070501 info 2007 archives
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Online access to Jewish Archives. Session on Jewish Archives in Israel and the World. INFO 2007, The 22th Annual International Conference Hilton Hotel, Tel-Aviv May 1, 2007.TRANSCRIPT
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Outline: Jewish Archives are becoming increasingly available in the
Web. Mostly the collection level descriptions. Also at the document level:
Examples of available databases. Examples of integration of distributed corpora:
Friedberg Genizah Project, JNUL Kettubot
Improving the accessibility to the description of collections: JNUL Archive Grid - OCLC Center for Jewish History
Some examples of innovative current projects: MICHAEL MOSAICA
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Search – April 30, 2007:
13,095
Archive collections with “Jewish”
.in their descriptions
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Israel State Archives–גנזך המדינה
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMO/PM+Office/Departments/archive.htm
One of the largest bulk of state documents to be made available online. Soon:About 1,000,000 images
700,000 Foreign Policy documents
60,000 Sifrei Olim
50,000 Vaadat Matzaf
13,000 Kastner-Greenwald Trial
13,000 Daminiuk Trial
40,000 German documents
15,000 Non official German documents
2,380 Maps
32,000 Mandate Economic Counseling Office
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National Photo Collection
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• Large digitization project and several online exhibitions
• Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages
• 100,000 photographs
• Deep Terminological Development
Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority
http://www4.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace/IY_HON_Welcome
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Central Zionist Archives
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Central Zionist Archives digitization
– 4 million documents
– 250,000 photographs
– 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps
– 3,000 posters
National Institutions: Jewish Agency,
WZO, Keren Kayemet
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Ben Gurion Archives
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Diaspora Museum Collections
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Israel Labor Party Archives
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Harvard College Library
JUDAICA Library
Area Studies Department
Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research
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http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/archives-intro.html
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Examples of Integration of Corpora
Kettubot
Talmud Manuscripts
The Cairo Genizah
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http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/ketubbot/
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University of Cambridge – Dr Solomon Schechter (about 1896)
Jewish Theological Seminar of America (35,000) fragments – E.N. Adler
Friedberg Project:March 2007: 60,000 high quality images of Genizah fragments
Through 2007: Nachum collection of Yemenite manuscripts – 100,000 fragments
Prof. Yaacov Choueka – Chief Scientist
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Initiatives that facilitate access to Jewish Archives
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http://www.archivegrid.org/web/jsp/s.jsp?q=jewish
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http://www.michael-culture.org/
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MichaelPlus Project
Module for cataloguers: create, modify, import and manage records
Module for public interface to end-users: customisation
Consistent with OAI-PMH – Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Open Source MINERVA Data Model derived from MINERVA work –
RSLP collection description schema and DCMI France, Italy and UK Extended with: Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
Israel JNUL as non-funded partner
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Thank you for your attention !
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