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MINERVA, Lund, Concerted Policy for Cultural

Heritage Digitization

Dov WinereJewish.info

Presentation at the Board of the Israel Internet Association –

August 2004

http://www.jafi.org.il/

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an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

International Initiatives

Digital Promise Digital Opportunity Investment Fund DoIT

(1) Learning Models (2) Digitise collections: museums, universities, museums, cultural institutions

National Academy of Science

IT, Innovation and Creativity: need for mutual synergies between Art and Computer Science

European Union Lund Action Plan



Digitization of Science and

Cultural Heritage

Council of European Union 2001 (eEurope)

Values

Accessible and sustainable heritage

Support cultural diversity, education and content industries

Digitised resources of great variety and richness



Problems

Fragmentation of Approach

Obsolescence

Lack of simple, common access for the citizen

Intellectual Property Rights

Lack of synergies between cultural and new technologies programs

Institutional investment and commitment



Intervention areas

Improving policies and programmes by co-operation and benchmarking

Discovery of digitized resources

Promotion of good practices

Content framework

Tools

National Representatives Group (NRG)

MINERVA as operational framework of experts


Countries in the NRG

Austria

Belgium

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Portugal

Spain

Sweden

UK

Israel

Russia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Poland

Slovakia

Slovenia


MINERVA

http://www.minervaeurope.org

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il

http://www.ejewish.info/reka/minerva/index.htm

http://www.minervaeurope.org/

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il/


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


MINERVA

Benchmarking framework

Identification of good practices and competence centers

Inventories, discovery of digitized content

Multilingualism issues

Standards

Interoperability


MINERVA Experts Network

Experts Working Groups

Interoperability and Metadata (Business models)

Content Discovery UK/FR/IT- Multilingual Thesaurus

Quality (Small institutions) (Usability and Accessibility)

Good Practice and Competence Centers

(Cost reduction)


MINERVA Experts Network

Representatives for the Statutory InstitutionsNational Archivar – Jewish National Library –ICOM (International Council for Museums –Israel) – Meital (Israel Universities eLearning) -Council and Department of Libraries – Council and Department of Museums – Unesco Secretary – Pais Council for Culture and Arts – MOF –MOFA (Kashtum) – Malmad (Israel Center for

Digital Information)

Coordination: MOST Ministry of Science and Technology and JAFI/eJewish


Towards a Concerted Policy for the Digitization of Jewish Cultural Heritage

The Jewish Agency

The National Foundation for Jewish Culture

The European Association for Jewish Culture

[EPOCH]


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


Concerted Policy for

Jewish Digitization

Conceptual paper: February 2004

Following MINERVA Plus launching

Discussed with:National Foundation for Jewish Culture

European Association for Jewish Culture

Presented at the Conference on the Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe –

Prague, April 25-27, 2004

Richard Siegel director of the NFJC nominates North America Coordinator

EAJC nominate contact person


Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitization

Action Items

Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitization

Establish WGs of experts in areas parallel to those of MINERVA

Interoperability and Service Provision

Good Practices and Competence Centers

Discovery of Content and Multilingualism

Quality framework and user needs

Survey vocabularies and set pilot for seamless access


Awareness/Dissemination

Semantic Web Seminar 31 October 2002 (with ISOC-IL and ISERD)

ILA Conference in November Digital Repositories Workshop with CEN/ISSS WorkGroup

Coordinator, Franz Van Assche 28 January 2003 Learning objects SIG With the Ministry of Science and Technology and

The Italian Embassy Bi National Seminar on Digital Access to Scientific and Cultural Heritage Resources

Semantic Web Seminar with Prof. James Hendler

Upcoming: EVA Jerusalem and MINERVA Conference - October 04


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

[email protected]

phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194

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eJewish.info

Thank you !


Digitization Initiatives

eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

http://www.ejewish.info

LUND and the MINERVA Project

http://www.minervaeurope.org

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il


Israel Status Report on Digitization

http://www.ejewish.info/minerva/index.htm

http://www.ejewish.info/

http://www.minervaeurope.org/

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il/


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