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+ <title>Economic development and Scientific and Technological Prospects</title>
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+ <h1>Economic development and Scientific and Technological Prospects</h1>
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+ <h2>Identification of exploitable results</h2>
+ <p>MOWGLI is meant to develop, evaluate, fine-tune and deliver a complete
+ prototype supporting friendly and interactive access to huge, distributed
+ repositories of content-based mathematical knowledge. The purpose of the
+ project is to overcome some of the main obstacles that currently hinder a
+ wider dissemination of Information Technologies in the mathematical and
+ research community (comprising both professionals and students). This is
+ intended as a public service for the whole community of users, and we
+ expect no direct commercial profit by our work.</p>
+ <p>Of course, the core technologies and languages developed in MOWGLI may be
+ exploited in a lot of different ways, according to the nature and
+ exploitation plan of each partner.</p>
+ <p>In particular, it should be clear that having a coherent, distributed
+ library of structured mathematical knowledge, saved in a clearly defined,
+ well documented and application independent format, is just the starting
+ point of a wider, potentially enormous process. Building on the grounds
+ provided by MOWGLI, a lot of different services can be imagined, and
+ independently developed by different organisations. Inside the project, we
+ shall just give a few hints in this direction, supporting advanced and
+ interactive forms of searching and navigation, as well as automatic
+ validation facilities, for suitable fragments of the library.</p>
+
+ <h2>Target Market</h2>
+ <p>The main target market of MOWGLI is education. Here, the potentiality
+ offered by a semantic description of the information for the development
+ of interactive, electronic textbooks are enormous. In particular, the
+ MOWGLI prototype could become an essential tool for a wider and more
+ friendly dissemination of mathematical knowledge.</p>
+ <p>A second, potential market is Publishing. Digital libraries currently
+ suffers from clear limitations due to the machine-readable but not
+ machine understandable encoding of the information. No other kind of
+ elaboration than displaying or printing is usually possible. There is no
+ possibility of cut-and paste, formal checking, complex searching. For
+ instance, we cannot write a spider going around searching for a proof with
+ a given template, because there is not structure, and in particular no
+ semantics inside the text.</p>
+ <p>A third market are industries specialised in formal verification and
+ security. These industries are usually asked to check a given system or
+ protocol for security issues or formal validation of functional/temporal
+ behaviour. The result of the formalisation work and its automatic
+ validation is typically in an internal format which is obscure even to
+ experts. Studying the possibility to automatically generate a more
+ friendly presentation in usual mathematical notation is thus a major
+ topic.</p>
+
+ <h2>Consortium's Dissemination and Exploitation Strategy</h2>
+ <p>According to the Project Workplan, a considerable effort will be devoted
+ to the dissemination/exploitation of the results. During the first six
+ months, the consortium will undertake the development and execution of a
+ workplan to achieve successful dissemination of the project results. In
+ particular, the very nature of the project suggests to involve the
+ largest community of professionals during the modelling phase. Here, we
+ shall be open to any contribution, even soliciting them, still keeping
+ final technical decisions inside the Project.
+ <br/>
+ The foreseen dissemination steps include:</p>
+
+ <ol>
+ <li>Preparation of an ``information pack'', including a folder and CDROM
+ with demos.</li>
+ <li>Presentation of MOWGLI to national and international conferences on
+ I.T.Technologies.</li>
+ <li>Presentation of MOWGLI to thematic conferences on Education, Digital
+ Libraries, Formal Verification and so on.</li>
+ <li>Advertising to actors/institutions which may be direct users or may
+ channel the information to final users (such as the World Wide Web
+ Consortium).</li>
+ <li>Technical papers and articles to be sent to specialised reviews.</li>
+ <li>Management of the MOWGLI Web site.</li>
+ <li>Dissemination of technical achievements in specific scientific
+ communities, such as XML-related interests groups.</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>Management of the Exploitation and Dissemination activities is a specific
+ Work-package that will be lead by the Project Exploitation Board. It is
+ planned that all partners will nominate qualified persons as exploitation
+ managers to coordinate their own exploitation activities. The Exploitation
+ Board will be in charge of the preparation of the exploitation and
+ dissemination plan.</p>
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