[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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>>      Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase,        Office: Research 1, Room 168
>>      Professor of Computer Science  Campus Ring 1, 
>>      Jacobs University Bremen           D-28759 Bremen, Germany
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>>      m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de
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>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>> Moritz Schubotz
>>
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> -- 
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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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