Dalla pietra al digitale: il progetto EpiCUM tra storia e scuola

The project EpiCUM (Epigraphs of Castello Ursino Museum) pursued the important objective of valorizing and making publicly available (in digital format) the 574 epigraphs of the Castello Ursino Museum in Catania. The various phases of the project (cataloguing and examination of the epigraphic material; setting-up of an exhibition; organization of an international scientific conference; encoding according to the EpiDoc schema; creation of a digital scientific edition; realization of a web platform) seen the involvement of different entities, among which, in particular, a group of students of a High School. Their activities represented a good example of work-related learning.