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Dov WinerIsrael MINERVA Coordinator

[email protected]

גישה מקוונת לארכיונים יהודיים

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

Outline: Jewish Archives are becoming increasingly available in the

Web. Mostly the collection level descriptions. Also at the document level:

Examples of available databases. Examples of integration of distributed corpora:

Friedberg Genizah Project, JNUL Kettubot

Improving the accessibility to the description of collections: JNUL Archive Grid - OCLC Center for Jewish History

Some examples of innovative current projects: MICHAEL MOSAICA


Search – April 30, 2007:

13,095

Archive collections with “Jewish”

.in their descriptions


Responsa: The pioneer

digitisation Project






Israel State Archives–גנזך המדינה

http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMO/PM+Office/Departments/archive.htm

One of the largest bulk of state documents to be made available online. Soon:About 1,000,000 images

700,000 Foreign Policy documents

60,000 Sifrei Olim

50,000 Vaadat Matzaf

13,000 Kastner-Greenwald Trial

13,000 Daminiuk Trial

40,000 German documents

15,000 Non official German documents

2,380 Maps

32,000 Mandate Economic Counseling Office


National Photo Collection


• Large digitization project and several online exhibitions

• Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages

• 100,000 photographs

• Deep Terminological Development

Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority

http://www4.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace/IY_HON_Welcome




http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/exhibitions/index_exhibitions.html


Central Zionist Archives


Central Zionist Archives digitization

– 4 million documents

– 250,000 photographs

– 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps

– 3,000 posters

National Institutions: Jewish Agency,

WZO, Keren Kayemet


Ben Gurion Archives


Diaspora Museum Collections


Israel Labor Party Archives








US Holocaust Memorial Museum


Harvard College Library

JUDAICA Library

Area Studies Department

Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research



http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/archives-intro.html





Examples of Integration of Corpora

Kettubot

Talmud Manuscripts

The Cairo Genizah


http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/ketubbot/






University of Cambridge – Dr Solomon Schechter (about 1896)

Jewish Theological Seminar of America (35,000) fragments – E.N. Adler

Friedberg Project:March 2007: 60,000 high quality images of Genizah fragments

Through 2007: Nachum collection of Yemenite manuscripts – 100,000 fragments

Prof. Yaacov Choueka – Chief Scientist

http://www.genizah.org/about.html



Initiatives that facilitate access to Jewish Archives




http://www.archivegrid.org/web/jsp/s.jsp?q=jewish







MICHAEL

MOSAICA


http://www.michael-culture.org/





MichaelPlus Project

Module for cataloguers: create, modify, import and manage records

Module for public interface to end-users: customisation

Consistent with OAI-PMH – Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Open Source MINERVA Data Model derived from MINERVA work –

RSLP collection description schema and DCMI France, Italy and UK Extended with: Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland,

Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden

Israel JNUL as non-funded partner


MOSAICA

http://www.mosaica-project.eu/


Thank you for your attention !

Contact:

Dov Winer, Director

[email protected]

phone: +972.2.6586043

fax: +972.2.6584977

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

Technology

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