If you are coming to the World Congress of Jewish Studies you are invited to include in your schedule the following session:
700 JUDAICA Europeana: Presenting the Jewish Contribution to European Civilization in the European Digital Library Chairperson: Rachel Heuberger Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 283 (Education) Dov Winer (E), Rachel Heuberger (E) and Motti Friedman (H) Jews in European Cities Dov Winer and Susan Hazan (E) JUDAICA Michael: Registering European Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe Elhanan Adler (E), Susan Hazan (E) and Yemima Rosenthal (E) ATHENA Israel Orly Simon (H) Michael Israel The session covers several projects related to Jewish digitised content related to EUROPEANA the European Digital Library and to MICHAEL - Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe. EUROPEANA has now a prototype at http://www.europeana.eu and it will be launched in mid 2010. One of the projects that build EUROPEANA deals with Jewish contribution to European civilization - see: http://group.europeana.eu and should begin by September 2009. The Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe include the mapping of Israel culture collections, a project led by the National Library of Israel. It also includes a Jewish component being lead by the European Association of Jewish Culture. All these initiative will be presented in the above session. We look forward to this occasion for advancing collaboration and partnerships. Best regards, Dov ________________________________________ Dov Winer Israel MINERVA Coordinator http://www.minervaisrael.org.il National Library of Israel http://jnul.huji.ac.il d...@savion.huji.ac.il phone: +972.2.6586043 cellular: +972.508.261163 fax: +972.2.6584977 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
