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Call for participation: Towards a Digital Mathematics Library (DML 2009)
July 8-9th, 2009, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada

Workshop webpage: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009.html
Registration: http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/registration.html
Travel: http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/travel.html
Accomodation: http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/accommodation.html

Overview:
Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed
mathematical literature ever published, properly linked and
validated/verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical
knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000
pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies.

The workshop's objectives are to formulate the strategy and goals of
a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current
successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects,
asking such questions as:
# What technologies, standards, algorithms and formats should be used
 and what metadata should be shared?
# What business models are suitable for publishers of mathematical
 literature, authors and funders of their projects and institutions?
# Is there a model of sustainable, interoperable, and extensible
 mathematical library that mathematicians can use in their everyday work?
# What is the best practice for
   * retrodigitized mathematics (from images via OCR to MathML and/or TeX);
   * retro-born-digital mathematics (from existing electronic copy in
     DVI, PS or PDF to MathML and/or TeX);
   * born-digital mathematics (how to make needed metadata and file formats
     available as a side effect of publishing workflow [CEDRAM model/Euclid])?

Proceedings:
has been published by Masaryk University Press and will be available on site.


Papers and Posters selected for presentation at the workshop:

Part I Towards Digital Mathematics Library

* The Evolving Digital Mathematics Network (invited talk)
    David Ruddy (Cornell University Library, USA)
* Community Curation and Management of Mathematical Literature
    John Burns and Nigel Kerr (Ithaka/JSTOR, USA)

Part II Towards Mathematical OCR and Search

* An Approach to Similarity Search for Mathematical Expressions using MathML
    Keisuke Yokoi (University of Tokyo, Japan) and
    Akiko Aizawa (University of Tokyo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
* Improving Mathematics Retrieval
    Shahab Kamali and Frank Wm.~Tompa (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* An Online Repository of Mathematical Samples
    Josef B. Baker, Alan P. Sexton, and Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham, UK)

Part III Digitization Reports

* Report on the Current State of the French DMLs
    Thierry Bouche (Universit\'e de Grenoble~I & CNRS, France)
* Experimental DML over Digital Repositories in Japan
    Takao Namiki, Hiraku Kuroda, and Shunsuke Naruse (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

Part IV Digitization Technologies and Platforms

* Document Interlinking in a Digital Math Library
    Claude Goutorbe (Cellule Mathdoc, Universit\'e Joseph Fourier and Centre
    National de la recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France)
* I2Geo: a Web-Library of Interactive Geometry
    Paul Libbrecht (DFKI GmbH, Saarbr\"ucken, Germany),
    Ulrich Kortenkamp (University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany) and
    Christian Mercat (I3M, Universit\'e Montpellier 2, France)

Part V Tools and Techniques

* MathML-aware Article Conversion from LaTeX
    Heinrich Stamerjohanns, Deyan Ginev, Catalin David, Dimitar Misev, Vladimir
    Zamdzhiev, Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
* Conversion of TeX Documents to PDF
    Aleksandar Pejovi\'c and \v{Z}arko Mijajlovi\'c
    (Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgarde, Serbia)

Panel/round table discussion: Towards a Digital Mathematics Library: the Next Steps
Panelists to be confirmed:
Thierry Bouche (EuDML/EVLM/NUMDAM and CEDRAM),
John Burns and/or Nigel Kerr (Ithaka/JSTOR, USA),
Michael Doob (Canada), Patrick Ion (AMS, USA),
David Ruddy (Cornell University Library, USA),
Masakazu Suzuki (Japanese digitization projects),
Petr Sojka (DML-CZ),
Enrique Macias-Virgos (Spanish DML)

Workshop topics:
(include, but are not limited to)
 o search, indexing and retrieval of mathematical documents
 o ranking of mathematical papers, similarity of mathematical documents
 o math OCR with MathML/TeX output
 o document conversions from/to MathML, OpenMath, LaTeX,
   PostScript and [tagged] PDF
 o conversions between various mathematical formalisms
 o mathematical document compression
 o processing of scanned images
 o algorithms for crosslinking of bibliographical items,
   intext citations search
 o mathematical document classification, MSC 2010
 o mathematical text mining
 o mathematical documents metadata exchange via OAI-PMH and/or OAI-ORE
 o long term archiving, data migration
 o reports and experience from math digitization projects
 o math publishing with long term archival goal
 o software engineering aspects of creating, handling MathML,
   OMDoc, OpenMath documents, and displaying them in web browsers