Linked Data: towards a global Jewish Studies Knowledge Grid
Dov Winer
Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
http://www.slideshare.net/dovw/cdecrome2015
This is Linked D
 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
An envisioned
knowledge grid for
Jewish Studies
37,404 journals available
http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php
http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html
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 .
Jewish Digitised Content
*
* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm
Judaica Europeana Partners
~ millions of
digital objects
Jewish Digitised Content
Jewish Digitised Content
Jewish Digitised Content
50 Years of Harvard Judaica
Common Data Model for
Content Description
Common Data Model
Outline
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 machine-
readable web of facts about
covered domains.
Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_in_Hebrew.html
Who?
When?
Jewish gazetteers
Where?
Judaica Europeana Vocabularies
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Semantic enabled Digital
Humanities Jewish Studies
Scholastic 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)
Scholastic 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: 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
Scholarly Primitives
Prof. Stefan Gradmann
Prof. Christian Bizer
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
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/cdecrome2015

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