061112 Eva Minerva2006 Final

Israel, the NRG and MINERVA:The Israel MINERVA Working Groups

Dov Winer

Israel MINERVA Coordinator

EVA/MINERVA 2006The Third Annual Jerusalem Conference on the

Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il [email protected]

Context

Israel as an Information Society

User model – Ben Schneiderman

The conference program as a map of the coping efforts of the Israel cultural heritage community

Immediate future

Michael

NRG/Minerva: Interoperability, Long term preservation

The next RTD framework program / CIP

Adopting the EC recommendation for member states

Outline of the Presentation


Highest share of the GDP invested in Research and Technological Development: 4.1% (ISERD)

Computer Science research : US most, Israel best (EC report on Science & Technology Indicators)

1,200,000 broadband users (65% households) saturation expected in 2007 (another 200 k) second only to Korea

Upcoming move to 5 MB/S connections this means good VOD over IP

interactive multimedia

Israel IS a Knowledge Society


UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium

Israel 2005 e-readiness ranking


Lisbon Agenda

Lund Action Plan

NRG – National Representatives Group

http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/digicult/nrg.htm

MINERVA/MINERVA Plus/ MINERVA EC

Dynamic Action Plan

High Level Expert Group

eContentPlus – 149 Million Euro 2005-2008

Israel is not a member

Research and Development: 6FP and now 7FP

Israel is a participant:190/204 million

MINERVA Working Groups in Israel

http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/digicult/nrg.htm


A Knowledge Society implies constant innovation and change. Challenges appear at all levels: policy making and steering the state, the economy, the educational

system, the integration of the society.

The present conference deals with the challenges and opportunities a Knowledge Society poses in the area of culture. The set of spiritual, material, intellectual and

emotional features of society and social groups. Art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs. (UNESCO, 2002)

All that enable us to define ourselves and attribute significance to life and society.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsActivities and Relationships Table (Ben Shneiderman, MIT)


David Bearman, President, Archives & Museum Informatics Sustaining Culture, Enhancing Life: User Requirements for Cultural Heritage http://www.eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.info

An User Model

Maslow’s Hierarchy of

Needs

Type of Information

Needed

Self-Actualization Significance

Esteem Significance

Belonging Meanings

Safety Facts

Physiological Facts

http://www.eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.info/



http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/feature/leonardoslaptop/index.html

An User Model


Activities and Relationships


Activities and Relationships


The conference program as a map of the coping process by the Israel

cultural heritage community

EVA/MINERVA 2006 Jerusalem Conference


National Jewish and University Library

National Archives

Ministry of Science Culture and Sports

Directorate of Culture

Department of Museums and Visual Arts

The Israel Antiquities Authority

Israel Committee for UNESCO – Ministry of Education

Department of Public Libraries at the Ministry of Education

ICOM International Council for Museums – Israel

Malmad – The Israel Digital Information Center (IUCC - Universities)

The Digitisation Forum of Film Producers and Documentaries Creators

Meital – Center for Learning Technologies (IUCC – Universities)

Pais Council for Culture and the Arts

Department of Scientific and Cultural Agreement (MOFA)

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The Israel MINERVA Forum


Good Practices and Competence Centers

Coordinator(WP6) : Orly Simon

Discovery of Digitised Content:

Thesauri and Multilingualism

Coordinator (WP3): Dr. Allison Kupietzki

User needs, Content and Quality Framework

Coordinator (WP5): Susan Hazan

Interoperability, IPR, Business Models

Coordinator (WG4): Ora Zehavi, Amaliah Keshet

Israel MINERVA Working Groups


Multi

lingualism


Multilingualism


Cost Reduction


Hebrew Manual of Digitisation


Hebrew Manual of

Digitisation


Plenary - 14th November (17:00)Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan

Dr.Doron Avital – Israel National Library (JNUL)

Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich – Israel National Archivar

Pier Giacomo Sola – MICHAEL

Scriptorium

14th November – sessions from 11:00 – 12:30 UNESCO – 60 Years Chair: Prof. Niv Ahituv

Prof. Michael Turner – Urban Renewal of Old Jerusalem

Dr. Merav Mack – Digitising Jerusalem Archives

Dudu Amitai – Preserving the Israeli Arabs Cultural Heritage

Hasia Israeli – Digitisation at the Diaspora Museum

The Conference


Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural Heritage

11:00 – 12:30

Amalyah Keshet, Chair, Report from Museum Computer Network conference

Ethel Chait-Stein, Protection of Databases

Elad Wieder, Creative Commons

Tags, Images and Sites

11:00 – 12:30

Ora Zehavi, Dr. Judit Bar Ilan – Chairs

Dr. Judit Bar Ilan – structured vs unstructured tagging

Rivka Shveiky – metadata for Internet sites archiving

Dr. Susan Hazan – Flickrs and folksonomies

Ora Zehavi – Photography for history of our life

The Conference


Designing for Digital Worlds (13:30 – 15:30)

Prof. Rivka Oxman – Chair, Theory and Design

Shoham Ben Ari, Roi Hammer, Alex Eitan, Tal KastenDigital Architecture: Digital Surfaces and Digital Spaces

Orit PalmonVirtual Reality: Environments for Barrier Free Design

Rina KolomiskiReal Virtuality: Designing a Virtual Museum

Zvi Elhayani

Digital Historiography

The Conference – November 14th Afternoon


Multilingualism (13:30 – 15:30) Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Chair

Best practice for multilingualism in Cultural Heritage sites

Rachel Kudish-Vashid and Liat AyzencotBilingualism as the cornerstone of a scientific online publication

Prof. Elhanan AdlerBilingual metadata in JNUL Ketubot Digitisation

Naomi KimchiBi directionality in the tri lingual site of the Knesset

Debbie LinAn Enhanced Thesaurus at Yad Vashem

Wendy LutermanCreation vs Evolution: Spielberg from mono to bilingual site

Gabriela SzakoliInventories and multilingualism – Minerva WP3



Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age(13:30 – 15:30) Boaz Hashavia, Managing Information Communities

Omri Tamir, A Digital Window to Historical Heritage

Moshe Bairav, Ziv Moreno, Preserving Heritage in the Municipal Domain


Conference Networking Session

15:30 – 17:00

Cheese and Wine

JNUL Entrance Hall

17:00 Plenary Session – Belgium House


Long Term Preservation in the Digital Age

9:00 – 11:00 and 11:15 – 13:00

Yitzhak Cohen, Chairman

Esther Conway, CASPAR, CCLRC, UK

A local perspective:

Orly Simon, Jewish National and University Library

Assaf Tractinsky, Israel State Archives

Revital Weizman, Israel Government Civil Service

Simona Cohen, IBM Haifa Research LabsPreservation DataStore – Storage Assist for Preservation

Environments

The Conference – November 15th Morning


Workshops on Digitisation of Sound and Music

Best Practice in the National Sound Archives

Gila Flam, Chair Best Practice

Avi Nachmias, Digital Preservation

Michale Lukin, Cataloguing Sound Archive

EASAIER Workshop on Advanced Technologies

Moshe Wasserblat, NICE, Partner to EASAIER

MEMORIES Workshop

Stephen Weil, MEMNON coordinator of MEMORIES

European Developments in Audiovisual Archives

Michel Merten, MEMNON Audio Archiving Services

The Conference – November 15th Morning9:00 -10:30 10:30 – 11:40 11:50 – 13:00


Advanced Technologies and ICT for Performing Arts and Theater

Motti Sandak, Chair

Global Overview of Advanced Technologies and ICT for the Performing Arts and Theater

All about Jewish Theater

Raz Schwartz

Media Art and the Internet

Milana Gitzin Adiram

TheHeder Contemporary Art: Functionality of video, from documenting to visual arts

The Conference – November 15th Morning

11:30 – 13:00


Visualising the collection, visualising the gallery, visualising the museum

Chair, Itzhak Brenner

Prof. Alicia Haber, MUVA An Dynamic Interactive Museum

Prof. Uzy Smilansky, Dr Ilan SharonArchaeoMath: High resolution 3D camera in archeological research

Dr. Yaarah Bar-OnDigitizing Bezalel’s History


14:00 – 15:30


The Semantic Web Portal for European Jewish Cultural Heritage

Boaz Hashavia, The MOSAICA Semantic Web Architecture

Prof. Judy Dori and Dr. Miriam BarakThe MOSAICA Virtual Expeditions

Dov WinerCriteria for Selecting European Jewish Cultural

Content for MOSAICA


14:00 – 15:30


Digitisation Resources for Genealogical Research

Ambassador Dr. Yosef Lamdan, Chair

Rose Feldman and Mathilde TaggerVolunteers in Genealogical Societies: Saving the

Information and serving the community

Prof. H.D. WagnerTowards the virtual reconstitution of Jewish

Sthetls

Jean-Pierre StroweisDigitizing challenges for Jewish Genealogy


14:00 – 15:30


Conference Networking Session

15:30 – 17:00

Cheese and Wine

JNUL Entrance Hall



Possible inclusion of Israel in MICHAEL as a non funded partner

NRG/MINERVA EC

Interoperability in cooperation with the W3C

Based in the multilinguality vocabularies survey

SIG on long term preservation – CASPAR

Adopting the EC recommendations on digitisation and online accessibility

7FP - RTD Framework Program – IST 9 billion Euro

Near future developments


NRG Action Groups

dap coordination matrix Group A: Users and Content

Inventory of initiatives / Content map

Group B: Technologies for Digitisation

Michael+ and CIDOC/CRM Model

W3C – multimedia semantics incubator/SKOS

Group C: Sustainability of ContentFunding and Business Models/ Cost Reduction /

Sustainable Organisations/ IPR/ eLearning

Group D: Digital Preservation

State of art report / Tool Box for DP/ Best practices

Group E: Monitoring ProgressRapid survey of available content exceeds EDL targets


Commission Recommendation on the digitisation

and online accessibility of cultural material and

digital preservation (I) August 2006

Digitisation and Online Accessibility Survey and overview current and planned – books,

newspapers, photographs, museum object, archives, audiovisual – prevent duplication

Develop quantitative targets

Encourage partnerships public/private

Large scale digitisation facilities

Promote multilingual European digital library

Encourage rightholders to make their collections searchable

Encourage application of common digitisation standards in order to achieve interoperability and facilitate searchability


Commission Recommendation o the digitisation

and online accessibility of cultural material and

digital preservation (II) August 2006

Digital Preservation Establish national strategies for long term preservation and access

that describe the organisational approach indicating the roles and responsibilities of the parties and allocated resources

contain specific action plans outlining the objectives and a time table for the specific targets to met

Exchange information with each other

Legislate so as to allow multiple copying and migration by public institutions for preservation

When setting policies and procedures for deposit of material originally created in digital format prevent wide divergence

Legislate for the preservation of web-content by mandate institutions using techniques like Web harvesting in full respect of IPR

Inform the Commission 18 months from the publication and every two years of action taken in response to this Recommendation


Upcoming announcement of the National State Archives – Internet Access

New copyright law

Incorporation of the Israel National Library: legislation and developments with JNUL

Forum for the Preservation of Israel Audio-Visual Heritage

Institutional Developments


FP7- RTD Framework Program 2007- 2013Total budget - 50,521 Million Euro

IST budget - 9,110 Million Eurohttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/spe_programmes.htm

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/spe_programmes.htm




CASPAR – Long Term Preservation IP Coordinator: Central Laboratory of Research

Councils - UK Israel partner: IBM Haifa Research Establishing a long term preservation SIG

EASAIER Digital sound archives: retrieval, integration,

content enrichment Coordinator: University of London Israel partner: NICE

Israel Participation in Cultural Heritage

European Projects


MEMORIES Generic software to extract high level information

from audio signals and information retrieval system matching archivist’s needs Coordinator: MIST Technologies, France Israel Partner: Technion

MOSAICASemantic Web based portalUse case: European Jewish Cultural HeritageCoordinator: ORT FranceIsrael Partners: IDEA Information Systems,

Technion, Straight-UK, Jewish Agency (JNUL)


European Projects


Dorit Geifman

Director for Information Society Technologies

phone:+972 3-5118121

email: [email protected]

http://www.iserd.org.il

Introduction seminars every 2-3 weeks

ISERD

Israel Directorate for the EU RTD Framework

Program

http://www.iserd.org.il/


minerva wgs names

calimera, cost reduction, multilingualism, (metadata)

mundo (portals)

upcoming: michael, skos, melt


European Projects


multilingualism and thesaurus work group

http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/inventor/multilingualism.htm

cost reduction

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/costreduction.htm

calimera

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


European Projects







michael

Skos – W3C

melt federating the Israeli repositories to those in europe

add TTA and elearning awards


European Projects


http://www.minervaisrael.org.il

מדריך מפורט על תהליך דיגיטציה(בעברית)


מדריך על הורדת עלויות בתהליךהדיגיטציה

.pdf1094/file1http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/

חות על ישראל והתחברות "דו למיזמים האירופיים בתחום הדיגיטציה

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


http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/1/file1094.pdf






Lisbon Strategy (2001)

http://ec.europa.eu/growthandjobs/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/growthandjobs/index_en.htm


457 Million inhabitants


GDP: 9755.4 Billions of Euro



Main European Union

institutions

The Council of the European Union

represent the member states

The European Parliament

represent the citizens

The European Commission

politically independent body that upholds the collective European interests



http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/

i2010/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm





http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/ic

t_and_lisbon/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/ict_and_lisbon/index_en.htm





Lund Action Plan – 2001

value of cultural and scientic content which provides

accessible and sustainable heritage suport for cultural diversity, education and

content industries resources of great variety and richness

problems

fragmentation of approach obsolescence lack of simple access intellectual property rights lack of synergy between cultural and

technologies programs institutional investment and commitment


Lund Action Plan – 2001

work with members states to:

Support coordination activities: NRG/Minerva

Disseminate good practices –centres of competence

Benchmarking for digitisation practices

Optimise the value and shared visions of European content

Improve quality/usability, promote unified access and increase awareness of long term preservation issues


Dynamic Action Plan

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/dap.htm

Providing strategic leadership in a dynamic and changing environment in which rapid technological and economical developments are taking place.

Strengthening co-ordination and forging stronger links between Member States' digitisation initiatives, EU networks and projects.

Continuing efforts in overcoming fragmentation and duplication of digitisation activities and maximising synergy.

Assessing and identifying appropriate models, funding and policy approaches to sustain development and long-term preservation strategies.

Promoting cultural and linguistic diversity through digital content creation

Improving online access to European cultural content.


http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econte

ntplus/index_en.htm

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm


FP7- RTD Framework Program 2007- 2013Total budget - 50,521 Million Euro

IST budget - 9,110 Million Eurohttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/spe_programmes.htm





Ongoing projects

CASPAR – Long term preservation ~9 m. €

Sound archives:

MEMORIES / EASAIER / Contrapunctus

PrestoSpace – Broadcasting Archives

EPOCH – tangible cultural heritage

MICHAEL – common entry point to digital collections

MELT – Enrichment of Learning Resources

MINERVA EC – Coordination

See full list at:

http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/digicult/projects.htm

http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/digicult/projects.htm


Why a Digital Libraries Initiative

The Digital Libraries Initiative aims at making Europe's diverse cultural and scientific heritage (books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc.) easier and more interesting to use online for work, leisure and/or study. It builds on Europe's rich heritage combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models.

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/cultural/index_en.htm

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/scientific/index_en.htm


i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative

Once digitised, our cultural and scientific heritage can be used as input for new creative efforts and for a wide range of information products and services. It can, for example, play a key role in the future growth of sectors such as learning and tourism.


i2010: Digital Libraries InitiativeEurope's Cultural and Scientific Heritage at a

Click of a Mouse

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm

Why a Digital Libraries Initiative

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/brochures/dl_brochure_2006.pdf










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


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