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Jewish Studies knowledge grid in the Linked

Open Data Cloud Dov Winer

Scientific Manager,

Judaica Europeana (EAJC)

EVA/Minerva 2014

The 11th Jerusalem International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

Digital Manuscripts to Europeana scholarly work-flow model

The Jewish Studies research community as a community of

practice whose knowledge is expressed in publications.

Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model

Challenge: providing context to Jewish Digitised Contents

Linked Data: provides the infrastructure for a Jewish Studies

Knowledge Grid.

Outline

DM2E Digital

Manuscripts to

Europeana

http://dm2e.eu

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Digitised Content

Judaica Europeana Partners

~5,000,000 +

digital objects

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Common Data Model for

Content Description

Common Data Model

Outline

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Who? What? When? Where?

Controlled vocabularies: hubs of

Jewish Knowledge in the

Structured Web

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT

Encyclopedia Judaica

Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry

http://www.rujen.ru/

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

Rav Zeev Vagner

Josh Kopelman

Judaica Linked Data

Establishing a Jewish Knowledge Grid

Joint project:

Named Entity Recognition in the text of the articles in the journals of the

Jewish Studies collection of JSTOR

Names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, events

Linking the names to the entries in relevant vocabularies and

Encyclopedias

Linking back the entries in the Encyclopedias and vocabularies to

relevant articles in JSTOR Jewish Studies journals.

? Yad Vashem Jewish Place Names ?

? VIAF National Library of Israel ?

? IMAGINE from the Israel Museum

Jerusalem ?

? Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World

Online (BRILL) ?

? Encyclopedia Judaica Online (GALE) ?

Judaica Europeana Vocabularies

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Thank you!

dov.winer@gmail.com