MathDoc and the Electronic Publishing of Mathematics

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Introduction

ƒ A long tradition in publication of mathematics

y Les Annales de Gergonne, first purely mathematical journal ever published (1810-1831)

ƒ Some of the foremost current mathematical journals are published in France :

What is MathDoc and what are we doing for

Annales ENS Publications

IHES Annales

Fourier

Bulletin SMF

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MathDoc Team

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Created in 1995 by Profs P. Bérard et L. Guillopé

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Support: CNRS, Univ. J Fourier (Grenoble)

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2 mathematicians, 3 computer scientists, 3 librarian/information scientists

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Many aspects of online mathematical documentation:

y Combined library catalogs

y Online preprint & theses database

y Software development (Zentralblatt, library software) y …

y Online digital libraries (NUMDAM…)

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The NUMDAM digital archive: What?

ƒ Digitise for archiving and delivery the backrun of academic mathematical journals

ƒ Archiving :

y Integral scanning from the first page up to the last one of each volume, including covers, plates, unbound

leafs, ads, etc.

ƒ Delivery :

y One multipage file per article, access through tables of contents browsing or searching, freely downloadable after a variable moving wall.

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The NUMDAM digital archive: Why ?

ƒ Mathematical litterature never becomes obsolete.

ƒ Useful to other sciences in an asynchronous fashion.

ƒ Valid as a whole: → network of (international) references.

ƒ Isolated academic journals starve against commercial concentration.

ƒ Digital format → living journals (links…)

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The NUMDAM digital archive: economic model

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Electronic version under the title owner’s control.

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Authors are asked to give their (exclusive) electronic copyright to them if still alive

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MathDoc contracts with the copyright owner to allow access at www.numdam.org.

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Clear identification of the originating journal (logo, links, first page).

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Moving wall agreed by both parties (mean: 5, min: 0, max:

10); free access after the moving wall as a counterpart to public funding

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The NUMDAM digital archive: contents

Currently online

ƒ Ann. Inst. Fourier

ƒ Ann. I.H.P.

ƒ Ann. Math. Blaise Pascal

ƒ Ann. Sci. Ecole norm.sup.

ƒ Ann. univ. Grenoble

ƒ Bull. Soc. math. France

ƒ Mém. Soc. math. France

ƒ Journées EDP

ƒ Publ. Math. IHES

ƒ ^Total: 216664 p. 7899 art.

Forthcoming

ƒ Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse

ƒ Séminaires I.H.P.

ƒ Sém. Bourbaki

ƒ Ann. Gergonne

ƒ Ann. I.H.P.Sér A

ƒ Ann. I.H.P.Sér B

ƒ Ann. I.H.P.Sér C

ƒ Rev. Stat. appl.

ƒ Ann. Fac.Sci. Univ. Clermont

ƒ Ann. Scuola Norm. Pisa

ƒ Compositio Math.

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The NUMDAM digital archive: principles

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Integrity

y Full backrun, no editorial choice.

y Scan of every page at high resolution (600 dpi) black & white (text), grey or colour when applicable.

y Page format reproduced.

y Unicode metadata.

y Clean separation between faithful articles’ image and added metadata (PDF/DjVu article vs. HTML navigation).

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Interactivity

y Detailed structured metadata: basic bibliographical data plus full text and cited references.

y A hyperlink network places the article in proper context:

bibliographies, reviews, errata, etc.

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Stable URL for External Referencing

Abstract and reference list are part of metadata

Record and reference list both contain links

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The NUMDAM digital archive: new features

ƒ Enhanced search engine :

y linked page numbers for words in full text

y option to search expressions present on the same page

ƒ Full Catalogue available through OAIPMH

y www.numdam.org/oai

ƒ Browsing interface « cloaked » for web crawlers

ƒ Links from MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, RBSM,

google, Yahoo, OAI aggregators

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GALLICA Front Math

ƒ BnF has a large digitization program (Gallica).

y Journal de Maths Pures et Appliquées y Many monographs

y Collected works of remarkable mathematicians y But…. only volume-level metadata

ƒ The Front Math provides « article level » metadata for the contents of complete works,

y easy web browsing

y each « article » will have a stable URL y « articles » will be indexed in mini-DML.

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GALLICA Front Math

Easy browsing

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CEDRAM - Background

ƒ Many first class mathematical journals

ƒ « Home » published and minimal means

Needs of avanced electronic publishing

ƒ CNRS supporting

ƒ NUMDAM for old papers

ƒ ^CEDRAM

y CEntre de Diffusion de Revues Académiques Mathématiques y CEnter for Diffusion of Academic Mathematics Journals

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CEDRAM - Purpose

ƒ Technologies of NUMDAM

Browsing, searching, cross linking

Abstract, keywords and MSC

Data flows and formats

Maintenance and archiving

ƒ Some more : technical platform for e-publishing

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CEDRAM - Economic model

ƒ Related journals

Annales de l’Institut Fourier

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

Soon Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse

Subscription to paper and e-version

Moving-wall

ƒ Economic model

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CEDRAM - Workflow

Archiving

article.tex

article.pdf (from TeX) metadata.xml

Publisher CEDRAM

Validation

Production Advising

Definition of format

Extraction/conversion/input software

Online publication

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CEDRAM - Workflow

Online publication

Publisher CEDRAM

Advising Validation

Production

Personalized web site

Browsing, searching articles

Abstact, keyword, MSC and full text Links for bibliographical reference

Archiving

article.tex and its background

article.pdf and its updated versions

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CEDRAM - To conclude

ƒ Links from ZentralBlatt and MathSciNet

ƒ Metadata exposed via OAI

ƒ Indexation in Google

High quality online publication

Portal as visible as possible

ƒ Preserving the journal’s image

ƒ Unifying workflow

(open and well documented standards)

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The mini-DML project: all this and lots more…

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The name: DML : Digital Math Library Mini : not everything available yet

y No ambition to contend with reviewing services

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The aim: Unified indexation of articles available in digital format, taking advantage of XML/OAIPMH technology

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Special emphasis on :

y long run journals, sometimes not available in review databases y digitally avaliable texts seldom explicitly referenced (reprints,

collected works, preprints, current issues)

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Metadata from: home-grown catalogues (NUMDAM, Gallica) OAI servers (Euclid, arXiv,… ), less structured

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The mini-DML project

http://www.numdam.org/minidml/

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Mini-DML: share metadata, build digital libraries

ƒ To be indexed: share metadata

y adopt a stable URL system or OpenURL resolver

y have some metadata available for displaying without having to download the article

y set up an OAI server

˜ Tools available at http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html

˜ Use the oai_dc schema or better…

˜ minidml XML schema (to be improved) available at http://www.numdam.org/OAI/minidml.xsd

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Thank You !

ƒ References:

y Bouche, Thierry. – NUMérisation de Documents Anciens

Mathématiques, in Actes des Journées, La Numérisation des Collections, Atelier – Journée d’études organisée par le laboratoire Reconnaissance des Formes et Visions de l’INSA, dans le cadre de l’Institut des Sciences du Document Numérique (ISDN) Rhône–Alpes, 25 juin 2001

y Bouche , Thierry. - NUMDAM and other digitisation activities at MathDoc, CEIC (Committee on Electronic Information and

Communication), Grenoble, 11 mars 2005

y Cherhal, Elizabeth. - "Numérisation/conservation partagée : la

collaboration BnF/Cellule MathDoc ; pistes de travail pour de nouveaux services". Table ronde, Journées des pôles associés, BnF, Paris,. 1 Juillet 2004

y MathDoc: see http://www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr y NUMDAM: see http://www.numdam.org