Presentation of the Europeana Digital Library and more specifically initiatives related to Judaica Europeana and enhanced publishing of Jewish digital content. Enrichment of such content with context rich vocabularies expressed in Linked Data

1. Judaica Europeana
‫האירופית‬ ‫לציביליזציה‬ ‫היהודית‬ ‫התרומה‬ ‫את‬ ‫המתעד‬ ‫מיזם‬
Dov Winer
Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
http://www.slideshare.net/dovw/2015teleyedaB

2. Europeana

5. ”

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

8. Jewish Digitised Content

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

10. *
* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm

11. Judaica Europeana Partners

12. ~ millions of
digital objects

13. Jewish Digitised Content

14. Jewish Digitised Content

15. Jewish Digitised Content

16. 50 Years of Harvard Judaica

18. This is Linked D

21.  Example: an envisioned knowledge grid for Jewish Studies
 Jewish digitised content
 Common Data Model for content description: Europeana Data
model shared with the Digital Public Library of America
 From data to knowledge: context for Jewish Digitised Contents
– the role of vocabularies: Who? What? When? Where?
 Jewish Studies
 Semantic enabled Digital Humanities Jewish Studies
 Virtual Research Environments for Jewish Studies research
communities of practice
Outline

22. An envisioned
knowledge grid for
Jewish Studies

23. 37,404 journals available

27. http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php

28. http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

29. A formal model for describing Philosophical ideas
CIDOC-CRM event centered
A formal model for describing
philosophical ideas:
Argument-entity.
Problem-area.
Problem.
Method.
View: Thesis, Theory,
Philosophical-system,
School of thought.
Rhetorical figure.
Concept.
Distinction .

30. Common Data Model for
Content Description

31. Common Data Model

32. Outline

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

38. 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 machine-
readable web of facts about
covered domains.

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

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

43. http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_in_Hebrew.html

44. Who?

45. When?

46. Jewish gazetteers
Where?

47. Judaica Europeana Vocabularies
Who?
What?
When?
Where?

50. 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.slideshare.net/dovw/2015teleyedaB