How to Build a Prototype for a Distributed Digital Mathematics Archive Library

The “Electronic Mathematics Archiving Network Initiative” (EMANI) recently announced by Springer Verlag, Tsinghua University Library (China), Göttingen State and University Library and Cornell University aims to insure the preservation and dissemination of mathematical information for future generations. In order to be able to use the resulting distributed digital mathematical archive, researchers have to be equipped with freely available readers which enable them to view digital downloaded articles and follow links to reviews in “Zentralblatt für Mathematik” or “Mathematical Reviews” of the papers they cite. Using then the permanent links between the review articles and their digital full texts on remote servers the mathematicians can also retrieve the digital full text of the cited articles. Such readers can only work if the scientific documents in the digital libraries have been provided with links between them and the review articles. In this article the different steps to solve these technical problems will be discussed. Methods will be presented which allow one to construct a prototype of a distributed searchable, linked mathematical digital archive library.

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