1. MOSAICA
(FP6 IST – 034984)
Semantically Enhanced Multifaceted Collaborative Access to Cultural Heritage
htto://www.mosaica-project.eu
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Dov Winer
Israel
Makash Advancing ICT Applications in
Education, Culture and Science

2. MOSAICA
o MOSAICA is developing a toolbox of generic
technologies for intelligent presentation, knowledge-
based discovery, and interactive and creative
educational experience covering a broad variety of
diversified cultural heritages requirements.
o Jewish heritage as demonstration environment
o Technology innovation in 4 areas:
o Semantic annotation
o Ontology alignment
o Distributed content management
o Geographic Information System / Temporal Information System
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Diaspora Museum Collections

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5. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
http://www.yivoinstitute.org
o People of a Thousand Towns Online Photo Catalog
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/library/index.php?tid=105&aid=260
o 17,000 photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, available at:
http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org.
o The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund, 1897-1997
The General Jewish Workers Union of Poland and Russia ”the Bund” was founded in
Vilna in 1897:
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/digital_exhibitions/index.php?mcid=76&mid=-10
o The Power of Persuasion: Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland
During the interwar period, posters became a ubiquitous presence on Jewish streets.
Some posters announce theater performances, sports events, and literary readings..
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/digital_exhibitions/index.php?mcid=77&mid=-10
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6. Summary of Available Resources
o JNUL (Jewish National and University Library): more than 1,200 Kettubot (Illuminated
Contract Marriages); 85 recorded songs; more than 400 digitised books. Links to digital
exhibitions, illuminated manuscripts and Talmudic Manuscripts.
o Centropa: 1,000 biographies; 20,000 images with direct access provided to 4,693
annotated photographs by European countries; 38 historical excerpts; 14 film clips; 10
multimedia shows.
o YIVO: 17 Online galleries; 107 photographs in 5 Photo Albums; link to the photo
database People of a Thousand Towns, accessible online (with prior authorization), with
17,000 photos.
o Spielberg Jewish Film Archive: direct access to 400 Virtual Film clips; 28 samples
described in this document. The catalogue provides access to the description of more than
10,000 descriptions of film and video titles.
o Dinur Centre for Jewish History: direct access to the metadata files describing resources.
Central and Western Europe (244); Eastern Europe (128); Former Soviet Union
(141). We provide here direct access to the 150 resources resulting from a search for Europe
in the database (History 65; Holocaust 34; Communities 4; Genealogy 12; Institutions and
journals 35.
o Moving Here: Online museum on the immigration to England. 105 resources pertaining to
the Jewish immigration presented in 7 online exhibitions.
o INA – Institut National de l'Audiovisual: 363 Medias identified following a search for
"Juif". Here we describe a sample of 17 of such film clips.
o This document direct reference at least 8,821 Jewish Heritage Web-based resources.
Indirect access at least 32,307 additional images and photos (Centropa, 15,307; YIVO, 17,000).

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MOSAICA
Present situation
• Abundance of resources: WWW, digital libraries, museums, digital
collections …
• Basic Internet technologies
• Scattered around the cyberspace
• Need to know in order to find it
• When you find it – need patience to appreciate it

8. o Potential consumers
o Do not know enough to find
o Do not have patience to enjoy it
o Used to highly interactive, dynamic and vibrant interfaces
o Potential providers:
o Presenting limited insight
o Bound to outdated technologies
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MOSAICA
VISION
• Use technology to conceptually model cultural heritage
• Base consumption on conceptual models – on knowledge
• Use technology to allow storytelling – narratives
• Combine multiple (distributed) resources to provide an exhaustive
insight into the domain of discourse
• Use technology to provide thrill

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MOSAICA
Practical Implications
• Not “yellow pages” for other websites
• Elementary resources from which a narrative can
be created (as opposed to composite resources such as HTML
pages, MS Word documents, etc.)
• Facility to create narratives (Virtual Expedition)
• Facilities for collaborative editing:
• Online ontology editor
• Semantic Annotator
• Virtual Expedition Editor
• Publishing in user groups
• Structured authorization (Board of Editors)

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MOSAICA way
Create YOUR own narrative
• Virtual Expedition editor
• Tell a story
• Search for resource
(Semantic Search, Semantic Browsing, GIS/TIS)
• Select a resource
• Contribute your own resource (Semantic Annotator)
• Collaborative editing – your resource reusable by others
• Publish through semantic annotation
Learn and enjoy
• Search for concept
• Understand concept
• Explore
• Enjoy the story – learn
• Explore …

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Where are we now?
• Got all basic technologies together
• Develop a robust architectural design
• Map resources, prepare use of resources, set the foundations of
conceptual modeling
• (Learn the problems typical for the entire domain of discourse
through hands-on experience – devise generic solutions)
• Understand how conceptual modeling can be transformed into
narratives
• Setup the initial toolbox

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• Fully develop the conceptual model for the selected domain of
discourse
• Integrate various technologies into a single delivery framework
• Consolidate Virtual Expedition methodology into mature technology
through hands-on experience
• Complete the toolbox
• Improve GIS/TIS (semantic enhancement), deploy P2P infrastructure
• Provide the thrill
• Integrate resources, resources and more resources
• Understand how to do business
• Vision for the future: "Each reader/viewer/ can become a
creator/editor/reviewer and can feed their contribution back to
the media space"

14. Partnership and Main Roles
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Technology
• Straight Semantics
• Cybercultus
GIS/TIS
• Inesc Porto
Distributed CMS
• Xlab Distributed env.
Content, IPR
JAFI, ORT, COI
Application / Usage / Assessment
Technion,
ORT, SHU
Idea,
Cybercultus
Dissemination & Use
COI - Coordinator
SHU – Academic
ORT - Sector
Management
ORT

15. WP 1 Objectives
o To identify Web based resources in Jewish cultural heritage.
o To identify resources in Jewish cultural heritage suitable for
GIS.
o To negotiate access to the resources in Jewish cultural
heritage with the content owners, and resolve the
corresponding IPR issues.
o To populate MOSAICA ontology with selected resources in
Jewish cultural heritage.
o To define methodology and specify interface for dynamic,
online access to multiple, distributed resources in Jewish
cultural heritage

16. Criteria for Selection of Web-based Resources in
Jewish Heritage
CULTURE
Unesco definition in the Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity
QUALITY
Accuracy, Clarity, Motivation
GRANULARITY
Intermediate level, enough to identify resource as within the scope
GIS
Resources which include a coordinate system or can easily be so
represented.
Guidelines for Entering Resources
http://www.ejewish.info/mosaica.html

17. CULTURE – based on Unesco Definition
Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2002)
o Express the distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual
and emotional features of European Jewry (...
Catalonian, Celtic, Roma, Muslim... ), and that it
encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles,
ways of living together, value systems, traditions and
beliefs.
o It should be of interest to a diversified European public
broadly composes from different nationalities, ethnic
origins, linguistic and religious affiliations.

18. QUALITY Criterion
o ACCURACY
o The resource should be reliable, valid and produced by a
trusted source; information should be impartially presented;
resource must not contain biases, mistakes or omissions.
o CLARITY
o There should be a clear tie between the resource and
European Jewish Culture (... Catalonia, Roma, Scots,
Muslims...Culture ). Correlation should be comprehensive and
obvious.
o MOTIVATION
o The resource should achieve the active engagement of the user
and be interesting and appealing.

19. GRANULARITY Criterion
Intermediate level of granularity
o The resources should be content chunks large just
enough so as to be easily identified as being related to
the intended content area.
o They may be pages, video clips, text, sound and music
files that clearly can be identified and described as of
European Jewish Culture (... Catalonian, Celtic, Roma,
Muslim... ) interest.

20. Adequacy for GIS Criterion
... _strive to include a significant share of resources
which include a coordinate system which references a
particular place on earth.
Alternatively, resources which include clear geographical
specifications that are easily amenable to representation
by a coordinate system will be selected.

21. MOSAICA IPR Policy
o Memorandum of Understanding – January 2007
o Respect for the Copyrights of content providers
o Technological support for the expression and enforcement of
rights by content providers
o Guidance and support for MOSAICA content providers and
users regarding IPR issues
o ID 2.0 Draft: Resources for the MOSAICA IPR Policy
o Role of IPR for enabling access and creative re-usage
o Resources: MINERVA
o Resources: European Commission Policy
o Considerations in choosing a DRM solution
o The Creative Commons Approach

22. D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (1)
o Direct access to at least 8,821 resources
o Potential access to another 32,307 images and
photos
o Available: eJewish.info metadata database (MS
SQL 2005) with about another 18,000 resources.
Some challenges need to be overcome for its
ingestion into the MOSAICA database.

23. D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (2)
o JNUL – Jewish National and University Library
o Treasures of the Jewish People
o Mahzor Nurenberg
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/mss/-pr/mahzor-nurenberg
o Ketubbot (Marriage Contracts) http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/kettubot/
o Digitised Books
o National Sound Archives
o High Holidays - Sukkot and Simhat Tora (Tabernacles) –
Hannukah – Purim – Passover – Lag Baomer
o Corfu-MiKamokhaiWiznitz-ShoshanatYaacov
PiuteiPurim-Ancona

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CENTROPA
http://www.centropa.org
o Biographies: Jewish Witnesses to a European Century
o Historical Reports
o Film: Documentaries from Jewish Witnesses
o Narrated Stories
o First person stories
o Multimedia – Slideshows and Photo Essays
o Journeys through a Timeless Space
o Annotated pictures: Jewish Witnesses to a European Century
by European Countries ( more than 4,000)

25. The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
http://ssjfa.huji.ac.il/main.htm
 Name: A Day in Warsaw
Year: 1939 Duration: 00:09:25 Language: English
Jewish life in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.
 Name: A pictorial review of Kolbuszowa
Year: 1930 Duration: 00:27:55 Language: English subtitles
A survey of Kolbuszowa, Ranizow, Sokolow, and Rzeszow in pre-World War II Poland
 Name: Ashkenazi music of the Jews from Eastern Europe
Year: 1992 Duration: 00:29:15 Language: English
Part of the Israel Music Heritage Project. The world of Yiddish folksongs, Klezmer music and
Eastern European synagogue music.
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26. Moving Here- why people came to England
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm
o Origins
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/origins/origins.htm
o Journeys
o The Journey to England; Arrival in England; Responses to Mass immigration.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/journeys/journeys.htm
o Settling
o Background History; Accommodation; Synagogues; Everyday life; Community Support;
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/settling/settling.htm
o Growing up
o Including: Jewish and Non-Jewish Schools; Youth Clubs and Organisations; Orphanages and Reform
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/growing_up/growing_up.htm
o Working Lives
o Immigrant occupations in the 18th and 10th centuries; Trade Unionism and Industrial Action; Military
Service in the First World War;
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/working_lives/working_lives.htm
o Culture and Festivals
o Including: Religious Life; Festivals; The Cycle of Jewish Life; Food; Language; Sport; Creative Careers.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/culture/culture.htm
o Politics
o Jews and Political Life in the 18th and 19th centuries; Friendly Societies and the Workers' Circle;
Zionism; http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/politics/politics.htm
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Jewish Heritage (7)

27. INA – Institut National de l’Audiovisual
http://www.ina.fr 363 medias related to “Juif”
o Les Juifs du Pape – La Communauté Juive de Carpentras 00h01m32s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAB90017984
o The Jewish Community of Carpentras is on of the oldest in France. During the 12th century
the Comtat (Carpentras was its capital) was transferred to the Holy See.
o La Fête du Grand Pardon: Le Yom Kippour 00h03m28s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAF97035330
o The Rabbi Shil explains the Attonement Day – Yom Kippour. Photos of Jews in a synagogue
with the special clothes and sacred tools. The Shofar and the agenda of prayers and ceremonies.
o Le nouvel an juif 00h02m19s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAC02001298
o Comics animation by Sacha dedicated to the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. Includes an
interview of the author about his illustrations of Jewish Holidays including Rosh Hashana.
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28. Related to ONTOLOGY Development
 Survey of 31 vocabularies related to Jewish Heritage
 Jewish places vocabularies for GIS annotation
eJewish – Yad Vashem – Mokotoff Gazeteer - Getty
o Use of ontologies developed for Heritage in general
CIDOC / CRM
 http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5
33&Itemid=278
 http://www.delos.info/files/pdf/DELOS%20Multimatch%202007/CIDOC
%20CRM.pdf
 Survey of Storytelling ontologies that may support the
modelling of the Virtual Expeditions

29. SEMANTIC ANNOTATION
o Availability of a working version of the Semantic
Annotator
o Preparing the Help files
o Identifying, selecting and involving Communities of
Knowledge able to annotate resources of common
interest e.g.:
o Families,
o communities,
o educators on their disciplines,
o BoF like Jewish Women studies etc

30. Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winer
phone: +972.2.6586043
fax: +972.2.6584977
dovw@savion.huji.ac.il
http://www.minervaisrael.org.il

31. ADDITIONAL SLIDES
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Jewish National and University Library

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Collaborative projects
 Ketubbot
Marriage contracts from 8 collections
Talmudic Manuscripts
 full manuscript of the Mishna
 several tractates of the Babylonian Talmud
Jewish National and University Library

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• The David and Fella Shapell Foundation
• National Sound Archives – 1,700 hours already
available
• Holy Land Maps –Jerusalem maps digitized and
accessible
• Albert Einstein Archives
• Communal Registers of Jewish Communities
• Early Hebrew Press – First six large format
newspapers
Jewish National and University Library

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• Wide 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

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Responsa: The pioneer
digitisation Project

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Central Zionist Archives

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• Central Zionist Archives digitization
– 4 million documents
– 250,000 photographs
– 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps
– 3,000 posters
• The Jewish Agency for Israel
– eJewish.info Initiative for Developing Jewish
Networking Infrastructures
– Department of Education units for ICT in Education
and Contact Center (Distance Education)
– P2P initiatives for Jewish Museums and Theater
National Institutions: Jewish Agency,
WZO, Keren Kayemte

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