1. Dov Winer Israel MINERVA Coordinator Director - e Jewish. info Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects Section 11. Policies of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Digitization and Preservation

2. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Jerusalem Archaeological Park back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp

3. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Jerusalem Archaeological Park back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp Early Islamic

4. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Jerusalem Archaeological Park back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp back http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp Crusader Period

5. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info National Photo Collection

6. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info

7. Wide digitization project and several online exhibitions Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages 100,000 photographs Deep Terminological Development Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority

8. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Jewish National and University Library

9. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info The David and Fella Shapell Foundation National Sound Archives – 1,700 hours already available Holy Land Maps –Jerusalem maps digitized and accessible Albert Einstein Archives Communal Registers of Jewish Communities Early Hebrew Press – First six large format newspapers Jewish National and University Library

10. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Collaborative projects  Ketubbot Marriage contracts from 8 collections  Talmudic Manuscripts  full manuscript of the Mishna  several tractates of the Babylonian Talmud Jewish National and University Library

11. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Deep Jewish Content Jewish Databases and Digital Repositories Texts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Pictures, Video, Music, Multimedia, Films

12. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Responsa: The pioneer digitisation Project

13. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Central Zionist Archives

14. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Central Zionist Archives digitization – 4 million documents – 250,000 photographs – 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps – 3,000 posters The Jewish Agency for Israel – eJewish.info Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures – Department of Education units for ICT in Education and Contact Center (Distance Education) – P2P initiatives for Jewish Museums and Theater National Institutions: Jewish Agency, WZO, Keren Kayemte

15. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Ben Gurion Archives

16. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Diaspora Museum Collections

17. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Israel Labor Party Archives

18. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info

24. US Holocaust Memorial Museum

25. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Harvard College Library  JUDAICA Library  Area Studies Department  Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research

26. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info 10 Years of Jewish Internet Networking achievements and problems  Extraordinary expansion of connectivity for individuals, families and institutions  Most of the activity is inter-personal: mail exchanges, chats, forums and distribution lists  About 8-9,000 Jewish Web sites The sites are focused on specific subject matters: a given locality, an institution or denomination, an interest group – age, observance, gender, politics back back

27. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info Alexa ’ s Ranking of Web Sites RankLinks Wallahttp://walla.co.il477868 Haaretz English http://www.haaretzdaily.com 1,6272,735 Jerusalem Posthttp://jpost.com1,1895,052 Haaretz (Hebrew)http://haaretz.co.il2,8322,110 JDate http://jdate.com/jdDefault.asp3,829305 Israel's Business Arena http://globes.co.il5,1941,757 KOL-ISRAEL.COM Radio http://kol-israel.com10,867193 Israel Insiderhttp://web.israelinsider.com17,675128 Snunithttp://snunit.k12.il18,157884 Kol Israel Reshet Bet http://bet.iba.org.il18,553235

28. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info JewishGenhttp://jewishgen.org20,9361,650 Yentahttp://yenta.email.net21,06246 ADLhttp://adl.org/adl.asp24,6102,468 Jewish Virtual Library http://us-israel.org/jsource29,0371,875 Orthodox Unionhttp://ou.org32,5931,244 Shamashhttp://shamash.org37,1092,670 Jewish Streethttp://jewishstreet.com41,653 115 Project Genesishttp://torah.org45,3931,051 Jewish Community Online (AOL) http://jewish.com47,4741,081 US Holocaust Memorial Museum http://ushmm.org49,025 3,254

29. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info UAHC (Reform)http://uahc.org49,756994 Simon Wiesenthalhttp://wiesenthal.com51,4021,774 United Synagoguehttp://uscj.org55,6591,002 Department of Education, JAFI http://jajz-ed.org.il/new.html56,979865 MAVENhttp://maven.co.il62,1631,324 Amalnethttp://www.amalnet.k12.il/74,421409 back

30. http://www.minervaisrael.org.il dovw@jazo.org.il http://www.ejewish.info

34. Thank you for your attention ! Contact: Dov Winer, Director Program for the Development of Jewish Networking Infrastructures an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 Israel dovw@jazo.org.il phone: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194 http://www.ejewish.info/