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Towards a Concerted Digitisation Policy for Jewish Cultural Heritage. Session: Technology in Service of Jewish Heritage, Conference on the Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe, Prague, Czech Republic, April 24-27, 2004.
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eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures
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Towards a Concerted Digitisation Policy for
Jewish Cultural Heritage
Dov WinerDirector
eJewish.info
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Quizz – which site is this one?
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Summary:Towards a Concerted Digitisation
Policy for Jewish Cultural Heritage
eJewish.infoSemantics – Challenge of the New Web
Registry of Resources, Thesaurus, Partner Registries
Survey of Controlled Vocabularies
MINERVA and Experts Network in Israel
International Initiatives: European Union Lund Action Plan, DoIT, Creativity and IT Report
Concerted Policy for Jewish HeritageStatus Report: Basic Policy Profile for Digitisation of Jewish
Heritage
Invite nomination of experts for WGs parallel to the MINERVA Work Packages: Resources Discovery; Interoperability; Quality; Good Practice
Vocabularies Survey and Seamless Access Pilot
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
International Initiatives
Digital Promise
Digital Opportunity Investment Fund DoIT
(1) Learning Models (2) Digitise collections: museums, universities, museums, cultural institutions
National Academy of Science
IT, Innovation and Creativity: need for mutual
synergies between Art and Computer Science
European Union Lund Action Plan
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
European Union Lund Action Plan
Council of European Union 2001 (eEurope)
Values
Accessible and sustainable heritage
Support cultural diversity, education and content industries
Digitised resources of great variety and richness
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European Union Lund Action Plan
Problems
Fragmentation of Approach
Obsolescence
Lack of simple, common access for the citizen
Intellectual Property Rights
Lack of synergies between cultural and new technologies programs
Institutional investment and commitment
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European Union Lund Action Plan
Intervention areas
Improving policies and programmes by co-operation and benchmarking
Discovery of digitized resources
Promotion of good practices
Content framework
Tools
National Representatives Group (NRG)
MINERVA as operational framework of experts
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitisation
Action Items
Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitisation
Establish WG of experts in areas parallel to those of MINERVA
Interoperability and Service Provision
Good Practices and Competence Centers
Discovery of Content and Multilingualism
Good Practice and Competence Centers
Quality framework and user needs
Survey vocabularies and set pilot for seamless access
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eJewish.info
Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Largest Jewish education portal with about 40,000 unique pageshttp://www.jafi.org.il/ed/
Communities of practice:
Jewish Theaterhttp://www.jewish-theatre.com
Global Environmental Network
www.jgenisrael.org/
Arts Initiative
Educational Jewish People Simulation
The Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
The Jewish Agency for Israel
Partner/affiliated/supported institutions – host some of the largest Jewish digital repositories:
CZU Archives 4 million documents
250,000 photographs
8,000 KKL maps
3,000 posters
Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority2,000,000 pages of testimony
100,000 photographs
Deep terminological development
Diaspora MuseumGenealogy music photographs virtual exhibits
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
eJewish.info The challenge of the New Internet:
Semantics
Jewish networking
Initiatives: Registry of Jewish web resources and
partner registries
Survey of Jewish Heritage Controlled Vocabularies
Experts WGs: Resources Discovery; Quality; Interoperability; Good Practice and Competence
Jewish Digitisation Concerted Policy European Union Digitisation Policy: LUND and
MINERVA
Template for a concerted Jewish Digitisation Policy
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Purpose of eJewish.info
Create a Joint Jewish Space that will provide clear advantages, by its size, ease of use and speed of access, for providers of services and goods of Jewish interest.
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Jewish Networking
Parameters
Jewish Networking and
Internet Penetration
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The need: some examples
Agents
Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources
Learning objects
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The New Internet
The Challenge of the New Web: Semantics
e.g. Agents
Semantic Web Concepts
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Registry of Web Resources
Development of controlled vocabularies
for Jewish networking
Creation of a Metadata sets for the description of Jewish resources: CONTEXT
Registration of resources on the level of collections for allocating Metadata
Registry of persons, institutions and corporations that deal or have an interest in Jewish networking
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Example: Dinur Centre for Jewish
History
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Jewish Networking
Thesaurus
1,000 to 1,500 terms for indexing Jewish people sites
Rochelle Kedar leads the development
Agreement with the INDIRE-BDP Institute in Firenze, Italy for use of Thesaurus Management Software and support of Hebrew
The thesaurus is “live” available for browsing those collections which are indexed by a particular term
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Next Steps
Multi-lingual support – thesaurus and websiteEnglish - Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish
Specialized registries by language or subject
Filling the registry 4, 000 resources – another 4,500 to be
reviewed
Jewish History (Dinur)
Jewish Genealogy – Theater – Community
Zionism – French - Russian
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Digital Repositories
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an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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MINERVA
http://www.minervaeurope.org
http://www.ejewish.info/reka/minerva/index.htm
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MINERVA
Close collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology
Supporting action for the Lund Process (2001) – eEurope Policy
European and national policies for digitization
Digitization of scientific and cultural heritage resources in Europe
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MINERVA
Benchmarking framework
Identification of good practices and competence centers
Inventories, discovery of digitized content
Multilingualism issues
Standards
Interoperability
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Some new starts…
Survey of digital repositories in view of setting up a integrative pilot
Identification of collections that are outside the Web: pictures, music, archives, video, radio
Readiness to cooperate
We identified the need to help develop appropriate business models for the repositories
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Near Future Program Regarding
Digital Repositories
Pilot for the experimental integration of heterogeneous digital repositories
Identifying successful models
Defining an specific content area
Developing the partnership
Developing the necessary ontologies and other tools
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MINERVA Experts Network
Experts Working Groups
• Interoperability and Metadata (Business models)
• Content Discovery UK/FR/IT- Multilingual Thesaurus
• Quality (Small institutions)
• Good Practice and Competence Centers
• Representatives for the Statutory Institutions
• National Archivar – Jewish National Library – Council and Department of Libraries – Council and Department of Museums – Unesco Secretary – Pais Council for Culture and Arts – Second Authority for Broadcasting – MOF (Vaada Leumit)
• Coordination: MOST and JAFI/eJewish
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Awareness/Dissemination
Semantic Web Seminar 31 October 2002
ILA Conference in November
Digital Repositories Workshop with CEN/ISSS Work Group Coordinator, Franz Van Assche 28 January 2003
Learning objects SIG in MOAH
With the Ministry of Science and Technology, The Italian Embassy Bi National Seminar on Digital Access to Scientific and Cultural Heritage Resources
Upcoming:Semantic Web Seminar with Prof. James Hendler
EVA Jerusalem and MINERVA Conference
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Program for the Development of
Jewish Networking Infrastructures
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for
Israel
Contact: Dov Winer, Director
P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel
dovw@jazo.org.il
phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194
http://www.ejewish.info/reka
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eJewish.info
Thank you !
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Digitisation Initiatives
eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
http://www.ejewish.info
LUND and the MINERVA Project
http://www.minervaeurope.org
http://www.ejewish.info/reka/minerva/index.htm
Israel Status Report on Digitisation
http://www.ejewish.info/minerva/index.htm
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