eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

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Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

Dov WinerDirector

eJewish.info

Exploiting Powerful Technologies: The

Semantic Web and Jewish Life

Jerusalem, May 2, 2004

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Summary: Developing Jewish Networking

Infrastructures

Jewish Networking and Digital Repositories

Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures Jewish Agency BOG Initiative

Semantics – Challenge of the New Web

Registry of Resources, Partner Registries, Thesaurus

Survey of Controlled Vocabularies

MINERVA and Experts Network in Israel

European Union Lund Action Plan and MINERVA

MINERVA Network in Israel

Cooperation with Harvard University Library

Concerted Policy for Jewish Heritage National Foundation for Jewish Culture

European Association for Jewish Culture

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eJewish.info

Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

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August

2001

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eJewish.info

The challenge of the New Internet: Semantics

Jewish networking infrastructures 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 Market 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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The need: some examples

Agents

Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources

Learning objects

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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

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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 lead the initial development

Dr Uri Miller now leads the project

Agreement with the INDIRE Institute in 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 website

English - Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish

Specialized registries by language or subject

Filling the registry and Partner Registries 4, 000 resources – another 4,500 to be

reviewed

Jewish History (Dinur)

Jewish Genealogy – Theater – Community

Zionism – French - Russian

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Survey of Controlled Vocabularies

Jewish Heritage and Israel

An standardized terminology for using in indexing and retrieval of information

Semantic Web Advanced Activity http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/

RDF Representation of Thesaurus Data

Purposes: Agreements on use, acquisition and

adaptation

Clusters identified – collaboration among developers

Pilot experiments on access to heterogeneous databases

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Survey of Controlled Vocabularies

Jewish Heritage and Israel

Based on the CEN/ISSS Survey

Restricted Application of Standard Metadata Sets

Europe and North America

Complete 26 Being processed 24

Israel

Complete 47 Being processed 6

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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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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

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European Union Lund Action Plan

Digitisation of Science and

Cultural Heritage

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

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Countries in the NRG

Austria

Belgium

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Portugal

Spain

Sweden

UK

Israel

Russia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Poland

Slovakia

Slovenia

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MINERVA

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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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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

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MINERVA Experts Network

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 Ministry of Science and Technology and JAFI/eJewish

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Concerted Policy for

Jewish Digitisation

Conceptual paper: February 2004

Following MINERVA Plus launching

Discussed with:National Foundation for Jewish Culture

European Association for Jewish Culture

Presented at the Conference on the Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe – Prague, April

25-27, 2004

Richard Siegel director of the NFJC nominates North America Coordinator

EAJC nominate contact person

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Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Action Items

Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Establish WGs of experts in areas parallel to those of MINERVA

Interoperability and Service Provision

Good Practices and Competence Centers

Discovery of Content and Multilingualism

Quality framework and user needs

Survey vocabularies and set pilot for seamless access

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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

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Israel

Contact: Dov Winer, Director

P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel

dovw@jazo.org.il

phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194

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Digitisation Initiatives

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LUND and the MINERVA Project

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Israel Status Report on Digitisation

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