[BOAI] JUDAICA Europeana to bring Jewish culture to Europeana

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Friedel Grant.  --Peter Suber.]


The Hague, February 9th, 2010

JUDAICA Europeana to bring Jewish culture to Europeana

JUDAICA Europeana (www.judaica-europeana.eu) is a new project that will
provide open access to Jewish culture collections through Europeana,
Europe’s
digital library, museum and archive.

Funded through the European Commission eContentplus Programme, JUDAICA
Europeana will document Jewish contribution to Europe’s cities, with
contributions from 12 institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna,
Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, Rome and Warsaw.

JUDAICA Europeana will begin by digitising millions of pages and thousands
of
other items selected from the collections of its partner libraries, archives
and
museums.  The next stage will be to aggregate other digital collections on
Jews
in European cities — wherever they may be.

“Jewish culture has been predominantly text-based; it will be a particular
challenge for us to bring in as much audio-visual material as possible,”
said
Lena Stanley-Clamp, the project’s manager and Director of the European
Association for Jewish Culture.

The project will reach out to diverse audiences. The target audiences for
JUDAICA Europeana include universities and schools, heritage professionals,
tourists, family history researchers and the general public – indeed anyone
interested in the history of European cities or Jewish culture.

"It is a great opportunity for cultural heritage institutions to promote
European
Jewish culture internationally and to stimulate research," said Dr Rachel
Heuberger, the Head of the Judaica Collection of the University Library at
the
Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, the largest Judaica and Hebraica
collection
in Germany.

For more information on JUDAICA Europeana, please see http://www.judaica-
europeana.eu/news.html

Notes for editors:

•       Europeana.eu is Europe’s digital library, museum and archive.
Launched as
a prototype in November 2008, it brings together 6 million digitised items
from
Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage organisations.
•       Europeana’s fully operational service will launch later in 2010,
giving
access to 10 million items. This new content is coming in from a group of
projects that are working with heritage organisations across Europe,
including
JUDAICA Europeana. The full list of projects is available at
http://group.europeana.eu/web/guest
•       The Consortium of JUDAICA Europeana partners is led by the European
Association for Jewish Culture in London and the Goethe University Library,
Judaica Collection in Frankfurt/Main.  Project partners include the Alliance
Israélite Universelle (Paris) in cooperation with the Paris Yiddish
Centre-Medem
Library,  The British Library (London), Hungarian Jewish Archives
(Budapest),
Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens), Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
(MiBAC,
Rome), Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw), Jewish Museum London and Amitié
(Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna).  The Central Zionist Archive
(Jerusalem) and Makash (Centre for ICT applications in education, culture
and
science, Jerusalem) are associate partners. More associate partners will be
invited to join.

For further information contact:

JUDAICA

Lena Stanley-Clamp
Lstanley-clamp at jpr.org.uk
Tel +44 (0) 7873 214979
European Association for Jewish Culture
www.jewishcultureineurope.org

Dr Rachel Hauberger
r.heuberger at ub.uni-frankfurt.de
Tel. +49 (0) 69 798 39665
Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ssg/judaica_en.html

Europeana

Europeana Marketing & Communications
marcomms at europeana.eu
Tel +31 (0) 70 314 0967
www.europeana.eu
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