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eJewish.infoAn initiative of the Jewish Agency

התכנית לפיתוח תשתיות בתקשוב יהודי

Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

Dov Winer

Establishing a Shared Jewish

Market through Semantic Web

Technologies

ILA – Israel Association for Information Technologies

Conference Tel-Aviv November, 13 2002

http://www.jafi.org.il/

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

eJewish.info

An example of what we are doing

Some new starts

What we would like to do later on

Know how sources

Some tools

Awareness and dissemination


Purpose of eJewish.info

Create a Joint Jewish Market that will provide clear advantages, by its size, ease of use and speed of access, for providers of services and goods of Jewish interest.



The New Internet

CONVERGENCE

Information in Context

Semantic Web Concepts

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Jewish Networking

Parameters

Jewish Networking and Internet

Penetration

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What we are doing

Project approved in July and started in September 2001

Controlled vocabulary (Thesaurus) developed by Rochelle Kedar

Metadata Set has been reviewed by a panel of prime international experts

Requirements for the Registry Software defined

Registry is working http://www.ejewish.info

Agreement with the ODP (Open Directory Project) that powers Google

http://www.ejewish.info/



Tools

Development of Controlled Vocabularies for

Jewish Networking

Creation of a Metadata Sets for the description of Jewish resources: CONTEXT

Registration of resources on the level of Collections for allocating Metadata

Registry of Persons, Institutions and corporations that deal or have an interest in Jewish networking

Development of participatory mechanisms:Working Groups and MOU



An example: The Dinur Centre for

Jewish History


Dinur Centre for Jewish History


The Registry

Collections

Institutions and corporations

Persons

Metadata set

Services Search

Advanced Search slicing by all fields

Export of Metadata as regular tags and RDF

Browsing by ODP categories

Browsing by Thesaurus accepted terms



Jewish Networking

Thesaurus

1,000 to 1,500 terms for indexing Jewish People sites

Rochelle Kedar leading the development

Agreement with the INDIRE-BDP Institute in Firenze, Italy for use of Thesaurus Management Software and support of Hebrew

The Thesaurus is “live” available for browsing those collections which are indexed by a particular term



Agreement with the Open

Directory Project



Agreement with the Open

Directory Project

Powers Google, AOL Search, AskJeeves, HotBot, Lycos and other 200 engines

2.3 million URLs

self governance

Open Source inspired

Recognition of Jewish networking and possible emulation of a leading collaborative project

Jewish Web sites will access one stop entry into main search engines. So that…

Web surfers interested in Jewish

matters will have the most sophisticated search engines available



Filling the Registry

1,202 Publishers registered (29.10.2002)

1,248 Collections approved – 186 Pending

Agreement with Dinur Center for Jewish History which manages 6,000 Collections

Agreement with Snunit – largest educational repository in Israel for direct transfer of data

Agreement with JewishGen the most popular non-news Jewish Site. Implementation depends on funding

ORT Israel – one of the largest educational networks in Israel



Next Steps

Multi lingual support – Thesaurus and Web site

Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish

Specialized Registries by Language or Subject


Dinur – Snunit – ORT – JewishGen

Shamash – Denominations




Implementation of the afore mentioned agreements will result in an impressive number of resources in the Registry

We will have achieved the largest and most varied repository of Jewish resources in the Internet.



Some new starts…

Survey of Digital Repositories in view of setting up a integrative pilot

Identification of collections that are outside the Web: pictures, music, archives, video, radio

Readiness to cooperate

We identified the need to help develop appropriate business models for the repositories


Examples of Digital Repositories


Near future program regarding Digital

Repositories

Pilot for the experimental integration of heterogeneous Digital Repositories

Identifying successful models

Defining an specific content area

Developing the partnership

Developing the necessary Ontologies and other tools


Medium term plans

EML – Education Modeling Language application: distributed Jewish Virtual University?

Jewish Agents?

Examples:

Yenta

Retsina calendar and group coordination


Yenta

Yenta can figure out what you’re interested in

Yenta knows you have many interests

You can send messages to people who share one of your interests

Yenta can introduce you to others

Yenta has a built-in reputation system

You can filter messages you don’t want to see

Yenta protects your privacy


Yenta

Every user runs their own copy

Yenta automatically deduces your interests from your files

Yenta never transmits information to a central place

Yenta searches for other, like-minded Yentas all over the net

Yenta form clusters when they find others with common interests

These clusters are the basis for messaging

You can build a reputation by having other people to agree with things you say about yourself

Yenta runs forever

Yenta assumes that you are permanently on the net


Know How

Participation in EC RTD Projects

ETB – Ministries of Education Digital Library http://etb.eun.org

CELEBRATE – Learning Objects program establishing an European educational market

BDP/INDIRE – Thesaurus Development

http://www.bdp.it

http://etb.eun.org/

http://www.bdp.it/


Know How


Know How (Planned)

AgentLink – Europe’s Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing

MINERVA

VISION – Towards Next Generation Knowledge Management


Awareness/Dissemination

World Congress of Jewish Networking

Way to channel expressions of support

Summing up 10 years of Jewish Networking

Creating awareness for the new technological environment

Mapping an agenda for future development



Awareness/Dissemination

RoadMap to the World Congress

Internet Forum

Semantic Web Seminar

Training of moderators

Establishing Working Groups

ILA – Conference with the Jewish Networking/Semantic Web Session

Seminar for educators from abroad Jan 2003

MOAH Conference

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World Association for

Jewish Networking

Correspondence with the Internet Society http://www.isoc.org

International organizational framework that oversees the overall Internet development and the establishment of standards.

Agreement on establishment of an iSIG for Jewish Networking – International Special Interest Group

Upgrades the Institutional partnerships in Jewish Networking.

Implementation depends on solid Jewish institutional support.

http://www.isoc.org/



What is in there for me

The user of Jewish networking

The most sophisticated search engines like Google will cover most of the Jewish collections

He will get access to pinpointed resources by language, target population, age, quality control, keywords

The site manager:

Increased exposure to search engines

Formatted Metadata for his site

A large assembly of Jewish resources he may wish to link to or emulate

The Online Education Producer

Learning objects for inclusion in his courses

Well defined

The Foundation Manager

Wide discussed agendas for promotion of Jewish

Networking in different areas in which he may decide to invest



Program for the Development of

Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for

Israel

Contact: Dov Winer, DirectorP.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel

[email protected]

.phone: +972.2.6204194 fax: +972.2.5333269

http://www.ejewish.info/reka



eJewish.info

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021113 ila presentation

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