JUDAICA Europeana

EVA/MINERVA 2009

Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of CultureDov Winer

European Association for Jewish Culture

Scientific Manager, Judaica EuropeanaNovember 11, 2009

Milestones

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The future of Jewish Heritage in Europe:an International Conference – Prague 24-27 April 2004

developing Jewish networking infrastructures

Europeana vision of 2006

• “A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

Achievements

• Nearly 5 million objects

• Partner network of circa 200 institutions

• Object model designed

• Governance model

• Fully functioning prototype

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

EDL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

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 2

The European Library

VideoActive

ATHENA

APEnet

EFGACE

Culture.fr

CulturaItalia

BAM

CIMEC etc……

EuropeanaLocal

Trebleclef

PrestoPrime

IMPACT

BHLMIMO

EuropeanaConnect

Judaica

EuropeanaTravel

EUScreen

STERNA

JUDAICA Europeana

• Jews in European Cities

• in reply to the eContentPlus 2008 call for contributions to EUROPEANA – The European Digital Library

• 24 months project

• 3 million € with 50% contribution of the European Commission

• Contribution of content on the Europeana theme of CITY:cities of the future/past - migration and diaspora - trade and industry - design, shopping and urban cool - the route to urban health - archaeology and architecture - utopias - riot and disorder - palaces and politics

• Other themes: Social life - Music - Crime and Punishment - Travel & tourism

Partners

Hungarian Jewish Archive

Coordinator

JUDAICA Europeana goals

• Document Jewish expression in Europe. Support content holders in identifying content that reflect the Jewish impact on European cities

• Digitise and aggregate this content. Synchronize standards, metadata and vocabularies, with Europeana interoperability requirements

• Deploy knowledge management tools to support communities of practice index, retrieve and re-use content pertinent to their areas of interest

• Support employment of content in scholarship; university teaching; museum curatorship; cultural tourism; plastic arts, music and multimedia; formal and informal education

Jews in European Cities – kinds of content

Known celebrities – full individual expression

Core of Jewish Life

Jewish expressions in theurban landscape

Jews in European Cities

Jews and the City

Prof. Steven Zipperstein, in a seminal article, points to the anti-urban bias of most of the Jewish historiography and how this began to change at the end of the 20 th Century:

Zipperstein, S. (1987). Jewish Historiography and the Modern City. Jewish History V2 , pp.77-88

“The Jewish Century” by Yuri Slezkine (2004):“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.” (Slezkine, 2004).

• Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. For the first chapter see http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7819.html

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Digitise, aggregate, metadata & vocabularies

• EUROPEANA will be integral part of the Web of Knowledge

• Linked Data – the RDF Web, Web as a database

• Building units: URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) in RDF (Resource Description Framework) triplets:

Subject, Predicate, Object

• EUROPEANA Metadata schemata• ESE – Europeana Semantic Elements• MUSEUM Dat - Adopted by Athena for Museums• APENET recommendations for Archives

• Vocabularies as Hubs in the Web of Knowledge: SKOS – Simple Knowledge Organisation System

10/02/09

http://e-culture.multimedian.nl/demo/session/searchDigitise, aggregate, metadata & vocabularies

Deploy Knowledge Management Tools

Deploy Knowledge Management Tools

• European Science FoundationCOST A32 ActionOpen Scholarly Communities in the

Web

Employment of Content

• Support employment of content in scholarship; university teaching; museum curatorship; cultural tourism; plastic arts, music and multimedia; formal and informal education

• Each partner will:• Organize at least two virtual exhibitions employing the digitised

resources• Involve at least two scholars in using Judaica Europeana

knowledge management tools• Involve at leas two university level courses in using Judaica

Europeana resources for teaching• Engage at least three schools in the Unesco project “Scenes and

Sounds of my City”

Thank you for your attention!

Contact:

Dov Winer

Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager

EAJC - European Association for Jewish Culture

dov.winer@gmail.com

Additional documents on Europeana

• The following slides were taken from Jill Cousins presentation Europeana 2011 at the Europeana v1 WorkGroups Kickoff, 2 April 2009

• Jill Cousins complete presentation is available here

• Additional updated documents and presentations on Europeana are available here

A vision for 2011

• Aggregator

• Distributor

• Catalyst

• Innovator

• Facilitator

Europeana the Aggregator

Europeana the Distributor

content, webservices, workforce, knowledge....

Europeana the catalyst

• Content + new technology = new tool or new service

+ =

Europeana the Innovator

Virtual exhibitions

Stories

Colour searching

Personalisation

Multilingual search

Music bar search

Geographic Referencing

Collaborative working

Reuse

Video sampling

RDF Triplets

Europeana the facilitator

Repositories: language, cross walks, thesauri Tools: Europeana Licensing Framework..........Policies: Annotations, Public Domain, User Generated Content..........

A vision for 2011

• “A common multilingual access point would make it possible to and search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2010

Revenue generator

aggregator, distributor and facilitator

Facilitator

Distributor

Innovator

Catalyst

, innovate and generate revenue from

Aggregator

catalyse