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                     15: \title{Bringing mathematical and physical manuscripts to the net}
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                     17: \author{Dirk Wintergrün}
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                     19: \date{version 0.1 of \today}
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                     23: \begin{document}
                     24: \maketitle
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                     26: \begin{abstract}
                     27: Proposal for a joint task force/project of the Dibner
                     28: Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
                     29: \end{abstract}
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                     31: \tableofcontents
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                     33: \section{Starting point}
                     34: \label{sec:starting-point}
                     35: 
                     36: Both institutes aim to bring a.s.a.p. mathematical papers into the
                     37: net, i.e. Albert Einstein's Zurich Notebook by the MPIWG and
                     38: Manuscripts of Newton and contemporaries by the Dibner
                     39: Institute. Furthermore these projects shall be realized without
                     40: substantial external funding. Therefore a strategy for using already
                     41: existing technology has to be found which also includes an optimal
                     42: devision of labor. 
                     43: 
                     44: The problem of presenting images and (pure) text is to great extent
                     45: solved. But an open question is how to adequately represent formulae.
                     46: \section{Overall goal}
                     47: \label{sec:goals}
                     48: 
                     49: The overall goal of the project/task force to develop a.s.a p. an environment
                     50: for presenting mathematical and physical manuscripts in the net. In
                     51: particular a solution for the representation of formulae in the
                     52: historic context should be found. The developments shall base on
                     53: existing technologies already developed at the participating
                     54: institutes and otherwise available open source technologies. 
                     55: 
                     56: \section{Goals}
                     57: In detail in a first step (pragmatic) answers to the following
                     58: questions should be found:
                     59: 
                     60: \begin{itemize}
                     61: \item Which technologies exists for presenting formulae in the net?
                     62: \item Which standards for encoding formulae as XML exists and can they
                     63:       be used for representing formulae in historic papers in the net?
                     64: \item Which extensions of existing standards have to be made to
                     65:       represent the semantic meaning of formulae in historical documents?
                     66: \end{itemize}
                     67: 
                     68: The answers should be oriented on the need to find a solutions which
                     69: can on the one hand be realized very soon with existing standards and
                     70: which are on the other hand open enough for further developments and specifications.
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                     72: A second step shall be the implementation of a first prototype.
                     73: 
                     74: \section{First concrete steps}
                     75: A (real) workshop should be held with a limited number of participants
                     76: (up to 10) dedicated to the above mentioned questions bringing to together: 
                     77: 
                     78: 
                     79: \begin{itemize}
                     80: \item experts on the manuscripts (George Smith, Jürgen Renn)
                     81: \item experts on representing (modern) mathematical papers (Living
                     82:       Review staff?)
                     83: \item experts on computer algebra (Mupad,  Maple or Mathematica staff,
                     84:       Bruno Buchberger? (risc))
                     85: \item experts for representing texts (Malcolm Hyman/ Mark Schiefsky (Harvard)).
                     86: \end{itemize}
                     87: 
                     88: At the end of the workshop a (pragmatic) working grammar for encoding
                     89: formulae should be defined and a list of requirements for the needed
                     90: developments should be made.
                     91: 
                     92: \section{Division of labor}
                     93: \label{sec:division-labor}
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                     95: The MPIWG will further develop their existing presentation techniques
                     96: and text tools and
                     97: bring this in the cooperation and cooperate in the new developments.
                     98: 
                     99: The Dibner Institute will focus on the evaluation of representing the
                    100: mathematical parts of the papers. For the first step one
                    101: (engaged) student with background on history of science and IT may be sufficient.
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        !           105: \section{Timescale}
        !           106: \label{sec:timescale}
        !           107: Very preliminary timescale:
        !           108: \begin{itemize}
        !           109: \item First report on existing tools and standards in November
        !           110: \item The Workshop should be held at least in January. 
        !           111: \item Specification of the (preliminary) XML-Format shoud be finished in February
        !           112: \item An alpha version - if necessary with a brute force solution concerning the formulae (MATHML-Presentation Mark Up + GIF Images for the browsers which do not understand MATHML) - finished in April (maybe quicker).
        !           113: \end{itemize}
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