Semantic Web related Initiatives: Jewish Vocabularies, Community of Knowledge. Dov Winer

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1 Europeana V1.0 WP3 Vienna, March Semantic Web related Initiatives: Jewish Vocabularies, Community of Knowledge Dov Winer Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC, UK)

2 Outline of the presentation Support a community of knowledge. Demonstrate uses of the Judaica Europena corpus and the Europeana data model. Tasks for a common agenda on Jewish culture vocabularies: Who? When? Where? What?

3 Support a community of knowledge. Demonstrate uses of the Judaica Europena corpus and in particular of the new data model.

4 Supporting a Community of Knowledge Stefan Gradmann Europeana Semantica Eva/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference Keynote November 2008

5 Supporting a Community of Knowledge Jewish Enlightment (HASKALA) Republic of Letters Project Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University, Prof. Zohar Shavit, University of Tel Aviv, Prof. Christoph Schulte, University of Potsdam Investigated the secularization of the traditional book culture. Established a very detailed database about a thousand books from the end of the 18 th Century and early 19 th Century Texts in Hebrew, German. Database in SQL with a Visual Basic interface supporting some 147 pre-defined queries

6 Supporting a Community of Knowledge Phases in the developing this initiative - Tools developed in the cluster of COST A32 Open Scholarly communities in the Web Michele Barbera and Christian Barbidoni as main developers STIH Sens, Texte Informatique, Histoire University of Paris- Sorbonne headed by Prof. Philippe Laublet Presentation by Prof. Philippe Laublet and Milan Stankovic (Paris. January 2011) - Yaron Koren, WikiWorks one of the main developers of the Semantic Media Wiki

7 Supporting a Community of Knowledge Conversion of the database to CVS University of Frankfurt (Judaica Europeana) with support by WikiWorks, Yaron Koren Importing it as RDF in the Semantic Media Wiki Designing the work environment for the Haskala research team Metadata enrichment: Include the Digitised versions of the books (Frankfurt University, National Library of Israel) Substitute SKOS formatted controlled vocabularies for the present textual strings (e.g. VIAF for names, GeoNames for locations etc) Design of the new work environment of the Haskala research group Publish selections of the database in Europeana/LOD

8 Supporting a Community of Knowledge Functionalities to become available Improved data structure. In place of categories for structuring data, simple queries will reduce the need for a complex classification system. Semantic templates enable the storage of semantic markup the wiki will further develop its a solid data structure. Searching information. Individual users can search for specific information by creating their own queries reducing the dependences of the researchers on the developers. Automatically-generated lists. Visual display of information. The various display formats defined by additional extensions, such as Semantic Result Formats and Semantic Maps, allow for displaying of information in calendars, timelines, graphs and maps, Inter-language consistency. External reuse. Data, once it is created in an SMW wiki, does not have to remain within the wiki; it can easily be exported via formats like CSV, JSON and RDF. This enables an SMW wiki to serve as a data source for other applications Integrate and mash-up data. Supported by extensions such as the Data Import, Data Transfer and External Data extensions

9 Christian Bizer Semantic Media Wiki with a Linked Data Integrated Framework

10 Tasks for a common agenda on Jewish culture vocabularies: Who? When? Where? What?

11 Tasks for a common agenda on Jewish vocabularies Who? Names Disseminate the use of VIAF Seek to include periodical publications in VIAF RAMBI Long term common effort to achieve comprehensiveness Where? Places JewishGen and Yad Vashem gazetteers as linked data? Use Europeana guidelines to map places coordinates Registry of Jewish gazetteers / RDF/ community based Jewish gazetteer service similar to GeoNames, Freebase, LinkedGeoData etc When? Periods Survey available vocabularies and seek to express them as Linked Data Institutional tools for in-depth probe on current periodisation practices

12 Expressions of interest in developing the agenda Yad Vashem Yael German Dd Dd Dd dd Esther Guggenheim

13 Who?

14 Comprehensive review of names authorities open issues and initiaties Spelling it all out: FRAD, ISNI, RDA, VIAF automation and the future of authority control Alan Danskin Metadata & Bibliographic Standards Coordinator British Library

15 When?

16 When?

17 Where? The award-winning Where Once We Walked (WOWW) has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changes in the political geography of Central and Eastern Europe since WOWW was published in There are also a number of improvements to the original edition noted below. The new edition identifies more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived

18 Where?

19 vocabularies

20 vocabularies

21 vocabularies

22 Thank you for your attention! Dov Winer