Digitization of Documents Curated by the Knesset since 1948 Dr. Rivka Markus, Knesset Head Archivist and Inda Novominsly, Deputy Records Manager

1. Digitization of the Knesset
Archives
Dr. Rivka Markus - Head Archivist of the Knesset
Inda Novominsky – Deputy Records Manager

2. Systematic Documentation of the
Parliamentary Records
May 4, 1948

3. Systematic Documentation of the
Parliamentary Records
May 4, 1948
Opening Sitting of the Provisional People
Council
May 4, 1948

4. HistoricalArchive
Administrative Archive

5. 1. Plenary Proceedings
2. Committee Proceedings
3. Legislative Portfolio

6. 1. Thematic Files: Motions for the Agenda, Initiated
debates, N0-comfidence Motions, Questions to the
Ministers, Electronic Voting
2. Audio and Video recordings from the sessions in the
Plenum and the Committees
3. Publications Collection
4. Photo Collection
5. Special documents Collection

7. 1. 2.5 Millions of documents in 30.000 physical files
2. A Million of documents bound in volumes of
Divrei Haknesset, Laws books and protocols of
the Committees
3. About 15.000 pictures
4. More than 1.000 publications
5. About a million of scanned documents
6. Thousands of digital documents

8.  1948-1980: Manual System
 1980-1999: Mainframe Computer
 1999-onward: www.knesset.gov.il
 2003- onward: New database,
new Operational System
 2014 – update of the
Operational System

9. A long term project started in the last
decade
All the main parliamentary
documented from 1948 until 1999 had
been scanned and are searchable in
digital assets

10.  Priority to the main parliamentary
documents
 Priority to the material that doesn’t
exist in any digital form
 Full meta data for each document
 Full OCR with proofreading

11.  Priority to the main parliamentary
documents
 Priority to the material that doesn’t
exist in any digital form
 Full meta data for each document
 Full OCR with proofreading
Third Knesset, N˚79
February 15, 1956

12. Sitting N˚ and
Knesset N˚
Date, hour, place
Page N˚
Speakers
Subject –
Parliamentary
Instrument

14. The original hammer that was
in use in the Opening of the
First Knesset

16. Original Law
1th Amendment
2nd Amendment
42th Amendment
4thAmendment
3rd Amendment

17. Consumer Protection Law (amendment 42), 2014

19. 1. Bills in process
2. Secondary Legislation
3. Current version of the law

20. Opening Ceremony of the Knesset Building 30/8/1966

24. 1. 600 DPI
2. Two formats: Jpeg
Tiff
3. Typing of meta data to excel
4. Acid free envelopes with nonadhesive flaps
for long preservation

26. Inside the Knesset:

27. Inside the Knesset:
The Knesset Museum at Beit Frumin

28. Outside the Knesset:
Independence Hall

29. Outside the Knesset:
Eden Hotel in Jerusalem

30. Finance Committee of the First Knesset – Berl Reptor Socialist Party
Photo Credit: Information Center of Israel

31. Setting of the Provisional State Council – September 1949 –
Photo Credit: Rudi Waisenstein

32. Snow in Jerusalem – Winter 1957 - Photo Credit: Fritz Schlezinger

33. People waiting for the Second President of Israel, Itzhak Ben Zvi – 10/12/1952
Photo credit: Yehuda Eisenstark

35. Security Committee Tour in a Military Base -
Prime Minister Menahem Begin.
December 1977. Photo Credit: IDF

36. Security Committee Tour in Suez Canal – 22/6/1972

37. ‫צילום‬:‫גוטמן‬ ‫חנוך‬
‫צילום‬:‫לע‬"‫מ‬
Egypt President Anwar Sadat visit the
Knesset – November, 1977

38. Opening Ceremony of the Knesset Building 30/8/1966

39. Thanks for your attention
Inda Novominsky – Deputy Records Manager – Knesset Archives
indan@Knesset.gov.il
972-2-6753802