Electronic Information and Communication in Mathematics: ICM 2002 International Satellite Conference, Beijing, China, August 29-31, 2002, Revised Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540406891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 194 str.

Fengshan Bai;Bernd Wegner

Opis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the ICM 2002 International Satellite Conference on Electronic Information and Communication in Mathematics, held in Beijing, China, in August 2002.The 18 revised and reviewed papers assess the state of the art of the production and dissemination of electronic information in mathematics. Among the topics addressed are models and standards for information and metainformation representation; data search, discovery, retrieval, and analysis; access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections; intelligent user interfaces to digital libraries; information agents, and cooperative work on mathematical data; digital collection generation; business models; and data security and protection.

Spis treści

The Development of E-mathematics Resources at Tsinghua University Library (THUL).- MOWGLI – An Approach to Machine-Understandable Representation of the Mathematical Information in Digital Documents.- SINM: The Italian National Information System for Mathematics.- Management of Informal Mathematical Knowledge – Lessons Learned from the Trial-Solution Project.- RusDML – A Russian-German Project for Establishing a Digital Archive of the Russian Mathematical Publications.- Predicting the Future of Scholarly Publishing.- An Information System for Retrieving and Reasoning about Xml-based Mathematical Knowledge.- International Copyright and Mathematics.- EMIS 2001 – A World-Wide Cooperation for Communicating Mathematics Online.- Math-Net Means Not Just a Page!.- Mathematics Subject Classification and Related Schemes in the OAI Framework.- Metadata Models – International Developments and Implementation.- LIMES – An Infrastructure for the Benefit of Mathematicians in the Information Society.- Peer Refereeing ...Will It Be Missed?.- Geometry & Topology Publications : A Community Based Publishing Initiative.- The Web: Challenge and Opportunity for an Independent Journal.- Math-Net International and the Math-Net Page.- EMANI – A Project for the Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Publications in Mathematics.