040426 Prague Jewish Digitisation Policy

eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

Towards a Concerted Digitisation Policy for

Jewish Cultural Heritage

Dov WinerDirector

eJewish.info

http://www.jafi.org.il/


Quizz – which site is this one?


Summary:Towards a Concerted Digitisation

Policy for Jewish Cultural Heritage

eJewish.infoSemantics – Challenge of the New Web

Registry of Resources, Thesaurus, Partner Registries

Survey of Controlled Vocabularies

MINERVA and Experts Network in Israel

International Initiatives: European Union Lund Action Plan, DoIT, Creativity and IT Report

Concerted Policy for Jewish HeritageStatus Report: Basic Policy Profile for Digitisation of Jewish

Heritage

Invite nomination of experts for WGs parallel to the MINERVA Work Packages: Resources Discovery; Interoperability; Quality; Good Practice

Vocabularies Survey and Seamless Access Pilot


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



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



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



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


Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Action Items

Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Establish WG of experts in areas parallel to those of MINERVA

Interoperability and Service Provision

Good Practices and Competence Centers

Discovery of Content and Multilingualism

Good Practice and Competence Centers

Quality framework and user needs

Survey vocabularies and set pilot for seamless access


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eJewish.info

Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures


Largest Jewish education portal with about 40,000 unique pageshttp://www.jafi.org.il/ed/

Communities of practice:

Jewish Theaterhttp://www.jewish-theatre.com

Global Environmental Network

www.jgenisrael.org/

Arts Initiative

Educational Jewish People Simulation

The Jewish Agency for Israel

http://www.jafi.org.il/ed/



The Jewish Agency for Israel

Partner/affiliated/supported institutions – host some of the largest Jewish digital repositories:

CZU Archives 4 million documents

250,000 photographs

8,000 KKL maps

3,000 posters

Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority2,000,000 pages of testimony

100,000 photographs

Deep terminological development

Diaspora MuseumGenealogy music photographs virtual exhibits



eJewish.info The challenge of the New Internet:

Semantics

Jewish networking

Initiatives: 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


Purpose of eJewish.info

Create a Joint Jewish Space that will provide clear advantages, by its size, ease of use and speed of access, for providers of services and goods of Jewish interest.



Jewish Networking

Parameters

Jewish Networking and

Internet Penetration



The need: some examples

Agents

Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources

Learning objects


The New Internet

The Challenge of the New Web: Semantics

e.g. Agents

Semantic Web Concepts



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



http://www.ejewish.info/


Example: Dinur Centre for Jewish

History


Jewish Networking

Thesaurus

1,000 to 1,500 terms for indexing Jewish people sites

Rochelle Kedar leads the development

Agreement with the INDIRE-BDP Institute in Firenze, 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



Next Steps

Multi-lingual support – thesaurus and websiteEnglish - Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish

Specialized registries by language or subject

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

reviewed

Jewish History (Dinur)

Jewish Genealogy – Theater – Community

Zionism – French - Russian



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Digital Repositories


Examples of Digital Repositories


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MINERVA

http://www.minervaeurope.org

http://www.ejewish.info/reka/minerva/index.htm


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


MINERVA

Benchmarking framework

Identification of good practices and competence centers

Inventories, discovery of digitized content

Multilingualism issues

Standards

Interoperability


Some new starts…

Survey of digital repositories in view of setting up a integrative pilot

Identification of collections that are outside the Web: pictures, music, archives, video, radio

Readiness to cooperate

We identified the need to help develop appropriate business models for the repositories


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


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

• 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 and JAFI/eJewish


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


Program for the Development of

Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for

Israel

Contact: Dov Winer, Director

P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel

[email protected]

phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194

http://www.ejewish.info/reka

mailto:[email protected]



eJewish.info

Thank you !


Digitisation Initiatives

eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

http://www.ejewish.info

LUND and the MINERVA Project

http://www.minervaeurope.org


Israel Status Report on Digitisation

http://www.ejewish.info/minerva/index.htm

http://www.ejewish.info/

http://www.minervaeurope.org/


http://www.ejewish.info/minerva/index.htm

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