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eJewish.infoAn initiative of the Jewish Agency
היוזמה לפיתוח תשתיות בתקשוב
יהודי
Bringing Jewish Networking to
the Semantic Web Age
A Start Up
JAFI
Board of Governors
JAFI Internet Initiative
Steering Committee
Chairman: Sami Friedrich
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eJewish.info Purposes of the Initiative
Benefits for target populations
Advantages for investors
Needs
Capabilities
Time line
What has been achieved so far
Feedback
Work Program
Sources of support
Indexes of success
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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.
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The Jewish Agency
Commitment
Context of the Initiative
To increase the relations and the inter-dependence
between different parts of the Jewish people.
To advance the unity of the Jewish People while expressing the existing diversity.
Additional Considerations
Commercial attempts to concentrate Jewish networking activities failed
No other institution can be the catalyst for an infrastructure initiative of such scope
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Jewish Networking
Parameters
Jewish Networking and Internet
Penetration
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Why infrastructures are needed
The Jewish People is very small: 13 million with a very small span of Jewish Time
When the target population is small, market fragmentation is an obstacle to the offer of high quality services/content.
A lot of good Jewish content is available in the Deep Web outside the present Web reach : Music, Video, Photographs, Documents in Archives, Multimedia, Virtual Exhibits.
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Advantages of being Small
The Jewish domain being small may enable to achieve Quality of Contents targets that otherwise are unreachable.
Smallness enables the domain to become special: pioneering the integration of content sources
presently outside the Web reach;
getting a strong involvement of specific communities of interest
Good navigation devices are specially needed for part time Jews who are occasional users of Jewish networking.
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The New Internet
CONVERGENCE
Information in Context
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Benefits
The New Internet is an external eventthat requires appropriate measures if Jewish Networking is expected to continue and flourish
This external event creates an opportunity, to create:A Common Jewish Market
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Benefits for target populations
8,000 Jewish Web Sites: they should participate in the transition to the Semantic Web through applications of RDF, Schema Registries and XML based communities: Metadata, Cooperation, Trust.
Structured support for communities of interest to define their agendas and priorities: e.g. genealogy, music, history, education, elearning.
Funding sources may better identify key areas for supporting Jewish networking ventures.
Commercial and Institutional Jewish networking: create conditions for offering services in an enlarged market.
Facilitate Jewish resources access and enhance their re-use by producers: Distributed Education, Curators of Virtual Exhibitions, Educators, Multimedia and CD Producers, Publishers, WebTV
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Work Programme
Development of a Controlled Vocabularyfor Jewish Networking
Creation of a Metadata Set 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
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Work Programme
Identification of collections that are outside the Web: pictures, music, archives, video, radio
Dialogue in the framework of WG s to define relevant content areas for the development of integrative tools like ontologies for Jewish networking
World Congress of Jewish Networking for a summary of achievements, identification of problems and to get energy for continuing the process started up.
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Capabilities
Experienced team:
Dov Winer http://makash.org.il/dovw.htm
Rochelle Kedar – Israel Thesaurus builder specialist (Bar Ilan University)
Mazi Fraguela – System Person
Jewish Agency Specialized Resources:
e.g. Pedagogic Center Web managed by Dr. Motti Friedman
LALAN – JA Systems Service Provider
Tigersoft Systems provider
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Capabilities
Direct access to knowledge resources from EC RTD Projects – Education and Cultural Heritage
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
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Member of Hi-Tech Consortia
OntoWeb *Ontology-based information exchange for
knowledge management and electronic commerce
http://www.ontoweb.org/infoboard.htm
DELOSNetwork of Excellence on Digital Librarieshttp://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/
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What has been accomplished so far
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
Seminar for consultation and first steps towards World Congress of Jewish Networking
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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
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Agreement with the Open
Directory Project
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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
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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
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Filling the Registry
1,189 Publishers registered (31.8.2002)
986 Collections approved – 127 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
Educational Partner Registry – Dr Motti Friedman, Pedagogical Center and BJE New York (Sep. 02)
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Filling the Registry
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.
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Working Groups in Jewish
Networking
The Registry enable us to reach most of those doing the day to day work of Jewish Networking in thousands of sites and distribution lists
Working groups leaded by those with specific interests in different areas may enable us to present a Jewish networking agenda for those interested in supporting its implementation
Good examples: the Jewish National Library Digitization Project, the CZA, the State of Israel Archivar, The Central Archives for the Jewish People, Center for Jewish Art with 250 objects photographed and well indexed
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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
New Global Membership Category – no fees.
Upgrades the Institutional partnerships in Jewish Networking.
Implementation depends on solid Jewish institutional support.
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Next Steps
Multi lingual support – Thesaurus and Web site
Hebrew – Russian – French – Spanish
Specialized Registries by Language or Subject
Filling the Registry
Dinur – Snunit – ORT – JewishGen
Shamash – Denominations
Partnering and proposal writing
Semantic Web Workshop in October
World Congress in Julyl 2003
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Indexes of Success
8,000 Collections indexed in the Registry by November 2002; 20,000 Collections by April 2003
Two proposals developed, presented and approved by foundations/EC by December 2002
Two partner registries (Language or Subject Focused) established by February 2003
World Congress of Jewish Networking taking place in the first half of 2003 with a substantial part of its success parameters achieved
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Sources of Support
eContent Calls from the European Commission
Dialogue with AIU, IJPR and European Association for Jewish Culture
Prof. Barry Kozmin – Jean-Jacques Wahl
IST 5FP – Supporting Measures –Workshop on the Semantic Web for Jewish Networking
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Sources of Support
People are offering help, e.g.
Prof. Dov Levin, HUJI – Mobilized: Prof. Menashe Harel (Israel Prize);
Prof. Hayim Avni; Dr. Meir Litman; Adv. Joseph A. Melamed;
Joel Alpert (Harvard);
Mike Gertz (Washington)
Jason Chudnofski – COMDEX Owner
Paul Freedman - Denominations
Reuven Koret – People of the Network, Inc.
David Stein Detailed feedback on the Registry
High professional consultancy
Eventual business interest
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Sources of Support
World Congress of Jewish Networking
Way to channel expressions of support
Rotschild Foundation
Proposal with Dinur Center for Jewish History – end of 2002
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Marketing Advantages
The most advanced networking technologies at the service of Jewish Networking.
Potentially, we are the best filter for Jewish Resources in the Internet
Cutting edge knowledge being developed by the European Commission (Information Society Technologies) and the US Department of Defense DARPA is applied to Jewish Networking.
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Benefits for the Investor
Investing in a leading edge project
Long term benefits for an extensive segment of Jewish Life
Access to the technologies molding the evolving information, cultural and education markets
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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
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Consortium for Development of Jewish
Networking Infrastructures
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Israel
Contact: Dov Winer, Director
P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel
.phone: +972.2.6204194 fax: +972.2.5333269
.personal page: http://www.makash.org.il/dovw.htm
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