Contact > Dov Winer
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E-mail: Dov Winer
About Dov Winer
Dov Winer is a psychologist (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) specialising in Online Education and Training (University of London). He is founder of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL). Dov Winer coordinated the dissemination of Internet use in Israel industry for the Ministry of Trade and Industry (1994/6).
Winer developed the program for the National Teacher's Colleges Network and trained its development team for Virtual Learning Environments (1996/8). He established in 1989 the MAKASH Institute for ICT Applications in Education, Culture and Science.
Since 1997 his work focus on European related initiatives, among them: MAKASH is the NCP in Israel for the EUN – European Schoolnet, the consortium of the Europeans Ministry of Education for ICT, in whose steering committee he participates. MAKASH was part of: ETB – European Treasury Browser establishment of a comprehensive digital library of educational resources in Europe; VALNET (Schools of the Future); CELEBRATE for collaborative and interoperable Learning Objects in integrated learning environments. It is collaborating in the establishment of the LRE – Learning Resources Exchange the European digital library for learning resources.
He proposed the establishment of the Global Jewish Information Network in 1988 and later planned it (1992) following support from the Parliament and the Ministry of Communication. From 2001 to 2006 he managed the Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures. This project established a comprehensive database of metadata for Jewish resources in the Web (expressed in RDF) and developed the Thesaurus for its annotation. At the end of 2004 he convened the Consultation on the Digitisation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe.
MAKASH is presently partner in two EC backed projects dealing with cultural heritage content: it substituted the Jewish Agency as partner in MOSAICA, developing generic technologies for knowledge bases and intelligent presentation of cultural heritage. He coordinates WP1 – Content Selection, Aggregation and Access that deals with resources identification and selection and their semantic annotation. MAKASH is also partner in ATHENA - Access for Cultural Heritage Networks across Europe. This is a project supported by the European Commission to promote the European Digital Library.
He coordinates the MINERVA network in Israel for digitisation of cultural heritage, which is part of the broader European cluster of projects . MINERVA has been active, through its expert’s working groups, in promoting MICHAEL one of components of the envisaged European Digital Library.
As a channel for their joint initiatives he established with Dr. Susan Hazan, Digital Heritage UK, a non-profit institution committed to digital mapping of cultural heritage and its mobilization towards renewed expression. They both are co-chairs of the annual EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem International Conferences on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage; this is a rallying event for the EC backed initiatives applying advanced technologies to cultural heritage..
Contact: dov.winer@gmail.com
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