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Judaica Europeana Work Groups
The work on Judaica Europeana is organized in 5 work packages. Access to produced public deliverables will be provided on the Outcomes page. The objectives of each work package are outlined as follows:
Work Package 1: Project management
Leader: European Association for Jewish Culture, London
- To effectively manage the project to deliver the solutions developed in the Work Packages on time, to maintain cost and quality in accordance with the requirements of the grant agreement between the Commission and the project consortium
- To plan and organise external strategic cooperation activities
- To liaise with Europeana
- To build informal and formal relationships with other relevant projects and initiatives.
Work Package 2: Content selection, metadata alignment, knowledge management
Leader: Judaica Collection, Goethe University Library, Frankfurt / Main
To provide EUROPEANA with a critical mass of content:
- To identify and select in the collections of the partners and Associated Partners a critical mass of cultural heritage resources that belong to the thematic domain, “Jews in European Cities” to be digitised.
- To identify already digitised resources that belongs to the same domain.
To align the metadata for this content to the EUROPEANA metadata requirements.
- To survey the existing metadata schema that are now being applied by the partners for the description of their digitised resources;
- Define and implement the necessary steps to align these schemas to the Metadata requirements defined for EUROPEANA
- To implement the required alignment through the work of experienced indexers.
To survey and identify existing controlled vocabularies in the thematic domain area and establish and disseminate them throughout the domain:
- To adapt and implement controlled vocabularies (taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies) for advanced indexing and retrieval of the content, and to adapt them to the semantic interoperability requirements defined for EUROPEANA.
- To test the adequacy of the metadata and semantic interoperability in a pilot knowledge management system that will support the work of a community of practice of scholars and cultural heritage professionals in the thematic domain area.
Work Package 3: Digitisation, metadata entry, API and web
Leader: Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
WP3 will put in place the technical tools required for Judaica Europeana tasks and provide support for Partners and Associated Partners. It includes support for:
- The digitisation process and issues concerning hardware, software, file formats, design and presentation, storage
- Content enrichment facilities through an metadata entry system
- Advanced web management facilities based open source CMS and associated DBMS supporting mash-up from the EUROPEANA open API
- Semantic interoperability including the representation of controlled vocabularies in RDF/SKOS
- Selection, installation and support for the use of an open source knowledge management package.
Work Package 4: Awareness and dissemination
Leader: European Association for Jewish Culture London
- To raise awareness of the project and promote its results.
- To promote the Judaica content to the different constituencies across Europe and motivate scholars, teachers and students, cultural heritage professionals to turn to Judaica as their primary resource.
- To promote the Judaica system and EUROPEANA to a wider group of public and private content owners and to involve Associate Partners that will contribute additional resources to the project.
- To ensure synergy between the Judaica dissemination and EUROPEANA.
Work Package 5: Assessment and evaluation
Leader: Amitié, Bologna
- To carry out a comprehensive evaluation showing how the addition of the thematic domain content by Judaica leads to an improved practice in the discovery, delivery, integration of cultural heritage resources for multilingual, multicultural use by the different target populations: scholars, cultural heritage professionals, education users, cultural tourists and the general public.
- To carry out in collaboration with other work packages a process-oriented project evaluation and report on the findings.
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