DML 2009, 2nd workshop

Towards a Digital Mathematics Library

July 8-9th, 2009, Ontario, Canada, c/o CICM 2009

News | Objectives | Programme | Submissions | Proceedings | Keynote | Topics | Committees | Accommodation | Travel | Registration

 News

• 08.7.2009, presentations linked on the DML Programme page.
• 03.7.2009, DML proceedings ordering.
• 29.6.2009, Call for participation sent.
• 29.6.2009, draft of DML programme posted.
• 27.6.2009, proceedings sent to the printer.
• 26.5.2009, acceptance/rejection letters sent.
• 03.5.2009, due to numerous requests, submission deadline has been moved to May 10th.
• 27.4.2009, last Last CFP sent.
• 15.4.2009, second Call for papers sent.
• 26.3.2009, first Call for papers sent.
• around 1.3. 2009 First hit on Google for "DML 2009" :-)
• 24.2.2009, draft of DML 2009 workshop webpage

 Objectives

Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed mathematical literature ever published, properly linked and validated/verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies.

Following success of DML 2008, workshop's objectives are to formulate the strategy and goals of a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects, asking such questions as:

• What technologies, standards, algorithms and formats should be used and what metadata should be shared?
• What business models are suitable for publishers of mathematical literature, authors and funders of their projects and institutions?
• Is there a model of sustainable, interoperable, and extensible mathematical library that mathematicians can use in their everyday work?
• What is the best practice for
  • retrodigitized mathematics (from images via OCR to MathML and/or TeX);
  • retro-born-digital mathematics (from existing electronic copy in DVI, PS or PDF to MathML and/or TeX);
  • born-digital mathematics (how to make needed metadata and file formats available as a side effect of publishing workflow [CEDRAM/Euclid model])?

 Submissions

Every submission was refereed by three PC members on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact for building DML, and clarity.

Submission format:

Papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style, preferably using LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class files.

Submission categories:

Full paper: 4-12 LNCS pages
Short paper/poster/demo/work in progress report: 1-4 LNCS pages

Submission upload

Via Easychair conference system by May 4th.

 Proceedings

has been published (x+139 pages with author, name and subject indexes) by Masaryk University (ISBN 978-80-210-4781-5) and will be available at the workshop. You may order it from this e-shop. Best papers will be chosen for postconference book published by renowned publisher or for a journal special issue [as in 2008].

 Keynote

David Ruddy (Project Euclid, Cornell University Library, US): The Evolving Digital Mathematics Network

 Topics

(include, but are not limited to)

• search, indexing and retrieval of mathematical documents
• ranking of mathematical papers, similarity of mathematical documents
• math OCR with MathML/TeX output
• document conversions from/to MathML, OpenMath, LaTeX, PostScript and [tagged] PDF
• mathematical document compression
• processing of scanned images
• algorithms for crosslinking of bibliographical items, intext citations search
• mathematical document classification, MSC 2010
• mathematical text mining
• mathematical documents metadata exchange via OAI-PMH and/or OAI-ORE
• long term archiving, data migration
• reports and experience from math digitization projects
• math publishing with long term archival goal
• software engineering aspects of creating, handling MathML, OMDoc, OpenMath documents, and displaying them in web browsers

 Committees

Programme Committee:

• José Borbinha (Technical University of Lisbon, IST, PT)
• Thierry Bouche (University Grenoble, Cellule Mathdoc, FR)
• Michael Doob (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA)
• Thomas Fischer (Goettingen University, Digitization Center, DE)
• Yannis Haralambous (Télécom Bretagne, FR)
• Václav Hlaváč (Czech Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Prague, CZ)
• Janka Chlebíková (Comenius University, MFF, Bratislava, SK)
• Enrique Maciás-Virgós (University of Santiago de Compostela, ES)
• Jiří Rákosník (Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute, Prague, CZ)
• Eugenio Rocha (University of Aveiro, Dept. of Mathematics, PT)
• David Ruddy (Cornell University, Library, US)
• Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Petr Sojka (Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Brno, CZ) [chair]
• Masakazu Suzuki (Kyushu University, Faculty of Mathematics, JP)
• Bernd Wegner (Zentralblatt MATH, Berlin, DE)

Organizing Committee:

Michael Doob, Michal Růžička, Petr Sojka

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