Datasets

The Bibliografie deutsch-jüdische Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen (Bibliography of German-Jewish History in North Rhine-Westphalia) dataset provides bibliographic references on the history and culture of Jews in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany.

The Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner is an online encyclopedia provided by the Salomon L. Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish history at the University of Duisburg-Essen, edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach.

Das Jüdische Hamburg contains articles in German by notable scholars about persons, locations and events of the history of Jewish communities in Hamburg.

The information regarding Hirsch family is gathered by Jüdische Leben in Unterfranken - Biographische Datenbank e.V. (Jewish Life in Lower Franconia - Biographical Database e.V. ).

Rujen.ru provides an Internet version of the Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry, which is published in Moscow since 1994, giving a comprehensive, objective picture of the life and activity of the Jews of Russia, the Soviet Union and the CIS.

Epidat is an epigraphical database of the Steinheim institute for jewish tombstones in Germany.

It serves as inventory, for documentation, edition and for presentation of epigraphical data. Currently, there are 228 digital editions with 39,998 tombstones (79,698 image files) online accessible. The archive in development and maintenance by Thomas Kollatz.

Footprints traces the history and movement of Jewish books since the inception of print.

This dataset contains all the geo-coordinates of all the cities which are stated in the JudaicaLink datasets either as birth location or death location. All these coordinates as well as their GND-ids are extracted from GND entries of the corresponding cities when available.

Gidal Image Archive contains information on the image collection from Ignaz Nachum Gidalewitsch.

Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte is an online source edition realized by the Institute for the History of German Jews.

This first dataset contains authors names from Judaica collection of University Library of Frankfurt.

Resources on German-Jewish Education and Religion provides access to bibliographical information on a variety of texts used in eighteen and nineteenth century Jewish education and religious practice, ranging from bible editions and anthologies, sermons and devotional works or textbooks and handbooks for Jewish education. The database is a beta-version and reflects a work in progress. It does not claim to be exhaustive and will need further development. However, some genres (i.e. sermons, hymn books, textbooks for Hebrew and religious instruction) are well represented in the data available.

Soundscape Synagogue provides information on the musical heritage of Jewish communities in Europe.

The stumbling blocks are a project of the artist Gunter Demnig, which began in 1992. The small commemorative plaques laid in the ground are intended to commemorate the fate of people persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled or driven into suicide during the National Socialist era: Jews, people from the resistance, homosexuals, victims of euthanasia and other religious and ethnic groups.

The Library of Haskala contains 525 books in German and Hebrew identified by leading scholars as Haskala literature, with the persons who wrote, translated, printed, funded or are mentioned in them.

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, courtesy of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, NY.

The places of the GeoNames gazetteer that JudaicaLink uses: every GeoNames feature that one of our datasets or another authority dataset links.

The records of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek that JudaicaLink uses: every GND record that one of our datasets or another authority dataset links, the persons of two lists of UB Frankfurt (the Freimann collection and the UB’s person records), and every record of the former gnd-persons.

The records of the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) that one of our datasets or another authority dataset links.

The person and work records of the authority export of the National Library of Israel that nli-persons was made from, one resource per record, with the identifiers of the export. It supersedes nli-persons.

The clusters of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF, OCLC) that JudaicaLink uses: every cluster our datasets or the other authority datasets link, with its names, life dates, class and the records of the libraries and knowledge bases it brings together (GND, Library of Congress, Wikidata, ISNI, BnF and others). Made from the yearly VIAF dump.

The items of Wikidata that JudaicaLink uses: every item one of our datasets or another authority dataset links, and the items that state an identifier these name (GND, VIAF, LC, GeoNames, ISNI) or the identifier of a record of ours (YIVO, BHR, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry).

The English and German Wikipedia articles, and their DBpedia resources, that JudaicaLink uses: every article our datasets or the other authority datasets name, with its current title, the Wikidata item of the article, and the facts the former dataset dbpedia-persons had about persons.

The class (person, place, organisation, work, subject) of records that their datasets state no type for, so that they appear on the entity pages.

What is known about the entities (mainly persons and places) that were linked in the Compact Memory full text by TagMe (cm-tagme): how often and when they are mentioned, and, for those that no other dataset names, their data from Wikidata.

The birth and death places of the persons of bhr, djh, gnd-persons, haskala, hirsch-family and ubffm-persons as IRIs (jl:birthLocationURI, jl:deathLocationURI, next to the place names of the records).

References of Judaicalink resources (entities, mainly persons and places) in Compact Memory.

Normalised values next to the free-text values of the record datasets: typed birth and death dates, places and occupations as IRIs. The original values stay as they are.

An estimate of the OCR quality of every page of Compact Memory, and the mean per journal.

Problems in the data that cannot be fixed by adding facts, as quality annotations (W3C Data Quality Vocabulary and Web Annotation): dates that could not be normalised, issues with an unlikely year, errors of single versions.

Automatic translation of abstracts and preferred labels to English and German using Google Translate.

The places of geo-coordinates linked to Wikidata, DBpedia and their Wikipedia articles.

Links between JudaicaLink entities and persons.

For everyone who holds a URI of the superseded nli-persons: every legacy URI linked to the NLI authority records of nli-records it was made from.

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to a GeoNames entry, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the current entry in the dataset geonames.

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to a GND entry, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the current entry in the dataset gnd.

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to an LC Name Authority File entry, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the current entry in the dataset lc.

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to a VIAF cluster, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the cluster in the dataset viaf, unless the life dates or the classes of the two contradict.

Every JudaicaLink record that is a Wikidata item, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the current item in the dataset wikidata.

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to an English or German Wikipedia article (or its DBpedia resource), linked to the JudaicaLink record of the current article in the dataset dbpedia.

Corrections of identity links (owl:sameAs, GND numbers, types) that join different persons or places: Sherira Gaon and his son Hai Gaon, the two Otto Warburgs, Simeon bar Yochai and Simeon ben Gamliel II, works of the NLI and their authors, and others. A correction dataset (decision 0023): its deletions are applied after all other datasets.

The entity pages of JudaicaLink: one page for each person, place, organisation, work or subject, bringing together the records that the datasets have about it. The page IRIs (http://data.judaicalink.org/data/ep/<number>) stay stable from version to version.

JudaicaLink Ontology This dataset provides the ontology for JudaicaLink.

The kinds of JudaicaLink datasets and the methods by which they are made, as SKOS concepts.

The Occupations dataset provides a normalized and reusable collection of occupation concepts derived from literal values used in the JudaicaLink knowledge graph.

Support data for Compact Memory - JL linking (pages).

The persons and software agents named in the metadata of the JudaicaLink datasets.

The Compact Memory corpus of UB Frankfurt (Jewish periodicals in German-speaking countries) as linked data: its journals, their volumes and issues, and the pages of the full-text index, with links to the journal pages and page images in the Visual Library.

This is work in progress. The idea is to parse all available dates and create these additional properties:

• jl:birthYear
• jl:birthMonth
• jl:birthDay

Issues:

• birthDay might be confused with birthDate.
• birthDate should be the parsed datetime, current String representation should go to jl:birthDateString.

Same for deathDate, of course.

GND records for the persons of hhkeydocs, nrwbibdjg and gba that gnd-persons does not have, from the DNB EntityFacts service.

Links from JudaicaLink entities to external data sources.

List of persons from DBpedia.

Persons from the Common Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei, GND) of the German National Library.

This dataset contains the authors extracted from the authority file of National LIbrary of Israel.

The articles of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (dataset yivo) linked to their Wikidata items.