Abstract — Mechanisms and gears are an essential part of technical products in industry. However, the worldwide existing knowledge about mechanisms in theory and practice is mostly scattered and only fragmentarily accessible for users like students, engineers and scientist. It does not comply with today’s requirements concerning a rapid information retrieval. This paper presents the “Digital Mechanism and Gear Library” (DMG-Lib). In this interdisciplinary project of the Technical Universities of Ilmenau, Dresden and the RWTH Aachen a new digital, internet-based library (www.dmg-lib.org) is built to collect, preserve and present the knowledge of mechanism and gear science on a new level of quality. The DMG-Lib contains a wide range of digitalized information resources in very heterogeneous media types. The resources are enriched with various additional information like animations and simulations. Combined with innovative multimedia applications and a semantic information retrieval environment, the DMG-Lib provides an efficient access to this knowledge space of mechanism and gear science.
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