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The Digital Mathematics Library, its Actual State, and its
Possible Future Developments
Talk given at the Workshop "The Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library: Plans and Prospects", June 1-3 at the National Academy of Sciences.
What are the obstructions in order to achieve the DML Goals?
Clearly lack of money, but besides that:
Main obstructions to a "usable", "homogeneous", and "distributable" DML:
Repositories are
- hard to find
- by no means uniformly organized
(just compare two from the above link, randomly chosen)
- often unwilling to share with others by exchange of data and software
- partially expensive (commercial publishers)
-- and therefore:
- difficult to use
Digitized material is
- presented in complicated ways
- subject to copyright conditions, since copyright is
- owned by publishers (true almost always for recent material)
- partially invented/created even by the repositories
even for old content, which is already out of authors' copyright.
==> Conclusion:
==> Even though we have digitized a considerable fraction of our
literature,
==> this fraction is not easy to find nor to access nor to use.
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