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eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

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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

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Israel

Contact: Dov Winer, Director

P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel

dovw@jazo.org.il

phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194

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eJewish.info

Thank you !

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