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Digital Mathematics Libraries: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Digital Mathematics Libraries: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly The idea of a World digital mathematics library (DML) has been around since the turn of the 21th century. We feel that it is time to make it a reality, starting in a modest way from successful bricks that have already been built, but with an ambitious goal in mind. After a brief historical overview of publishing mathematics, an estimate of the size and a characterisation of the bulk of documents to be included in the DML, we turn to proposing a model for a Reference Digital Mathematics Library—a network of institutions where the digital documents would be physically archived. This pattern based rather on the bottom-up strategy seems to be more practicable and consistent with the digital nature of the DML. After describing the model we summarise what can and should be done in order to accomplish the vision. The current state of some of the local libraries that could contribute to the global views are described with more details. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mathematics in Computer Science Springer Journals

Digital Mathematics Libraries: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Mathematics in Computer Science , Volume 3 (3) – Mar 10, 2010

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by Birkhäuser Verlag Basel/Switzerland
Subject
Mathematics; Mathematics, general; Computer Science, general
ISSN
1661-8270
eISSN
1661-8289
DOI
10.1007/s11786-010-0029-2
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Abstract

The idea of a World digital mathematics library (DML) has been around since the turn of the 21th century. We feel that it is time to make it a reality, starting in a modest way from successful bricks that have already been built, but with an ambitious goal in mind. After a brief historical overview of publishing mathematics, an estimate of the size and a characterisation of the bulk of documents to be included in the DML, we turn to proposing a model for a Reference Digital Mathematics Library—a network of institutions where the digital documents would be physically archived. This pattern based rather on the bottom-up strategy seems to be more practicable and consistent with the digital nature of the DML. After describing the model we summarise what can and should be done in order to accomplish the vision. The current state of some of the local libraries that could contribute to the global views are described with more details.

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Mathematics in Computer ScienceSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 10, 2010

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