1. Opening Session: Israel Developments Dov Winer Coordinator of the MINERVA Israel Network The 8thJerusalem EVA/Minerva International Conference on Digitisation of Culture

2. Acknowledgments Museum track Idit Amihai, Shlomit Nemlich, Ram Shimony (MCS), Dr. Susan Hazan (IMJ) Libraries Ora Zehavi (Univ.Haifa), Shlomit Pery (TAU),Orly Simon (NLI) Archives Michal Henkin (IAA), Chezkie Kasnett (NLI), Dr. Haim Gertner (Yad Vashem), Asaf Tractinsky (ISA) Biological diversity Dr. Linda Whitaker (NAPN) / Prof. Uriel Safriel (Unesco Israel)

3. Acknowledgments Conference Producer:Millie Hazann Opening events:

4. Members of Minerva Israel

5. V2.0

6. http://hul.harvard.edu/cmtes/ulc/aac/via/desc-Judaica.html

7. Israel Developments

8. Wikipedians in residence British Museum IMJ NLI

9. Successful crowd sourcing experiment!

11. TAMAR: Action guidelines for the recovery and empowerment of the infrastructures of the national heritage aaa

13. REI - Israel Archives Network

14. TAMAR and the National Library of Israel Sophisticated digitisation facilities planned and established through 2010-2011. Operations to begin on January 2012 Digitisation of 30,000 hours of Jewish and Israel music began in 2010

15. TAMAR, Museums and the Ministry of Culture Multi-annual program for digitisation of museum holdings agreed between the PMO/Tamar and the MCS. Participation in the Linked Heritage Europeana project Uploading of about 800,000 files to Europeana

16. Hebrew and Multilingual Access to Europeana through the IMJ Vocabularies Ministry of Culture Idit Amihai, Director, Department of Museums an Plastic Arts Ram Shimony, Computerization Program Israel Museum Jerusalem Dor Lin, Deputy Director Doron Eisenhamer, Head Computer and Information Systems Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Collections Database Manager

17. Judaica Europeana 2012-2014 NLI Contents to be uploaded: DM2E functionality Judaica Europeana Memorandum of Understanding Participation in the consortium Digital Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) an Digital Humanities initiative

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

21. מסקנות ועדת החכמים Comité des Sages Works that are covered by copyright, but are no longer distributed commercially, need to be brought online. EU rules for orphan works (whose rights holders cannot be identified) need to be adopted as soon as possible. Member States need to considerably increase their funding for digitisation in order to generate jobs and growth in the future. Public-private partnerships for digitisation must be encouraged. To guarantee the preservation of collections in their digital format a second copy of this cultural material should be archived at Europeana. will feed into the Commission's broader strategy, under the Digital Agenda for Europe to help cultural institutions make the transition towards the digital age and to search for new and effective business modelsDigital Agenda for Europe

22. EDM Europeana Data Model Guus Schreiber with input from Carlo Meghini, Antoine Isaac, Stefan Gradmann, Makx Dekkers et al. from Europeana V1

23. The essence of RDF: the “triple” Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath subject property value

24. Linked Open Data Datasets on the Web: 10/2011 http://www.linkeddata.org http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/ LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ Over 31.7 billion RDF triples

25. Europeana and DPLA Digital Public Library of America

28. Europeana and DPLA Joint Announcement

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