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Presentation toJudaica Europeana 2012-15:
Integrated Access to Jewish Heritage Collections
Yitzhak TeutschDirector, JDC Archives in Jerusalem
June 3, 2012
Ten minutes
Ten questions
Ten answers
Who is the digitization expert of the JDC?
No. 1 (Question)
No. 1 (Answer)
Choice (a)
Choice (b)
Choice (c)
No. 1 (Answer)
Maria P. LaCalle,Digitization Project
Manager,JDC Archives, New York
What is "the JDC"?
No. 2 (Question)
No. 2 (Answer)
• Full name: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Founded in NY in 1914• Original mission: to aid needy
Jews in Palestine• Expanded mission: to aid
needy Jews and non-Jews around the world
No. 2 (Answer)
No. 2 (Answer)
What does the JDC Archives hold?
No. 3 (Question)
No. 3 (Answer)
As an institutional archives, the JDC Archives holds two basic types of documents:
• Documents created by the parent institution
• Documents received by the parent institution
No. 3 (Answer)
Because of its commitment to relief, rescue and rehabilitation, the JDC Archives holds a third type of documentation:
• Documents created by, received from, and received on behalf of people under its care
No. 3 (Answer)
No. 3 (Answer)
• 17,000 linear feet• 50 million pages of textual
materials• 100,000 photographs• 6,000 books• 1,100 sound recordings• 1,000 videos
What special challenges are posed by the holdings of the JDC Archives?
No. 4 (Question)
High percentage of restricted material
No. 4 (Answer)
Poor quality paper
No. 4 (Answer)
Significant amount of material in esoteric languages
No. 4 (Answer)
Where are the JDC Archives?
No. 5 (Question)
No. 5 (Answer)
Short answer:
• Jerusalem• New York
No. 5 (Answer)
Full answer:• Bad Arolsen
• Jerusalem
• Moscow
• New York
• Prague
• Shanghai
• Warsaw
No. 5 (Answer)
From the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany:
What are the digitization plans of the JDC Archives?
No. 6 (Question)
No. 6 (Answer)
• Goal: To create an online text archive with 1.8 million pages digitized and made accessible to the public
• Time frame: 5 years (2007-2012)
• Source of funding: Private grant
What is the digitization process of the JDC Archives?
No. 7 (Question)
No. 7 (Answer)
1. Cataloguing2. Microfilming3. Scanning4. Producing item-level metadata
and OCR5. Uploading to website
No. 7 (Answer)1. Cataloguing - Our implementation of the ISAD(G) model:
No. 7 (Answer)
2. Microfilming
No. 7 (Answer)
3. Scanning
No. 7 (Answer)
4. Producing item-level metadata and OCR
No. 7 (Answer)
1. Cataloguing – in Jerusalem2. Microfilming – in Jerusalem3. Scanning – in Washington, DC4. Producing item-level metadata
and OCR – in Laos5. Uploading to website – in New
York
An international project:
What is special about the digitization process of the JDC Archives?
No. 8 (Question)
No. 8 (Answer)
Digitization is done in Laos by Digital Divide Data (DDD).
DDD:• Is currently the largest technology
employer in Laos• Recruits youth who are very poor or
disabled• Gives operators the opportunity to divide
their time between work and study• Produces graduates who earn six times the
average wage in Laos
No. 8 (Answer)
Jeremy Hockenstein, founder of DDD, with operators in Laos
How much has the JDC Archives digitized to date?
No. 9 (Question)
No. 9 (Answer)
As of April 2012:
• 1.2 million pages scanned• .9 million pages digitized
How can I see the digitized material held by the JDC Archives?
No. 10 (Question)
No. 10 (Answer)
1. Go to http://archives.jdc.org2. Click on "Search the Archives"
(upper right)3. In the "Search Our Text
Collections" box, enter a keyword or name
4. Hit "enter"5. Click on the PDF icon
No. 10 (Answer)
No. 10 (Answer)
No. 10 (Answer)
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Thank you for your attention!
Yitzhak TeutschDirector, JDC Archives in Jerusalem
Work: +972-2-653-6403 x1Mobile: +972-54-269-5325
E-mail: [email protected]