Coping with interoperability in cultural heritage data infrastructures: the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy

One of the main motivations of the project EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, a Best Practice Network partially funded by the European Commission) is to restore some unity of our past by collecting in a single repository information about the thousands of inscriptions now scattered across all Europe. The collected information is ingested in Europeana and it is made available to the scholarly community and to the general public, for research and cultural dissemination, through a user-friendly portal supporting advanced query and search capabilities. In addition to the traditional search options (full-text search a la Google, fielded search, faceted search and filtering), the EAGLE portal supports two applications intended to make the fruition of the epigraphic material easier and more useful: the EAGLE Flagship Mobile Application and the Story Telling Application. Along the same lines, in order to make the epigraphic material more interesting and usable also by non-epigraphists, EAGLE, in collaboration with the Italian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, is leading an effort for the enrichment of the epigraphic images and text with additional information and translations into modern languages. During the whole project life frame, the maintainability and sustainability issues have been constantly considered from both the technical and the scientific point of view. This poster gives some insights of the overall infrastructure.