Survey of Existing Services in the Mathematical Digital
Libraries and Repositories in the EuDML Project
Radoslav Pavlov, Desislava Paneva-Marinova, and Georgi Simeonov
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
{radko, dessi}@cc.bas.bg, [email protected]
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Why
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Mathematical validated literature is an edifice whose individual
building blocks remain in the construction for ever
90 000
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Permanently accelerating growth
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1/5 before 1900, 1/2 after 1950
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70 000
60 000
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50 000
Today about 3 million publications
40 000
pages, 100 000 new publications every year 30 000
100 million
20 000
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2000
1995
1990
1985
1980
1975
1970
1965
1960
1/4 of
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1/2 of citations aim more than 10 years back 10 000
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citations aim more than 20 years back
1950
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Why
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Electronic approach offers a solution:
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new publications are prepared in electronic form
the old ones are being digitized in numerous projects
However:
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these efforts are not well coordinated and do not systematically
cover the literature
digital documents are often duplicated among various providers
serials are often split across providers
good access requires numerous subscriptions and complicated
search
permanent reliable access is not guaranteed
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What
European Digital Mathematics Library as a complex solution with
the aims
 to create a common infrastructure for seamless navigation,
searching and interacting within the deeply interlinked network
of distributed validated multilingual digital mathematical
content available throughout Europe, which will make
mathematics readily available for all users of this resource
 to provide a safe archival back-end so that publishers do not
have to maintain their back catalogues indefinitely, and thus
agree to transfer their content and to licence eventual open
access to it according to their moving wall policy
 to satisfy the demand for reliable and long-term availability
of mathematical research output
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How
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Project partly (50 %) financed by the EC
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
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Information and Communications Technologies Policy Support
Programme
Open access to scientific information
3,2 M€ (1,6 M€ from the EC)
February 2010 – January 2013
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How
EuDML System Architecture
Web User Interface
Acessibility
Component
Annotation
Component
Search
Engine
Metadata Repository
Association
Analyser
External
Services
Interface
Metadata
Enhancer
Local Repositories
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How
Web User Interface
Acessibility
Component
Annotation
Component
Search
Engine
Metadata Repository
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Association
Analyser
External
Services
Interface
Metadata
Enhancer
Metadata Repository – the central
point of reference managing
Local Repositories
a replica of all metadata for all items
in the different local repositories
Search Engine will provide search and item identifier resolution facilities.
Metadata Enhancer – collection of tools to expand or complete the
metadata existing by content providers (OCR over full texts, multilingual
metadata, generating MathML, etc.)
Association analyser will detect, analyse and record relations between
individual items.
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How
Web User Interface
Acessibility
Component
Annotation
Component
Search
Engine
Metadata Repository
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Association
Analyser
External
Services
Interface
Metadata
Enhancer
Annotation Component will provide
mechanisms to attach new material
Local Repositories
to individual items in the repositories
and maintain this new material.
This will support community interactivity with the collection by allowing users
to add, view and update their own reviews, tutorials, comments, or
recommendations to each item.
Accessibility Component – support for enhancing accessibility of items, if
required, before presentation to end users (including speech synthesis for
text or for mathematical formulae for visually impaired or dyslexic users,
automatic translation facilities, ...)
Web User Interface and External Services Interface will provide access
to the collected resources system to human and machine users and
interfaces for integration third party services.
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Who
Project partners:
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Instituto Superior Técnico: Computer Science Department – General co-ordinator
J. L. Borbinha
Cellule MathDoc at Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble – Scientific co-ordinator
T. Bouche
University of Birmingham: School of Computer Science
Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe / Zentralblatt MATH
Masaryk University Brno: Faculty of Informatics
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (Warsaw
University)
Instituto de Estudios Documentales sobre Ciencia y Tecnología – IEDCYT
EDP Sciences
University of Santiago de Compostela: Institute of Mathematics
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Mathematics AS CR
Ionian University: Department of Informatics
Made Media Ltd
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Cellule MathDoc
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Who
Associated partners:
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European Mathematical Society
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Associated project
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RusDML (Russian Digital Mathematics Library)
Further possible associated partners
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Serbia: eLibrary of Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Switzerland: SwissDML
Italy: Biblioteca Digitale Italiana di Matematica
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www.eudml.eu
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Survey of Existing Services in the Mathematical
Digital Libraries and Repositories
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An important part of EuDML project is proper testing, assessment and
evaluation against the initial proposal and the completing environment.
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The purpose of the survey is to support the development of the concepts,
criteria and methods for the continuous evaluation of these and new relevant
existing services in EuDML mathematical digital libraries and repositories.
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The work was concentrated on the classification of the relevant services in
order to specify a common evaluating structure.
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Classification of Existing Services
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Readers services (with or without required user registration/account)
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Authors’ services
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Administrators’ services
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Interoperability services (machine-to-machine interoperability services and
protocols)
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Readers’ Services
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User interface (content presentation, content classification scheme, content
retrieval, browse, navigation, simple/advanced search)
Web feeds (RSS, Atom)
Cross reference (citation linking mechanisms, link resolvers)
Web 2.0 services (tagging, comments, ratings, reviews, bookmarks, share this,
other Web 2.0)
Statistical reporting (size, diversity, self-counting, count of total items, top
downloads, top cited, collection/repository growth over time, etc.)
User account (roles, groups)
Email-alert
Online subscriptions (free access/non-free paid, license model)
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Authors’ Services
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User interface (content presentation, content classification scheme, content
retrieval, browse, navigation, simple/advanced search
Web feeds (RSS, Atom)
Cross reference (citation linking mechanisms, link resolvers)
Web 2.0 services (tagging, comments, ratings, reviews, bookmarks, share this,
other Web 2.0)
Statistical reporting (size, diversity, self-counting, count of total items, top
downloads, top cited, collection/repository growth over time, etc.)
User account (roles, groups)
Email-alert
Online subscriptions (free access/non-free paid, license model)
Online submissions (license model, copyright, ownership, terms of use, etc.)
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Administrators’ Services
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Users, groups, roles management
Metadata curation
Customizable workflow
Bulk import metadata
Bulk export metadata
Interoperability Services
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OAI-PMH
OAI-ORE
SWORD
Harvesting
Persistent identifiers
Other
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Bulgarian Digital Mathematics Library - BulDML
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BulDML at Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences
web address:
http://sci-gems.math.bas.bg
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Online access to 6 journals
publications, books, reports
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Repository content statistics
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Number of publications > 1367
Number of pages > 15 000
Publications in English 1154
Publications in Bulgarian 123
Publications in Russian 90
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Bulgarian Digital Mathematics Library
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EuDML content provider: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences