Judaica Europeana: Jewish Semantics in the Linked Data Semantic Web
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Dov WinerAuthors Info & Claims
Dov WinerAuthors Info & ClaimsDecember 2014
Pages 72 - 87
Abstract
What is Europe__ __ Europeana, the digital library, museum and archive will provide an answer through the unrivaled access to the digitised expressions of European civilization. Judaica Europeana will present in this context the contribution of Jews to the development of European cities. Jews role in urban settings and the development of cities lead to the identification of modernisation with Jews. Judaica Europeana will express this with several million digitized documents. Europeana will adopt Semantic Web technologies and services. Such knowledge management tools will transform the content into a significant input for scholars, curators, teachers and students, cultural tourists and the public at large. Judaica Europeana will seek to publish relevant vocabularies in the Linked Data web through Europeana. They will support indexing and searching of Jewish content based on facets like Who__ __ When__ __ Where__ __ and other specific domains vocabularies. These will serve as hubs of knowledge that will integrate the data, making it intelligible and accessible.
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