YIVO Participates in JudaicaLink Encyclopedia Project

The first release of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe in Linked Open Data (LOD) format is now available at http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/YIVO. The goal of the project is to enrich online reference works and digital humanities in Jewish studies by creating a framework for new links between different encyclopedias and other Jewish content on the Internet. This demonstration version of topic headings from the Encyclopedia as LOD is part of a pilot project by JudaicaLink, which is affiliated with DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana) and Judaica Europeana, a project of the European Association for Jewish Culture.

Through Judaica Europeana, YIVO and other partners of the Center for Jewish History will also soon begin contributing resources to Europeana, an online library of over 29 million digital images from libraries, archives, and museums in 36 countries.

In July 2014, YIVO Head Librarian and Acting Chief Archivist Lyudmila Sholokhova will deliver a presentation on Yiddish plays in the YIVO Library on a panel organized by Judaica Europeana at the upcoming annual congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Paris.