Dov Winer at Info2010 Conference

Europeana and
Judaica Europeana
group.europeana.eu
www.judaica-europeana.eu
Dov Winer
European Association for Jewish Culture
Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana
‫האירופית‬ ‫הדיגיטאלית‬ ‫הספרייה‬

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

Partners
Hungarian Jewish Archive
Coordinator

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
• Centropa, Vienna/Budapest
• 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

• Europeana
• Judaica Europeana
• Vocabularies for Jewish Content
• Using Jewish Content
This presentation is available at:
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/presentations/DovWiner_Info2010.pdf

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

Dov Winer at Info2010 Conference

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare
Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare
Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop
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http://linkeddata.org/
http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump
http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics (~13 Billion triplets March 9, 2010)

dov.winer@gmail.com
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 relatedMatch
May 10

dov.winer@gmail.com
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 May 10

Milestones
•
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The future of Jewish Heritage in Europe:
an International Conference – Prague 24-27 April 2004
developing Jewish networking infrastructures

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.

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
“

Jews in European Cities – kinds of content
Known celebrities – full individual expression
Core of Jewish Life
Jewish expressions in the
urban landscape

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

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

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 in their scholarship research.
• Involve at least 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”

Deploy Knowledge Management Tools

Thank you for your attention!
Contact:
Dov Winer
Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager
EAJC - European Association for Jewish Culture
dov.winer@gmail.com
This presentation is available at:
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/presentations/DovWiner_Info2010.pdf

Dov Winer at Info2010 Conference

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