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1. Welcome to
EVA/Minerva 2014, Jerusalem
During
our
first
decade
of
EVA/Minerva
Jerusalem
conferences
we
marked
many
milestones,
but
perhaps
one
of
the
more
impressive
milestones
is
the
2014
launch
of
Israel
Museums
National
Portal.
This
year,
the
conference
is
proud
to
recognize
this
accomplishment,
and
celebrates
their
success
with
the
Ministry
of
Culture
team,
supported
by
Moreshet
Project
at
the
Prime
Minister's
Office
and
looks
forward
to
watching
this
impressive
national
project
grow
from
strength
to
strength.
We
will
have
an
opportunity
to
learn
more
about
this
with
Reuven
Pinsky,
Head
of
Culture
Governance
Moreshet
Project
at
the
Prime
Minister's
Office
and
more
on
the
main
features
of
the
Museum
National
Portal
with
Ram
Shimoni
and
Ben
Kalifi
in
our
morning
plenary,
chaired
by
Max
Kaiser,
RTD
Director,
National
Austrian
Library.
For
the
sixth
year
running
we
are
delighted
to
be
able
to
hold
our
conference
at
the
Van
Leer,
Jerusalem
Institute
and
would
like
to
thank
Prof.
Gabriel
Motzkin,
Director
of
the
Institute
for
hosting
us
here
yet
again.
We
would
also
like
to
thank
Shulamit
Laron,
Director
of
Public
Events,
and
Limor
Sagi
whose
personal
support
and
assistance
by
all
their
professional
staff
have
made
this
conference
so
successful,
again
this
year.
For
many
years
running
year
we
are
delighted
to
be
able
to
hosted
a
special
museum
track;
supported
by,
the
Ministry
of
Culture
Directorate
for
Culture,
Department
for
Museums
and
Visual
Arts
and
the
Public
Libraries.
We
would
like
to
thank
Maria
Yariv,
Director,
Department
of
Museums
and
Visual
Arts
and
Shlomit
Nemlich,
and
Ram
Shimoni
who
have
been
instrumental
again
this
year
in
making
the
museum
track
so
engaging.
We
would
also
like
to
thank
Dorit
Wolenitz,
ICOM
Israel,
Chair
and
Aliza
Polger
Galili
for
their
behind-‐the-‐
scenes
support
to
make
this
conference
available
to
the
Museum
community.
We
would
also
like
to
thank
Dr.
Yaacov
Deutsch,
World
Congress
of
Jewish
Studies
(WUJS)
and
World
Union
of
Jewish
Studies
for
his
support
of
our
program
and
their
academic
contributions
to
the
Digital
Humanities
track.
We
have
been
following
the
blossoming
of
the
digital
humanities
activities
in
our
community
over
recent
years,
and
are
wondering
when
this
sector
will
becomes
so
ubiquities
that
we
can
simply
drop
the
term
‘digital’
in
the
understanding
that
these
two
terms
–
digital,
and
humanities
are
inseparable
and
that
the
notion
of
digital
becomes
redundant;
subsumed
in
the
latter
term.
We
would
also
like
to
recognize
the
contribution
of
our
partner
ExLibris
and
their
contribution
to
the
conference
this
year.
Although
not
new
members
of
our
sector
by
any
means,
ExLibris
is
now
becoming
even
more
visible
in
the
digital
heritage
community,
as
well
as
taking
on
a
more
prominent
role
in
digital
humanities
activities.
We
look
forward
to
hearing
from
Nicolas
Crofts,
Chair,
ICOM
CIDOC,
our
Keynote
speaker
this
year
who
will
present
‘Practitioners
and
experts:
the
role
of
CIDOC
in
establishing
effective
communication’.
He
will
discuss
the
way
in
which
technical
experts
working
with
innovative
technologies
often
fail
to
communicate
effectively
with
professional
practitioners
working
in
heritage
institutions
(museums,
libraries,
archives)
and
will
explain
what
is
CIDOC
doing
to
help
bridge
the
gap.
These
kinds
of
insights
will
be
useful
not
only
to
the
museum
community
but
also
to
the
broader
digital
heritage
community
and
those
of
use
working
in
libraries
and
archives.
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2. This
years’
conference
is
proud
to
be
able
to
introduce
many
old
friends
as
well
as
new
ones
with
the
many
leading
Europeana
projects
who
are
joining
us
here
this
year:
Europeana
Eagle,
Fashion,
Judaica,
AthenatPlus
and
look
forward
to
hearing
about
Europeana
Creative
from
Max
Kaiser
and
to
Pavel
Katz,
Chief
Technology
Officer
Europeana
who
will
introduce
us
to
the
Europeana
Cloud.
The
Europeana
workshops
will
be
showcasing
not
only
best
practice
in
their
specific
fields
but
many
useful
lessons
from
their
practice
in
their
open
workshops.
Dr.
Pietro
Maria
Luizzo
from
EAGLE,
The
Europeana
network
of
Ancient
Greek
and
Latin
Epigraphy
is
a
best-‐practice
network
providing
a
single
user-‐friendly
portal
to
the
inscriptions
of
the
Ancient
World,
a
massive
resource
for
both
the
curious
and
for
the
scholarly.
He
will
be
presenting
The
EAGLE
BPN:
Aggregating
and
Linking
Structured
Data,
A
Presentation
of
the
Europeana
Best
Practice
Network
for
Ancient
Greek
and
Latin
Epigraphy,
its
tasks,
tools
and
objectives.
In
addition
we
will
be
introduced
to
EAGLE’s
Mediawiki
where
participants
are
invited
to
take
part
in
the
workshop
and
enter
Hebrew
translations
of
inscriptions
in
the
EAGLE
Mediawiki.
Dr.
Maria
Luizzo
assures
us
that
this
is
a
very
easy
and
self-‐explanatory
process
and
usually
people
find
it
rewarding
as
they
can
see
immediately
the
result
of
their
contribution.
Maria
Teresa
Natale
will
run
a
dedicated
Digital
Storytelling
workshop
focusing
in
the
latest
release
of
the
MOVIO
suite
of
tools
developed
in
the
Athena
Plus
Network.
Marco
Rendino
will
present
Europeana
Fashion
Network
including
the
leading
European
institutions
and
collections
in
the
fashion
domain
and
will
showcase
the
outstanding
and
rich
material
of
the
history
of
European
fashion.
We
are
delighted
to
introduce
a
new
approach
to
Enhancement
in
Preservation
of
Tangible
Heritage
with
Anna
Lobovikov-‐Katz,
Head,
ELAICH
Project,
EuroMed
Heritage
4
Programme,
Head,
Technion
research
team,
EU-‐CHIC
Project,
Faculty
of
Architecture
and
Town
Planning,
Technion
-‐
Israel
Institute
of
Technology.
Her
panelists
will
be
bringing
new
approaches
and
their
best
practice
in
this
innovative
session.
The
Judaica
Europeana
panel,
chaired
by
Prof.
Martin
Golumbic,
Director,
Caesarea
Rothschild
Institute
for
Interdisciplinary
Applications
of
Computer
Science
(CRI),
University
of
Haifa
introduces
a
varied
program
on
working
with
libraries,
archives
and
museums
to
provide
integrated
access
to
the
world’s
most
important
collections
that
document
the
Jewish
presence
in
Europe.
This
includes
sessions
including
Gesher
L'Europa
–
a
bridge
to
Europe,
with
Caron
Sethill,
Programme
Coordinator
–
Europe,
Towards
a
crowd
sourcing
conceptualization
of
preserving
Jewish
Heritage,
with
Jack
Gottlieb,
Founder,
World
Jewish
Heritage,
DM2E
and
the
Jewish
Studies
knowledge
grid
in
the
Linked
Open
Data
Cloud:
the
latest
Judaica
Europeana
developments,
with
Dov
Winer,
Judaica
Europeana
Scientific
Manager.
Organised
by
the
World
Union
of
Jewish
Studies,
Best
Practice
in
Digital
Humanities
sessions
bring
a
rich
variety
of
presentations
to
discuss
scholarly
approaches
to
digitized
contents,
services,
and
new
technologies.
Chaired
by
Dr.
Yaacov
Deutsch,
World
Congress
of
Jewish
Studies
(WUJS),
World
Union
of
Jewish
Studies
session
include:
Kabbalah
Research:
Toward
New
Digital
Perspectives
with
Yoed
Kadari,
Ben
Gurion
University;
Creating
a
Corpus
of
Early
Christian
Law:
The
Hidden
-‐
Law
Database,
Dr.
Yifat
Monnickendam,
The
Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem,
Digital
tools
for
Improving
the
Editions
of
Cryptic
Scrolls
from
Qumran
with
Dr.
Jonathan
Ben-‐Dov,
University
of
Haifa.
Dr.
Nahum
Dershowitz,
Tel
Aviv
University
will
lead
the
following
discussion.
Directly
following
on
we
will
hear
about
Open
Hebrew
for
the
Digital
Humanities
and
"How
to
open
a
digital
text"
without
the
subtitle
with
Sinai
Rusinek,
Polonsky
Academy
&
DHIsrael;
The
Sefaria
Project:
An
Online
and
Open-‐Source
Library
for
the
Jewish
Canon
with
Lev
Israel
&
Ephraim
Damboritz,
Sefaria;
How
can
Open
Data
contribute
to
digital
heritage?
“Open
Press”
as
a
case
study
With
Noam
Castel
&
Ido
Ivri
,
from
the
Public
Knowledge
Workshop.
Supporting
these
kinds
of
digital
humanities
projects
we
will
learn
from
Kristin
Dill
from
the
Austrian
National
Library
in
the
PUNDIT
hands-‐on
Workshop.
This
is
an
ideal
opportunity
to
experiment
with
the
DM2E
scholarly
environment
and
hear
about
the
building
the
tools
and
communities
that
enable
humanities
researchers
to
work
with
manuscripts
in
the
Linked
Open
ii
3. Web.
The
two
tools
at
the
heart
of
the
DM2E
scholarly
environment
are
Pundit
and
Ask.
Pundit
is
a
semantic
annotation
tool
that
enables
researchers
to
create
annotations
in
Linked
Open
Data.
Don’t
miss
the
Judaica
Harvard
International
session
organized
by
Violet
Radnofsky,
the
Littauer
Hebraica
Technical
and
Research
Services
Librarian
of
the
Judaica
Division
at
the
Harvard
Library,
University
Cambridge
MA
USA.
The
various
projects
presented
include:
The
Israeli
Cartoon
Museum,
Holon
with
Galit
Gaon
Chief
Curator
and
Hila
Zahavi
Collections
Curator;
and
Yoram
Shamir,
Independent
Curator
from
Tel
Aviv
Dantec
Ltd.
Jerusalem
Rounding
out
the
day
is
the
session
on
Digital
Libraries:
Linked
Open
Data
(LOD).
What
comes
next?
With
Ora
Zehavi,
The
Younes
and
Soraya
Nazarian
Library
at
the
University
of
Haifa
setting
the
tone
with
her
opening
remarks
on
the
Transformation
of
Digital
Library
in
Libraries.
This
will
be
followed
by
a
presentation
on
Israeli
bibliographic
data
and
the
international
scene
with
Prof.
Elhanan
Adler,
National
Library
of
Israel
and
David
Yellin
College
and
a
final
paper
on
Discovery
Tools
in
Academic
Libraries:
why,
what
and
how?
With
Edith
Falk,
Chief
Librarian,
Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem,
Hebrew
University
Libraries
Authority.
The
combined
strengths
of
EVA/MINERVA
Jerusalem
aims
to
bring
best
practice
in
advanced
technologies
to
its
dedicated
community
of
cultural
content
holders,
managers
and
publishers
in
Israel
and
Europe
in
order
to
augment
the
preservation,
access
and
the
re-‐use
of
Cultural
Heritage
through
advanced
education
and
training
in
Information
and
Communication
Technologies
(ICT).
The
conference
also
endeavours
to
stimulate
cultural
diversity
in
Europe;
and
to
increase
the
technological,
educational,
cultural,
economic
relations
between
the
European
Union
and
Israel.
EVA/MINERVA
2014
yet
again
welcomes
participants
to
Jerusalem
for
what
we
hope
will
be
another
exciting
and
informative
event,
and
the
perfect
opportunity
to
catch
up
with
friends
and
colleagues
in
the
EVA/Minerva
tradition.
________________________________________________________________________
The
Jerusalem
Conference
on
Digitization
on
Science
and
Cultural
Heritage
was
first
convened
in
2004
and
forged
the
Jerusalem
Declaration.
From
this
first
step
the
Jerusalem
Declaration
was
later
presented
to
the
Knesset
Internet
Committee,
a
benchmark
moment
that
continues
to
direct,
and
inform
our
activities.
Jerusalem,
October
12,
2004
http://www.digital-‐heritage.org.il/jerusalemdeclaration.html
We
look
forward
to
hosting
everyone
again
next
year
in
Jerusalem.
Dr.
Susan
Hazan
and
Dov
Winer
Co-‐chairs;
EVA/MINERVA
Jerusalem
2012
Millie
Hazan
Conference
Producer
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