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www.judaica-europeana.eu SW and Judaica Europeana -A Europeana Thematic Project
Dov WinerEuropean Association for Jewish Culture
Europeana, aggregation of content and Linked Data for Cultural Heritage
22nd November 2011Citilab, Cornellà-Barcelona
Jewish participation in urban life in Europe
Jewish 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
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* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939 http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm
Jews and the City
Prof. 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
~5,000,0005,000,000 digital objects
The Judaica Europeana project
The facts
• Co-funded by the eContentPlus program of the European Commission: initial budget framework of 3Million 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 program
• Digitisation 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.
The growing network
24 institutions in 16 cities: museums, libraries and archives
Partners• European Association of Jewish Culture, London• Judaica Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek der
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main• Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris• Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activity (MiBAC),
Rome• Amitié, Centre for Research and Innovation,
Bologna• British Library, London• Hungarian Jewish Archives, Budapest• Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw• Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens• Jewish Museum London• National Technical University, Athens
Associate Partners• Center Jewish History, New York• National Library of Israel, Jerusalem• Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam• Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam• Jewish Museum Berlin • Jewish Museum, Frankfurt/Main• Leopold Zunz Centrum, Halle-Wittenberg• Lorand Collection, Augsburg University• Paris Yiddish Center—Medem Library• Sephardi Museum, Toledo• Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem• Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute, Duisberg• Ben Uri Gallery – The London Jewish Museum of
Art
Extending the network
The following expressed an interest in joining Judaica Europeana:
• Aberdeen University Library• Widener Library, Harvard University• Jewish Community Library and Archives, Venice• London Metropolitan Archive• Mantua City Archives• Jewish Museum, Florence• Jewish Museum, Prague• Jewish Museum, Vienna• Jewish Museum, Trieste• Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of
California, Berkley• Royal Library of Denmark
Travelling trunk brought by a German refugee family to England in May 1939, Mädler Koffer, c.1930, Germany. Jewish Museum London
The Europeana universe
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
EDL
National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National Archive 1
MICHAEL
CENL
Museum X
Archive X
National Archive 2
Film Archive 1
Film Archive 2
Film Archive 3
National Archive 3
Library X
Museum A Archive A Library A
FIAT
Television Archive 1
Television Archive n
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive n
ICOM Europe Museum 1
Museum 2The European Library
VideoActive
ATHENA
EFG
Culture.frCulturaItaliaBAMCIMEC etc……
EuropeanaLocal
Trebleclef
PrestoPrime
IMPACT
BHL
MIMO
EuropeanaConnect
Judaica Europeana
EuropeanaTravel
EUScreen
STERNA
APEnet
ECLAP
Carrare
EURO-Photo
HOPE
Europeana Regia
Natural Europe
Judaica Europeana Virtual Exhibitions
Virtual Exhibitions
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/yiddish-theatre-en http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/dada-to-surrealism-en
Virtual Exhibitions
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/speciali/stella_di_david_e_tricolore/index.html
EDM Europeana Data Model
Guus Schreiber
with input from Carlo Meghini, Antoine Isaac, Stefan Gradmann, Makx Dekkers et al. from Europeana V1
Europeana architecture
Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop
The essence of RDF: the “triple”
Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath
subjectproperty
value
Linked Open Data Datasets on the Web: 10/2011
http://www.linkeddata.org
http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump
http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
Over 31.7 billion RDF triples
Europeana Data Model
1. Distinction between “provided object” (painting, book, program) and digital representation
2. Distinction between object and metadata record describing an object
3. Allows for multiple records for the same object, containing potentially contradictory statements about an object
4. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
5. Standard metadata format that can be specialized
6. Standard vocabulary format that can be specialized
7. EDM should be based on existing standards ̶ “not yet another standard” !
EDM basics
• OAI ORE for organization of metadata about an object S requirements 1-4
• Dublin Core for metadata representation S requirement 5
• SKOS for vocabulary representation S requirement 6
• OAI ORE, Dublin Core and SKOS together fulfilrequirement 7
Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:Irish vocabulary on Vikings
From Jill Cousins, Europeana Overview presentation, at the Europeana 2010 Open Culture Conferencehttp://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/europeana-plenary-2010/presentations
Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:Norwegian vocabulary on Vikings
From Jill Cousins, Europeana Overview presentation, at the Europeana 2010 Open Culture Conferencehttp://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/europeana-plenary-2010/presentations
Mapped vocabularies – semantic graphs
The role of controlled vocabularies in Judaica Europeana
Judaica Europeana Vocabularies
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Who?
Comprehensive review of names authorities open issues and initiaties
Spelling it all out: FRAD, ISNI, RDA, VIAF automation and the future of authority control
Alan DanskinMetadata & Bibliographic Standards CoordinatorBritish Library
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2009/authorities/presentations/ppt-2000-html/a-danskin_files/v3_document.html
When?
When?
The award-winning Where Once We Walked (WOWW) has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changes in the political geography of Central and Eastern Europe since WOWW was published in 1991. There are also a number of improvements to the original edition noted below. The new edition identifies more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived
Where?
Where?
voca
bula
ries
voca
bula
ries
vocabularies
voca
bula
ries
Tasks for a common agenda on Jewish vocabularies• Who? Names
– Disseminate the use of VIAF
– Seek to include periodical publications in VIAF
– RAMBI
– Long term common effort to achieve comprehensiveness
• Where? Places
– JewishGen and Yad Vashem gazetteers as linked data?
– Use Europeana guidelines to map places coordinates
– Registry of Jewish gazetteers / RDF/ community based Jewish gazetteer service similar to GeoNames, Freebase, LinkedGeoData etc
• When? Periods
– Survey available vocabularies and seek to express them as Linked Data Institutional tools for in-depth probe on current periodisation practices
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/docs/jewish_vocabularies_LOD.pdf
Hebrew and Multilingual Access to Europeana through the IMJ Vocabularies
Objects
Periods
Places
Artists
Judaica Europeana and digital humanities
Judaica Europeana – digital humanities eventshttp://www.judaica-europeana.eu/events.html
• 30 July 2010, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus at the EAJS CongressThe Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities Workshopsponsored by COST Action 32 Open Scholarly Communities on the Web
• 7 October 2010, National Library of Israel and COST IntereditionWorkshop: Judaica Europeana and Interedition:Tools and methodologies used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research.
• 6-10 July 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt/MainSummer School for PhD Students in Modern European Jewish History and German Jewish StudiesThe Judaica Europeana Workshop on digitized primary resources for Jewish studies led by Rachel Heuberger
• 11 August 2011, National Library of Israel, JerusalemSemantic MediaWiki and the Haskala Project: Building a modern Jewish Republic of Letters in the 18th and 19th Century using the Semantic WebThe National Library of Israel and Judaica Europeana workshop
• 26 September 2011, King’s College LondonWorkshop on Semantic MediaWiki: a tool for collaborative databasesJudaica Europeana Haskala Database with Yaron Koren
• 31 October 2011, British Library, LondonWorkshop on Judaica Europeana and Digital Humanities at the British Library
From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica
Processing source data in the Humanities: aggregation
From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica
… modeling …
From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica
… and digital heuristics?
Supporting a Community of Knowledge
Jewish Enlightenment (HASKALA): The Republic of Letters Project
Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University
Prof. Zohar Shavit, University of Tel Aviv
Prof. Christoph Schulte, University of Potsdam
•Investigated the secularization of the traditional book culture
•Established a detailed database about a thousand books from the end of the 18th and early 19th century
•Texts in Hebrew, German. Database in SQL with a Visual Basic interface supporting some 147 pre-defined queries
Supporting a Community of Knowledge
Development phases:
•Tools developed in the cluster of COST A32 Open Scholarly communities in the Web – Michele Barbera and Christian Barbidoni as main developershttp://www.muruca.orghttp://www.netseven.it
•Linked Data: Exposing your metadata on the Web – presentation by Prof. Philippe Laublet and Milan Stankovic of STIH – University of Paris-Sorbonne, February 2011)http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Downloads/Linked_data_20110207-05.pdf
•Yaron Koren, WikiWorks one of the main developers of the Semantic Media Wikihttp://wikiworks.com http://semantic-mediawiki.org
Judaica Europeana pilot projectat the University of Frankfurt with support by WikiWorks, Yaron Koren
• Conversion of the Haskala database to CVS
• Importing it as RDF in the Semantic Media Wiki
• Metadata enrichment
• Include the digitised versions of the books (Frankfurt University, National Library of Israel)
• Substitute SKOS formatted controlled vocabularies for the present textual strings (e.g. VIAF for names, GeoNames for locations etc)
• Design of the new work environment of the Haskala research group
• Publication of selections of the database in Europeana/LOD
Supporting a Community of Knowledge:Functionalities
• Improved 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 lists
• Visual 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 consistency
• External 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 applications
• Integrate and mash-up data Supported by extensions such as the Data Import, Data Transfer and External Data extensions.
Judaica Europeana and DM2E
will participate from February 2012 in the project
DM2E
Digital Manuscripts for Europeana
DM2E functionality
Thank you!