Collaborative Research Online:

Knowledge management pilot project on Haskala

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• Support a community of knowledge.• Demonstrate uses of the Judaica Europeana collection within the Europeana data model

Support a community of Knowledge

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Stefan Gradmann:Europeana Semantica

Eva/Minerva JerusalemConferenceKeynote

Nov 2008

Knowledge management

Jewish Enlightenment (HASKALA) Project

•Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University •Prof. Zohar Shavit, University of Tel Aviv•Prof. Christoph Schulte, University of Potsdam

Investigating the secularization of traditional book culture

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Haskala Database Content

•Corpus of a thousand books from end of 18th/early 19th century•Texts in Hebrew, German •Detailed Data on 521 books •Basic Catalog Data on 359 books•Detailed Data on 343 persons (authors, translators, editors etc)•Alltogether 2.430 persons involved•Data on 348 publishing houses , companies, places

Database in SQL with a Visual Basic interface supporting some 147 pre-defined queries

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• Yaron Koren, WikiWorks, one of the main developers of the Semantic Media Wiki

• http://wikiworks.com/• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/

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• Conversion of the database to CVS • Import as RDF in the Semantic Media Wiki• Design of work environment for Haskala research team• Metadata enrichment: • include digitised versions of books (Frankfurt University

Library, National Library of Israel and others)– Provide controlled vocabularies for present textual strings

( e.g. VIAF for names, GeoNames for locations)

• Publish parts of the database in Europeana/LOD

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Functionalities to become available: •Improved data structure -simple queries instead of categories•Searching information – creating own queries •Automatically generated lists – up to date •Visual display of information – timelines, graphs, maps•External reuse – data source for other applications

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http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica/nav/index/all

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