Digital Mathematics Libraries The Good the Bad

Authors: Thierry Bouche

Publish Date: 2010/03/10

Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 227-241

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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 bottomup 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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