- <br>
- The objective of the MathQL proposal is the development of a set
- of query languages enabling the retrieval of formalized mathematical Web
- resources on the basis of content-aware requests. The first of these
- languages, <b>MathQL-1</b>, is focused on querying an arbitrary
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a> database because RDF is the
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a> standartd for describing Web
- resources at the general-purpose content level.<br>
- <br>
- As an RDF query language, MathQL-1 provides the main features
-required by the RDF community while complying with the needs of HELM.
-The peculiar aspects of this language concern the query results, which
-are highly structured and possess their own syntax, formally explained
-by a rigorous semantics.<br>
- <br>
- MathQL-1 is particularly helpful in distributed systems where
-query engines are implemented as stand-alone units, because in this situation
- the query results are exchanged between the system components as well
- as the queries, and thus both the queries and the query results need to
-be encoded in a clearly defined format.<br>
- <br>
- Other languages to be developed in the context of the MathQL proposal
-will be suitable for queries about the semantic structure of mathematical
-data: this will include content-based pattern-matching (MathQL-2) and possibly
- other forms of formal matching involving for instance isomorphism, unification
- and definitions expansion (MathQL-3).<br>
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- </tbody>
+ <br>
+ The objective of the MathQL proposal is the development
+of a set of query languages enabling the retrieval of formalized mathematical
+ Web resources on the basis of content-aware requests. The first of these
+ languages, <b>MathQL-1</b>, is focused on querying an arbitrary
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a> database because RDF is
+the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a> standard for describing
+ Web resources at the general-purpose content level.<br>
+ <br>
+ As an RDF query language, MathQL-1 provides the main features
+ required by the RDF community while complying with the needs of HELM.
+ The peculiar aspects of this language concern the query results,
+which are highly structured and possess their own syntax, formally
+explained by a rigorous semantics.<br>
+ <br>
+ MathQL-1 is particularly helpful in distributed systems
+where query engines are implemented as stand-alone units, because
+in this situation the query results are exchanged between the system
+components as well as the queries, and thus both the queries and the query
+results need to be encoded in a clearly defined format.<br>
+ <br>
+ Other languages to be developed in the context of the MathQL proposal
+ will be suitable for queries about the semantic structure of mathematical
+ data: this will include content-based pattern-matching (MathQL-2) and
+possibly other forms of formal matching involving for instance isomorphism,
+unification and definitions expansion (MathQL-3).<br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+
+ </tbody>