From Scanned Image to Knowledge Sharing Formats and Technologies in the Digital Mathematics Library Project

The main obstacle to easy accessing the vast amount of knowledge is the fact that they are not available in well-designed, standard, fully indexed electronic form, together with detailed metadata and full-text search capabilities. This paper is a case study of design issues in a subproject of WDML (World Digital Mathematics Library) aimed at digitizing valuable mathematical journals and books published in the Czech and Slovak Republics, to make them publicly available in digital form. We discuss here the design of the work-o w aiming at having mathematical knowledge stored in digital library. The key concept is a gradual enhancement of the digital material by 'knowledge enhancing' lters applied to the markup-rich XML data.

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