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Dov WinerIsrael MINERVA Coordinator
Director - eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures
an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects
Section 11. Policies of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Digitization and Preservation
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Jerusalem Archaeological Park back
http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp
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Jerusalem Archaeological Park back
http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp
Early Islamic
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Jerusalem Archaeological Park back
http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp
Crusader Period
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National Photo Collection
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• Wide digitization project and several online exhibitions
• Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages
• 100,000 photographs
• Deep Terminological Development
Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority
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Jewish National and University Library
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• The David and Fella Shapell Foundation
• National Sound Archives – 1,700 hours already available
• Holy Land Maps –Jerusalem maps digitized and accessible
• Albert Einstein Archives
• Communal Registers of Jewish Communities
• Early Hebrew Press – First six large format newspapers
Jewish National and University Library
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Collaborative projects
Ketubbot
Marriage contracts from 8 collections
Talmudic Manuscripts full manuscript of the Mishna
several tractates of the Babylonian Talmud
Jewish National and University Library
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Deep Jewish Content
Jewish Databases and Digital Repositories
Texts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Pictures, Video, Music,
Multimedia, Films
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Responsa: The pioneer digitisation Project
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Central Zionist Archives
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• Central Zionist Archives digitization– 4 million documents
– 250,000 photographs
– 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps
– 3,000 posters
• The Jewish Agency for Israel
– eJewish.info Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
– Department of Education units for ICT in Education and Contact Center (Distance Education)
– P2P initiatives for Jewish Museums and Theater
National Institutions: Jewish Agency, WZO, Keren Kayemte
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Ben Gurion Archives
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Diaspora Museum Collections
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Israel Labor Party Archives
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Harvard College Library JUDAICA Library
Area Studies Department
Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research
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10 Years of Jewish Internet Networking achievements and problems
Extraordinary expansion of connectivity for individuals, families and institutions
Most of the activity is inter-personal: mail exchanges, chats, forums and
distribution lists About 8-9,000 Jewish Web sites
The sites are focused on specific subject matters: a given locality, an institution or denomination, an interest group – age, observance, gender, politics back
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Alexa’s Ranking of Web Sites Rank Links
Walla http://walla.co.il 477 868
Haaretz English http://www.haaretzdaily.com 1,627 2,735
Jerusalem Post http://jpost.com 1,189 5,052
Haaretz (Hebrew) http://haaretz.co.il 2,832 2,110
JDate http://jdate.com/jdDefault.asp 3,829 305
Israel's Business Arena
http://globes.co.il 5,194 1,757
KOL-ISRAEL.COM Radio
http://kol-israel.com 10,867 193
Israel Insider http://web.israelinsider.com 17,675 128
Snunit http://snunit.k12.il 18,157 884
Kol Israel Reshet Bet http://bet.iba.org.il 18,553 235
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JewishGen http://jewishgen.org 20,936 1,650
Yenta http://yenta.email.net 21,062 46
ADL http://adl.org/adl.asp 24,610 2,468
Jewish Virtual Library
http://us-israel.org/jsource 29,037 1,875
Orthodox Union http://ou.org 32,593 1,244
Shamash http://shamash.org 37,109 2,670
Jewish Street http://jewishstreet.com 41,653 115
Project Genesis http://torah.org 45,393 1,051
Jewish Community Online (AOL)
http://jewish.com 47,474 1,081
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://ushmm.org 49,025 3,254
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UAHC (Reform) http://uahc.org 49,756 994
Simon Wiesenthal http://wiesenthal.com 51,402 1,774
United Synagogue http://uscj.org 55,659 1,002
Department of Education, JAFI
http://jajz-ed.org.il/new.html 56,979 865
MAVEN http://maven.co.il 62,163 1,324
Amalnet http://www.amalnet.k12.il/ 74,421 409
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Thank you for your attention !
Contact: Dov Winer, DirectorProgram for the Development of Jewish Networking
Infrastructuresan initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel
P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 [email protected] : +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194http://www.ejewish.info/