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Title: IMA Workshop (Minneapolis


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IMA Workshop (Minneapolis 8-9 December
2006)The Evolution of Mathematical
Communicationin the Age of Digital
LibrariesPanel on Digital Libraries of
TodayModerator Edward A. Fox
  • Thierry Bouche
  • Petr Sojka
  • Philippe Tondeur
  • Bernd Wegner

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Thierry Bouche
  • Université de Grenoble I (France)
  • UFR de Mathématiques
  • Research focused on the study of hermitian vector
    bundles over complex analytic manifolds,
    specifically their sections and cohomology.
  • Another subject of interest is Arakelov theory
    such as developped by H. Gillet, Ch. Soulé or L.
    Szpiro I have published with A. Abbes a new
    elementary and straightforward proof of the
    arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem formerly due to
    Gillet and Soulé

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Petr Sojka
  • MSc. (informatics) and Ph.D. (computational
    linguistics) from Masaryk university in Brno,
    Czech Republic, now assoc. professor.
  • Member of Czech Digital Mathematics Library
    (DML-CZ) team responsible for the IT technologies
    chosen for the project (math OCR, formats,
    information retrieval and search issues).
  • For more try first hit of "Petr Sojka" on Google.
  • DML-CZ http//dml.muni.cz/documents.html

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Philippe Tondeur
  • Retired 2002 as Director of Division of
    Mathematical Sciences at NSF. Previously, Chair
    of the Department of Mathematics at U. Illinois
    in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Now, an Emeritus
    Professor of Mathematics at UIUC (since 1968).
  • Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the U. Zurich in
    1961. Then a Research Fellow and Lecturer at U.
    of Paris, Harvard, the U. of California at
    Berkeley and Wesleyan U.
  • Over 100 research articles and monographs, incl.
    9 books, mainly on differential geometry, esp.
    geometry of foliations and geometric applications
    of partial differential equations. Approx. 200
    invited lectures.
  • Current interests mathematics and science
    research and education, library digitization,
    science policy, institutional governance and
    leadership development.
  • Has been Visiting Professor at the Universities
    of Buenos Aires, Auckland (New Zealand),
    Heidelberg, Rome, Santiago de Compostela (Spain),
    Leuven (Belgium), as well as at the
    Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule in Zurich,
    the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the Max Planck
    Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Keio U. in
    Tokyo and Tohoku U. in Sendai.
  • Served as Editor and Managing Editor of the
    Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
  • Recipient of UIUC Award of Excellence in
    Undergraduate Teaching, and a SIAM Public Service
    Award.
  • Recently served on and chaired the Board of
    Governors of the Institute for Mathematics and
    its Applications (IMA) at U. Minneapolis.
  • Served on the National Advisory Council of the
    Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences
    Institute (SAMSI) at the Research Triangle Park
    in North Carolina.
  • Member of the International Scientific Advisory
    Board of the Canadian Mathematics of Information
    Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Centre of
    Excellence, and a Trustee of the prospective
    Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzadas-MATH
    (IMDEA-MATH) in Madrid. Member of the U.S.
    National Committee on Mathematics of the National
    Research Council, and served as a member of the
    U.S. delegation to the ICM 2006. Member of the
    Science Policy Committee of SIAM, as well as of
    MAA.

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Bernd Wegner
  • Full Professor of Mathematics
  • Editor-in-chief of Zentralblatt MATH, the most
    comprehensive info service in math, with Web
    access under EMIS (European Mathematical
    Information Service)
  • Member of the advisory board for MATHDI, on
    education in mathematics
  • Scientific Coordinator of EMIS, math portal with
    an electronic library
  • Leader of the TU-group for the EULER-project, a
    prototype for an integrated access to Web-based
    mathematical documents, transitioning to a
    regular Web service
  • Scientific Director of the LIMES-project (Large
    Infrastructures in Mathematics - Enhanced
    Services) to transform Zentralblatt MATH into
    European cooperation with Web-based input
    structures
  • Director of the ERAM-project (Electronic Research
    Archive in Mathematics), to build up a digital
    archive of classical mathematics, capturing the
    Jahrbuch ueber die Fortschritte
  • Chairman of the Electronic Publishing Committee
    of EMS (European Mathematical Society), member of
    the Database Committee of EMS
  • Associated with project Euclid (Cornell),
    establishing a non-profit (electronic)
    publication facility for mathematics
  • Member of the board of IWI (Institute for
    Scientific Info, Osnabrueck)
  • Exploitation Manager of the European IST Project
    MOWGLI

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Fox Related Grants
  • NSF Grant IRI-9116991 A User-Centered Database
    from the Computer Science Literature, 9/15/91 -
    2/28/95, PIs E. Fox, D. Hix L. Heath.
  • NSF CISE Institutional Infrastructure (Education)
    Grant CDA-9312611 Interactive Learning with a
    Digital Library in Computer Science, 8/15/93
    7/31/97, PIs E. Fox, J. Lee, C. Shaffer, H.
    Hartson, D. Barnette.
  • U.S. Dept. of Education, FIPSE Program
    P116B61190 Improving Graduate Education with a
    National Digital Library of Theses and
    Dissertations, 9/1/96-8/31/99, PIs E. Fox, J.
    Eaton, G. McMillan. Cost sharing SURA,
    Microsoft, Adobe
  • NSF DUE-0121679 Computing and Information
    Technology Interactive Digital Educational
    Library (CITIDEL), 9/1/2001 - 5/31/2005, PIs
    Edward A. Fox. Co-PIs JAN Lee, M.
    Perez-Quinones, L. Cassel (Villanova), C. Lee
    Giles (Penn State), J. Impagliazzo (Hofstra), D.
    Knox (College of NJ)
  • NSF DUE-0532825 Personalization of Content
    Bridging the gap between NSDL and its users
    through the course website, 9/1/2005 - 8/31/2008,
    PIs M. Perez-Quinones, E. Fox, L. Cassel, W. Fan

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Fox Related URLs
  • Fox http//fox.cs.vt.edu/
  • Digital Library Research Lab www.dlib.vt.edu/
  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and
    Dissertations www.ndltd.org/
  • National Science Digital Library
    http//nsdl.org/
  • PlanetMath http//planetmath.org/
  • http//scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-090
    22003-150851/ - Aaron Krowne 2003 thesis An
    Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science
    Digital Libraries,
  • CITIDEL (NSDL CS collection) www.citidel.org/
  • NSF Education Innovation http//ei.cs.vt.edu/cse
    i/

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5S A Formal Model for Digital Libraries (see ACM
TOIS April 2004)
Ss Examples Objectives
Streams Text video audio image Describes properties of the DL content such as encoding and language for textual material or particular forms of multimedia data
Structures Collection catalog hypertext document metadata Specifies organizational aspects of the DL content
Spaces Measure measurable, topological, vector, probabilistic Defines logical and presentational views of several DL components
Scenarios Searching, browsing, recommending Details the behavior of DL services
Societies Service managers, learners, teachers, etc. Defines managers, responsible for running DL services actors, that use those services and relationships among them
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Information Life Cycle
Creation
Active
Authoring Modifying
Social Context
Using Creating
Organizing Indexing
Retention / Mining
Accessing Filtering
Storing Retrieving
Semi- Active
Utilization
Distributing Networking
Searching
Inactive
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LOCKSS
  • Lots of copies keep stuff safe
  • Stanford (Vicky Reich)
  • Solves preservation replication problem
  • Initial content journals
  • Emory (Martin Halbert, Aaron Krowne)
  • Help deploy and adapt
  • Help apply in other contexts
  • NDLTD prototype for ETDs (electronic theses and
    dissertations)

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OAI - Open Archives Initiative
  • Advocacy for interoperability
  • Standard for transferring metadata among digital
    libraries
  • Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH)
  • Simplicity
  • Generality
  • Extensibility
  • Support for PMH gt Open Archive (OA)

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The World According to OAI
Service Providers
Discovery
Current Awareness
Preservation
Data Providers
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For DL Information
  • Magazine www.dlib.org
  • Conferences
  • ECDL www.ecdl2007.org
  • ICADL www.icadl.org
  • JCDL www.jcdl2007.org
  • Associations
  • ASIST DL SIG www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/
  • IEEE TCDL www.ieee-tcdl.org
  • ACM SIGIR www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/
  • NSF www.dli2.nsf.gov
  • Curriculum http//curric.dlib.vt.edu/

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DL Challenges
  • Preservation - so people with trust DLs
  • Scalability, sustainability, interoperability
  • DL industry (in addition to Google, IBM, )
  • critical mass, covering libraries, archives,
    museums, corporate info, govt info, personal info
    - quality WWW integrating IR, HT, MM, ...
  • Math and DLs (some dates)
  • 1987 ETDs
  • 1991 ACM DL
  • 2001 CITIDEL
  • 2003 PlanetMath

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Panel Intro
  • Questions, questions, questions !!!
  • Please write notes and pass them to aisle and to
    front.
  • Please raise hand till I acknowledge you.
  • Please state name and affiliation, slowly.
  • Be brief as you ask a question.
  • Theme How does the state of the art in today's
    digital libraries compare with digital libraries
    in general?
  • Challenge of supporting math content as we do
    information retrieval, blogging, authoring, web
    display,

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Initial Questions (Robert Miner) - 1
  • Relative to your initial expectations, what are
    the areas where the digital math library projects
    you are associated with have been most
    successful? Least successful? How would you
    compare the success of digital math libraries to
    digital library projects of similar scope in
    other areas? Do you think that digital math
    libraries are currently viewed as successes by
    their users? By the larger library institutions
    of which they are a part?
  • Do your users have expectations for digital
    libraries that you have a hard time meeting due
    to technological limitations in dealing with
    mathematical content? Conversely, are there
    areas where you are able to provide users with
    tools and services that take advantage of the
    mathematical nature of your content that aren't
    generally available in other digital libraries?
    Are the gaps in software support for mathematical
    content so severe that they limit the usefulness
    and popularity of digital math libraries, or is
    it mostly a question of mathematical content
    requiring extra time and effort in order to
    achieve adequate quality and ease-of-use for end
    users? Which software gaps are most serious for
    you, and how do you work around the problems now?

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Initial Questions (Robert Miner) - 2
  • Do your users have expectations for digital
    libraries that you have a hard time meeting due
    to technological limitations in dealing with
    mathematical content? Conversely, are there
    areas where you are able to provide users with
    tools and services that take advantage of the
    mathematical nature of your content that aren't
    generally available in other digital libraries?
    Are the gaps in software support for mathematical
    content so severe that they limit the usefulness
    and popularity of digital math libraries, or is
    it mostly a question of mathematical content
    requiring extra time and effort in order to
    achieve adequate quality and ease-of-use for end
    users? Which software gaps are most serious for
    you, and how do you work around the problems now?

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • What we need in DLs for math content
  • What would be a future version of something like
    Google Scholar, that does math right
  • Key challenges

Searching math Browsing math
Capturing old math Preserving math
Detailed linking Personal- ization
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