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Exploiting Powerful Technologies for Jewish Genealogy. With Rachel Cohen. 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, July 9, 2004TRANSCRIPT
eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures
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2. Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
Dov Winer and Rachel CoheneJewish.info
Exploiting Powerful Technologies for Jewish Genealogy
Presentation at the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Jerusalem, July 9, 2004
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Summary: Developing Jewish Networking
Infrastructures Jewish Networking and Digital Repositories
The Jewish Web
Jewish Genealogy in the Web
Digital Repositories
Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures Jewish Agency BOG Initiative
Semantics – Challenge of the New Web
Challenge in the New Internet: Semantics
Registry of Resources, Partner Registries, Thesaurus Survey of Controlled Vocabularies
MINERVA and Experts Network in Israel
XML/RDF – The New Web and Genealogy
European Union Lund Action Plan and MINERVA
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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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
Sandra Siano Weinreg - Editor
Registry of persons, institutions and corporations that deal or have an interest in Jewish networking
Partner Registry in Jewish Genealogy
Rachel Cohen - Coordinator
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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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Semantic Web Concepts
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an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Survey of Jewish Cultural Heritage Controlled
Vocabularies
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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