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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
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
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
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
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Israel
Contact: Dov Winer, DirectorP.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel
.phone: +972.2.6204194 fax: +972.2.5333269
http://www.ejewish.info/reka