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Europeana and LOD: Enhancing Jewish and
Israeli Heritage Digital Contents
EVA/Minerva Conference at Harvard University April, 13-14 2015 Judaica Division , Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dov Winer Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana
Coordinator, MINERVA Israel Cultural Heritage Digitisation Forum
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Abstract:
Digitisation initiatives began due to long term preservation concerns.
Questions concerning their impact have now come to the fore: “The
measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that
demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community for
which the resource is intended.” Jewish and Israeli digital resources can now
be enhanced with relevant encyclopedias and controlled vocabularies through
a LOD approach. The resulting knowledge grid can help bridge the gap
between the digital resources and the knowledge of the intended communities
of users. It will expand their application in narratives, scholarly research,
higher education, K12, cultural tourism, genealogy and more.
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50 Years of Harvard Judaica
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Digital Contents: Israeli and Jewish
The Impact of digitised contents
Some examples of high impact initiatives
Common Data Model for Content Description
Judaica Linked Data: providing context to Jewish Digitised
Contents a possible Jewish Knowledge Grid.
Outline
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Digitised Contents
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Judaica Europeana Partners
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~millions+
digital cultural
objects
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Jewish Digitised Content
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Jewish Digitised Content
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Jewish Digitised Content
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Impact
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Slide from the presentation Value, Impact & the Benefits of Digitisation for University
Collections by Simon Tanner from King’s College London, COIMBRA Workshop at
Edinburgh University Library (2013): http://tinyurl.com/2013Tanner
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Slide from the presentation Value, Impact & the Benefits of Digitisation for University
Collections by Simon Tanner from King’s College London, COIMBRA Workshop at
Edinburgh University Library (2013): http://tinyurl.com/2013Tanner
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Slide from the presentation Value, Impact & the Benefits of Digitisation for University
Collections by Simon Tanner from King’s College London, COIMBRA Workshop at
Edinburgh University Library (2013): http://tinyurl.com/2013Tanner
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Slide from the presentation Value, Impact & the Benefits of Digitisation for University
Collections by Simon Tanner from King’s College London, COIMBRA Workshop at
Edinburgh University Library (2013): http://tinyurl.com/2013Tanner
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Examples of Digital Impact
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Common Data Model for
Content Description
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Common Data Model
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Outline
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Judaica Linked Data
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Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web
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Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman
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Establishing a Jewish Knowledge Grid
Joint project:
Named Entity Recognition in the text of the articles in the journals of the
Jewish Studies collection of JSTOR
Names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, events
Linking the names to the entries in relevant vocabularies and
Encyclopedias
Linking back the entries in the Encyclopedias and vocabularies to
relevant articles in JSTOR Jewish Studies journals.
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MISSING:
Yad Vashem Jewish Place Names
VIAF National Library of Israel
IMAGINE from the Israel Museum
Jerusalem
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic
World Online (BRILL)
Encyclopedia Judaica Online (GALE)
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Judaica Europeana Vocabularies
Who?
What?
When?
Where?