[Om] Reviving the OM Community

[Moritz Schubotz]

Hi Michael,

thank you for starting that conversation.
I have two projects that I would like to report about at the next OM
Meeting, DRMF [1] and Math Support for Wikidata [2].

Best
Moritz
[1] http://drmf.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] See for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35875

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Michael Kohlhase <
m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de> wrote:

> Dear OpenMath community,
>
> we would like to revive the OpenMath effort and community, which has been
> largely dormant over the last years.
>
> Rather than reviewing the past, we should see why we should revive the
> community:
>
>    1. there are a couple of large-scale projects that center around
>    combining computer algebra systems (see e.g. [1] and [2]).
>    2. MathML is making inroads on the browsers again (see e.g. [3], [5])
>    3. We have  Math Search Engines based on presentation and content
>    Math, even competitions [4]
>    4. There is an effort from inside math to build a World Digital
>    Library of Mathematics [7] with a semantic layer [6]
>    5. ... your reasons here, please communicate them ...
>
> We are writing this message now, since we will have an OpenMath Workshop
> at CICM in Bialystok on July 25. This is the first opportunity to do
> something about reviving OpenMath. As the group of people that will meet
> there is very small, we would like to discuss the issues with the community
> beforehand (sorry for bringing this up relatively late, but most
> discussions do not last longer than two weeks anyway). And we will try to
> organize remote participation in the workshop.
>
> We see three things we need to do:
>
>    1. revive the organization (in particular the Executive Committee; see
>    [8])
>    2. think/discuss about extensions of OpenMath, e.g. (from memory)
>    1. recognize content MathML as an official OpenMath encoding
>       (legitimized by MathML3)
>       2. are there new OM constructors we need (records, sequence
>       variables, ...)
>       3. how about a notation system
>       4. DefMPs in OM CDs,
>       5. ... your extension here ...
>       3. think/discuss about other levels of content Math communication
>    based on OpenMath (e.g. SCSCP for remote procedure calls)
>
> We will discuss all of these (and any you suggest) on the OM workshop. The
> first one is especially important, as the general assembly (we will have
> one at the workshop) can elect the EC (see [9]). We propose the following
> new roster:
>
>    1. Michael Kohlhase (President)
>    2. James Davenport (Vice President)
>    3. Florian Rabe (Secretary)
>    4. Patrick Ion (MathML liaison)
>    5. Alex Konovalov (Member at Large)
>
> Please give us feedback on this - privately to James and Michael if
> necessary. We will bring your concerns into the general assembly to inform
> the decisions.
>
> Best,
>
> James & Michael
>
>
> [1] http://opendreamkit.org/activities/2016-06-30-OM_in_ODK/
> [2] http://www.computeralgebra.de/
> [3] http://frederic-wang.fr/mathml-improvements-in-webkit.html
> [4] http://ntcir-math.nii.ac.jp/
> [5] http://mathml-association.org/
> [6] http://mathontheweb.org/gdml/IMKT-Charter-final.pdf
> [7]
> http://imkt.org/Activities/SemanticMathematics/Workshops/2016-02-03-Fields/index.html
> [8] http://www.openmath.org/society/board.html
> [9] http://www.openmath.org/society/statutes.html
>
>
>
>
>
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