeology ( Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology)
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9. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia)
The establishment of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (briefly named “University of Pula”) is part of a
decentralization process started in 2004 in line with regional needs and educational sector development strategy
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and in accordance with the new law on Scientific Activity and University Education. As a former member of
the University of Rijeka, University of Pula started its mission in 2006, includes entities that exist from 1960s;
It is organised into several constituent departments based on the principle of integrated structure which enables
the efficient and high–quality accomplishment of its goals and strategies of development. Located in a 3000
years old town situated at the south of the Istria, the most evolved region in Croatia and has a distinct cultural
diversity due to its geographical position and historical heritage. The Istrian peninsula plunges into the
Mediterranean Sea, neighbouring with Italy and playing a link between West and East Europe, naturally open to
international cooperation. This area populated by mixed inhabitants, traditions, and cultures represents a part of
European civilization. Therefore, the University carries out a distinctive blend of scientific research areas
particularly valuable on a local level and wider environment for an overall development. The University is
made up of departments: Department of Economics and Tourism, Department of Humanities, Department of
Music, Department of Studies in the Italian Language and Department of Educational Sciences . The History
sub-department covers the entire spectrum of history since Antiquity with several prominent members in
specific areas, such as antiquity and the early modern period. Also, besides three University Interdisciplinary
Undergraduate Study Programmes the University offers two specialist postgraduate study programmes and a
postgraduate doctoral study. Striving to a research excellence it is focused on internal resource development
being an active partner in scientific and educational international projects as Interreg, Tempus, IPA and FP7.
Firmly on the way to a yet more ambitious aim of enhancing life quality by adding value to its immediate
environment for an overall economic growth.
Key Personnel
Robert Matijasic, PhD, Full Professor. His PhD thesis was on the “Economic History of Roman Istria” (1994).
He has worked in the Archaeological Museum of Istria, and since 1996 teaches Ancient History and related
subjects at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. He supervised archaeological excavations in Pula and Istria, is
author of seven books, among them “An Introduction to Latin Epigraphy” (Pula 2002), and of 70 scientific
papers on various archaeological epigraphic and historical aspects of ancient history of Istria. He presented
almost 70 papers on the same topics in various national and international congresses, symposia, conferences
and scientific meetings. He has spent some time on scientific training in Rome (Ecole Francaise), Oxford
University, Universite de Bordeaux III, Unviersità di Macerata, Università di Padova.
Davor Bulic, M. A, Assistant. He has graduated in archaeology and History at the University of Zadar, and had
a three year experience in the Archaeological Museum of Istria. Now he is an assistant at the Juraj Dobrila
University of Pula. He is a PhD student at the University of Zadar, and is preparing a thesis on roman villas,
with the supervision of prof. Matijasic. He has published six scientific and professional papers and has
participated in several conferences.
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10. Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Institute
of Archaeology (Slovenia)
The Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is the leading
Slovenian research centre in the humanities and a cutting-edge academic institution in central, eastern, and
southeast Europe. It has a multidisciplinary character; in addition to the humanities, its spheres of research also
cover the natural and social sciences. It has primarily been engaged in research on a broad variety of topics
connected with natural and cultural heritage in Slovenia. ZRC SAZU has its own publishing house, bookstore,
and audio-visual laboratory, and boasts numerous collections. Among its rich publishing activity, five research
journals listed in the Thomson Reuters indices are especially noteworthy.
The Institute of Archaeology is one of the 17 institutes of the ZRC SAZU, concentrated on the basic research
aiming to collect high quality data about the development of humans and society in the remote past periods in
the southeastern Alpine region and partly western Balkans. The multileveled programme comprises an ample
spectrum of fundamental topics from introducing and verifying new research methods, creating databases and
documentation systems for better understanding settlement patterns, economy, social processes and the way of
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life of the people who settled the south-eastern Alpine region from the Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages. The
programme is composed of different topics, including, for the Roman period, the following:
 “The Romanisation processes on the territory of Slovenia”,
 “Roman Inscriptions of Slovenia; Greek and Roman literary sources for the eastern Alpine area and
the western Balkans”,
 “Roman History of the present-day Slovenia territory”.
 The Institute publishes the yearly journal titled “Arheološki vestnik”, as well as a series of monographs,
titled Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae.
Key Personnel
Marjeta Šašel Kos, PhD, born on 29 April, 1952 in Ljubljana, spent, as a postgraduate student, two years in
Greece, at the British School at Athens. After having been assistant professor at the Department of Classical
Philology at the Ljubljana University, she got a post at the Institute of Archaeology (Research Centre of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) where she is currently working as a senior research associate. She is
the author of several books, among which Inscriptiones Latinae in Graecia repertae. Additamenta ad CIL III,
Bologna (1979), The Roman Inscriptions in the National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana (1997), Pre-Roman
Divinities of the Eastern Alps and Adriatic, Ljubljana (1999), and Appian and Illyricum, Ljubljana (2005).
Anja Ragolič, born in 1983 at Maribor, where she attended high school (the curriculum included Latin). At the
Philosophical Faculty in Ljubljana she studied archaeology, Latin and German languages (in 2010 she
graduated from archaeology). Since November 2010 she is a post-graduate student of Archaeology and Latin
epigraphy at the University at Nova Gorica, with a status of “young researcher” (granted by the ministry of
science and higher education of Slovenia), under the supervision of Marjeta Šašel Kos.
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11. Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen-Age « Ausonius”, UMR 5607, University of
Bordeaux 3 - CNRS (France)
Ausonius is a research institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux 3 (UMR) bringing together
researchers working in the domains of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It includes archaeologists, historians
(among them epigraphists and numismatists), art historians and philologists (Latinists and Hellenists), the staff
of the Institute is 147 persons, including 12 full professors, 21 associated professors (maîtres de conferènces), 6
researches of the CNRS and 71 PhD students.
The scientific activity of the institute is structured around 7 interest centres, each of which consisting of
between 2 and 7 programs: 1. Aquitaine; 2. Iberian Peninsula; 3. Asia Minor; 4. Economy and Society; 5.
Ancient Literature and History of Texts; 6. Mediterranean East and West; 7. Virtual Reality in Archaeology.
The regions covered by the researches of the institute include South-West of France, Iberian Peninsula, Asia
Minor, especially Caria, Lycia and Phrygia, Tunisia, Croatia, Syria, Jordan, and the Northern Black Sea
(Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia). The Virtual Reality in Archaeology Centre is one of the originalities
of Ausonius’ scientific program, evidence of its constant effort to incorporate 3D not only as an illustrative tool
but also as an aide in research. The PFT3D of Ausonius (Archéovision) was recognized in 2009 as a “Centre of
Digital Resources” (CRN) for the conservation of 3D archaeological patrimony data by the TGE-ADONIS.
If this scientific programme results from an elaborated and sustained long-term policy, it is also the result of the
laboratory's capacity to engage in short to medium-term projects, with non-perennial funding: since 2007,
Ausonius has successfully responded (as project manager) to 14 applications of the ANR (Agence Nationale de
la recherche) or of the Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine (CRA), not mentioning the other research contracts in
which it participates as a partner. This institute is a leading research establishment in the field of archaeology
and epigraphy in France. In 2011, the joint entity consisting of Ausonius and its two partners was designated as
a “Laboratory of excellence” (the only archaeological research centre in France) in the context of a new
programme initiated by the French government known as “Investissements d’avenir”.
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The research library of the institute includes 50 000 monographs, 800 periodicals, of which 340 are currently
published; exchanges with 120 French and foreign partners. The institute has its own publication department
Ausonius Editions (10 collections, 2816 books sold in 2010).
Key Personnel
Askold Ivantchik (1965): Senior research fellow (directeur de recherche), Ausonius, CNRS, Bordeaux,
France; Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of sciences (since 2003), of the German
Archaeological Institute (since 2002) and of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (since 2004); Senior
Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University; chief editor of the journals
Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (Leiden) and Vestnik drevnei istorii (Moscow). Ph.D. (1990)
Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia; Habilitation (1996) Fribourg University, Switzerland (1996).
Teaching and research positions in Russia (Russian Academy of sciences; Moscow State University), France
(University of Strasbourg and Institute Ausonius, CNRS, Bordeaux), Switzerland (University of Fribourg),
Germany (University of Heidelberg and German Archaeological Institute, Berlin), USA (Center for Hellenic
Studies, Washington DC and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and Sweden (Collegium for Advanced
Study, Uppsala). Director of several international research projects including “Corpus of Greek and Roman
inscriptions of the northern Black Sea region (IOSPE)” (International Union of Academies); “Kélainai /
Apamée Kibotos et sa région: une résidence royale en Phrygie” (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France /
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany) and others. Author of 5 books published in Russian, French,
German and Japanese and of 180 articles.
Milagros Navarro Caballero (1965): Research fellow (chargée de recherche), Ausonius, CNRS, Bordeaux,
France; Ph.D. (1992) University of Saragossa, Spain. Teaching and research positions in Spain (University of
Saragossa) and France (University of Bordeaux). Director of ten national and international research projects
including “L'épigraphie de la Meseta espagnole” (Projet Europa), “La guerre et ses traces. Conflits et sociétés
en Hispanie à l’époque de la conquête romaine (IIIe-Ier s. av. J.-C.)”( (Agence Nationale de la Recherche,
France). Coordinator of the data base PETRAE (Latin inscriptions). Author of 3 books and 60 articles, editor of
8 books.
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12. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
The K.U.Leuven research unit ‘Ancient History’ studies the Graeco-Roman world from the introduction of the
alphabet until the end of Antiquity, i.e. from about 800 BC until about AD 500 in the West and AD 650 in the
East, mainly on the basis of written sources. One of the central research topics is the social and cultural context
of documents, in the widest sense of the word (papyri as well as inscriptions, in Greek and Latin as well as in
the local vernaculars).
One of the important realizations of the research team is Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org), a platform
bridging barriers of languages and disciplines, initially in the study of late period Egypt and the Nile valley
(roughly BC 800 - 800 AD), but now also for the earlier Egyptian material and increasingly for the ancient
Mediterrannean in general. It brings together a variety of projects dealing with metadata, mainly of published
documents. Core component of Trismegistos is the Texts database (currently 108122 records), which includes
information about papyrological and epigraphic texts in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian in its various scripts
(Demotic, hieroglyphic, hieratic and Coptic), but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and
other languages. Partner projects provide the majority of metadata, normally limited to texts in a certain
language, on one kind of writing surface (e.g. papyrus) or of a certain type of document (e.g. literary vs.
documentary). Trismegistos identifies and disambiguates the documents and texts involved and assigns them a
unique numeric id (the TM-number), which is then communicated back to the partners. On this basis
Trismegistos then offers a fully searchable online data repository (www.trismegistos.org) where basic data on
relevant ancient sources are provided together with links to the partner website.
The K.U.Leuven research team has a wide and long-standing experience in developing and maintaining digital
research tools, specifically in the use of webservices for online databases and for cross-linking of digital tools
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from international partners. The current setup supports data storage and online access (both secure and nonsecure). Among the data linked are resources in FileMaker, MySQL or XML using a PHP custom-built frontend interface. Extensive backup-systems and IT support concerning server deployment and HPC (High
Performance Cluster) are available through the University’s ICT Centre.
Key Personnel
Mark Depauw (°18.09.1968) is a research professor of the University of Leuven. He holds a Master in
Classics, and a Master and PhD in Egyptology (all K.U.Leuven). During his academic career he worked in the
Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels) as well as in University College, Oxford. In 2004 he obtained a
Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to go to Cologne and set up the research
platform Trismegistos, of which he has been the director since then. His scholarly specialization is GraecoRoman Egypt, and his research starts from papyrological and epigraphic sources, combining evidence in the
indigenous scripts with that offered by their Greek counterparts. His publications include ‘A Companion to
Demotic Studies’ (1997) and ‘The Demotic Letter’ (2006) as well as other books and numerous articles.
Bart Van Beek (°21.12.1978) is postdoctoral research fellow of the University of Leuven and focuses on the
development and implementation of digital tools for research in the field of Graeco-Roman papyrology and
epigraphy. He has been involved in the build-up of the Trismegistos platform, which collects metadata on all
published documentary texts from Egypt between 800 BC and AD 800; this platform is currently being linked
up to relevant projects from international partner institutes such as Heidelberg University (DE), King’s College
(UK) and the Papyri.info text database (USA). He holds a Master in Classics and a PhD in Ancient History
from the University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), having worked at the University of Cologne (DE) for
two years as well.
Herbert Verreth (°23.06.1965) studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Belgium. He is Master
in Classical Philology (1988), Baccalaureus in Economical Studies (1988), Master in Archaeology (1993) and
Doctor in Ancient History (1998). He has been part-time lector at the Universiteit Gent (UG), the Katholieke
Universiteit Brussel (KUB), the Europese Hogeschool Brussel (EHSAL) and the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (KUL). He has been working for the Prosopographia Ptolemaica and related databases of the Section of
Ancient History of the KUL since 1993. Since 2005 he is a collaborator to the Trismegistos database both in
Cologne and in Leuven. His scientific work focuses on historical topography of the ancient world and the
reception of classical antiquity in movies, comics, novels and children's books.
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Responsible for the metadata disambiguation service (T3.5)
13. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (Italy)
ISTI-CNR is the largest institute of the Italian National Research Council conducting research in the broad field
of Computer Science and is committed to producing scientific excellence and playing an active role in
technology transfer. ISTI is organized in several laboratories, and the laboratory participating in this project
(NeMIS – Networked Multimedia Information Systems, with about 50 researchers and technicians) is doing
research in three major fields: (i) next generation digital libraries; (ii) access, enrichment and management of
multimedia content; (iii) advanced information retrieval.
The CNR-ISTI team has been involved in many EU-funded projects relevant to the topics addressed in this
project, namely in the following FP6 and FP7 projects: DELOS II NoE, DILIGENT, MultiMatch, BRICKS,
BELIEF, CASPAR, DRIVER, SAPIR. It is currently involved in the 7th FP projects: EFG, EFG1914, HOPE,
OpenAIRE, D4Science-II, VENUS-C, iMarine, DL.org, GRDI2020, EUBrasilOpenBio and ENVRI. The CNRISTI team is also involved in Europeana, on issues related to data modelling.
In the context of the proposal, the CNR-ISTI team acts as technology provider, supplying the software
infrastructure (D-NET) for the implementation of both the aggregation system and the export to Europeana, and
participating in the definition of the common EAGLE metadata structure.
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In addition, ISTI-CNR will provide the technology needed for the implementation of the Flagship Mobile
Application, providing tools and algorithms for automatic feature extraction and indexing of images, and
algorithms for efficient Content Based Image Retrieval.
Key Personnel
Donatella Castelli is Senior Researcher at CNR-ISTI since 1987. Dr. Castelli and her team, have participated
actively in several EU and nationally funded projects on Digital Libraries and Research Infrastructures. She has
led the activity dedicated to the production of the DELOS Reference Model for Digital Libraries and acted as
scientific coordinator of the DILIGENT and D4Science projects. She was technological coordinator of the
DRIVER and DRIVER-II projects. Dr. Castelli is currently the scientific coordinator of the D4Science-II,
DL.org and GRDI2020 projects, and the technological coordinator of the OpenAIRE project. Her research
interests include digital libraries and data infrastructure content modelling, interoperability and architectures.
Giuseppe Amato is Researcher at CNR-ISTI since 1994. He graduated in Computer Science at the University
of Pisa, Italy, in 1992 and was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Dortmund, Germany,
in 2002. His main research interests are content-based retrieval of multimedia documents, access methods for
similarity search of multimedia documents, multimedia digital libraries, wireless sensor networks. He has
participated in several EC and national funded research actions in the areas content-based retrieval of
multimedia data and wireless sensor networks. The most recent include: the DELOS Network of Excellence,
funded by the EC in the IST program, the project Multimatch, funded by the EC in the FP6 program, where he
was Technical Director, the project VISITO Tuscany, funded by the Regione Toscana within the Europeean
Regional Development Funds program, where he is the Project Coordinator, the project ASSETS, funded by the
EC in the ICT-PSP program, where he is responsible of the indexing and retrieval workpackage, the project
RUBICON, Funded by the EC in the FP7 program, where he is scientific coordinator for CNR.
Paolo Manghi is Researcher at CNR-ISTI since 2006. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as Research Fellow at
Glasgow and Strathclyde University (UK), and then moved to the Department of Computer Science of Pisa
University until the end of 2005. He is currently Software Architect for the DRIVER II EU Project, dealing
with the scientific coordination of the development of the resulting Service Open Infrastructure. He is also
involved in the architectural specification of the EFG Project and part of Europeana and DL.ORG Working
Groups on data models. His research is currently focusing on the design, implementation, and experimentation
of Open Service Architectures for Digital Libraries and on the design and implementation of Typed Distributed
Repositories for Complex Objects.
Franco Zoppi has been working since ‘80s on the design and implementation of software systems in the areas
of DBMS, Distributed Office Information Systems and Digital Library Systems. Initially employed at the
Research and Development Department of Olivetti S.p.A. (1981-1989), then at the Network Laboratory of the
Telecommunications Department of Telecom Italia (1989-2001), in 2001 he joined the Information System
Department of Pisa University as Project Manager. Since 2005 he has been working as Research Associate at
CNR-ISTI, where he coordinated the CNR activities in the BELIEF/BELIEF II project and was involved in the
DRIVER I/II and D4Science projects. He is currently involved in the EFG1914, HOPE and ENVRI projects.
Vittore Casarosa, after a number of years spent at CNR and at IBM development laboratories in Italy, France
and United States, is presently Research Associate at the NeMIS laboratory of ISTI-CNR, where he is mostly
involved in activities related to the development and usage of digital libraries. He was the deputy director of the
DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and presently his interests are in the field of digital library
applications in Digital Humanities, and in the definition of national and international curricula for the teaching
of digital libraries technologies and applications. He teaches courses on digital libraries at the universities of
Pisa, Bolzano and Parma.
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Responsible for WP4 (EAGLE Aggregation and Image Management infrastructure)
Responsible for liaising with Europeana for all the technical-related aspects (T2.6)
14. Deutsches Archäologische Institut (Germany)
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On April 21, 1829 a group of scholars, artists and diplomats founded the »Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica« in order to research and publish monuments of ancient art, epigraphy and topography. In 1871, it
became a Prussian State Institute and in 1874 an Imperial Institute. In the same year the Athens Section was
founded and in the following century, sections in Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, Baghdad and Tehran, as well as two
commissions in Germany (Frankfurt and Munich) were founded or affiliated. In 1979, the Commission for
General and Comparative Archaeology, which is responsible for archaeological research outside of Europe and
the Old World, was established in Bonn (today KAAK). Finally, stations in Sanaa and Damascus, in addition to
branch offices in Lisbon, Ankara and Ingolstadt were set up. In 1995, the Eurasian Section for archaeological
research in the Non-Allied Countries and in neighbouring areas was founded incorporating the Teheran Section
within it. The Near East Section was created in 1996 by joining together the Baghdad Section with the stations
at Damascus and Sanaa. A new section in Bejing will opened in 2010. Today, the German Archaeological
Institute is a federal agency that is within the area of responsibility of the ministry of foreign affairs and
employs around 450 scientists. The institute is headed by a president. The president's deputy is his secretary
general, who in particular deals with matters of scientific organisation and policy. The individual branches
(departments and committees) are headed by directors. The staff of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
carries out research in the area of archaeology and in related fields which includes domestic, but especially
international excavations, expeditions and other projects. Research results are presented in numerous
publications (to date more than 60 volumes per year). The Institute maintains libraries and photo archives which
are at the disposal of international scholars. It maintains relations with international scholars, including
numerous important specialists from associated fields who are regular and corresponding members, and also
promotes the next generation of scholars. Furthermore, it organizes congresses, colloquia and tours, and
informs the public through the media about its work.
In 2004 the DAI and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLAB) joined the effort to support
the central object-database Arachne as a tool for free internet-based research that provides the contents of all
DAI photo archives (iDAI.images) and the rare books of the DAI’s libraries (iDAI.Bookbrowser). Unlike other
databases Arachne aims to contextualize every object. The database displays already more than 1.000.000
scans. Together with the AAR and the EFR the DAI is working on a digitized version of the Corpus
Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions from the Roman
Empire, that will initially comprise of the more than 50 volumes published before 1940 with an OCR searching
capability. The goal is to create a keyword searchable database that can be combined with Zenon (Online
catalogue of the DAI’s libraries) and contextualized with the objects and topography records in Arachne.
Key Personnel
Prof. Dr. Ortwin Dally studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Classical Literature in Bonn,
Basel, Freiburg and Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he obtained his PhD and received the travel scholarship from the
German Archaeological Institute. He was then working at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Free
University (Berlin). In 2004 he obtained the position of the secretary general of the German Archaeological
Institute (Berlin). He is deputy president and responsible for the IT-politics of the German Archaeological
Institute. He is a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of America. Ortwin Dally deals mainly
with problems of cultural contacts, Greek colonization and the construction of identities in antiquity. The
regional focus of his work is southern Russia (especially Taganrog and the surrounding area) and southern Italy.
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Foertsch has done his PHD in Goettingen University in 1989, obtained the one-year
travelling scholarship of DAI in 1989, worked since 1989 at the Cologne Archaeological Institute as an
Assistant Professor where he received the Venia Legendi after his habilitation in 1995. He has been the Director
of the Cologne Digital Archaeology Lab since 1996. He has been a member of the CLAROSnet-consortium
since 2000, an official consortional partner of DAI for the digitalization of its photographic archives since 2004,
and is a corresponding member of DAI since 2008. He has been responsible for a lot of national and
international projects and has participated in an EU-project UBI ERAT LUPA. In the area of digitization
Foertsch today has been working closely with the University of Cologne's Chair for Humanities Computing
(HKI), and both have been teaching and building digital concepts for Classical Archaeology in Germany in the
field of object-databases, 3-D-VR-models and Semantic Web Technologies, in which CoDArchLab/HKI and
DAI have been implementing a CIDOC-CRM-interface between ARACHNE and the Perseus Digital Library.
Since 2011 Reinhard Foertsch is counselor for the General Secretary of the DAI regarding scientific ITprojects. In 2010 Foertsch was invited to give the Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures at the Department of Classics of
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Tufts University in Boston/Medford about »Classical Culture as Digital Information. Languages of Materiality«
and received a Google Digital Humanities Award for the project »Validating Metadata-Patterns for Google
Books' Ancient Places and Sites«. For 2012 he is invited as a visiting professor of the Università di Roma Tor
Vergata, Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione Classica.
Dr. Alexandra Busch did her PHD in Roman Archaeology at the University of Cologne in 2004 and obtained a
Post-Doc scholarship for a study of military architecture. After the one-year travelling scholarship of DAI in
2005/2006, she started to work at the Archäologischer Park Xanten for the realisation of the new museum from
2006 to 2008. In 2008 she became the Allgemeine Referentin at the Rome department of the DAI. Apart from
directing an interdisciplinary field project dedicated to the only legionary fortress in Italy, she is responsible for
the IT-development and the various digitalisation projects of the department, especially the ones that are
connected to the extensive photoarchive with more that 200.000 images of ancient monuments.
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Responsible for WP5 (End-user dedicated services) and for the storytelling application (T5.4)
15. Cyprus Institute (Cyprus)
The Cyprus Institute (CyI, see www.cyi.ac.cy) is a non-profit research and educational institution with a strong
scientific and technological orientation, created in 2005. It is an issue-orientated institution, emphasizing
international collaborations and cross-disciplinary research and education. The Institute operates under the aegis
of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF), which is governed by a Board of Trustees,
comprised of leading personalities of the international academic, political and business world; it is currently
chaired by Professor Edouard Brézin, former president of the French Academy of Sciences and Professor at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure. The principal objectives of CREF are the advancement of knowledge and its
humane and benevolent application and the establishment of a new research and educational public-benefit
organization which shall generally promote research and education in Cyprus and abroad and shall aim
primarily at benefitting the public interest at large.
The CyI is being developed by establishing research centres which address challenging problems that are
important at both the regional and international levels. These are developed in partnership with leading
institutions in the respective thematic areas. The Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) is
developed in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Science and Technology in
Archaeology Research Center (STARC) in partnership with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des
musées de France (C2RMF), headquartered in the Louvre; and the Computation-based Science and Technology
Research Center (CaSToRC) in partnership with the University of Illinois. Each of the Centres is led by a
Director or an Interim Governing Board and is guided by an international Scientific Advisory Committee. In its
fully developed phase, the institute is expected to include at least seven research centres, each employing 65100 people. While at present the CyI is still developing, numbering 82 in 2010, it is rapidly growing and
already successful in attracting competitive funding. Having launched its first centre in 2007, it has secured a
large number of research projects, including an ERC Advanced Grant (the only one in Cyprus). With only a few
years in operation it has demonstrated its ability to attract scientists of international repute at all levels. The
research centres will also provide graduate education in the thematic areas of their concentration through the
stewardship of the Graduate College.
The Cypriot Government has endorsed both the vision and the planning of the CyI and is providing seed funds
for launching the first research centres. The Government is also committed to continuing to support the CyI as
part of its own long-term planning for the development of research and innovation in Cyprus, and to transform
Cyprus into a regional educational and research hub.
Key Personnel
Sorin Hermon (contact person for the project). With a background in electronics and physics, Sorin Hermon
graduated in 1996 at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2002 he received his
PhD from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Between 2000 and 2008 Sorin
Hermon worked as a senior researcher at VAST-Lab, PIN, University of Florence, Israel. Since 2008 he has
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been research coordinator at the Cyprus Institute, coordinating a group of researchers, post-doctorates and
young researchers. His research interests include: theory and applied research on the use of visualization
methods (mainly VR and 3D modelling) for the research and (museum) communication of CH, CH knowledge
representation, definition and use of standards, application of fuzzy logic concepts in humanities research, and
the use of remote sensing techniques for archaeological investigation. He coordinates activities in several EU
funded initiatives, such as 3DCOFORM, V-MUST, CARARE, ATHENA and Europeana Local.
Franco Niccolucci, a former professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence and head of
the VAST-Lab research laboratory at PIN, is currently full professor at CyI and Chair of STARC. He was the
scientific coordinator of the FP6 projects CHIRON and COINS, both on IT applications to CH, and Executive
Director of the EPOCH FP6 NoE. He has been a member of the CAA International Steering Committee since
2001. He has chaired the International Conferences VAST2000, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. He has published a
large number of papers in scientific journals and authored several books on IT applications to CH.
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Responsible of WP3 (Metadata model, mapping and ingestion)
Responsible for setting up the Virtual Exhibition (T2.6)
16. Eureva (France)
Eureva is a French SME, with the following core expertise:
 Innovative cloud-computing and mobile software architectures and their implementation,
 Strategic consulting in the software industry,
 R&D and high-impact software project set-up and management,
Eureva has acquired a large experience and expertise in the software industry, technology and its related
economics. Eureva has contributed to many high-impact and innovative projects in the multimedia, gaming,
cultural and audio-visual industries with reference project implementations with customers such as TF1,
Orange, AFP, PSA, Microsoft or Centre Pompidou. Eureva is also often mandated by Cap Digital: the French
digital media international R&D cluster for projects or collaborative R&D initiatives.
Relative to Eagle, Eureva is the leader of the Blinktser project – combining geolocation, image recognition and
social networks to enable mobile content access - with partners such as Orange, IRI and Institut Telecom.
Blinkster was awarded by Proximamobile and Futur en Seine; operational prototypes have been done at Le
Louvre and Centre Pompidou. Furhter image recognition projects are being done with TF1 and AFP (Agence
France Presse). Eureva is also developping mobile solutions and studies to many other French customers, such
as AXA or Nexans.
Key Personnel
Graduated from Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers, Philippe Martineau has 20 years experience in the
software industry, with a very broad spectrum of positions: R&D, international project management, innovation
director. More recently he managed the European portfolio of Microsoft’s strategic projects, before being
director of Microsoft France consulting and support services. He then was board director of French software
firm Prologue, prior to be the founder of SME Eureva, dedicated to software innovation.
Jean-Philippe Balivet has been working since 1991 as an IT project manager and consultant. He is specialised
in the telecommunication sector, working on business and technical strategies for implementing new classes of
web services for operators and content providers, for example: mobile instant messaging and IP TV (Orange),
mobile music distribution services (Bouygues Telecom), In-flight entertainment systems (TF1), remote home
automation (Hager). His previous experience includes consulting work for the finance sector and 3 years of
research work for Electricité de France, with a focus on studies on vectorial and massively parallel simulation
algorithms. Mr. Balivet holds a post-graduate research degree (DEA) in Computer Science (Université Paris
XI).
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Technology provider
Responsible for the development of the mobile application user interface (T5.3)
17. The British School at Rome (Italy)
The BSR (www.bsr.ac.uk) is a post-graduate research centre in Rome. Its mission is to promote knowledge of
and deep engagement with all aspects of the art, history and culture of Italy by scholars and fine artists from
Britain and the Commonwealth, and to foster international and interdisciplinary exchange. The BSR is one of
the research institutes funded by the British government through the British Academy, and is one of the group
of foreign academies in Rome.
Highly selective residential residencies are awarded to the very best scholars, artists and architects. Rresearch
facilities, including accommodation, are provided in Rome to help scholars and artists to maximise their time in
Italy. A public events programme throughout the year includes lectures, exhibitions and conferences by leading
practitioners across the humanities, visual arts, architecture and archaeology. An archaeological unit supports
fieldwork projects and excavations and research is supported by a world-class research library and photographic
archive.
A publication programme produces an internationally recognised peer-reviewed annual journal (Papers of the
British School at Rome) and monograph series. Intensive specialist taught courses for students are also held
twice a year.
The Photographic Archive includes a number of unique collections of historic photographs and totals over
100,000 photographic prints and negatives. The successful completion of a cataloguing project funded by The
Getty Foundation in 2002-5 has made three of our historic collections - photographs taken at the end of the 19th
century by Thomas Ashby, Agnes and Dora Bulwer, Rev. P.P. Mackey available on the internet. Nearly 12,000
photographs have been catalogued and linked to their digital counterpart. In September 2007, a second generous
grant from The Getty Foundation made it possible to catalogue c.15,000 photographs which form part of the
John Bryan Ward-Perkins collection (c.1946-74). The outcome of this project is a new website
(www.bsrdigitalcollections.it) designed to preserve and make accessible all the BSR digital collections
according to METS (Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard). Over 3.000.000 hits have been registered
since its launch in November 2009.
Key Personnel
Alessandra Giovenco
Education: 1996: MA, final grade: 110/110 cum laude, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali Università
degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo
1998: Postgraduate Diploma in Paleography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration, Vatican School of
Paleography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration, Città del Vaticano Rome
Work experience: 1997 - BSR Archivist
Professional activites: 2007: Visiting Fellow participating in the seminar Preserving photographs in a Digital
world, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester (N.Y.) USA
Valerie Scott
Education: 1976 B.A. Hons, History of Art, University of East Anglia
1983 Diploma in Librarianship, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Work experience: 1981-88 Assistant Librarian/Archivist, British School at Rome
1989 - HeadLibrarian/Archivist, British School at Rome
Professional activities: 1992-4 Founder member + President URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche)
Publications / events: curator of 12 exhibitions and relative catalogues of material from the BSR Library and
Archive collections
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18. Gogate Srl (Italy)
Gogate is an SME based in Pisa with wide competencies and experiences in the area of technological
innovation, business promotion and project management. The main company activities are software
development, multimedia communication, technology transfer, web promotion, consultancy and international
cooperation.
Gogate operates in the areas of technical development of ICT platforms, corporate communication, content
managing systems; technological innovation support; multimedia production; web-design; business planning
with an active attendance to marketing strategies and business creation.
Gogate participated as partner in several national and local projects for culture, education, tutoring and training,
e-learning, ICT development, tourism promotion, communication services, web design. One of the most
prestigious initiatives to be successfully accomplished was the project “La Casa di Pinocchio”: a multipurpose
space where marginalized minors in the Thon Buri area of Bangkok can be welcomed, assisted, as well as
scholastically and professionally educated.
Another very important branch of Gogate’s activity is represented by the promotion of commerce and business
in EU and extra EU countries, through the participation to international projects and the development of
partnerships and joint-ventures among companies. More specifically, Gogate is the representative of the Board
of Investment of Thailand, an institution of the Thailand Ministry of Industry for the development of
international investments in the country. Gogate provides the consultancy and support to companies and
investors in Europe, and thanks to a local office, it is in close relationships with resident companies and
entrepreneurs, thus providing cultural mediation and in-site assistance.
Key Personnel
Nicola Alfarano. Graduated in Information Science, he has been working as software developer and IT project
manager since the beginning of his career, at first as employee, then as a free-lance and lately as manager of
companies involved in enhancing innovation. Accountancy software, data management, web-design, internetbased operative environments, content management systems, user-friendly interface development, multichannel
company communication systems represent his major abilities and experiences. Along the informatics, Nicola
has always been involved in teaching and training, with special regards to IT systems analysis and
development, database modeling, project quality and teamwork quality. He's been working also in the field of
internationalization, for the development of European commerce towards Thailand and other eastern countries.
He has got a long term experience in dealing with public and private entities, big and small enterprises, with
different backgrounds, methodologies and demands. Such experience gave him both technical skills and
behavior sensitivity, thus enhancing his personal talent in interpersonal relationships.
Marlis Valentini. She got a master degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 2003. She
continued working at the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory at the University of Pisa for two
more years. Then she was for four years consultant at Metaware SpA and for one year at Consorzio Pisa
Ricerche. Main activities and responsibilities included technical support to the design, development and
documentation of software systems and multimedia web applications in the scope of international projects cofinanced by the European Commission within the IST, E-TEN and e-CONTENT Community programs. She
had been involved in several projects of the European Commission, especially targeted at the tourism and
cultural heritage sectors. Her main professional experiences and skills regard digital preservation, digital rights
management, analysis, design and development of software components and web applications, definition and
use of ontologies and semantic web technologies.
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19. Promoter srl (Italy)
Promoter (http://www.promoter.it) is a company based in Pisa, and it was founded in 1996 joining together
competencies and experiences in the areas of information & communication technologies, multimedia
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innovation, business promotion and project management. Promoter operates in several fields as technical
development of ICT platforms and web-design, multimedia production, electronic and web publishing,
corporate consulting, dedicated online services for the promotion of culture and tourism. Promoter’s general
management features a solid and long experience in the management of EU projects, having been involved in
many projects since the early 1990s. Currently, Promoter is contributing to the following EU projects:
CULTURA (FP7-ICT ongoing), DC-NET (FP7-e-Infrastructures ongoing), EUROPEANA PHOTOGRAPHY
(CIP Pilot B just started), LINKED HERITAGE (CIP BPN ongoing), INDICATE (FP7 e-Infrastructures
ongoing), DCH-RP (FP7 e-Infrastructures under negotiation, the kick-off is foreseen in October 2012).
Software development, system design, technology transfer, academy/industry collaboration, business
architecture, consultancy and project management represent the main expertise of the company. Prestigious
Culture and Research Institutes as well as private enterprises in Europe and worldwide had Promoter as
technical coordinator and consultant to assist their projects for improving innovation.
Promoter will support the Coordinator in the orchestration of project’s achievements and progress, taking care
about the proper review of deliverables before submission, in order to assure that they will be professionally
done, and ensuring the in-time delivery of the documents. Promoter will be responsible for the quality
procedures and partners coordination tasks, with outstanding attention to internal evaluation, consensum
building, procedural tutoring if needed. Promoter will also provide the project a wide expertise both as for ICT
and technological issues and as for dissemination/marketing strategy, and will cooperate to the promotion tasks
through its communication platform http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net. That is an on-line magazine collecting
and sharing information and events about the digital culture in a global dimension and it provides a useful tool
for the dissemination of digital cultural heritage projects: by giving wide visibility to the project’ activities and
achievements, by deepening its topics through interviews and related articles, and by offering a repository
service for the project’ results.
Key Personnel
Antonella Fresa, general director of Promoter. She will be the Project Administrator. ICT expert, with wide
experience in the digital cultural heritage domain, she has been working on European cooperation projects and
policy development frameworks. Member of the Concertation Table of the Italian Ministries of Culture and
Research, for the implementation of the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage. Technical
Coordinator of DCH-RP, EuropeanaPhotography, Linked Heritage, DC-NET ERA-NET, INDICATE,
MINERVA series and MICHAEL series. Since 2002 advisor of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and
Activities. Project Officer at the European Commission between 1999 and 2002. Previously: policy advisor for
the High Technology Network of the Tuscany Region, advisor of Italian and European organizations in the area
of electronic publishing, e-learning, online services and applications. Product manager at Tower Tech.
Researcher at Olivetti Pisa, Ivrea and at the Olivetti Advanced Technology Centre in Cupertino (CA).
Claudio Prandoni, University Degree in Mathematics and master in Applied Mathematics. He has been
consultant of the Multimedia and Telematic Applications Center of Consorzio Pisa Ricerche since July 2001, as
part of the research and development staff. In January 2003 he started working as a consultant for Metaware
Spa, where he was project manager of the CASPAR IP. In April 2011 he joined Promoter to support the
technical coordination of the LINKED HERITAGE Best Practice Network. He has been involved in several
projects of the European Commission, especially targeted at the tourism and cultural heritage sectors, in FP5,
FP6, FP7, eTEN, eContent+ and CIP ICT-PSP. In the last years he was project manager of the EUROMUSE
and HARMOSEARCH projects and was involved in the work of DC-NET, INDICATE, LINKED HERITAGE
and EUROPEANA PHOTOGRAPHY projects.
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Responsible for the upgrade of the EAGLE Portal (T5.2)
Responsible for the EAGLE project website and web presence (T6.3)
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B3.2a. Chosen approach
The BPN will operate over a period of 36 months (3 years).
There are four types of activities:
1. Managing the project, performance monitoring and evaluation (WP1)
2. Consensus building within the BPN and enlarging the network (WP2)
3. Large-scale implementation in real-life context, which consists in:
a. Medatata model, mapping and ingestion to Europeana (WP3)
b. Implementation of the Aggregation and Image Management (AIM) Infrastructure (WP4)
c. Implementation of the EAGLE platform and services and user validation (WP5)
4. Disseminating the results, awareness-raising and definition of a suitable sustainability and exploitation
plan (WP6)
B3.2a.1 Managing the project, performance monitoring and evaluation (WP1)
WP1 is responsible for the management of the whole project. This involves the administrative management,
responsible for reporting to the EC and for the financial monitoring, and the executive management responsible
for the development of the EAGLE project from a technical point of view (e.g. software tools development and
partner/user training; ensuring access to the services of the EAGLE platform; oversight of workplan progress
from the technical aspects; technical risk management; etc) in close and regular liaison with all partners. The
work package is also responsible for leading and guiding the BPN in the direction as set out in this proposal.
The project management oversees the credibility of the cost/schedule estimates, priorities, risks, and
implementation process. It approves the deliverables and monitors their realisation.
Project monitoring and quality check procedures will be set-up to gather information - both quantitative and
qualitative - about the progresses of the significant activities of the project and thereby to reduce the amount of
uncertainty and to ensure that all the milestones are met. A first step is to establish the definitive success factors
and performance indicators, starting from the ones defined in Table 5. Consequently, WP1 will monitor the
performance of the project according to these indicators. The measurement procedures will help the EAGLE
organization after the project phase to take informed decisions and to ensure that it stays on track in fulfilling its
mission. Timely, relevant and accurate information is a prerequisite to good decision-making.
B3.2a.2 Consensus building within the BPN and enlarging the network (WP2)
The BPN consists of content providers from the same collection domain (ancient epigraphy) but all of them
have their own home-grown traditions and practices in handling their collections. Building a shared vision of
the envisaged digital resource on epigraphy and a web-based discovery-to-delivery (d2d) model and reaching
consensus on the large-scale implementation of a demand-supply chain with Europeana are all pre-conditional
to the implementation activities of the other work packages, in particular WP3 and WP5, and for achieving
successful project results in general. Consensus building is therefore a crucial activity embracing stakeholder
concurrence on scope, requirements understanding, conceptual design, and an agreed understanding of the use
of standards and best practices in the field. These best practices and standards encompass all aspects of the
demand-supply chain and d2d logistics, including homogenising metadata and terminologies, multi-linguality,
georeferencing, delivery services and rights management. The consensus building activity should ensure that all
the BPN participants reach the same level of knowledge and understanding on all issues to be addressed and
agree on the conceptual model, the best practices and the standards to be adopted, and how to exploit the
services developed in EAGLE and engage with new potentially interested users. In order to achieve this, the
work package WP2 will set up a number of Working Groups and carry out consensus building meetings and
training workshops. A complementary activity of the BPN in the framework of this work package will be the
active participation in the Europeana Community to achieve full alignment, compatibility and integrated
services between EAGLE and Europeana.
Three Working Groups are planned to be established:
 the first one on content curation and translation, led by UNIROMA1;
 the second one on content harmonization (including GIS and terminologies), led by UHEI;
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the third one on IPR and user engagement, led by PLUS.
Aim of the Working Groups’ activities is to provide guidelines and recommendations to ensure the continuous
provision and delivery of qualitative and quantitative attractive content by the EAGLE BPN, including the
vocabularies and terminologies to be used to enrich and harmonise the content, the possibilities to adequately
georeference the content, the rights management issues and requirements to be taken into account, the ways to
engage with potentially interested users and the curation of EAGLE content, with special emphasis on
translations – thus providing a basis for future translations of inscriptions in other European languages.
Best Practice reports will be delivered to summarise the results of the networking activities, with the aim on the
one hand to harmonize strategies and practices of the BPN, on the other hand to guide the content providers and
consumers (both the BPN participants and the users who want to join the EAGLE community) on how to apply
the agreed standards and practices.
Six focused workshops, two dedicated training events and two international conferences will be organised with
the aim to present and illustrate the agreed methods, standards and practices to all the participants of the BPN
and to other possible interested users, to train content providers on how to implement such procedures, to
engage the user community and to attract new content providers and stakeholders to the EAGLE network.
Content providers from outside the Consortium will be encouraged to join the Best Practice Network and to
contribute their content.
The partners who already expressed their interest and the intention to cooperate with the project (see Annexes)
will be the starting point for the enlargement of the network. External cooperations will be formalised by mean
of a Cooperation Agreement, whose signature will grant access and participation to the EAGLE Working
Groups and to the Advisory Board (see B3.3.5).
B3.2a.3 Large-scale implementation in real-life context (WP3, WP4, WP5)
Starting from the guidelines produced in the consensus building phase, WP3, WP4 and WP5 focus on the
implementation of the d2d procedures, infrastructure and services, thus allowing content providers to ingest
their content into Europeana and content consumers to make use of the dedicated services offered by the
EAGLE platform. The starting point of the high-level conceptual design and conceptualization of the demandsupply chain and d2d architecture is the sketch given in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1 - EAGLE conceptual design
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Figure 2 shows how the different tasks and services that will be developed in WP3, WP4 and WP5 will form
the architecture of EAGLE system.
Seman c Mapping: local dic onaries onto
EAGLE dic onaries
WP3
WP3
WP3
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format onto EAGLE format
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CBIR
Index
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AIM Infrastructure
Figure 2 - EAGLE architecture
The overall architecture consists of three groups of services. The first one facilitates metadata ingestion and
content upload. These services support functionalities such as OAI-PMH harvesting, metadata mapping and
transformation, storage, indexing, searching and browsing. The second group consists of the semantic
processing tools for cleansing and enriching the ingested metadata. Appropriate annotation and group editing
tools will allow for metadata normalisation and quality control through reconciliation with external authority
files and repositories and several enrichment processes. Finally, the third group provides the portal services
concerning presentation, browsing, search and retrieval of aggregated EAGLE data and the metadata export
tools.
Medatata model, mapping and ingestion to Europeana (WP3)
WP3 is one of the Core WPs of the EAGLE project as it consists of all the activities related to metadata
harmonisation, enrichment and delivery to Europeana. First step is the elaboration of a metadata model which
addresses the specific needs of epigraphy, based on existing standards and recommendations from other
Europeana projects. Then it addresses all the specific activities that are needed locally to harmonise the content
coming from different sources and to prepare it for the ingestion process: the implementation of the agreed
standards and protocols, the preparation of the necessary mappings for the metadata conversions, the actual
ingestion and publication of the content to Europeana, including appropriate disambiguation, since some of the
items are present in more than one repository, etc. Finally content providers can check, enrich and contextualise
their metadata thanks to the data curation tools developed in WP4.
Implementation of the Aggregation and Image Management (AIM) Infrastructure (WP4)
With input from WP2 (agreed standards and protocols, best practices and recommendations) and in close
liaison with WP3 (content harmonisation, ingestion and enrichment), WP4 goes ahead with the actual
implementation of the metadata aggregator service and the interoperability with the Europeana metadata
ingestion tools. WP4 takes care of the Index, the Search services and corresponding search API. WP4 supports
also the semi-automated cleaning of metadata (data curation tools). WP4 also develops and makes operational
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the services for image searching and recognition that allow users to retrieve information concerning epigraphs
by taking a picture of them.
Aggregation:
EAGLE will aggregate metadata to Europeana using the workflow illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3 - EAGLE aggregation workflow
The aggregation workflow consists of seven processing phases and three control phases. Each phase is
responsible for specific services all needed to ensure the quality of the ingestion process.
Processing phases:
1. Harvesting-delivery is the first phase and it is responsible to ingest the metadata from the repositories
placed at providers site. We do not use a predefined harvesting format at this phase since we need to
harvest, index and store all the available metadata from the Content providers. It is an interface for
different methods of data delivery including:
 OAI-PMH
 FTP upload/download
The data format will be XML. The content providers will have the ability to declare the upload as:
 Complete (new or updated or deletes).
 Partial (new or updated or mixed).
2. Import, Parsing and Indexing allows unified access to data. With this tool all Content Provider data is
structurally accessible the same way, e.g. XPATH-like access.
3. Versioning is the third phase and is responsible to compare new uploads with old uploads. The services
included in this phase are:
 Items get mapped by similarity of attributes.
 Manual edits/enrichment on old versions of items are transferred to new versions.
 Old items that were not (manually) edited/enriched can be overwritten.
 Resolves conflicts that happen on edits inside or outside the system on the same attribute.
4. Semantic Mapping will provide the service for assigning semantics to the harvested metadata. It will
assist to manually map Providers fields to a reference schema. The mapping transformations will be
stored and the provider will be able to edit them at any point if necessary. It will support value
concatenation (many-to-one mappings) and conditions with one-to-many mappings. Providers that have
metadata in supported known formats might be able to omit this step (use stored transformations from
selected schemas to the reference schema based on existing crosswalks).
5. Value Mapping, Normalization will take existing attribute values and produce different/edited values.
In particular:
 It will enable providers to resolve data issues, e.g. map own terminology list to selected
terminology lists.
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
It will then automatically normalize data e.g. dates, geographical locations, nationality/language,
name writing convention to Europeana standards.
6. Enrichment will enable the addition of data that is not in the original metadata (e.g. empty fields, fields
that take values from controlled vocabularies).
7. Export-Publish will create the OAI-PMH repository with Europeana enabled data. The OAI-ORE
standard will be investigated for making available complex objects representations.
Control phases:
1. Presentation & Search is responsible for previewing the metadata in the Europeana test environment.
2. Analysis & Statistics will provide detailed analysis and statistics of metadata contributed by a provider
(i.e. number of items imported, total values per field etc.).
3. Quality Control tools (Content Checker and Vocabulary Checker) will automatically check and report
on Content Provider’s data (i.e. missing values, malformed data). Error reports and warnings from the
tools can be used to edit semantic mappings, value mappings and/or edit items until the Provider’s data
successfully passes the Quality Control checks.
The implementation will be based on the state-of-the art software services of the D-NET package developed
within the DRIVER and DRIVER-II projects. D-NET is already capable of achieving the goals of EAGLE, but
will be further enhanced and completed with an advanced web portal (WP5) and with semantic-based
enrichment services to address special search requirements arising in the target environment.
The infrastructure will be populated (WP3) with content in the form of metadata records uploaded by the
EAGLE content providers or directly harvested from the EAGLE archives, if they provide an OAI-PMH
protocol interface. Such records will be appropriately transformed and enriched to conform to a common
EAGLE metadata format (WP3). The so-obtained aggregated data will be curated through special tools, i.e.,
Authority File Manager and Metadata Editor, by experts in the field.
Image retrieval:
The image search and recognition service is composed of a number of components:
 Image feature extractor
o This is the component that given an image (to be added to the database or to be used as a
query), analyzes its visual content to generate a visual descriptor. Visual descriptors are
mathematical description of the image visual information that can be used to compare different
images, judge their similarity, and identify common content. In the project we will use both
local and global visual descriptors to better tune the retrieval algorithms.
 Image indexer
o In order the retrieval and recognition process to be executed efficiently and effectively, visual
descriptors extracted from images have to be inserted in an index for efficient similarity search.
This component analyze the visual descriptors and prepare them to be inserted in the CBIR
index.
 CBIR Index
o The CBIR index allows similarity searches on image visual descriptors to be executed very
efficiently even in presence of huge quantity of images. The techniques that will be used in the
project were tested with datasets consisting of hundred millions of images. Note that similarity
searching is needed both for image retrieval and image content recognition.
 Image training database
o In the project we intend to create recognizers for a number of epigraphs “selected” by the
content providers. The scenario that we have in mind is that a user takes a picture of an
epigraph with its mobile phone and we provide him/her with information related to the
epigraph. In order to build the recognizers of the selected epigraphs, we need a training set of
images (to be given to us by the content providers) for each epigraph. The higher the number of
images in the training set of a given epigraph, the best the performance of the recognizer. The
image training database contains the visual descriptors of the images contained in the training
sets of the selected epigraphs and provide efficient retrieval functionality on these descriptors.
 Image recognizer
o The image recognizer, given an image query, uses the image training database to decide if the
query image contains one of the recognizable epigraphs.
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By using the above components and interacting with the rest of the EAGLE infrastructure, three different
workflows will be implemented to support respectively image searching, image recognition, and image
ingestion, as depicted in the picture below.
Figure 4 - EAGLE Image searching, recognition and ingestion workflow
ISTI-CNR has developed a very effective technique for executing these task in the VISITO Tuscany project
(www.visitotuscany.it) which was coordinated by ISTI-CNR itself. Using VISITO Tuscany, tourists can obtain
information on 200 monuments in Tuscany by simply taking a picture with their smartphones. Image
recognition techniques identify the monument in the picture to provide the user with the associated information.
In the EAGLE project we intend to leverage on the technique developed in VISITO Tuscany to be able to
recognize epigraphs.
Implementation of the EAGLE platform and services and user validation (WP5)
WP5 consists in the implementation of the EAGLE Portal and End-user specific services according to the
requirements coming from the scenarios and use cases developed in collaboration with a dedicated Working
Group in WP2.
The content providing participants will actively involve their user communities for the gathering of user
requirements and for the validation phase. From the moment that a user of Europeana (or any other search
site/portal/social networking site) finds specific collection information of his/her interest, the way in which the
user will be led to the actual digital resource and will experience each step in the d2d process (request, locate,
retrieve, access, consult via a reader/player, download, etc.) is critical to user satisfaction and to the success of
the EAGLE implementation. This is why a specific activity is defined in WP5 for gathering user requirements
starting from the use cases analysis developed in WP2. Europeana’s marketing expertise will provide the
market research information (based on results from conducted user surveys) and the BPN will provide user
groups to draw up the requirements. These requirements are input for the high-level architectural design and for
the test cases used for validation in order to ensure that the requirements are met. This combination will ensure
a strong user-centred approach.
To validate EAGLE’s approach and give visibility to its results, WP5 implements two Flagship Applications:
 A multilingual and not OS related Mobile Application that will make selected content of the central
repository available to visitors of museums, cities and archaeological sites where some of the
inscriptions contained in the EAGLE repository are visible.
 A Storytelling Application to enrich, contextualise and link the epigraphs one to each other and with
other related information available in Europeana’s Linked Open Data cloud.
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B3.2a.4 Disseminating the results, awareness-raising and definition of a suitable sustainability and
exploitation plan (WP6)
WP6 is responsible for the dissemination activities to raise awareness about the objectives and results of the
project, thus attracting new users to the EAGLE portal and new content providers and stakeholders to the BPN.
Each partner of the project will be actively contributing to this activity. Targeted dissemination (e.g. at the main
international conferences), an inscription-themed documentary series with a related teaser video tailored for the
Web and the integration of EAGLE collections with Wikipedia are geared towards maximizing the impact and
visibility of EAGLE and scheduled in the dissemination plan. Direct cooperation with Europeana and other
sister projects will be achieved mainly through the organization of a dedicated Epigraphy Virtual Exhibition,
cross-mailings and co-ordination of web activities. For further details on the planned dissemination and
awareness-raising activities please refer to section B3.6. Dissemination / Use of Results.
Moreover this work package will be in charge of the analysis of the business cases to describe the vision of the
demand-supply chain and discovery to delivery (d2d) logistics organization in which the large-scale
implementation will be deployed. This will the basis for the exploitation plan which will outline the
organisation, the process, roles and responsibilities, the costs and finance model (on the basis of cost recovery).
The plan will include information on the success factors and performance indicators and financial forecasts for
the exploitation stage (after the project duration).
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B3.2b. Work plan
B3.2b.1 Timing of Work Packages and their components
The EAGLE project is divided in 6 Work Packages, whose detailed description can be found in Part A:
 WP1: Project management
 WP2: Networking and best practices
 WP3: Metadata model, mapping and ingestion
 WP4: EAGLE Aggregator and Image Management infrastructure
 WP5: End-user dedicated services
 WP6: Dissemination and exploitation
Work packages 1-6 and their interdependencies are summarised in the graph of Figure 5 below.
Figure 5 – WP interdepencies
Figure 6 below shows the schedule of the different work package tasks and their deliverables. Those are then
summarized in Part A.
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Figure 6 – GANTT chart
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B3.2b.2 Performance monitoring table
Performance monitoring is carried out on the basis of success indicators and performance measurement
throughout and after the funding phase. The results of performance measurement and evaluation (indicators and
their values) will be part of the progress reporting to the Commission and will be used as input for the
exploitation plan.
The success and impact of the results of the project can be measured in the following areas:
1. Content provision to Europeana (based on quantity and quality available through the EAGLE
aggregator and Europeana).
2. Achievement of economies of scale through use of the same infrastructure (shared repository, Search
API and metadata aggregator services, data curation services, etc.).
3. User satisfaction.
4. Usage of the content (on the basis of usage statistics from EAGLE Portal, Europeana, and EAGLE
repository).
5. Adoption of best practices by BPN members and content provision by BPN members outside the
Consortium.
6. Effect of promotional activities and awareness raising in research and higher education.
In order to evaluate and monitor the performance of the project with respect to the list of areas identified above,
both quantitative and qualitative indicators will be considered:
 Quantitative indicators address the dimension of the impact of the service and includes, for example,
content quantity and number of website hits. For these indicators numeric success objectives can be
defined.
 Qualitative indicators measures the quality of the service provided in terms of scientific relevance,
content accessibility and usage improvement, service effectiveness and usability. These indicators
require a more complex measurement approach based on evaluation sessions with expert and user
groups.
The following table provides a summarised view of the quantitative indicators adopted and a very rough
quantification of targets, against which the state of achievement of the results can be measured over consecutive
periods of 1 year. To measure and monitor the progress of the project on the basis of the success factors and
performance indicators, baseline measurements will be conducted at a reasonable time during the project.
Indicator No.
Objective/expected
Indicator name
result
Expected
Progress
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
13
26
38
1
2
3
-
7
14
-
750.000
1.5 M
-
4
11
-
7
15
Project
management
1
Milestones met
1
Content
indicators
Quality assurance
3
4
Alignment
of
metadata
with
Europeana
Quantity of quality
content
5
Diversity
6
Diversity
Number
of
deliverables
submitted
Number of successful reviews
Number of partners’ metadata
models mapped to EAGLE’s and
Europeana’s models
Number of items delivered to
Europeana
Number of collections, by
material type (books, archival
records, serials, images, etc.)
delivered
Number of languages covered
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Infrastructure
success
indicators
Diversity
8
Shared use of infra
9
Shared use of infra
10
Shared use of infra
Number of countries covered
-
12
25
5
14
10
14
5
14
Baseline
Measurement
(at M12)
>30%
>60%
-
Baseline
Measurement
(at M24)
>50%
>30%
>60%
>20%
>50%
-
Baseline
Measurement
(at M24)
>50%
-
2-4
4-8
5
10
11
100
200
300
Partner
use
of
metadata
enrichment,
curation
and contextualization tools
Partner use of shared (EAGLE)
repository
Partner
use
of
flagship
appplications
Usage
indicators
Increase in use of the content on
the
institutional
websites
(number of unique accesses)
the EAGLE Portal (number of
unique accesses)
the social sites (number of
embeds)
11
Wider deployment
and use
12
Wider deployment
and use
13
Wider deployment
and use
14
Wider deployment
and use
Increase in downloads from the
institutional repositories
15
Wider deployment
and use
Increase in downloads from the
shared (EAGLE) repositories
BPN success
indicators
16
Networking success
17
Networking success
18
Networking success
Number of new providers
Number of public events
organized by EAGLE
Number of participants in the
events organised by the BPN
19
Dissemination
success
Number of visits to the EAGLE 4000
portal
10000
20000
20
Dissemination
success
Number of ‘share’ actions on 1000
social networks
2000
3000
21
Dissemination
success
Total number of plays of the teaser video
2000
5000
Dissemination
success
Number of quotations of the
EAGLE project (in papers)
15
30
23
Dissemination
success
Number of quotations or links or 30
embeds of the EAGLE project
(Web, including social networks)
100
500
24
Dissemination
success
Number of dissemination events 5
held or participated in by the
partners
10
15
25
Dissemination
success
Quantity of content enriched in Wikipedia Commons
2000
5000
22
63
Baseline
Measurement
(at M12)
Baseline
Measurement
(at M12)
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B3.3. Project management
B3.3.1 Project structure
The consortium brings together multi-disciplinary teams, to address the goals of the proposal. To ensure the
efficient coordination and integration of the different activities and existing or emerging scientific capabilities,
the project will be organized around 6 Work Packages (WPs) with a clear management structure.
The EAGLE project will be coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome (UNIROMA1) which will ensure that
the necessary structures and tools are put in place to achieve the scientific goals of the project, effective
collaborations between partners and exploitation measures. The coordinator will ensure that the partners
comply with the conditions of the Grant Agreement and the Consortium Agreement throughout the project
lifetime.
The management activities will be dedicated to finding solutions for the long-term sustainability of the project’s
results in terms of the legal state of the BPN, its relationship to the scientific community, its internal rules and
procedure and its link to Europeana Foundation. Furthermore, viable alternatives for the financial and
organisational sustainability of the EAGLE network and the EAGLE infrastructure and services will be
developed.
The principles of project management structures, roles, change management, decision-making and conflict
resolution rules are briefly outlined in this paragraph. These will be detailed and formally adopted in the
Consortium Agreement.
The overall management scheme is composed of the Steering Committee, the Management Team and the WP
Leaders.
Moreover an additional body, the Advisory Board, has been planned to involve those external partners which
are willing to cooperate with the project by means of a Cooperation Agreement, including the subcontractors
Europeana Foundation and Wikimedia Italia.
Figure 7 – Management structure
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B3.3.2 Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is the strategic decision-making body of the project in charge of all strategic and
policy decisions to be made during the project lifetime. The Steering Committee will form a sustainable
organisational framework for the BPN and lay the groundwork for forming a regular organisational structure to
operate the EAGLE infrastructure and services. It will include one senior member from each partner and it will
meet periodically during the project at the plenary project meetings, including the kick-off meeting.
EAGLE Steering Committee
Partner
Representative
Role of the partner
Project
Coordination;
UNIROMA1
Silvia Orlandi
Provider
UNIBA
Antonio Felle
Content Provider
UHEI
Christian Witschel
Content Provider
UOXF
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Content Provider
UAH
Joaquin Gomez-Pantoja Content Provider
PLUS
Kurt Schaller
Content Provider
UBB
Ioan Piso
Content Provider
ELTE
Laszlo Borhy
Content Provider
UNIPU
Robert Matijasic
Content Provider
ZRC SAZU
Marjeta Sasel Kos
Content Provider
AUSONIUS
Askold Ivantchik
Content Provider
K.U.LEUVEN Mark Depauw
Metadata Provider
CNR-ISTI
Paolo Manghi
Technology Provider
DAI
Ortwin Dally
Content Provider
CYI
Sorin Hermon
Content Provider
EUREVA
Philippe Martineau
Technology Provider
BSR
Christopher Smith
Content Provider
GOGATE
Nicola Alfarano
Technology Provider
PROMOTER Antonella Fresa
Technical Coordination
Content
The tasks of the SC will include the following responsibilities:
 Strategic orientation of the project.
 Approval of any modifications/deviations to the project workplan, including redefinition of roles.
 Follow-up and validation of the budget (including financial allocation of the EC contribution), and, if
necessary, its redefinition.
 Inclusion or exclusion of participants (due to new insight, no functioning, withdrawals, etc.);
 In case of default by a participants, to review participants roles and budget as well as any new entity to
replace the defaulting participants.
 To monitor any significant difference between planned and actual advancement of participants’ work,
particularly with respect of project results and deliverables.
 Approval of deliverables and periodic/final report prior to the submission to the Commission.
 In case of a deadlock situation within a work package, arbitration on basis of the information provided
by the WP Leaders (see Change and risk management below).
 Approval of the Dissemination and Exploitation Plan.
 Maintenance of the Background list.
 Identification of the Foreground that could be the subject matter of protection and consequential
decisions on dissemination and exploitation activities.
 Allocation of the co-ownership shares over Foreground obtained by several participants.
 Acquisition of rights from third parties and other issues related to the rights of third parties.
Change and risk management
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The SC will be also in responsible for the Change and risk management. During the Project life, critical events
can generate difficulties and require modifications in the research plan, leading to re-scheduling and re-planning
of certain actions and activities.
The procedure to be followed for the necessary changes including the resolution of risky critical
conditions consists of the following steps:
1. The participant that encounters the critical event within the activity she/he is carrying out in a specific
Work package (WP), informs the WP Leader of the difficulty by means of the convened internal
communication flow channels.
2. The WP Leader exchanges the information with the Team of WP Leaders.
3. The Team of WP Leaders elaborates a Risk Managing Activity Plan in order to resolve the critical
situation. Such plan may include relevant decisions concerning reallocation of resources, a partial rescheduling or re-planning of the Project activities and the involvement of other WPs.
4. The Team of WP Leaders submits the Risk Managing Activity Plan for approval to the SC. The SC,
responsible for the technical management of the Project, approves or rejects the plan.
5. The Chairman of the SC finally formalizes the approval of the Risk Managing Activity Plan and
ensures that all partners and team members are informed.
B3.3.3 Management Team
The Management Team consists of:
 the Project Coordinator
 the Technical Coordinator
The Project Coordinator – Prof. Silvia Orlandi - will be responsible for overall management of the project and
will have the following responsibilities:
 Executive Management, which consists of the following main tasks:
o Liaise between the consortium and the European Commission.
o Coordinate the finalization of the consortium agreement.
o Assure that the Steering Committee is set up and made fully operative and receive full
administrative support.
o Be responsible for communicating management, administrative and contractual issues to all the
participants.
o Ensure the signature, by all the contractors, of the Grant Agreement.
o Receive the entire financial contribution from the Commission and manage this contribution by
allocating it to the participants according to the Grant Agreement and the Consortium Agreement.
o Collect and transmit the project deliverables to the Commission.
o Collect and review the scientific and financial reports, to verify their consistency with the project
tasks and to finally submit them to the Commission.
 Financial management, which consists of:
o Carry out the overall administrative and financial execution.
o Prepare annual accounts so that it is possible, at any time, if requested by the Commission or by the
participants, to inform them of the distribution of funds among the participants, specifically the
amounts allocated and the dates of payment to each contractor.
o Ensure that individual financial statements are in line with project activities.
o Ensure that, if applicable, certificating institutions will be contacted in reasonable time to carry out
the required certificate on financial statements.
 Scientific Coordination, i.e. to ensure hierarchical coordination and management and monitoring of
the scientific work of partners and WP leaders, the supervision of the project global critical path as well
as the scientific review of the work performed by the partners including scientific deliverables. For the
technical administration of the projects, the Coordinator relies upon the Technical Coordinator.
The Technical Coordinator – nominated by PROMOTER - will assist the Project Coordinator for the
management of the technical activities in order to ensure their coherent progress. Past experience has shown
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that high quality technical management is crucial to the success of such projects. The Technical Coordinator
will take care of the following tasks:
 Technical Management, i.e. to ensure that the project will deliver the expected outcomes by:
o Organizing technical meeting and phone conferences, providing the means for technical partner
communication and sharing.
o Mediating between technical and other partners and ensure and modulate the flow of information to
make sure software implementation respects the scheduled plans.
o Supervising the evolution of technical activities: typically, design and implementation activities
may imply changes impacting on other implementation activities. Corrective actions must be taken
to overcome the obstacles and still achieve the expected results.
 Project Monitoring, i.e. to organize and schedule the activities, meetings, inputs and outputs of the
overall project by:
o Organizing and timetabling the project meetings.
o Preparing and distributing agenda and minutes for project meetings.
o Requesting regular reporting from all partners to verify tasks, WP, monitor delays, and obtain
precise corrective actions.
o Monitoring resources usage to assure that this fits both the activity plan and the results provided by
the partner and to verify that the actual costs relate correctly to the expected costs.
Project Coordinator and Technical Coordinator will be in regular communication via email, telephone
conferences and through the website. If requested, physical meetings will be organised as well.
Project development control
At six-monthly intervals technical and administrative information will be collected from the partners, who will
be required to deliver to the Technical Coordinator a progress report including:
 summary of the major activities within each WP, problems and actions undertaken.
 any eventual change from the planned activities and the reasons for this
 any future changes to the planned activities which may be considered necessary within the next period
 description of expenditure for the period
 any departure from the planned budget
 any future departure from the budget for the next period
 any management problem encountered
 list of the deliverables with their status: on time, delayed; the date of delivery, etc.
 list of main actual outputs as against those planned in the Description of Work
 financial statement and comparison with the planned resources
 dissemination activities carried out in the period
 dissemination and training events organised or participated in by the partner
 dissemination plan for the next period
 detailed activities planned for the next period
The project partners will furnish this information to the Technical Coordinator in forms to be specified at the
project outset. A named person within each partner organisation will be responsible for each deliverable.
Quality assurance
The project will use quality assurance procedures based on the ISO9000 series of standards. For the project this
means that:
 deliverables will be reviewed by partners not involved in their creation
 versioning and configuration management will be used for all software, documents and other outputs
(e.g. training materials)
 time and resources will be planned, from the start, into the project budgets for documentation and other
reviews
At the kick-off meeting the partners who will be responsible for reviewing each of the project deliverables will
be identified, togggether with the deadlines for deliverables to be submitted to the QA team for review, the time
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allowed for review and the time allowed for changes to the deliverables in response to review comments, inputs
and suggestions. Review will focus on the content, rather than the form, of the deliverables.
Templates and standards for deliverables will be published by the leader of the dissemination WP on the private
area of the project website. These will specify headers and footers, font styles, front pages, use of document
histories and versioning, etc. All deliverables will be created using these templates, and will not be accepted for
review otherwise. Scope notes for deliverables will also be generated if appropriate. However, most of the
partners have extensive EU project experience and so have a good knowledge of what is expected.
Software development protocols and procedures will be based on the Bohem Spiral model, covering test
processes, version control, integration management, API definitions, etc., and will be detailed by the leader of
the technical WP.
The software deliverables will take into account the integration/interoperability requirements of Europeana.
The QA cycle will be as follows:
1. WP leader delivers deliverable to the Technical Coordinator
2. Technical Coordinator forwards deliverable to the partners responsible for QA review.
3. Review carried out, reviewed copy of deliverable returned to author, with copy to Technical
Coordinator
4. WP leaders change the deliverable in response to the review. Updated version delivered to Technical
Coordinator.
5. Technical Coordinator carries out final formal review, to ensure all templates, etc. are complied with.
Any minor adjustments are carried out and final version delivered to Project Coordinator.
6. Project Coordinator forwards deliverable to European Commission Services and places it on project
website.
7. Submitted version of deliverable retained on website until end of project.
The following should be noted:
 The content of the deliverables is the most important material to review. Internal reviewers will have
expertise in the general topic of the deliverable and be able to assess its quality. They will also be
familiar with the overall project, and so able to judge the deliverable’s contribution to the project.
 The Technical Coordinator will carry out occasional spot-checks, to ensure that QA procedures are
being adhered to. While the review of a third party deliverable is not usually the most exciting aspect of
a project, its importance for the overall value of the project cannot be overestimated.
 The Technical Coordinator will monitor the progress of the QA cycle. In order to allow time for review
and for enhancements, the preceding stages must be completed on time. The Technical Coordinator will
be alerted to any possible late deliverables and late reviews and he/she must inform the Project
Coordinator. However, if a delay is detected and cannot be avoided, the Project Coordinator will seek
the permission of the EC project officer to submit a late, but high-quality, deliverable rather than
submitting a weak deliverable on time.
B3.3.4 WP Leaders
The Team of work package leaders is a coordinating body responsible for coordinating the work and the WP
tasks, managing the dependencies across the work packages and resolving all issues at the operational level. It
reports to the Project Coordinator. The team will monitor that the WP leaders respect the rules of the Quality
Assurance Plan, and report on results achieved and resources spent. The team will meet during project meetings
and communicate electronically to conduct the day-to-day running of the Consortium. Ad-hoc meetings will be
held if needed at a more operational level to coordinate progress on specific work packages or issues. The need
for such meetings will be determined by the Project Coordinator in consultation with the WP leaders.
The WP Leaders (one responsible for each WP) will grant the scientific compliance of the activities. The WP
Leaders are appointed on the basis of their experience and know-how about the corresponding WP topic. The
WP Leaders will monitor the progress being made within each WP and will be responsible for identifying risks
and contingency steps to circumvent any delays. The WP Leader will follow the day-to-day planning, progress,
control and successful completion of their work packages and the optimal interaction within the project of their
research team.
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The WP Leaders will be in charge of:
 Coordinating activities within the WP.
 Continuously monitoring the progress of the task participants.
 Ensuring that milestones and deliverables of the task are fulfilled and provided in due time.
 Elaborating progress reports on the state of advancement of each work package.
 Arranging, if needed, special meetings to determine suitable measures to be taken.
 Organizing audio conferences, if considered necessary for the work progress.
B3.3.5 Advisory Board
An Advisory Board will be set-up, whose members will be nominated by the external partners which will sign
a Cooperation Agreement to allow them to actively participate to the activities of the project, including the
subcontractors Europeana Foundation and Wikimedia Italia.
The Advisory Board will provide feedback to help the Management Team and the WP Leaders to shape the
activities of the project in the right direction, thus maximising the impact of the project and contributing to the
enlargement of the EAGLE network. The members of the Advisory Board will contribute to the peer review of
the deliverables, participate to the networking activities, review the EAGLE metadata model and schema,
participate to the testing and validation phase, etc.
B3.3.6 Consortium Agreement
The partners will sign a Consortium Agreement at the commencement of the project, detailing individual
responsibilities, deadlines and outputs to be achieved, together with all other contractual obligations and
processes. The agreement shall indicate how issues arising between partners will be addressed.
The consortium agreement will be the main reference point for managing the project. In synthesis, it will
include:
 Project organization and management structure.
 Definitions of responsibilities of the Steering Committee and establish the decision-making procedures
and rules.
 Individual and collective responsibilities and liabilities of partners towards the consortium and of the
consortium towards the partners.
 Financial management rules.
 Confidentiality and publication conduct.
 IPR access and use and licensing rights and obligations.
 Conflict resolution and disputes procedures, and Applicable law.
Moreover, the Consortium Agreement will contain a clause whereby, in case a partner institution ceased to exist
in the future, the remaining partners would host the corresponding EAGLE content. This will avoid any
decrease in the number of items.
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B3.4. Security, privacy, inclusiveness, interoperability, standards and open-source
Through close liaison between the coordinator, all the other partners and Europeana Foundation, EAGLE will
be well positioned to ensure interoperability and shared solutions and technology.
As Europeana is moving into Open Source and Community sharing practices, the opportunities for full
alignment, compatibility and integrated services will grow. The EAGLE BPN will participate actively in the
Europeana Community and make full use of tools being shared, such as the metadata ingestion dashboard and
the Europeana Search API.
The ingestion of metadata from EAGLE into Europeana is expected to be done on the model followed now by
the Europeana Local projects. The test site EuropeanaLabs will be used to test the ingestion of EAGLE content.
The EAGLE services infrastructure will be realised by relying on the D-NET open source technology
developed by the DRIVER project and on the application framework it offers. This technology consists of an
open service system that enables the creation and maintenance of infrastructures capable of (i) supporting the
construction of Information Spaces of digital objects collected from a number of heterogeneous archives and
(ii) the implementation, on top of such Information Spaces, of service-oriented applications, whose services can
be shared and re-used in the context of others. With respect to this last point D-NET provides also a number of
predefined services for harvesting, aggregation, search and access of objects that can be exploited in building a
digital library application.
To achieve the objective of the EAGLE project, the D-NET technology will be exploited to deliver a reliable
EAGLE distributed service and extended to address the specificities of the target community.
The EAGLE service will rely on (i) the aggregation mechanisms of the D-NET system to federate existing
repositories and to form a EAGLE Information Space and (ii) the set of services implementing the expected
EAGLE functionality on top of such aggregated information space. Because of the intrinsically distributed
nature of the service to be delivered, as well as of the issues resulting from the scale and dynamicity of the
constituents, the most appropriate solution is to build the EAGLE service on an EAGLE own infrastructure.
This infrastructure will consist of a number of EAGLE sites that will be decided during the project in order to
guarantee an appropriate quality of service. The openness and scalability properties of the infrastructure will
permit the future addition of new sites, new services, and the easy and automatic integration of new archives in
the Information Space.
For EAGLE investing in open source solutions means investing in sustainability, because you can share the
costs of development and testing, and share and validate your requirements with those of the heritage
community.
All the work done within EAGLE on standardisation (necessary for compatibility across formats) and on
protocols (required for exchanging content), will adhere to the W3C recommendations (XML, URI, etc.),
international best practices and standards in the cultural heritage sector (MARC21, EAD, Dublin Core, METS,
etc.), open interoperability standards (OAI-PMH, SRU/W, etc.) and will make use to the fullest extent of
existing open source solutions.
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B3.5. Resources to be committed
The EAGLE participants qualify for an 80% EC contribution to the eligible costs. All the participants will cofinance the remaining costs with their own resources.
B3.3.1 Personnel costs
The Personnel costs is the most important category of costs, representing 85% of the total costs of the project.
All the participants will use an appropriate mix of senior, middle and junior staff to ensure that the project
activities are carried out in the most cost efficient way.
The specific average monthly rates for the different participants are the following:
Participant name Average monthly cost (€) Description
1 director (9%): 9840 €/month
1 full professor (9%): 6765 €/month
1 associate professor (9%): 4674 €/month
1 technical staff (9%): 4305 €/month
1 administrative staff (9%): 3936 €/month
UNIROMA1
4.800
1 senior researcher temporary (9%): 6200 €/month
1 researcher temporary (9%): 4712 €/month
1 technical staff temporary (9%): 3720 €/month
1 administrative staff temporary (9%): 3720 €/month
1 research fellow (9%): 3348 €/month
1 junior research fellow (9%): 1860 €/month
UNIBA
5.650
1 associate professor (25%): 6650 €/month
2 research fellow (25% each): 2000 €/month
1 professor (5%): 7450 €/month
UHEI
4.975
3 collaborators (5% each): 4975 €/month
1 new collaborator (80%): 4975 €/month
UOXF
4.800
1 post-doc (90%): 4400 €/month
1 full professor (30%): 3.833 €/month
1 full professor (20%): 4.321 €/month
UAH
3.200
1 associate professor (20%): 3.116 €/month
2 research fellows (100% each): 2844 €/month
1 professor (20%): 8000 €/month
PLUS
5.050
1 dissertant (20%): 3800 €/month
1 administrative resp. (20%): 2400 €/month
1 senior researcher (40%): 2200 €/month
UBB
1.900
2 post-doc researchers (30% each): 1700 €/month
ELTE
3.400
1 senior research fellow (33%): 3400 €/month
1 assistant research fellow (33%): 1800 €/month
1 rector and full professor (10%): 6575 €/month
UNIPU
1.970
1 assistant (90%): 1400 €/month
ZRC SAZU
3.250
1 post-doc researcher (70%): 2680 €/month
AUSONIUS
3.000
1 post-doc researcher (50%): 3500 €/month
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7.000
CNR-ISTI
4.200
DAI
4.685
CYI
4.700
EUREVA
6.750
BSR
3.450
GOGATE
5.045
PROMOTER
5.600
1 research assistant (50%): 2500 €/month
1 professor (2 p/m): 8300 €/month
1 professor (4.5 p/m): 7000 €/month
1 researcher (4 p/m): 5000 €/month
1 post-doc researcher (11.5 p/m): 7500 €/month
1 research director (10%): 9594 €/month
1 researcher (15%): 4551 €/month
1 researcher temporary (15%): 3720 €/month
1 technical staff temporary (15%): 3224 €/month
1 administrative staff temporary (15%): 3224 €/month
1 research fellow (15%): 1860 €/month
1 senior mentor (10%): 5300 €/month
1 researcher/coordinator (10%): 5000 €/month
1 programmer (50%): 4600 €/month
1 researcher (30%): 4600 €/month
1 professor (3 p/m): 7600 €/month
1 associate professor (5 p/m): 6000 €/month
1 researcher (25 p/m): 4500 €/month
1 post-doc researcher (6 p/m): 4000 €/month
1 technical assistant (5 p/m): 3500 €/month
1 project manager / software architect (20%): 9158 €/month
1 senior developer (20%): 7378 €/month
1 developer (60%): 5738 €/month
1 head-librarian (33%): 5200 €/month
1 technical and administrative resp. (33%): 3200 €/month
1 collaborator (33%): 2000 €/month
1 project managers (40%): 8400 €/month
1 technical manager (30%): 3700 €/month
1 project assistant (30%): 2000 €/month
2 project managers (25% each): 8400 €/month
1 technical manager (25%): 3000 €/month
2 project assistants (15% each): 2200 €/month
B3.3.2 Detailed breakdown of other cost items
The following table provides a summarized view of the “Other costs” per participant. These costs include:
 Travel and subsistence as specified in the project work plan, for project meetings, working groups
meetings workshops, public events, etc. An allowance of 1.500 Euros per trip is made on average (for 2
persons). For budgetary reasons plenary project meetings will where possible be organised in
conjunction with other project events, such as the International Conferences and Workshops, as
outlined in section B2.3. These costs also includes the travel costs for the review meetings (for the WP
leaders), the travel costs for the Project Coordinator to participate to relevant events and meetings
organised by the EC and by Europeana and its related projects and the WP6 Task leader (UNIROMA)
travel costs for networking around Europe (complementary to the workshops).
 15.000 euros (about 5.000 euros per year) allocated to the Project Coordinator to establish cooperation
agreements with potential new content providers who are willing to join the consortium as affiliated
partners, thus enlarging the EAGLE network. These costs will be devoted to reimburse travel expenses
and other direct costs that these new content providers may incur in.
 8.000 Euros to UNIROMA1 to cover the costs required for the design and printing of the dissemination
materials.
 13.000 Euros to PROMOTER to cover the costs required for the design of the logo and of the graphic
elements and guidelines.
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8.000 Euros to UNIROMA1 to cover the costs required for the printing and publishing of two largescale publications, printed and published during the project lifetime, which summarises the knowledge
acquired and distilled through the work of the BPN and which is planned as Proceedings of the EAGLE
International Conferences.
8.000 Euros to UNIROMA1 and EUREVA to cover the costs required to host and organise the two
main international conferences.
4.000 Euros to UNIROMA1, SRC ZAZU and CYI to cover the costs required to host and organise the
international workshops, including the kick-off meeting.
Partner
UNIROMA1
UNIBA
UHEI
UOXF
UAH
PLUS
UBB
ELTE
UNIPU
Description
Kick off meeting (1-2 pers.)
6 consortium meetings, including 3 workshops to be organised
jointly with the plenary meetings (2 pers.)
2 public Conferences (2 pers.)
3 review meetings (1 pers.)
1 annual travel to liaise with EC and Europeana (1 pers.)
2 annual travel for networking around Europe (1 pers.)
Networking (travel costs for affiliated partners)
Dissemination materials
Publications (Conference Proceedings)
International Conference
Kick-off meeting
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Cost (€) Total costs (€)
1.000
9.000
3.000
2.000
2.500
4.500
15.000
8.000
8.000
8.000
4.000
1.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
9.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
65.000
13.000
15.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
9.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
15.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
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6 consortium meetings, including 3 workshops
ZRC SAZU
Workshop
AUSONIUS
K.U.LEUVEN
CNR-ISTI
DAI
CYI
Workshop
EUREVA
International Conference
BSR
GOGATE
3 consortium meetings (2 pers.)
PROMOTER
Logo and web graphics
Total
B3.3.3 Detailed breakdown of subcontracting costs
Three subcontracts are envisaged.
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9.000
3.000
1.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
4.000
1.000
17.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
9.000
3.000
1.000
13.000
to be organised
to be organised
9.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
15.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
15.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
2.000
4.000
1.000
19.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
8.000
1.000
21.000
to be organised
9.000
3.000
1.000
4.500
1.000
13.000
5.500
to be organised
9.000
3.000
2.000
13.000
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25.000 Euros to CNR-ISTI to pay for subcontracting costs for the Europeana Foundation to support
the project and help Europeana to meet the costs involved in making content accessible via Europeana.
The Europeana Foundation will support the project by:
a. harvesting, enrich and make available the content;
b. giving advice on standards and metadata;
c. giving access to the Europeana Content Checker, Ingestion Service and to EuropeanaLabs;
d. ensuring participation of the consortium in the Europeana decision and dissemination making
instruments such as the Europeana shared site and the working groups at Europeana and
Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (CCPA).
15.000 to UHEI to pay for subcontracting costs for the Wikimedia Italia to integrate EAGLE
collections with Wikipedia through the publication of the EAGLE collections to Wikimedia Commons.
Dissemination through Wikimedia projects will guarantee great visibility and reuse of images and
resources. Wikimedia Italia will support the project by:
a. harvesting, enriching and making available the content though Wikimedia Commons;
b. creating specific templates and categories for the project resources;
c. informing the community of volunteers and the Wikimedia movement of the content upload,
with the aim of crowdsourcing the content curation of the resources in different Wikimedia
pojects, such as Wikipedia and Wikisource
19.000 Euros to UNIROMA1 to pay for subcontracting costs for QED Productions Inc Ltd to
produce:
o a teaser video tailored for the Web in two versions. The teaser will feature fresh insights into
the content of some of the inscriptions, thus showing how EAGLE and its Flagship Mobile App
can open windows into the personal lives of people who existed two thousand years ago. The
highly optimised budget is for a total of about 4.5 minutes of animation. This will result in two
commercials tailored for a specific target audience – for instance, tourists and schools.
Animation constitutes a high production value, which will make the videos stand out in the
currently overcrowded panorama of web video. One of the best animators in Italy will be
employed to this end. The commercials will be mastered in HD, chiefly for delivery over the
web, but with the possibility of theatrical and broadcast exhibition. A lower-definition version
for mobile devices will also be rendered. All IPR associated with the promo will be cleared to
allow its free distribution: more precisely, the makers will grant a non-exclusive license to the
EAGLE Consortium, so that the video can be distributed as widely as possible via embedding,
DVD give-aways, and - if possible- broadcast and theatrical exhibition. A single Vimeo page
used for all embedding will provide a set of useful metrics to measure the impact of the video
(number of embeds, number of total and partial plays, geographical spread of users, etc.).
o the script, budget and production plan for a narrative documentary centered on the life stories
of common Romans – the seed of each story being an inscription featured in EAGLE. The
documentary will be researched, scripted and pitched to perspective commissioners.
QED Productions Inc Ltd was selected to make the promotional video since it provides (in the person
of its CEO, director Luca Giberti, who co-authored the EAGLE proposal) a truly unique combination of
knowledge, skills and insight into the project, which cannot be found anywhere else; these include
extensive directing, copywriting and producing skills stemming from several years' worth of experience
in writing/communicating/disseminating EC projects and in producing promotional videos. From a
strictly formal and legal point of view: 1) QED Productions Inc Ltd is already present in the official list
of authorised subcontractors for the University of Rome "La Sapienza" -- in order to be admitted to
such list, companies need to prove that they are regularly enrolled to the Chamber of Commerce and
that they satisfy a number of financial and legal obligations related to transparency and anti-corruption
laws. 2) Under Italian law (art. 125, co. 8, D.Lgs 163/2006 et ss.mm.ii), subcontracting up to a total
amount of 40000 Euros can be awarded directly without a competition; see original text of the law:
http://www.codiceappalti.it/art._125._lavori_servizi_e_forniture_in_economia.htm
(item
8
in
particular) and Sapienza's own internal memo sent to the departments as a reminder of the above:
http://www.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/allegati/111125_0076345.pdf.
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B3.6. Dissemination / Use of Results
The focus of EAGLE dissemination is to increase awareness among epigraphy stakeholders, but also within the
wider public. News alerts, blogs, newsletters, surveys and calls for comment will address a pan-European list of
key stakeholders. The Dissemination and Awareness plan will be reviewed and updated throughout the entire
project period to reflect possible refocusing of user-oriented and exploitation work. The latter aims to reach the
following goals:
1. to spread the knowledge of a large amount of high-value eidetic and textual records in the epigraphic
field by:
a. making them easily and freely accessible to tourists, interested users, classical Latin and Greek
culture enthusiasts, researchers and scholars, through the EAGLE portal;
b. providing highlights of the EAGLE collection by liaising with Europeana to set up a dedicated
Epigraphy Virtual Exhibition;
c. providing highlights also on the EAGLE portal, in the guise of thematic collections of
inscriptions, of useful narratives produced through the Storytelling Application (see B2.3.3), of
short commentaries by luminaries in the field;
d. developing an inscription-themed documentary series and producing a related teaser video to
exploit and give visibility to the vast repertory of human characters and dramatic events evoked
or portrayed in the various EAGLE items;
e. integrating EAGLE collections with Wikipedia through the publication of the EAGLE
collections to Wikimedia Commons; on one hand, this will allow users of Wikipedia to directly
access a plethora of new significant historical sources; on the other hand, it will also enable
Europeana to tap into the large user base of Wikipedia;
2. to promote progressively increasing access and usage of the EAGLE portal, by featuring links to the
EAGLE portal on other popular online resources for culture, as well as by leveraging online resources
such as social networks and popular blogs and fora;
3. to foster the enlargement of EAGLE’s prestigious network with the opportunity to deploy a large
quantity of epigraphy records related to Europeana;
4. to encourage the launch of a programme for curation and further translation based on a systematic
approach that organises epigraphic content that has already been digitised and makes it accessible via a
dedicated curation and translation wiki;
5. to detect new markets for intercepting potential beneficiaries of the foreseen results in order to promote
new business activities related to culture.
All partners are committed to dissemination, and will prepare the dissemination material during project
development. All dissemination activities will be conducted under the co-ordination of UNIROMA1, which
will ensure the delivery of a consistent message to the outside world. Each partner is committed to share its own
contact network and to set up promotional and dissemination strategies in its undertaken activities.
In particular, the dissemination objectives will be reached thanks to several initiatives, described below.
Defining EAGLE’s graphic identity
A branding and image strategy will be effected for the EAGLE project to achieve the best possible visibility on
a variety of platforms. In particular, this task will define the following key aspects:
1. an EAGLE ‘brand personality’, summarising what EAGLE stands for with a short and easy to
remember sentence (tagline);
2. EAGLE’s own 'look-and-feel', originating from its brand personality, to be consistently declined across
all platforms used during the dissemination;
3. an EAGLE logo, consistent with the above, to be highly visible during all the activities in the
dissemination plan;
4. a unique EAGLE web domain address, consistent with the above and easy to remember and spell for
EU users.
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Reinforcing EAGLE Web presence
Consistently with the principles established above, EAGLE will develop an online presence that will be central
to all dissemination strategies and activities. More specifically, EAGLE will feature:
1. a dedicated services portal, optimised for the most common browsers and platforms, with highlights
from the EAGLE collections;
2. optimisation for the most important search engines to ensure free highly-relevant online visibility;
3. free access to the whole site for all users to guarantee maximum access to the wealth of information
available;
4. a dedicated Epigraphy Virtual Exhibition, organised in collaboration with Europeana to bring highlights
of the EAGLE collections to the attention of a wider audience;
5. an effective and fast internal search engine with an easy-to-use interface for queries;
6. targeted newsletters and informative materials, that will be prepared and emailed to the user group of
subscribers that will register to the site;
7. targeted mailings with links to the EAGLE portal, which will be posted in related mailing lists, digests
and bulletins.
8. showcases on other popular online resources for culture, such as the Digital meets Culture portal (
www.digitalmeetsculture.net ) featured by PROMOTER
Given the limited budget that EC projects can allot to Dissemination, promotion of EAGLE through traditional
mass media is not economically viable. This is why online presence and promotion are instrumental for
reaching the general public – an objective which has generally eluded Europeana initiatives so far. Key
actions/policies in this respect will be:
1. support of viral visibility for the content available on the EAGLE website, in order to help spread
online world-of-mouth about the research progress and the wealth of material available; to this end,
EAGLE will set up dedicated channels on high-traffic video portals like DailyMotion.com and
YouTube.com where highlights of the content available on EAGLE will be available, generating
additional exposure for the initiative;
2. along the same ‘viral’ line of action, EAGLE will set up and use dedicated EAGLE profiles on the main
social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), as well as promote events and initiatives through said
social networks, which have been proved to be effective to this end;
3. EAGLE collections will be published also into Wikimedia Commons thanks to the support of
Wikimedia Italia; this will give to the general users of Wikipedia the possibility to directly access (and
reference in articles) a plethora of significant historical sources and, on the other hand, it will allow
Europeana to tap into the large user base of Wikipedia;
4. clever use of embedded videos: the rich repertory of human characters and dramatic events evoked or
portrayed in the various EAGLE items is the ideal subject matter for an inscription-themed
documentary series; the latter will be researched and scripted as part of the dissemination effort of the
project; based on this work, a teaser video, tailored for the Web, will be produced, featuring fresh,
insightful testimonials from epigraphists and historians; the teaser will exist in shorter (bumper/trailer)
and longer versions, which will be used for boosting EAGLE’s online presence;
5. a dedicated forum will be activated to stimulate a participative process to improve the results of the
activities and/or to detect potential subjects interested in becoming part of the consortium by sharing
their own content to enrich the library.
The above actions reflect and exploit two important and growing trends of the internet, i.e. the increasing
popularity of video content and of social networks.
The EAGLE teaser video and documentary
A teaser video tailored for the Web will be produced in two versions. The teaser will feature fresh insights into
the content of some of the inscriptions, thus showing how EAGLE and its Flagship Mobile App can really open
windows into the personal lives of people who existed two thousand years ago. This illustrates how the role of
EAGLE goes well beyond that of a convenient repository of useful snippets of historical information: it
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provides everyone with a way into the mindset and the daily lives within ancient Rome, at the very root of our
present civilisation.
The about 4.5 minutes of animation will result in two commercials tailored for a specific target audience – for
instance, tourists and schools. The commercials will be mastered in HD, chiefly for delivery over the web, but
with the possibility of theatrical and broadcast exhibition. A lower-definition version for mobile devices will
also be rendered.
All IPR associated with the promo will be cleared to allow its free distribution: more precisely, the makers will
grant a non-exclusive license to the EAGLE Consortium, so that the video can be distributed as widely as
possible via embedding, DVD give-aways, and - if possible- broadcast and theatrical exhibition. A single
Vimeo page used for all embedding will provide a set of useful metrics to measure the impact of the video
(number of embeds, number of total and partial plays, geographical spread of users, etc.).
The plethora of human stories and rich emotional tapestry brought into focus by the various EAGLE
inscriptions naturally lends itself as the subject of a narrative documentary. The latter will be centered on the
life stories of common Romans – the seed of each story being an inscription featured in EAGLE. The
documentary will be researched, scripted and pitched to perspective commissioners.
Both the project leader, Prof. Silvia Orlandi, and the director of the teaser and documentary, Dr. Luca Giberti,
have long-established working relationships with many stakeholders in the broadcast industry worldwide
(commissioners, producers, presenters, directors of funding bodies). In particular, Silvia Orlandi has contributed
significantly to the development and production of the BBC series Meet The Romans, which has met with great
success. All this will facilitate the pitching process and make the garnering of an eventual commission for
broadcast more likely. A commission for a TV documentary would be a great opportunity for the successful
exploitation of EAGLE content, as well as a tremendous vehicle for the overall visibility of EAGLE.
Promoting the EAGLE community
EAGLE will establish a broader community consisting of both professionals in the epigraphy domain, and of
perspective groups of end-users. Initially, community engagement will focus on existing relationships between
partners and other scholars in the field, as well as on the existing end-users of the partners (e.g. students,
scholars). This will be extended further:
1. firstly, by participating in relevant events for stakeholders, archives and institutions to publicise the
project's goals and results (see below) and by gathering new contacts;
2. secondly, EAGLE will approach specific target user groups (e.g. school students by age groups) for use
cases to be developed.
An Advisory Board will be set-up, whose members will be nominated by the external partners which sign a
Cooperation Agreement to allow them to actively participate to the activities of the project (peer review,
networking activities, testing and validation, etc.).
Targeted Dissemination Activities
In addition to the actions outlined so far, which are aimed at the general public, and in addition to tourists,
students and classical culture enthusiasts, who are addressed directly by the two flagship applications, EAGLE
will also specifically address epigraphy stakeholders. Among them, EAGLE identifies three target communities
and bodies:
1. the EAGLE community;
2. related ‘sister’ projects within Europeana;
3. policy makers.
Direct cooperation with sister projects is foreseen: principally with sister projects, such as LinkedHeritage,
ECLAP, EuropeanaConnect, CHARISMA, but also with other relevant international initiatives, such as NYU’s
Pleiades project.
Awareness and dissemination activities will be carried out by means of:
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1. 6 dedicated EAGLE Workshops, scheduled to work in synergy with major conferences by the abovementioned sister projects within Europeana;
2. 2 training events on the use of the tools and services developed by EAGLE;
3. 2 dedicated EAGLE Conferences, scheduled to dovetail with major ‘sister’ conferences;
4. participation of individual EAGLE members to relevant conferences and sister-project events;
5. academic publications and articles in the journals of the sector;
6. deployment of specific promotional materials:
a. conference posters;
b. flyers and brochures in different languages;
c. EAGLE video giveaway, consisting of the video teaser available either on credit-card sized
DVD or on USB flash drive.
EAGLE List of Events & Meetings
Meeting
Date
Participants
Location
Kick-off
M1
All partners
Rome
WG Workshop 1-2-3
Training Event
M9-M12
WG members + experts
Ljubljana
First International Conference
M15-18
Representatives of target Paris
users + Europeana + EC
WG Workshop 4-5-6
Training Event
M21-24
WG members + experts
Final International Conference
M33-M36
Representatives of target Rome
users + Europeana + EC
Project plenary meeting
Twice per year
All partners
Project review
M12-M24-M36
Management Team + WP Brussels
leaders
Nicosia
To be decided
Further details of the above Targeted Activities are provided in the description of WP2 (Networking) and WP6
(Dissemination).
Synergies with Europeana
Besides the already-mentioned dedicated Virtual Exhibition, EAGLE actions for achieving dissemination and
awareness will take into account current Europeana guidelines, but also best practices as defined and
recommended by related sister projects within Europeana (EFG, ECLAP, LinkedHeritage, etc.). The guiding
principle for all activities will be to promote the use of Europeana as a whole, encouraging access to the main
Europeana portal webpage.
In addition to the above, direct co-operation with the sister projects is foreseen, in the form of:
1. cross-linking and referencing across the respective websites;
2. contact-swapping between the respective social-network profiles;
3. cross-posting invitations between the respective social-network profiles;
4. co-ordination of promotional conferences, so as to attract a higher number of potential future
consortium members.
Note 1. The consortium shall put a standard Europeana logo with a link to the Europeana portal in a visible area
of the project website.
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All beneficiaries providing content, services or technology to Europeana shall put a standard Europeana logo on
their organisation's home page with a link to the Europeana portal.
Beneficiaries shall follow the provisions of the 'Guide to Usage of the Europeana Brand' published at
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/about/comms-tools/brand-guidelines.
Note 2. Beneficiaries shall promote Europeana as part of their usual dissemination activities. Moreover, they
shall reconcile the consortium's awareness and dissemination activities for the project with Europeana and
Europeana's own dissemination and awareness activities, provided to them by the Europeana office upon
request.
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Annex 1: Europeana Foundation Letter of Support
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Annex 2: Institute for the Study of Ancient World Letter of Support
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Annex 3: U.S. Epigraphy Project Letter of Support
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Annex 4: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Letter of Support
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Annex 5: King’s College London Letter of Support
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