040126 Content Weg Meital Presentation

eJewish.infoAn initiative of the Jewish Agency

התכנית לפיתוח תשתיות בתקשוב יהודיDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

Dov Winer

Digitisation Initiatives in Israel and

Europe

Content WG of Meital The Israel Center

for Learning Technologies

Tel Aviv University

26 January 2004

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

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

Digitisation Initiatives

eJewish.info – Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

LUND and the MINERVA Project

http://www.minervaeurope.org

Israel Status Report on Digitisation

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

EC Learning Objects Project in Israel

http://celebrate.eun.org

http://demoportal.eun.org

http://www.learning-objects.org.il

http://www.minervaeurope.org/

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

http://celebrate.eun.org/

http://demoportal.eun.org/

http://www.learning-objects.org.il/




eJewish.info

The challenge of the New Internet: Semantics

Jewish Networking

Policy Initiatives

Registry of Jewish Web Resources and Partner Registries

Participation in the European Digitization Policy Development

Awareness and dissemination


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 need: some examples

Agents

Semantic Web Integration of Heterogeneous Sources

Learning Objects


The New Internet

The Challenge of the New Web: Semantics

e.g. Agents

Semantic Web Concepts

rs_2.ppt

rs_2.ppt

agents_rdf_info.ppt

what_is_sw.ppt



Jewish Networking

Parameters

Jewish Networking and Internet

Penetration

rs_1_c.ppt

rs_1_c.ppt




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

Agreement with the ODP (Open Directory Project)

that powers Google

http://www.ejewish.info/



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



An example: The Dinur Centre for

Jewish History


Dinur Centre for Jewish History






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




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



Agreement with the Open

Directory Project



Agreement with the Open

Directory Project

Powers Google, AOL Search, AskJeeves, HotBot, Lycos and other 200 engines

2.3 million URLs

self governance

Open Source inspired

Recognition of Jewish networking and possible emulation of a leading collaborative project

Jewish Web sites will access one stop entry into main search engines. So that…

Web surfers interested in Jewish

matters will have the most sophisticated search engines available



Filling the Registry

1,338 Publishers registered (27.5.2003)

1,466 Collections approved

6,189 Collections pending review

Agreement with Dinur Center for Jewish History which manages 6,000 Collections

Agreement with JewishGen the most popular non-news Jewish Site.

Education CollectionsCET Matach uploaded their Jewish and Israel interest

collections

Agreement with Snunit – largest educational repository in Israel for direct transfer of data

ORT Israel – one of the largest educational networks in Israel



Next Steps

Multi lingual support – Thesaurus and Web site

Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish

Specialized Registries by Language or Subject


Dinur – Snunit – ORT – JewishGen

Shamash – Denominations




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


Examples of Digital Repositories












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MINERVA

http://www.minervaeurope.org


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


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


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

http://etb.eun.org/

http://www.bdp.it/


Know How


Know How


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:

With the Ministry of Science and Technology, The Italian Embassy

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


World Association for

Jewish Networking

Correspondence with the Internet Society http://www.isoc.org

International organizational framework that oversees the overall Internet development and the establishment of standards.

Agreement on establishment of an iSIG for Jewish Networking – International Special Interest Group

Upgrades the Institutional partnerships in Jewish Networking.

Implementation depends on solid Jewish institutional support.

http://www.isoc.org/



What is in there for me

The user of Jewish networking

The most sophisticated search engines like Google will cover most of the Jewish collections

He will get access to pinpointed resources by language, target population, age, quality control, keywords

The site manager:

Increased exposure to search engines

Formatted Metadata for his site

A large assembly of Jewish resources he may wish to link to or emulate

The Online Education Producer

Learning objects for inclusion in his courses

Well defined

The Foundation Manager

Wide discussed agendas for promotion of Jewish

Networking in different areas in which he may decide to invest



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



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