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Dov WinerIsrael MINERVA Coordinator

Director - eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructuresan initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

פיתוח מדיניות דיגיטציה של המורשת היהודית

?הסוף של האינטרנט

סמינר מחלקתיתכנית לימודי מידע וספרנות

תחומיים-בית הספר ללימודים רב

המכללה האקדמית בית ברל2006אפריל 26

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

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il [email protected] http://www.ejewish.info

Man creates technology. Technology changes man and

re-creates him at the same time.


Osmosis as a Model

Why there is need for a digitisation policy?

Substantial changes in the environment


Changes in the Environment:

Convergence of Digital Media

The end of the Internet


Telephony Radio TelevisionInternet/Web Mobile Services

Applications

Web services delivered over cable television

Webcasting of television, radio, music services

Browsers in cellular mobile phones

Wireless PDA

SMS messaging seamless: Internet, Cellular and TV

Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) telephony services

End of the Internet


2003 150,000,000,000 Music files downloaded from the network

almost three fold from 2002 55 billion Music files dowloaded

iTunes (Apple) began in April 2003 and sold 70 million files (.99 US$)

MSN Music

Yahoo – Internet Radio Giant bought MusicMatch Offers 700 thousand files – main competitor to iTunes

iTunes standard Music service for Motorola CellularHaaretz 24.9.2004

Musical Contents


Frames of Reference


Jewish Demography – 2004

2004 American Jewish Yearbook, V 104,

World 12,989,700

Israel 5,165,400

Diaspora 7,824,300

America North 5,661 KCentral 52,000South 346,000

6,059,000

Europe EU 1,121,600Western 19,800

FSU 360,000East 34,400

1,550,000

Asia 40,600

Africa 81,000

Oceania 107,900


Israel Demography

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, May 2005

Israel Total 6,900,000

Jews 5,260,00

Others 290,000

Arabs 1,350,000

Jews and others

were born:

Israel 65% 3,600,000

Abroad 35% 1,930,000Among them in the FSU

950,000


Background on Israel


Israel 4.2% of the GDP applied in RTD. Concentration of start-up

corporations

Economic recovery: demand for hi-tech workers – 9,000 hired in 2005 and only 1,000 fired

Hi-Tech exports US$16.6 billion Risk Capital

US$ 1.5 billion in 2005

Energetic participation in the 6FP RTD IST:

TIRAMISU – U-Broad – DIP – EPOCH –AIM@SHAPE – ENABLED – MUSCLE – MinervaPlus

MEMORIES – CASPAR – EASIER - MOSAICA

Innovative technologies: Aleph Digitool, Olive, IDEA

Main trade partners exports/imports: US (31%/22%) Europe (30%/40%)


IsraelLeads in ICT and convergence

See:

The Economist Intelligence Unit: The 2005 e-readiness rankings

Uri Olnik – Director General Ministry of Communication

http://www.moc.gov.il

http://www.moc.gov.il/


Israel: Broadband Connection

• January 2006: 65% households connected

(from 55% May 2005) – 200K for saturation in 2007

• 1,200,000 households: 800K ADSL + 417K Cable TV

• 2 Megabits/second 70 NIS a month (drop of 12% in a year)

• Challenge for the next 2 years is the dissemination of the 5 Megabits/second connection enabling reasonable Internet TV experiences

• Second only to Korea


UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium

2005 e-readiness rankings


Sources for Developing a Cultural

Heritage Digitisation Policy


Digital Promise Digital Opportunity Investment Fund DoIT

(1) Learning Models (2) Digitise collections: museums, universities, museums, cultural institutions

National Academy of Science

IT, Innovation and Creativity: need for mutual synergies between Art and Computer Science

European Union Lund Action Plan

Sources for Developing Cultural Heritage

Digitisation Policy


Accessible and sustainable heritage

Support cultural diversity, education and content industries

Digitised resources of great variety and richness

Lund Premises

Problems

Fragmentation of Approach

Obsolescence

Lack of simple, common access

Intellectual Property Rights

Lack of synergies between cultural andnew technologies programs

Institutional investment and commitment


Israel Frame of Reference


The Jerusalem Declaration I

1. Contribution of Israel participation in the EU NRG

Framework for establishing here an agenda for

digitisation of Cultural Heritage.

2. Jewish People contribution to European Heritage

3. Digitization of CH and convergence present unique

occasion for the Jewish People and their collective and

evolving memory.

4. Call for a concerted policy for digitisation of Jewish

cultural assets…long term preservation; continuous

access; re-incorporation in the contemporary life of the

Jewish People as living assets re-creating Jewish culture

in its variety and multi-faceted aspects.


The Jerusalem Declaration II

5. Israel ..expression for cultural diversity. Expression for

the historical and contemporary creativity of Arab, Druze,

Islamic and Christian culture and others.

6. Adopts the Charter of Parma (December 2003)

7. Adopts the Dutch Presidency NRG conclusions:

“…integrate coordination of digital heritage with its

economic sectors of reference (culture, education,

tourism, technology, research…), their policies and

programmes, policy drivers (…) and their objectives in

the enlarged Europe…


Debate in the Parliament (Knesset)

Committee for Internet and Information Technologies

Following the Jerusalem Declaration of October 2004 the Committee held a

well attended debate on the issues related to the Digitisation of Cultural

Heritage.

In preparation for an extended discussion later in 2005 an economist was

nominated in the Comptrollers Division of the Ministry of Finance to work

together with the MINERVA Working Groups in preparing a brief on the

contribution of digitisation of Cultural Heritage to the National Economy.

UK Creative Industries Concept

British Library evaluation of the value of its services for the British economy.

EPOCH Work Package on Economic Contribution of CH


National Representatives Group Reports on Israel

comprehensive mapping of the main digitisation initiatives, policies and players

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/globalreport/globalrep2003.htm

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il//nrg_reports.html

MINERVA Technical Guidelines

CALIMERA Guidelines – Hebrew

Cultural Heritage Digitisation Distributed Course for the staff of small and medium institutions and university students.

Background Documentation and Initiatives




http://www.minervaisrael.org.il//nrg_reports.html


The Jewish People Frame of Reference


Opportunities in the new environment

Example: Learning Objects

Thousands of Jewish films in each Jewish school, community center and faculty

Communities of educators, cultural professionals, creative artists, educators re-owning and re-creating Jewish culture

and all the while dialoguing about it

“Eretz Amazonia”


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 Challenge of the new environment: a User model

The Challenge of the new environment: Semantics

Jewish networking infrastructures - User Model


David Bearman, President, Archives & Museum Informatics Sustaining Culture, Enhancing Life: User Requirements for Cultural Heritage http://www.eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.info

Jewish networking infrastructures – User Model

Maslow’s Hierarchy of

Needs

Type of Information

Needed

Self-Actualization Significance

Esteem Significance

Belonging Meanings

Safety Facts

Physiological Facts

http://www.eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.info/




Jewish networking infrastructures - User Model


Jewish networking infrastructures



Registry of Jewish web resources and partner registries

Survey of Jewish Heritage Controlled Vocabularies

Experts WGs: Resources Discovery

Quality

Interoperability

Good Practice and Competence



Agents

Semantic web integration of heterogeneous sources

Learning objects

Link to the Semantic Web Presentation


For copyJewish networking infrastructures

Registry of Web Resources

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


http://www.ejewish.info/


For copyJewish networking infrastructures

Near future:

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


Concerted Policy for Jewish CH Digitisation

Consultation – December 2004

European frameworks concerned with the expression of Cultural Diversity in Europe – EC CH Cluster Projects and other institutes

Jewish Institutions:National Foundation for Jewish Culture

European Association for Jewish Culture

IJPR (London) – Hanadiv – Bnai Brith – ECJC –AIU


Policy for Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Action Items

Prepare a basic policy profile on Jewish Heritage Digitisation

Mapping cultural heritage digitisation initiatives

GIS Project for Jewish Heritage in Europe

WGs of experts in areas parallel to those of MINERVA Interoperability and Service Provision

Good Practices and Competence Centers

Discovery of Content and Multilingualism

Quality framework and user needs

Survey vocabularies and set pilot for seamless access


Thank you for your attention !

Contact: Dov Winer, Coordinator, MINERVA Network in Israelhttp://www.minervaisrael.org.il

Director - Program for the Development of Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 [email protected]: +972.508.261163 fax: +972.2.6204194http://www.ejewish.info/

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How will our Culture, Education and Identity stand up to this challenge?

What are the opportunities presented by the new environment?

Facets for a Cultural Heritage Digitisation Policy

for Israel


Computer Scientists Engineers and Technicians Librarians and Information Science Experts Archivists Museums Creative artists Communities: Computerized graphics, Archaeology, Architecture,

Multimedia production, Information Experts, Distributed Learning, Education and Training,

Broadcasting archives, TV Stage Directors, Producers Association, Documentary producers

IP Professionals – Creative Commons initiative Business and entrepreneurship community

Professional Communities Involved in Cultural

Heritage Digitisation