Digital Access to Jewish Heritage Collections in Germany
Digitaler Zugang zu Sammlungen des Jüdischen Kulturerbes in Deutschland
Berlin, Pergamon Museum, 15.3.2010
The Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research, Berlin) and the
European Association for Jewish Culture (London) held a joint seminar on Digital Access to
Jewish Heritage Collections in Germany to discuss the opportunities presented by two
digital projects:
Judaica Europeana www.judaica-europeana.eu
MICHAEL - the Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
www.michael-culture.de
Judaica Europeana www.judaica-europeana.eu is part of Europeana, www.europeana.eu
which will provide access to the digitized objects at museums, archives and libraries across
Europe. Judaica Europeana is a partnership of heritage institutions which will contribute
content on Jewish urban life to Europeana. The project will digitise over a million items
from its partners’ collections: books, newspapers, documents, photos, postcards and
recordings. It will also aggregate relevant Jewish content from other collections. For more
information, please contact us through our website www.judaica-europeana.eu
MICHAEL is a multilingual platform which opens up access to Europe’s cultural heritage
collections. In Germany, MICHAEL is managed by the Institute for Museum Research
www.smb.spk-berlin.de/ifm The Institute for Museum Research will facilitate the
registration of digitized Jewish content collections in the German portal of MICHAEL. For
more information, please contact Frank von Hagel f.v.hagel@smb.spk-berlin.de
Presentations:
Dr Rachel Heuberger, Jewish Collection, Goethe Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt/ Main.
Lena Stanley-Clamp, European Association for Jewish Culture, London
Frank von Hagel, Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin