1) The document discusses establishing a Jewish Studies knowledge grid in the Linked Open Data Cloud by linking digitized Jewish content to controlled vocabularies and encyclopedias. 2) This will be done through named entity recognition to identify people, organizations, locations, and events mentioned in articles and link them to relevant entries in sources like the Encyclopedia Judaica and Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry. 3) The goal is to provide context and connections for digitized Jewish content by building relationships between articles, encyclopedias, and vocabularies in the structured web.

1. Jewish Studies knowledge grid in the Linked
Open Data Cloud
Dov Winer
Scientific Manager,
Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
EVA/Minerva 2014
The 11th Jerusalem International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

2. Outline
 Digital Manuscripts to Europeana scholarly work-flow model
 The Jewish Studies research community as a community of
practice whose knowledge is expressed in publications.
 Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model
 Challenge: providing context to Jewish Digitised Contents
 Linked Data: provides the infrastructure for a Jewish Studies
Knowledge Grid.

3. DM2E Digital
Manuscripts to
Europeana
http://dm2e.eu

5. Jewish Studies

6. Jewish Studies

7. Jewish Studies

8. Jewish Studies

9. Jewish Studies

13. Jewish Digitised Content

14. Judaica Europeana Partners

15. ~5,000,000 +
digital objects

16. Jewish Digitised Content

17. Jewish Digitised Content

18. Jewish Digitised Content

19. Common Data Model for
Content Description

20. Common Data Model

21. Outline

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28. Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web

29. Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman

30. Judaica Linked Data

37. Establishing a Jewish Knowledge Grid
Joint project:
 Named Entity Recognition in the text of the articles in the journals of the
Jewish Studies collection of JSTOR
 Names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, events
 Linking the names to the entries in relevant vocabularies and
Encyclopedias
 Linking back the entries in the Encyclopedias and vocabularies to
relevant articles in JSTOR Jewish Studies journals.

40. ? Yad Vashem Jewish Place Names ?
? VIAF National Library of Israel ?
? IMAGINE from the Israel Museum
Jerusalem ?
? Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
Online (BRILL) ?
? Encyclopedia Judaica Online (GALE) ?

41. Judaica Europeana Vocabularies
Who?
What?
When?
Where?

42. Thank you!
dov.winer@gmail.com