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GIS – Geographic Information System for the research of European Jewish History. The Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem July 31– August 4, 2005.TRANSCRIPT
Dov WinerIsrael MINERVA Coordinator
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Consultation on European Jewish Cultural Heritage Digitisation
Consultation of European and Jewish Frameworks –VAST 2004 Conference, Brussels, December 2004
European frameworks:o MINERVA – European Ministries of Culture
http://www.minervaeurope.orgo EPOCH – Network of Excellence for Intelligent Heritage
http://www.epoch-net.orgo UK - The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council-MLA
http://www.mla.gov.uko ENAME - Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage
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Consultation on European Jewish Cultural Heritage Digitisation
Jewish Institutions:Jewish Agency for Israel
European Association for Jewish Culture
Institute for Jewish Policy Research (London)
Hanadiv Charitable Foundation
Alliance Israelite Universelle
The European Day of Jewish Culture: Bnai Brith, European Council of Jewish Communities, Caminos de Sefarad
In coordination with:
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
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Consultation on European Jewish Cultural Heritage Digitisation
European frameworks:Concerned with the expression of interest in the
promotion of Cultural Diversity in Europe
Jewish Cultural Heritage part of the European Heritage
Jewish Institutions:Digitisation holds the promise of access to Jewish
Cultural Heritage and its re-integration in the Jewish culture creation life cycle
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Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitisation
Action Items
Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitisation
Mapping cultural heritage digitisation initiatives
GIS Project for Jewish Heritage in Europe
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
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Examples of Data Sets of Interest for European Jewish History Research that
may be integrated in a GIS System
o Jewish Demography
o Genomic Archeology
o Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
o Monumenta – sources on the History of Ashkenazi Jews
o Hebrew Paleography
o Jewish Epigraphy
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Examples of Data Sets of Interest for European Jewish History Research that
may be integrated in a GIS System
o Survey of Jewish Monumentso Centropa Photography Collectiono Jewish Archiveso Jewish Arto Nouvelle Gallia Judaica: Geographical History
Dictionary and declaration of Jewish Names
o Culture, Mobility, Migration and Settlement of Jews in Medieval Europe
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Thank you for your attention !
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Sources for Developing a Cultural
Heritage Digitisation Policy
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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
Sources for Developing Cultural Heritage
Digitisation Policy
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Accessible and sustainable heritage
Support cultural diversity, education and content industries
Digitised resources of great variety and richness
Lund Premises
Problems
Fragmentation of Approach
Obsolescence
Lack of simple, common access
Intellectual Property Rights
Lack of synergies between cultural andnew technologies programs
Institutional investment and commitment
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Israel Frame of Reference
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National Jewish and University Library National Archives Directorate of Culture (Ministry of Education)
Department of Public Libraries Department of Museums
ICOM International Council for Museums – Israel Malmad – The Israel Digital Information Center (IUCC - Universities) Meital – Center for Learning Technologies (IUCC – Universities) Pais Council for Culture and the Arts UNESCO Secretary in Israel Department of Scientific and Cultural Agreement (MOFA)
Coordination The Jewish Agency for Israel Ministry of Science and Technology Expected to join:
The Israel Antiquities Authority The Israel Broadcasting Authorities
Statutory Institutions Co-Opted for the Policy
Development Process
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MINERVA Experts Network in Israel
Nominated by Statutory Institutions
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The Jerusalem Declaration I
1. Contribution of Israel participation in the EU NRG
Framework for establishing here an agenda for
digitisation of Cultural Heritage.
2. Jewish People contribution to European Heritage
3. Digitization of CH and convergence present unique
occasion for the Jewish People and their collective and
evolving memory.
4. Call for a concerted policy for digitisation of Jewish
cultural assets…long term preservation; continuous
access; re-incorporation in the contemporary life of the
Jewish People as living assets re-creating Jewish culture
in its variety and multi-faceted aspects.
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The Jerusalem Declaration II
5. Israel ..expression for cultural diversity. Expression for
the historical and contemporary creativity of Arab, Druze,
Islamic and Christian culture and others.
6. Adopts the Charter of Parma (December 2003)
7. Adopts the Dutch Presidency NRG conclusions:
“…integrate coordination of digital heritage with its
economic sectors of reference (culture, education,
tourism, technology, research…), their policies and
programmes, policy drivers (…) and their objectives in
the enlarged Europe…
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Debate in the Parliament (Knesset)
Committee for Internet and Information Technologies
Following the Jerusalem Declaration of October 2004 the Committee held a
well attended debate on the issues related to the Digitisation of Cultural
Heritage.
In preparation for an extended discussion later in 2005 an economist was
nominated in the Comptrollers Division of the Ministry of Finance to work
together with the MINERVA Working Groups in preparing a brief on the
contribution of digitisation of Cultural Heritage to the National Economy.
UK Creative Industries Concept
British Library evaluation of the value of its services for the British economy.
EPOCH Work Package on Economic Contribution of CH
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National Representatives Group Reports on Israel
comprehensive mapping of the main digitisation initiatives, policies and players
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MINERVA Technical Guidelines
CALIMERA Guidelines – Hebrew
Cultural Heritage Digitisation Distributed Course for the staff of small and medium institutions and university students.
Background Documentation and Initiatives
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The Jewish People Frame of Reference
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Opportunities in the new environment
Example: Learning Objects
Thousands of Jewish films in each Jewish school, community center and faculty
Communities of educators, cultural professionals, creative artists, educators re-owning and re-creating Jewish culture
and all the while dialoguing about it
“Eretz Amazonia”
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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
The Challenge of the new environment: a User model
The Challenge of the new environment: Semantics
Jewish networking infrastructures - User Model
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Purpose of eJewish.info
The Challenge of the new environment:
User model
Jewish networking infrastructures - User Model
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David Bearman, President, Archives & Museum Informatics Sustaining Culture, Enhancing Life: User Requirements for Cultural Heritage http://www.eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.info
Jewish networking infrastructures – User Model
Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
Type of Information
Needed
Self-Actualization Significance
Esteem Significance
Belonging Meanings
Safety Facts
Physiological Facts
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Jewish networking infrastructures - User Model
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Jewish networking infrastructures
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Jewish networking infrastructures
Registry of Jewish web resources and partner registries
Survey of Jewish Heritage Controlled Vocabularies
Experts WGs: Resources Discovery
Quality
Interoperability
Good Practice and Competence
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The Challenge of the new environment:
Semantics
Jewish Networking Infrastructures
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Jewish Networking Infrastructures
Agents
Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources
Learning objects
Link to the Semantic Web Presentation
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For copyJewish Networking Infrastructures
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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For copyJewish networking infrastructures
Near future:
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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Thank you for your attention !
Contact: Dov Winer, Coordinator, MINERVA Network in IsraelDirector - Program for the Development of Jewish
Networking Infrastructuresan initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
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How will our Culture, Education and Identity stand up to this challenge?
What are the opportunities presented by the new environment?
Facets for a Cultural Heritage Digitisation Policy
for Israel
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Computer Scientists Engineers and Technicians Librarians and Information Science Experts Archivists Museums Creative artists Communities: Computerized graphics, Archaeology, Architecture,
Multimedia production, Information Experts, Distributed Learning, Education and Training,
Broadcasting archives, TV Stage Directors, Producers Association, Documentary producers
IP Professionals – Creative Commons initiative Business and entrepreneurship community
Professional Communities Involved in Cultural
Heritage Digitisation