File Name and URL Conventions

The following should be guaranteed:

• unique and meaningful names for all files, displaying some basic information about its content.

  Example: NUMDAM [[13] ] uses a file naming scheme like

          for journal volumes: journal-acronym_year_series_volume_issue         for articles: volume-id_first-page_order

  (different fields separated by '_'). This scheme allows to assign to any possible NUMDAM file (at logical units level: serial, volume, issue, article) a unique ID, making it robust and general.

  Of course, conventions for file name length have to be obeyed.

• file name conventions should be made public for each DML server.

  Explanation: Since there will be numerous single DML projects, and since it seems too optimistic to expect that there will be a unique naming scheme for all projects/servers, a prefixing method identifying the project/server is recommended.

• stable URLs for all documents.

• stable and possibly uniform appearance of web pages for all servers (possibly organized in a Math-Net like manner) (ordering scheme governed by MSC 2000 [[1] ]),

• uniform access techniques for all documents,