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Presentation of work by WP1 – Content selection, aggregation and access. MOSAICA -Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted,Collaborative Access to Cultural Heritage IST – 034984. MOSAICA Review Meeting, Sheffield, UK – July 26th, 2007.TRANSCRIPT
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Dov WINER
MOSAICA Review Meeting
Sheffield – July 26th, 2007
WP1 – Content selection,
aggregation and access
MOSAICASemantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative Access to Cultural
Heritage
IST - 034984
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AGENDA• WP1: Objectives, Tasks, Deliverables, Milestones
• Criteria for selection of Web based resources on Jewish Heritage
– Culture Criterion (Unesco)
– Quality
– Granularity
– Adequacy for GIS
• Mosaica IPR Policy
• Selection of Web base resources
JNUL – Centropa – YIVO – Dinur Center – MovingHere – INA
• Additional issues
– Negotiations with content owners
– Vocabularies survey
– Progress on Semantic Annotation
• What Being Jewish means by Yair Nizani
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WP 1 Objectives
• To identify Web based resources in Jewish cultural heritage.
• To identify resources in Jewish cultural heritage suitable for GIS.
• To negotiate access to the resources in Jewish cultural heritage with the content owners, and resolve the corresponding IPR issues.
• To populate MOSAICA ontology with selected resources in Jewish cultural heritage.
• To define methodology and specify interface for dynamic, online access to multiple, distributed resources in Jewish cultural heritage
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WP 1 TasksTasks in which the leader is JAFI with participation of ORT, IARD
and COI – Technion and Straight
• T1.1 Resources identification and selection.
• T1.2 Negotiation of access to MOSAICA resources and related IPR issues
• T1.3 Semantic annotation of selected resources
Task which the leader is Xlab with the participation of Cybercultus
• T1.4 Definition of interfaces to multiple distributed MOSAICA resources
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WP 1 Deliverables and Milestones• Deliverables
• D1.1Selection of Web-based Resources in Jewish Heritage
• D1.2Methodology for Semantic Access to Distributed Web based Resources
• Milestones
• MO 3 Resources identified
• MO 6 DRM Policy in place
• MO 12 Agreement with a first group of resource owners
• MO 18 Methodology: Access to Distributed Web based Resources
First set of resources semantically annotated
Agreement with extended group of resource owners
• Month 24 Second set of resources semantically annotated
• Month 27 Whole set of selected resources semantically annotated
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MOSAICA will provide a new semantic search
engine that gives the possibility to access,
cross-analyse and deepen our understanding
of cultural heritage (Any !!!!)
Its initial focus is on the Jewish Cultural Heritage
The following slides focus on Jewish Heritage but
mutatis mutandis could be applied to Any
Cultural Heritage
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ID 1.0 Criteria for Selection of Web-base 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
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CULTURE – based on Unesco Definition
Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2002)
• 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.
• It should be of interest to a diversified European public
broadly composes from different nationalities, ethnic
origins, linguistic and religious affiliations.
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QUALITY Criterion
• ACCURACY– 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.
• CLARITY
– There should be a clear tie between the resource and
European Jewish Culture (... Catalonia, Roma, Scots,
Muslims...Culture ). Correlation should be comprehensive and
obvious.
• MOTIVATION– The resource should achieve the active engagement of the
user and be interesting and appealing.
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GRANULARITY Criterion
Intermediate level of granularity
• The resources should be content chunks large just
enough so as to be easily identified as being related to
the intended content area.
• 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.
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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.
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MOSAICA IPR Policy
• Memorandum of Understanding – January 2007
– Respect for the Copyrights of content providers
– Technological support for the expression and enforcement of rights by content providers
– Guidance and support for MOSAICA content providers and users regarding IPR issues
• ID 2.0 Draft: Resources for the MOSAICA IPR Policy
– Role of IPR for enabling access and creative re-usage
– Resources: MINERVA
– Resources: European Commission Policy
– Considerations in choosing a DRM solution
– The Creative Commons Approach
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D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (1)
• Direct access to at least 8,821 resources
• Potential access to another 32,307 images and photos
• Available: eJewish.info metadata database (MS SQL 2005) with about another 18,000resources. Some challenges need to be overcome for its ingestion into the MOSAICA database.
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Summary of Available Resources - May 2007• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Moving Here: Online museum on the immigration to England. 105 resources pertaining to the
Jewish immigration presented in 7 online exhibitions.
• 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.
• In this document we provide direct reference to at least 8,821 Jewish Heritage Web-based
resources. Indirect access is referenced to at least 32,307 additional images and photos
(Centropa, 15,307; YIVO, 17,000).
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D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (2)
• JNUL – Jewish National and University Library
– Treasures of the Jewish People
• Mahzor Nurenberg
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/mss/-pr/mahzor-nurenberg
• Ketubbot (Marriage Contracts)
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/kettubot/
– Digitised Books
– National Sound Archives
High Holidays - Sukkot and Simhat Tora (Tabernacles) –
Hannukah – Purim – Passover – Lag Baomer
Corfu-MiKamokha iWiznitz-ShoshanatYaacov
PiuteiPurim-Ancona
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D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (3)
CENTROPA
http://www.centropa.org
– Biographies: Jewish Witnesses to a European Century
– Historical Reports
– Film: Documentaries from Jewish Witnesses
– Narrated Stories
– First person stories
– Multimedia – Slideshows and Photo Essays
– Journeys through a Timeless Space
– Annotated pictures: Jewish Witnesses to a European Century
by European Countries ( more than 4,000)
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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
http://www.yivoinstitute.org
• People of a Thousand Towns Online Photo Catalog
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/library/index.php?tid=105&aid=260
17,000 photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, available at:
http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org.
• 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
• 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
D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (4)
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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.
D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (5)
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The Dinur Center for Jewish History
http://www.dinur.org
http://www.jewishhistory.huji.ac.il
• Abraham bar Chiyya - Philosopher, Astronomer, Mathematician, Surveyer, Interpreter, and
Astrologer (19.04.2007)
• Accounts of the Routes of the Jewish Merchants to the East, 847 (05.09.2006)
• Culture, Mobility, Migration and Settlement of Jews in Medieval Europe (16.06.2005)
• Did Maimonides Write "The Physician's Prayer"? (27.07.2005)
• Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi (03.06.2007)
• Eastern Europe FAQ (21.06.2006)
D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (6)
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Moving Here- why people came to Englandhttp://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm
• Origins
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/origins/origins.htm
• Journeys
The Journey to England; Arrival in England; Responses to Mass immigration.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/journeys/journeys.htm
• Settling
Background History; Accommodation; Synagogues; Everyday life; Community Support;
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/settling/settling.htm
• Growing up
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
• Working Lives
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
• Culture and Festivals
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
• Politics
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
D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (7)
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INA – Institut National de l’Audiovisual
http://www.ina.fr 363 medias related to “Juif”
• Les Juifs du Pape – La Communauté Juive de Carpentras 00h01m32s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAB90017984
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.
• La Fête du Grand Pardon: Le Yom Kippour 00h03m28s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAF97035330
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.
• Le nouvel an juif 00h02m19s
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAC02001298
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.
D1.1: Web based resources in Jewish Heritage (7)
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Additional Issues
• Negotiations with content owners
• Vocabularies survey as sources for ontologies development
• Progress on semantic annotation
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Negotiations with Content OwnersClosely related to the establishment of the Editorial Board
• JNUL -The Jewish National and University Library
– Will provide its digitised resources for MOSAICA
– Prof. Elhanan Adler, deputy director, invited and agreed to participate in the BoE
• Dariusz Wozniak (Poland) negotiated with:
– Museum of History of Polish Jews – Jerzy Halbersztadt (2.11.2006)
– Prepared list of 11 stakeholders and resources they can contribute
• Israel Museum Jerusalem
– IMAGINE Database (maintained by IDEA)
– Jewish Ethnography – Multimedia CD on Jewish Life Cycle
• Diaspora Museum Tel Aviv – Haim Ghiuzeli – joined BoE
• Ghetto Fighters House Museum – Simcha Stein joined BoE
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Negotiations with Content Owners (2)
• YIVO
contact – CEO Carl Rheins [email protected]
• CENTROPA
contact – Edward Serotta
• ENAME
contact – Neil Silberman
• Jewish Women Resources
Brandeis University and others
• Aleph – Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
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Related to ONTOLOGY Development
• Survey of 31 vocabularies related to Jewish Heritage
• Jewish places vocabularies for GIS annotation
eJewish – Yad Vashem – Mokotoff Gazeteer - Getty
• Use of ontologies developed for Heritage in general CIDOC / CRM
– http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=533&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
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SEMANTIC ANNOTATION
• Availability of a working version of the Semantic Annotator
• Preparing the Help files
• Identifying, selecting and involving Communities of Knowledge able to annotate resources of common interest e.g.:
– Families,
– communities,
– educators on their disciplines,
– BoF like Jewish Women studies etc
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Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winerphone: +972.2.6586043
fax: +972.2.6584977
http://www.minervaisrael.org.il
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