EAGLE - Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy a digital bridge to the ancient world

This paper discusses the experience of developing a mobile application to increase the use and visibility of EAGLE, the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy. EAGLE is a project financed by the European Commission. Its main aims are to bring together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy and to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources related to inscriptions. EAGLE also aims to provide a single, user-friendly portal by which to search and browse the majority of surviving inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world. In order to increase the usefulness and visibility of EAGLE, two applications are being developed: a storytelling application to allow teachers and experts to assemble epigraphy-based narratives for the benefit of less experienced users, and a mobile application to enable tourists and scholars to obtain detailed information about the inscriptions they are looking at by taking pictures with their smartphones. In this paper, we will focus on the EAGLE mobile application and give an outline of its architecture and design.