2014 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage http://2014.minervaisrael.org.il http://www.digital-heritage.org.il

1. The Open Press Archive
Opening up
NLI and TAU’s
Historic Jewish Press Collection

2. A few words about HaSadna

3. Open Data Principles (source)
• Access. The work shall be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably downloading via the Internet without charge. The work must also be available in
a convenient and modifiable form.
• Redistribution. The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the work either
on its own or as part of a package made from works from many different sources
• Reuse. The license must allow for modifications and derivative works and must allow them to be
distributed under the terms of the original work.
• Absence of Technological Restriction. The work must be provided in such a form that there are
no technological obstacles to the performance of the above activities. This can be achieved by
the provision of the work in an open data format.
• Attribution. The license may require as a condition for redistribution and re-use the attribution
of the contributors and creators to the work.
• Integrity. The license may require as a condition for the work being distributed in modified form
that the resulting work carry a different name or version number from the original work.
• No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups. The license must not discriminate against any
person or group of persons.
• No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor. The license must not restrict anyone from making
use of the work in a specific field of endeavor.
• Distribution of License. The rights attached to the work must apply to all to whom the program
is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

4. Why the Open Press Archive?
• Truly Wonderful collection – jpress.org.il
• Has relevance for a lot of users
• JPRESS is mostly concealed in “the hidden web”
• JPRESS Allows for only one use case – search, browse
• Can be easily used by Digital Humanities researchers
• From Hasadna’s perspective - A good project for novice
and advanced coders

5. What has been done to date?
http://opa.org.il

6. What has been done to date?
Initial Developers’ API:
• http://opa.org.il/api/v1/?articleId=DAV_1949_
4_15_Ar03104
• http://opa.org.il/api/v1/?query=%D7%99%D7
%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94
Exposure to Google:
• Search for בן יהודה on Google

7. What can be achieved in the future?
• Hackathons - new frontend, new apps
• Tagging and linking to other repositories
• OCR’d text improvement with CAPTCHA
• Full text analysis
• Topic analysis,
auto annotation
http://youtu.be/9-W9cf9u9Qw

8. Thank you
You are all welcome to the Open Hub!
http://www.hasadna.org.il/openhub/