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Judaica Europeana: Semantic Web tools for expressing Jewish contribution to European Cities in Europeana EVA Florence, April 2010 www.judaica-europeana.eu Dov Winer European Association for Jewish Culture Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana

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Article presented at the EVA Florence Conference: http://www.evaflorence.it/home.php (21-23.4.2010)Judaica Europeana: Semantic Web tools for expressing the contribution of Jews to European Cities in the European Digital Library – Europeana – Dov Winer

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Judaica Europeana: Semantic Web tools

for expressing Jewish contribution to

European Cities in Europeana

EVA Florence, April 2010

www.judaica-europeana.eu

Dov Winer

European Association for Jewish Culture

Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana

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Europeana ― the vision

Europe’s digital libraries,

archives and museums

online

• A showcase for Europe’s

cultural and scientific

heritage

• A flagship project of the

European Commission and

the European Parliament.

“A digital library that is a single,

direct and multilingual access point

to the European cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

“A unique resource for Europe's

distributed cultural heritage …

ensuring a common access to

Europe's libraries, archives and

museums.”

Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content &

Cognitive Systems Information Society

Directorate, European Commission

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Europeana - A vision for 2011

• “A common multilingual access point aggregator, distributor and

facilitator that would make it possible to catalyse and search

innovate and generate revenue from Europe’s distributed – that is

to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital

cultural heritage online. “

Aggregator Distributor

Catalyst Innovator

Facilitator Revenue generator

European Union Communiqué August 2010

Facilitator

Innovator

European Union Communiqué August 2010

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Europeana Group of Projects

AthenaAPEnet

Biodiversity Heritage

Libraries Europe

EUScreen

EuropeanFilmGateway

Europeana

Local

EuropeanaTravel

Musical Inst.Museums Online

Judaica

Europeana

The European Library

EuropeanaConnect

Europeana v.1.0

ArrowPrestoPrime

Europeana

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documents the Jewish contribution to Europe’s cultural

heritage on the theme of cities

Judaica Europeana

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Judaica Europeana

• Reply to the eContentPlus 2008 call for contributions to EUROPEANA –

The European Digital Library

• 24 months project - 3 million € with 50% contribution of the European

Commission

• Contribution of content on the Europeana theme of CITY:

cities of the future/past - migration and diasporas - trade and industry -

design, shopping and urban cool - the route to urban health - archaeology

and architecture - utopias - riot and disorder - palaces and politics

• Other themes in the Call:

Social life - Music - Crime and Punishment - Travel & tourism

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Partners

Hungarian Jewish Archive

Coordinator

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Extending the network

The following expressed their interest in

joining Judaica Europeana:

• National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

• Center for Jewish History, New York

• Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

• Jewish Museum Berlin

• Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow

• London Metropolitan Archive

• Aberdeen University Library

• Institute for Jewish Policy Research,

London

Travelling trunk brought by a German refugee

family to England in May 1939, Mädler Koffer,

c.1930, Germany. The Jewish Museum London

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JUDAICA Europeana goals

• Document Jewish expression in Europe. Support content holders in

identifying content that reflect the Jewish impact on European cities

• Digitise and aggregate this content. Synchronize standards, metadata

and vocabularies, with Europeana interoperability requirements

• Deploy knowledge management tools to support communities of

practice index, retrieve and re-use content pertinent to their areas of

interest

• Support employment of content in scholarship; university teaching;

museum curatorship; cultural tourism; plastic arts, music and

multimedia; formal and informal education

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Jewish contribution to European cities

Urbanisation and occupational

specialisation has led to the

identification of Jews with

specific streets, neighbourhoods

and other urban phenomena.

The J-Street Project by Susan Heller.

Compton Verney Trust and the DAAD, Berlin,

2005. A book, installation and video produced

with the support of the European Association

for Jewish Culture.

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Jews in European Cities – kinds of content

Known celebrities – full individual expression

Core of Jewish Life

Jewish expressions in the

urban landscape

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Jews in European Cities

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Jews and the City

Prof. Steven Zipperstein points to the anti-urban bias of most of the

Jewish historiography and how this began to change at the end of the

20th Century

Zipperstein, S. (1987). Jewish Historiography and the Modern City. Jewish History V2 , pp.77-88

“The Jewish Century” by Yuri Slezkine (2004):

“Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate,

intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. It is

about learning how to cultivate people and symbols, not fields and herds. It

is about pursuing wealth for the sake of learning, learning for the sake of

wealth, and both wealth and learning for their own sake. It is about

transforming peasants and princes into merchants and priests, replacing

inherited privilege with acquired prestige, and dismantling social estates for

the benefit of individuals, nuclear families, and book-reading tribes (nations).

Modernization, in other words, is about everyone becoming Jewish.”

(Slezkine, 2004).• Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. For the first chapter

see http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7819.html

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Digitise, aggregate, metadata & vocabularies

• EUROPEANA will be integral part of the Web of Knowledge

• Linked Data – the RDF Web, Web as a database

• Building units: URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers)

in RDF (Resource Description Framework) triplets:

Subject, Predicate, Object

• Vocabularies as Hubs in the Web of Knowledge:

SKOS – Simple Knowledge Organisation System

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The Web of Data

• “First, the Web will get better and better at helping us to

manage, integrate, and analyze data.”

• “Today, the Web is quite effective at helping us to publish

and discover documents, but the individual information

elements within those documents ... cannot be handled

directly as data.”

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• “Today you can see the data with your browser, but can't

get other computer programs to manipulate or analyze it

without going through a lot of manual effort yourself.”

• “As this problem is solved, we can expect that Web as a

whole to look more like a large database or spreadsheet,

rather than just a set of linked documents.”

The Web of Data

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Those data can be published in the Web...

...linked with other data in the Web...

...shared between software applications...

The Web of Data

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http://linkeddata.org/

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• Publish KOS (Knowledge Organisation Systems) as

linked data in the Web

– Make their concepts and their interconnections part of

the Web of data

• Why?

• How? (SKOS...)

The Web of Knowledge

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KOS e.g. LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)

• Can be viewed as a network of interconnected

concepts

• Represent LCSH as data in the Web

– Make those concepts and their interconnections part of

the Web

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SKOS Resource Types (Classes)

• skos:Concept

– E.g. LCSH concept of US Presidents

• skos:ConceptScheme

– E.g. LCSH itself

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SKOS Link Types (Properties)

• For labeling concepts

– skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel, skos:hiddenLabel

• For documenting concepts

– skos:note, skos:scopeNote, skos:definition,

skos:editorialNote...

• For linking concepts

– skos:broader, skos:narrower, skos:related

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[email protected]

SKOS Simple Knowledge ORGANIZATION SYSTEM

thesauri, classifications, subjects, taxonomies, folksonomies,…

controlled vocabulary

concepts are documented, linked, merged with other data, composed, integrated

and published on the Web

CONCEPTS identified by URIs using RDF triples

:natural language expressions to refer to

concepts

skos: prefLabel [descriptor]

skos: altLabel [synonims, acronyms, abbreviations]

SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

…broader and narrower concepts

broader/narrower relationships assert that a concept

is broader/narrower in meaning

related…concepts somehow related

SCHEMES compiled sets of concepts: ConceptScheme class and inScheme

relationship to link a concept to a scheme

hasTopConcept relationship for the entry points of narrower/broader hierarchy

LINK schemes map concepts from different schemes using the properties

exactMatch, broadMatch, narrowMatch and relatedMatchJune 10

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[email protected]

SKOS APPLICATIONS

I want to send my thesaurus/subject heading/taxonomy from one database/application to another

I want to publish my thesaurus/taxonomy… in an “electronic” form, so that it can become part of a distributed information network/environment

The Web values quality and openness (e.g. Wikipedia)

KOS are high quality resources [both the concepts and the links]

KOS are natural hubs…attractors…high gravity…attract links

act as firm foundation for a Web of data…

Links are paths to discovery (of documents, data,…); they can be exploited in useful and surprising ways (serendipity); well established KOS e.g. LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings, AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus) can be hubs in the Web of linked data June 10

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Jewish gazetteers

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/

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The benefits Judaica Europeana will bring

• Europeana will expose content providers metadata to search

engines, making deep web content accessible.

• Europeana will soon be able to provide a set of APIs (application

programming interfaces) through which the content of Europeana may

be re-used by Europeana partners and integrated for display in their own

online platforms.

• Knowledge transfer: Europeana works with digital library experts from

across Europe and America. They are leading thinkers and practitioners

in the fields of metadata standards, multilinguality, semantic web,

information architecture, usability, geolocation, object modelling and other

topics.

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Deploy Knowledge Management Tools

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Deploy Knowledge Management Tools

• European Science Foundation

COST A32 Action

Open Scholarly Communities in the Web

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Employment of Content

• Support employment of content in scholarship; university

teaching; museum curatorship; cultural tourism; plastic arts,

music and multimedia; formal and informal education

• Each partner will:

• Organize at least two virtual exhibitions employing the digitised resources

• Involve at least two scholars in using Judaica Europeana knowledge management tools

• Involve at leas two university level courses in using Judaica Europeana resources for teaching

• Engage at least three schools in the Unesco project “Scenes and Sounds of my City”

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Thank you for your attention!

Contact:

Dov Winer

Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager

EAJC - European Association for Jewish Culture

[email protected]