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Meeting convened by IUCC (MiBAC) and FBCEI (UCEI(
Rome, 16 February 2009
Mapping European Jewish Culture Collections in
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Mapping European Jewish Culture Collections in
MICHAEL
Consultation on the Digitisation of
the Jewish Cultural Heritage, Brussels
2004
The European Digital Library
www.europeana.eu
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Consultation on the Digitisation of the Jewish Cultural Heritage, 2004, Brussels
Participants:
Miriam Benchetrit Grants Programme Officer, Hanadiv Charitable Foundation
Camille Dansette Coordinator European Day of Jewish Culture – EDJC; organized by B'nai B'rith
Europe, the European Council of Jewish Communities, and Red de Juderias de
Espana-Caminos de Sefarad.
David Dawson Senior ICT Adviser, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - UK NRG
Sorin Hermon EPOCH – PIN Center, University of Florence
Jean-Claude Kuperminc Directeur de la Biliotheque et des Archives, Alliance Israelite Universelle
David Massart Technical Advisor, European Day of Jewish Culture
Prof. Franco Niccolucci Director, EPOCH; PIN Center – University of Florence
Neil Silberman Director, ENAME Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation
Lena Stanley-Clamp Director, Public Activities, Institute for Jewish Policy Research; Director, European
Association for Jewish Culture
Dov Winer Coordinator, MINERVA Plus (Israel)
Director, eJewish.info The Jewish Agency Initiative for Jewish Networking
Daniel Pletinckx, Coordinator of New Technologies and Dirk Oosterlynck from the ENAME Center

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• European concerns with Cultural Diversity.
• European identity
• Cultural and religious minorities in Europe today
Jewish Cultural Heritage as part of the European heritage where Europe may act as a locus to
probe these issues that are at the epicenter of the debate on European identity.
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MICHAEL project
The MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus projects have been funded through the
European Commission’s eTen programme, to establish a new service for the European cultural heritage.
The MICHAEL project is a partnership between France, Italy and the UK to deploy a cultural portal
platform that was developed in France.
MICHAEL Plus extends the MICHAEL project to the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

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One thematic network: The European Digital Library
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The European Digital Library
• A common multilingual access point to Europe's distributed digital cultural heritage
• Hosting cultural material (texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records
• Delivering a critical mass of resources to individuals, scholars, schools and families
www.europeana.eu

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Where are we?

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http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org

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1. What are Jewish cultural heritage resources?
Representing 1,000 years of Jewish, European life, Jewish
cultural heritage repositories include Judaica artefacts, art
works, literature, manuscripts, musical and liturgical resources,
films and video, genealogies, monuments, and historical Jewish
buildings.

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2. Where are they located?
Resources are located across over more than 30 European
countries, and are based in Jewish museums, libraries and
archives with additional resources located in universities and
cultural centres across Europe.

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3. How will the collections be mapped?
Once the initial survey results have been analysed, resources will
be entered into the MICHAEL pan-European Portal for cultural
heritage.
The Jewish collections will function as an additional, dedicated
workspace that unites, in this instance Jewish Cultural Heritage
under the aegis of a European umbrella.

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4. Why do collections need to be digitised?
The comprehensive repository for Jewish Cultural Heritage, as a
European expression of Jewish cultural heritage would provide a
critical mass of resources that could be made directly accessible
both to the Jewish community, as well as to any one interested in
accessing the Jewish Thematic Portal, from anywhere in the world.

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What has been done so far?

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Mission
The UK-based, non for profit company, Digital Heritage is committed to its mission of a digital
mapping of cultural heritage.
One of the central goals of Digital Heritage is to map, harvest and disseminate Jewish, cultural
heritage.
The founders of Digital Heritage both share a deep commitment to these goals resulting from
many years of experience in advancing similar programs in the fields of education and cultural
heritage.
Dov Winer dov.winer@gmail.com
Dr. Susan Hazan susan.hazan@gmail.com
http://www.digital-heritage.org.uk