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
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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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
phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194
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Digitisation Initiatives
eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
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LUND and the MINERVA Project
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Israel Status Report on Digitisation
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