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From Vision to Fulfillment; Accessing the Digitized Archive

ר שת א רכיוני י שראל I SRAEL A RCHIVES N ETWORK. From Vision to Fulfillment; Accessing the Digitized Archive. The Israel Archive Network Project (פרויקט רשת ארכיוני ישראל). EVA/Minerva 2011 Digital Heritage, Israel. Background:

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From Vision to Fulfillment; Accessing the Digitized Archive

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  1. רשת ארכיוני ישראל ISRAELARCHIVESNETWORK From Vision to Fulfillment; Accessing the Digitized Archive The Israel Archive Network Project (פרויקט רשת ארכיוני ישראל) EVA/Minerva 2011 Digital Heritage, Israel

  2. Background: • Most historical archives in Israel unknown, inaccessible to the public • Real danger of losing historically valuable national material IAN: • Preservation: National “preservation copy” of records and their digital copies • Access: National Internet portal for federated search and retrieval from many archives and collections The project

  3. Office of the Prime Minister • Israel State Archives • The National Library of Israel • The Israel Archives and Information Association • Project lead

  4. Coverage • rich • educational • valuable • useful • engaging • accessible • Challenges • easy to use

  5. Engage the public - NEW approaches • Create a RELATIONSHIPwith the public • Create dialoguewith the end-user • Involve the users to enrich our knowledge and database • Access • CrowdSourcing(UGC?,Tagging) • User input (social media) How?

  6. Create VALUE Who is the End User? Access = dialogue

  7. The Wise Son • (The Wicked Son) • The Simple Son • The Son who does not know to ask The 4 sons

  8. Good user experience • Useful, simple, intuitive • Good search • Linked related objects • Enhance search results • Federated search • Faceted search Value

  9. How do we BEST present the material? • How do we encourage participation? • How do we achieve a collaborative environment? • Information sharing (Twitter, facebook, Google+, Flickr,) • How do we ensure the user finds what he wanted and MORE • “If we build it they will come” (?) – Movie: Field of Dreams We are asking

  10. 1 + 1 = 3 • Designing portals 101

  11. “Joseph Trumpeldor” Federated Search

  12. יוסף טרומפלדור The Portal

  13. יוסף טרומפלדור • The portal

  14. יוסף טרומפלדור • The portal

  15. יוסף טרומפלדור • The portal

  16. “the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community” – WIKIPEDIA • “ because it is an open call to a group of people, it gathers those who are most fit to perform tasks….” – Jeff Howe • Previous Successes • WIKIPEDIA • National Library of Australia • Yad Vashem –”I Remember Facebook App” • New York Public Library CrowdSourcing

  17. Many challenges • Innovation. We must be alert to new user trends • Enormous sandbox. Not every attempt will be successful; • Learning process - by trial and error we will get there • Know our users! In Conclusion

  18. “We Are Making History by Re-Creating History…” Chezkie Kasnett Project Manager, Israel Archive Network Thank You!

  19. The portal

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