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eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures
An initiative of the
Jewish Agency for Israel
International Cooperation Opportunities in the
Program for Developing Jewish networking
Infrastructures
Moshe WolfCIO
The Jewish Agency for Israel
Dov WinerDirectoreJewish.info
EVA 2004 Florence
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts
March 30, 2004
Workshop I: International Cooperation
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The Jewish Agency for Israel
Established/enlarged in 1929
International scope
Main tasks today:
Jewish education and Jewish culture
Absorption of Immigrants – especially fromEthiopia and the FSU
Social development in the periphery regions and populations in Israel: education, social welfare, economic development, education, agriculture
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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
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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
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Digitisation Initiatives
eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
http://www.ejewish.info
LUND and the MINERVA Project
http://www.minervaeurope.org
http://www.ejewish.info/reka/minerva/index.htm
Israel Status Report on Digitisation
http://www.ejewish.info/minerva/index.htm
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eJewish.info
The challenge of the New Internet: Semantics
Jewish networking
Initiatives: Registry of Jewish web resources and partner
registries
Participation in the European Digitization Policy development
Awareness and dissemination
International cooperation
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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.
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The need: some examples
Agents
Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources
Learning objects
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Jewish Networking
Parameters
Jewish Networking and
Internet Penetration
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The New Internet
The Challenge of the New Web: Semantics
e.g. Agents
Semantic Web Concepts
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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 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
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Next Steps
Multi-lingual support – thesaurus and website
Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish
Specialized registries by language or subject
Filling the registry
Dinur – Snunit – ORT – JewishGen
Shamash – Denominations
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Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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Examples of Digital Repositories
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MINERVA
http://www.minervaeurope.org
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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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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
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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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Know How
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Know How
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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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Israel and Jewish Digitization Policy
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
• National Foundation for Jewish Culture
• European Association for Jewish Culture
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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
dovw@jazo.org.il
phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194
http://www.ejewish.info/reka
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eJewish.info
Thank you !
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