Digital Information and Services
The following projects explore matters arising from the CECM's role as a
provider of online information thru Internet services. While many groups
are addressing generic issues regarding digital information, few are focussed
on those specifically related to mathematical documents and research.
Canadian Mathematical Electronic
Information Services: CaMEl
- Under contract to the
Canadian Mathematical Society, the CECM is actively engaged in developing
services for the Canadian mathematical community. This includes a broad range
of facilities such as preprint servers, database access, pointer
collections, thesis archives, Email list servers and others.
Document Vault
- In order to deal with an ever-increasing pressure to organize and integrate
documents, the CECM has endeavoured to develop mechanisms for unifying the
processing and storage of diverse document formats. The Document Vault
provides a seamless access interface for retreiving information for examination
and inclusion in new documents. Currently the CECM uses a first generation
interface for serving its own documents such as
CECM preprints.
Organic Mathematics Project
- Concurrent with other projects involving digital information
and mathematics publications, the CECM hosted a
workshop on Organic Mathematics (see the Proceeding of
Workshop on OM). The online proceedings
integrate a number of interactive WWW-based tools such as
MathActivation and Document Annotation for
mathematical publications. The
proceedings draws on expertise gained from the project, unified as
a practical online publication.
Inverse Symbolic Calculator
- The ISC is the Inverse Symbolic Calculator, a set of programs and
specialized tables of mathematical constants dedicated to the
identification of real numbers. It also serves as a way to produce
identities with functions and real numbers.
M3Plexus: Multi-Modal Mathematical Document Delivery System
- An inter-university group centered at the Centre for Experimental
&Constructive Mathematics (CECM) and the Intelligent Software Group
(ISG) proposes to develop, test and disseminate a multi-modal
mathematical document manipulation platform as an experiment in
guided and tele-learning techniques and models. The term
``multi-modal'' describes the environment's capacity to present
mathematical materials in variety of modalities such as textually,
hyper-textually, graphically, interactively with symbolic or numeric
platforms, etc.
Interesting and Related Links
SFU Computing Science Digital Library
DAGS'95
- Conference on Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway
CNIDR
- Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
HyperTex
- Adding hyperlinks to TeX documents.
All About LaTeX2HTML
CoNote - small group annotation experiment
Public Annotation Systems
NetQ
- Network/Web question and answer forum mechanism
The Future of Mathematical Communication
- MSRI conference
Red Sage Project
- Electronic Distribution of Journals.
Knowledge Management: Refining Roles in Scientific Communication by Richard E. Lucier
Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals by Andrew M. Odlyzko
Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals by Andrew M. Odlyzko (condensed version)
David Dubin's work at Dept. Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
The Perseus Project
Open Math Project