Judaica Europeana: acesso a historia Judaica e a herana cultural em museus, bibliotecas, arquivos e colees audiovisuais.Presentation at the A:.R:.L:.S:. Rei Salomo n 1179 4 Outubro 2012Dov Winer Scientific Director, Judaica Europeana European Association for Jewish Culture

Judaica Europeana: what is it about?

The project and its partners

-Virtual exhibitions -Digital scholarship tools for research and higher learning

-Jewish vocabularies as hubs of knowledge

LOD: Common Data Model to Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America

Outline

Jewish participation in urban life in EuropeJewish cultural expressions in European cities can be documented through objects dispersed in many collections: documents, books, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs, works of art, religious artefacts, postcards, posters, audio-recordings and films, as well as buildings and cemeteries.

History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz, Leipzig 1864. Copper engraving of Moses Mendelssohn by A. and TH. Weger. Judaica Collection, Goethe University Library

Why cities?Jews are the longest-established minority in Europe with Jewish inscriptions in an urban context dating back to the 3rd Century BCE in Greece.

Marble plaque, bearing the images of a menorah, lulav and etrog. Found in 1977 by Prof. Homer Thompson near the ancient synagogue in the Agora of Athens. Probably part of the synagogues frieze, 3rd 4th C.E. Jewish Museum of Greece

Jewish contribution to European cities Londons East End and the Belleville quarter of Paris were once thriving Jewish areas with Jewish shops, cafs, schools, libraries, publishing houses, newspapers and theatres. In the harbour of Thessaloniki, before World War I, economic activity stopped on the Day of Atonement. One-third of Warsaws population was Jewish in the 1930s.

Warsaw, Nalewki Street (1915-1918)From the collection of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Jewish contribution to European cities Urbanisation and occupational specialisation has led to the identification of Jews with specific streets, neighbourhoods and other urban phenomena.

The J-Street Project by Susan Heller. Compton Verney Trust and the DAAD, Berlin, 2005. A book, installation and video produced with the support of the European Association for Jewish Culture.

** YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939 http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm

Jews and the CityProf. Steven Zipperstein points to the anti-urban bias of most of the Jewish historiography and how this began to change at the end of the 20th century.S. Zipperstein (1987),Jewish Historiography and the Modern City. Jewish History vol 2, pp 77-88 Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. It is about learning how to cultivate people and symbols, not fields and herds. It is about pursuing wealth for the sake of learning, learning for the sake of wealth, and both wealth and learning for their own sake. It is about transforming peasants and princes into merchants and priests, replacing inherited privilege with acquired prestige, and dismantling social estates for the benefit of individuals, nuclear families, and book-reading tribes (nations). Modernization, in other words, is about everyone becoming Jewish. Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. For the first chapter: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7819.html

~3,700,000 digital objectsDM2E another 1,500,000 and many additional expressions of interest

The Judaica Europeana projectThe factsCo-funded by the eContentPlus program of the European Commission: initial budget framework of 3 Million Euro (~ 4 Million USD) First stage 2010-2012: Second stage 2012-14: continuity through a Memorandum of Understanding between partners and participation in DM2E a 3-year Digital Humanities Europeana project to begin in 2012.The programDigitisation and aggregation of Jewish content for Europeana: 5 million objects Coordination of standards across institutions in order to synchronise the metadata with the requirements of Europeana.Deployment of knowledge management tools: vocabularies, thesauri and ontologies for the indexing, retrieval and re-use of the aggregated content.Dissemination activities to stimulate the use of digitised content in academic research; university- based teaching; schools; museums and virtual exhibitions; conferences; cultural tourism; the arts and multimedia.

Milestones on the way to Judaica EuropeanaThe future of Jewish Heritage in Europe: an International Conference Prague 24-27 April 2004developing Jewish networking infrastructuresEC projects: MinervaPlus | CALIMERA | MOSAICA MICHAEL | ATHENA | LINKED HERITAGEJAFI Ministry of Science & Culture - NLIJAFI | MiBAC | MLA Council UK | EAJC | EPOCH/ Univ Firenze | HaNadiv Foundation |European Day of Jewish Culture: ECJC, Bnai Brith, Juderias de EspanaConsultation on Digitisation of the Jewish Cultural Heritage10 December 2004 at the EC in BrusselsCultural Diversity in Europe: a focus for the consultation

The growing network 24 institutions in 16 cities: museums, libraries and archives PartnersEuropean Association of Jewish Culture, LondonJudaica Sammlung der Universittsbibliothek der Goethe Universitt, Frankfurt am MainAlliance Isralite Universelle, ParisMinistry of Cultural Heritage and Activity (MiBAC), RomeAmiti, Centre for Research and Innovation, BolognaBritish Library, LondonHungarian Jewish Archives, BudapestJewish Historical Institute, WarsawJewish Museum of Greece, AthensJewish Museum LondonNational Technical University, Athens

Associate PartnersCenter Jewish History, New YorkNational Library of Israel, JerusalemMinisterio de Cultura, MadridBibliotheca Rosenthaliana, AmsterdamJewish Historical Museum, AmsterdamJewish Museum Berlin Jewish Museum, Frankfurt/MainLeopold Zunz Centrum, Halle-WittenbergLorand Collection, Augsburg UniversityParis Yiddish CenterMedem LibrarySephardi Museum, ToledoCentral Zionist Archives, JerusalemSalomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute, DuisbergBen Uri Gallery The London Jewish Museum of Art

Extending the networkThe following expressed an interest in joining Judaica Europeana:

Aberdeen University LibraryWidener Library, Harvard UniversityJewish Community Library and Archives, VeniceLondon Metropolitan ArchiveMantua City ArchivesJewish Museum, FlorenceJewish Museum, PragueJewish Museum, ViennaJewish Museum, TriesteMagnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, BerkleyRoyal Library of DenmarkTravelling trunk brought by a German refugee family to England in May 1939, Mdler Koffer, c.1930, Germany. Jewish Museum London

Judaica Europeana Virtual Exhibitions

Virtual Exhibitions

Virtual Exhibitionshttp://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/yiddish-theatre-en http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/dada-to-surrealism-en

Virtual Exhibitionshttp://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/speciali/stella_di_david_e_tricolore/index.html

Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities

Why Digital Humanities?

Judaica Europeana digital humanities eventshttp://www.judaica-europeana.eu/events.html30 July 2010, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus at the EAJS Congress The Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities Workshop sponsored by COST Action 32 Open Scholarly Communities on the Web 7 October 2010, National Library of Israel and COST Interedition Workshop: Judaica Europeana and Interedition: Tools and methodologies used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research.6-10 July 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Summer School for PhD Students in Modern European Jewish History and German Jewish Studies The Judaica Europeana Workshop on digitized primary resources for Jewish studies led by Rachel Heuberger11 August 2011, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem Semantic MediaWiki and the Haskala Project: Building a modern Jewish Republic of Letters in the 18th and 19th Century using the Semantic Web The National Library of Israel and Judaica Europeana workshop26 September 2011, Kings College London Workshop on Semantic MediaWiki: a tool for collaborative databases Judaica Europeana Haskala Database with Yaron Koren 31 October 2011, British Library, London Workshop on Judaica Europeana and Digital Humanities at the British Library

From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica Supporting communities of knowledge

Supporting a Community of KnowledgeJewish Enlightenment (HASKALA): The Republic of Letters Project Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan UniversityProf. Zohar Shavit, University of Tel Aviv Prof. Christoph Schulte, University of PotsdamResearchers: Dr Chagit Cohen, Dr Natalie Goldberg, Dr William Hiscott, Dr Tal Kogman, PhD Dr Stefan Litt. Investigated the secularization of the traditional book cultureEstablished a detailed database about a thousand books from the end of the 18th and early 19th centuryTexts in Hebrew, German. Database in SQL with a Visual Basic interface supporting some 147 pre-defined queries

Slide from the presentation by PhD Dr Stefan Litt at the 8th EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference, November 2011http://www.minervaisrael.org.il/2011/20111116_EvaMinerva_Haskala_StefanLitt.pdf

Supporting a Community of Knowledge:FunctionalitiesImproved data structure In place of categories for structuring data, simple queries will reduce the need for a complex classification system.Semantic templates enable the storage of semantic markup, the wiki will further develop its solid data structure.Searching information Individual users can search for specific information by creating their own queries reducing the dependences of the researchers on the developers.Automatically-generated listsVisual display of information The various display formats defined by additional extensions, such as Semantic Result Formats and Semantic Maps, allow for displaying of information in calendars, timelines, graphs and maps,Inter-language consistencyExternal reuse Data, once it is created in an SMW wiki, does not have to remain within the wiki; it can easily be exported via formats like CSV, JSON and RDF. This enables an SMW wiki to serve as a data source for other applicationsIntegrate and mash-up data Supported by extensions such as the Data Import, Data Transfer and External Data extensions.

Europeana as part of the LOD cloud

Linked Open Data

EUROPEANA & vocabularies EUROPEANA will be integral part of the Web of Knowledge Linked Data the RDF Web, Web as a database Building units: URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) in RDF (Resource Description Framework) triplets: Subject, Predicate, Object Vocabularies as Hubs in the Web of Knowledge: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organisation System

The essence of RDF: the tripleSource: The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data, by Ian Davis and Tom Heathsubjectpropertyvalue

Linked Open Data Datasets on the Web

http://www.linkeddata.orghttp://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/StatisticsLinking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/Over 31.7 billion RDF triples (10/2011)Over 40 billion on February 2012

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:Irish vocabulary on Vikings

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:Norwegian vocabulary on Vikings

Mapped vocabularies semantic graphs

Controlled vocabularies: hubs of Jewish Knowledge in the Structured Web

Tasks for a common agenda on Jewish vocabulariesWho? NamesDisseminate the use of VIAFSeek to include periodical publications in VIAFRAMBILong term common effort to achieve comprehensivenessWhere? PlacesJewishGen and Yad Vashem gazetteers as linked data?Use Europeana guidelines to map places coordinatesRegistry of Jewish gazetteers / RDF/ community based Jewish gazetteer service similar to GeoNames, Freebase, LinkedGeoData etcWhen? PeriodsSurvey available vocabularies and seek to express them as Linked DataInstitutional tools for in-depth probe on current periodisation practices

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/docs/jewish_vocabularies_LOD.pdf

Who?

When?

When?

Jewish gazetteersWhere?

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_in_Hebrew.html

www.judaica-europeana.euThank you for your attention!Dov WinerJudaica Europeana Scientific ManagerEuropean Association for Jewish Culture dov.winer@gmail.com

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