First newsletter /

ECP-2008-DILI-538025

JUDAICA Europeana

First Newsletter

Deliverable number / D4.4
Dissemination level / Public
Delivery date / 30 June 2010
Status / Final
Author(s) / Lena Stanley Clamp (EAJC); Louise Asher (JML); Zanet Battinou (JMG)

eContentplus

This project is funded under the eContentplus programme[1],
a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.


Table of Contents

1. Summary 3

2. Objectives 4

3. Structure 4

4. Content 5

4.1 Introduction 5

4.2 Judaica Europeana Partners and their Collections 5

4.3 Conferences and Seminars 5

5. Target audiences and dissemination 5

Annex 1: Judaica Europeana Newsletter 6

1. Summary

This deliverable describes the structure, content and target audiences of the Judaica Europeana newsletter:

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Newsletter.html

2. Objectives

The newsletter is a tool in the Judaica Europeana dissemination strategy whose objectives are to:

·  Raise awareness of the project and promote its results

·  Promote the Judaica Europeana content to different constituencies in Europe and motivate scholars, teachers, students and cultural heritage professionals to turn to Judaica as a primary source.

·  Promote Judaica Europeana and Europeana to a wider group of public and private content owners and to secure the support of Associate Partners that will contribute additional resources to the project

·  Ensure synergy between Judaica dissemination and Europeana

3. Structure

This online newsletter was published on the project website in June 2010 at http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Newsletter.html and is accessible from the main menu. The first issue has a dateline Summer 2010 with a headline: Judaica Europeana Jewish culture online

The front page consists of three main sections:

·  Introduction to the project in the wider context of Europeana

·  Judaica Europeana Partners and their Collections

·  Conferences and Seminars

Each section and sub-section ends with a “Read and see more....” link to additional pages.

At the bottom of each page there is a mechanism for readers to register to receive future issues of the newsletter and a “Contact us” link.

The logo of Europeana links to the Europeana portal and there is a logo and acknowledgement of the EC eContentPlus programme support.

4. Content

4.1 Introduction

The first section of the newsletter introduces the reader to the project and to Europeana. It explains how it works, why the theme of Cities has been chosen and who are the stakeholders and potential users of Judaica Europeanaaa digital archive. It is supplemented with objects and captions on urban Jewish life selected from the partners’ collections.

4.2 Judaica Europeana Partners and their Collections

This section highlights items and related narratives from the collections of two Judaica Partners: the photographic collections of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Jewish Museum London.

4.3 Conferences and Seminars

This section refers the reader to the full list of events and presentations published on the project website. It highlights a few recent and forthcoming conferences and other events featuring Judaica Europeana.

5. Target audiences and dissemination

The newsletter aims to address the following audiences:

·  University scholars, researchers, students

·  School teachers and students

·  Heritage professionals incl. librarians; curators, cultural tourists

·  Jewish media

·  General public

The newsletter will be disseminated by email to target audiences by the project partners.

Annex 1: Judaica Europeana Newsletter

The First Judaica Europeana Newsletter is shown in the Annex to this report as PDF pages printed from the website.

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[1] OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 1.