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eJewish.info An initiative of the Jewish Agency תשתיות בתקשוב יהודי התכנית לפיתוחDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures Establishing a Shared Market for Jewish Cultural Heritage through Semantics Jewish Museums Conference The Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv November 2003

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eJewish.infoAn initiative of the Jewish Agency

התכנית לפיתוח תשתיות בתקשוב יהודיDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

Establishing a Shared Market for Jewish Cultural Heritage through

Semantics

Jewish Museums Conference

The Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv

November 2003

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eJewish.info The challenge of the New

Internet: Semantics

Jewish Networking

Policy Initiatives Registry of Jewish Web Resources

and Partner Registries

Applying European Digitization Policy Development to Jewish Cultural Heritage

Controlled Vocabularies Survey

Awareness and dissemination

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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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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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What we are doing

Controlled vocabulary (Thesaurus) developed by Rochelle Kedar

Metadata Set has been reviewed by a panel of prime international experts

Requirements for the Registry Software defined

Registry is working http://www.ejewish.info

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Tools

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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An example: The Dinur Centre for

Jewish History

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Dinur Centre for Jewish History

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Dinur Centre for Jewish History

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Dinur Centre for Jewish History

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The Registry

Collections

Institutions and corporations

Persons

Metadata set

Services Search

Advanced Search slicing by all fields

Export of Metadata as regular tags and RDF

Browsing by ODP categories

Browsing by Thesaurus accepted terms

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Jewish Networking

Thesaurus

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

Rochelle Kedar leading 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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Being now completed

Multi lingual support – Thesaurus and Web site

Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish

Specialized Registries by Language or Subject

Filling the Registry

Dinur – Snunit – ORT – JewishGen

Shamash – Denominations

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Filling the Registry

Implementation of the afore mentioned agreements will result in an impressive number of resources in the Registry

We will have achieved the largest and most varied repository of Jewish resources in the Internet.

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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

Participation in EC RTD Projects

ETB – Ministries of Education Digital Library http://etb.eun.org

CELEBRATE – Learning Objects program establishing an European educational market

BDP/INDIRE – Thesaurus Development

http://www.bdp.it

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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

Upcoming: Bi National Seminar with Italy on Digital Access to Cultural Heritage

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Digital Access to Cultural Heritage Bi National Seminar

Upcoming:December 10, 2003, Weizmann Hall, The Jewish Agency

Sponsors: The Jewish Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, MINERVA, The Ministry of Cultural Heritage from Italy, The Italian Embassy

Partners in organizing the Working Groups: Tehila (MOF eGovernment project); The Israel National Archivar; The Ministry of Culture – Museums and Libraries Departments; MALMAD and the National Jewish Library and many others

WGs 1: eGovernment, Museums, Libraries, Archives

WGs 2: Metadata and Interoperability; Benchmarking;Best practices and training; Quality of Web Sites.

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What is in there for Jewish Museums

Do you have a Web site?

Register your collections using the standard Metadata

Your collections will be better retrieved

May easily become Learning Objects

Are you a content area leader Establish a Partner Registry: vocabulary development;

database facilities; extend your leadership

Have you a digitization program? Register it with the MINERVA Survey and be in the map

of digitization activities in Europe

Do you have a Controlled Vocabulary Even if not computerized – Register it

Become a member of the community of Jewish Cultural Heritage Terminological Developers

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Program for the Development of

Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for

Israel

Contact: Dov Winer, DirectorP.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel

[email protected]

.phone: +972.2.6204194 fax: +972.2.5333269

http://www.ejewish.info/reka