Digital Information and Services

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