[Om] Reviving the OM Community
Michael Kohlhase
m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de
Tue Jul 19 19:08:05 CEST 2016
Lieber Moritz,
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On 14/07/16 15:08, Michael Kohlhase wrote:
>
> Sehr gut, wie lange brauchst Du daf"ur? Kurz w"are gut.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 14/07/16 12:05, Moritz Schubotz wrote:
>> 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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>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>> Moritz Schubotz
>>
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>> Msn: Moritz at Schubotz.de
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> Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase, Office: Research 1, Room 168
> Professor of Computer Science Campus Ring 1,
> Jacobs University Bremen D-28759 Bremen, Germany
> tel/fax: +49 421 200-3140/-493140 skype: mibein42
> m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de http://kwarc.info/kohlhase
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Professor of Computer Science Campus Ring 1,
Jacobs University Bremen D-28759 Bremen, Germany
tel/fax: +49 421 200-3140/-493140 skype: mibein42
m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de http://kwarc.info/kohlhase
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