Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee Presents
Software for the Past (SfP) 2021: 2nd Workshop on Digital Technologies to Study the Past and Present
9 December 2021 via Zoom
The conference is free, but registration is required. Register at: https://forms.gle/Le7zzZtS15JajNtZ9
Conference web site: http://www2.kinneret.ac.il/mjmay/sfp2021/
Conference Program
| Opening and Welcome | |||
| 1400 | Conference Welcome | Organizing committee | |
| 1400 | Opening remarks | Professor Avraham Shitzer, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Kinneret College | |
| Session 1: Keynote | |||
| 1415 | How technology can upend the archives, revolutionize their use, and frighten the wits out of the archivists | Yaacov Lozowick, Bar Ilan University | |
| Session 2: Picturing the Past | |||
| Session Chair: | Giora Goodman, Kinneret College | ||
| 1450 | Epidat – names, dates, places | Thomas Kollatz, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz | |
| 1510 | Using AI to Restore Historical Photos and Illuminate the Past | Daniel Horowitz, MyHeritage | |
| 1530 | Digitally Saving Rosh Pinna's Historic and Crumbling Cemetery | Efrat Kantor, Kinneret College
Michael J May, Kinneret College |
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| Virtual Coffee Break | |||
| 1550-1600 | |||
| Session 3: Museums and Places | |||
| Session Chair: | Hayah Katz, Kinneret College | ||
| 1600 | A Spatial Analysis of Historical Agricultural Land-Use Changes in the Judean Region | Gad Schaffer, Tel Hai Academic College | |
| 1620 | Potential, ideas and challenges of introducing technology to a museum: A case study at the Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory | Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa
Danny Rosenberg, University of Haifa Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai Academic College Liran Segal, University of Haifa Eitan Ivchenko, University of Haifa Dor Berko, University of Haifa Yuval Maron, Tel Hai Academic College |
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| 1640 | The National Knowledge Center on the History and Heritage of Jerusalem and its Environs | Avraham Faust, Bar Ilan University
Roni Shweka, Bar Ilan University |
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| Session 4: Manuscripts and Professionals | |||
| Session Chair: | Moti Aviam, Kinneret College | ||
| 1700 | Hebrew Manuscripts as a Source for Knowledge | Gila Prebor, Bar Ilan University | |
| 1720 | Towards Automatic Cataloguing of Hebrew Manuscripts | Hadar Miller, University of Haifa
Yoav Philips, University of Haifa Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa Moshe Lavee, University of Haifa Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University Samuel Londner, Tel Aviv University |
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| 1740 | Digitizing the History of the Professionals – A Personal Reflection | Eyal Katvan, Peres Academic Center | |
| Closing Remarks | |||
| 1800 | Closing and Farewell | Organizing committee | |