A Network for Judaica Digital Humanities
Dov Winer
Scientific Manager,
Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
EVA/Minerva 2013
The 10th Jerusalem International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

Outline
 To seek the integration of contents, communities of practice,
and tools/infrastructures
 The Jewish Studies research community as a potential
community of practice
 Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Availability of Digital Scholarship tools and infrastructures
 Challenge: integration into a Virtual Research Environment
(VRE)

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Digitised Content

Judaica Europeana Partners

~5,000,000 +
digital objects

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Common Data Model for
Content Description

Common Data Model

Outline

Linked Data: structured
data on the Web
David Woood
Marsha Zeidman
Luke Ruth
with
Michael Hausenblas
Manning Publications
MEAP 2013

Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
The goals of the project
Linking and Populating the
Digital Humanities are to
create and maintain data
integration tools tailored to
digital humanities collections in
order to build a machinereadable web of facts about
covered domains.

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Josh Kopelman
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html

Digital Humanities

The scholarship work cycle
From S.Gradmann and J.C. Meister, Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking “text” and scholarship in electronic settings .
Poiesis & Praxis, V5 N2 (2008)

Scholarly Primitives
Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities
researchers have in common, and how might our
tools reflect this?
John Unsworth
Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice
King’s College, London, May 13, 2000
Discovering
Annotating
Comparing
Referring
Sampling
Illustrating
Representing

Unsworth primitive
Bamboo theme of scholarly
practice
OCLC Scholarly Information Activity
Discovery
Gathering / Foraging
Sampling
Synthesizing / Filtering Comparing
Searching (direct searching, chaining, browsing, probing,
accessing)
Collecting (gathering, organizing)
Referring
Contextualizing
Illustrating
Representing
Comparing
Conceptualizing,
Refining and Critiquing
Representing
Documenting methods
Discovering Referring
Representing
Managing data
Annotating
Annotating /
documenting
Modelling / visualizing
Illustrating
Representing
Representing
Representing
Overlapping teaching and research
Suggested parenthetically
Common thread
Sharing / dissemination
/ publishing
Funding
Collaborating
Referring
Citation, credit, peer-review
Searching (chaining, browsing, probing)
Collecting (organizing)
Cross-cutting (monitoring)
Reading (scanning, assessing, rereading)
Cross-cutting (note taking, translating)
Writing (assembling)
Collaborating (consulting)
Writing (disseminating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Searching (accessing)
Collecting (organizing)
Collaborating (coordinating, consulting)
Writing (assembling)
Cross-cutting (note taking)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Writing (assembling)
Collaborating (coordinating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Writing (disseminating)
No analogue
Writing (co-authoring)
Collaborating (coordinating, networking, consulting)
Reading (assessing)
Writing (dissemination)
Collaborating (consulting)
OCLC: Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Project Bamboo Scholarly Practice Report
https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report

Scholarly Primitives
Scholarly primitives: Building institutional
infrastructure for humanities e-Science
Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges
King’s College London, Centre for e-Research
Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 654-661
Scholarly Information Practices in the Online
Environment
Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmannn
2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2009
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919

Tools and Infrastructure

Prof. Stefan Gradmann
Prof. Christian Bizer

Scholarly services
Document Mapping;
Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;
Frequency; Morphological
Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;
Named Entity Identification;
Proxied SEASR Analytics

VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Community+Content+
Tools/Infrastructure

Outline
From JISC's VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research
Christopher Brown - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team
http://www.slideshare.net/chriscb/jisc-vreresearch-tools-presentation?from_search=2

From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Examples

VRE
Virtual Research Environment
some off the shelf systems

www.judaica-europeana.eu
Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winer
Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager
European Association for Jewish Culture
dov.winer@gmail.com
Presentation available at:
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/docs/vre.pdf