Dear colleagues, Compliments to Dr. Rachel Heuberger (Frankfurt) and Prof. Kai Eckert (Stuttgart).
The DFG – the main German agency supporting Science and Humanities research approved a million Euro funding for a FID Jewish Studies. The project will be carried out jointly by the Judaica Division of the University Library JC Senckenberg in Frankfurt and Stuttgart Media University (HdM). The purpose is to create an efficient information system for research serving the needs of Jewish studies at German universities. It will build upon the capabilities enabled by cutting edge Semantic Web technologies. They enable the provision of rich context for keywords in catalogues and for Named Entities (proper names, places, periods/dates) in digitised texts. Such rich context originates from relevant encyclopedias, ontologies and controlled vocabularies. The original concept for this project was developed in the framework of Judaica Europeana <http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/> and first implemented in JudaicaLink <http://judaicalink.org/page/encyclopediae> that already converted several Jewish encyclopedias to the Linked Data format (in particular the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe <http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/>). The guiding vision is detailed in the following article (see extract below): Winer, D. (EAJC), *Judaica Europeana: an Infrastructure for Aggregating Jewish Content* <http://dm2e.eu/files/AJL_V18_pp88-115_JudaicaEuropeanaLASTDRAFT.pdf> (2014). In: Judaica Librarianship. Journal of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), Vol. 18 ISSN: 2330-2976. *“Envision a world in which all digitized Jewish content in a variety of databases worldwide is aggregated and accessible to users and programs anywhere, at any time. This content would be cross-linked to conceptual structures such as domain-specific vocabularies and encyclopedias; so that texts, images, maps, as well as sound, music, and video recordings would all become enriched providing them with valuable contextual significance. * *Imagine that a researcher studying the historian Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891) would be able to find all of Graetz’s publications and all works about him in different languages with the click of a mouse button. The different ways his name is spelled (or misspelled) would not be an impediment due to the use of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF).* * Following the initial query, the researcher would be able to access all manuscripts and other documents related to Graetz in the archive of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau aggregated by Judaica Europeana. Moreover, these would be seamlessly linked to the documents in the Center for Jewish History in New York. Related gazetteers would provide substantial information concerning every place that is referred to in any standard biography of Graetz. Named entities in such documents would be linked to the relevant entries of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.”* Judaica Division of the University of Frankfurt Library http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica/judaica_en.html Press release of the University of Stuttgart http://wiss.iuk.hdm-stuttgart.de/news/fid-judaica-grant/ English translation press release <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMPPAzT5-9rZmFFYlNDdllfRTQ/view?usp=sharing> Best regards, Dov * ------------------------------ * *Dov Winer* *Judaica Europeana* The programme for a Jewish Knowledge Grid is available here. <http://dm2e.eu/files/AJL_V18_pp88-115_JudaicaEuropeanaLASTDRAFT.pdf> http://www.judaica-europeana.eu [email protected] *cellular: +972.508.261163 *
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