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+ <title>Project Summary</title>
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+ <h1>Project Summary</h1>
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+ <h2>Objectives</h2>
+ <p>The World Wide Web is already the largest resource of mathematical
+ knowledge, and its importance will be exponentiated by emerging display
+ technologies like MathML. However, almost all mathematical documents
+ available on the Web are marked up only for presentation, severely
+ crippling the potentialities for automation, interoperability,
+ sophisticated searching mechanisms, intelligent applications,
+ transformation and processing. The goal of the project is to overcome
+ these limitations, passing form a machine-readable to a
+ machine-understandable representation of the information, and developing
+ the technological infrastructure for its exploitation. MOWGLI builds on
+ previous ``standards'' for the management and publishing of mathematical
+ documents (MathML, OpenMath, OMDoc), integrating them with different XML
+ technology (XSLT, RDF, ...).</p>
+
+ <h2>Description of work</h2>
+ <p>The goal of the project is to provide a comprehensive description, from
+ content to metadata, of a given field of knowledge (in our case
+ mathematics), in order to enhance its accessibility, exchange and
+ elaboration via the World Wide Web. MOWGLI will make an essential use of
+ standard XML technology and aspires to become an example of ``best
+ practice'' in its use, and a leading project in the new area of the
+ Semantic Web.</p>
+ <p>In particular, we shall deeply explore the potentialities of XML in the
+ following directions:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Publishing</dt>
+ <dd>XML offers sophisticated publishing technologies (Stylesheets, MathML,
+ SVG, ...) which can be profitably used to solve, in a standard way, the
+ annoying notational problems that traditionally afflict
+ content based and machine-understandable encodings of the
+ information.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Searching and Retrieving</dt>
+ <dd>Metadata will play a major role in MOWGLI. New W3C languages such as
+ the Resource Description Framework or XML Query are likely to produce
+ major innovative solutions in this field.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Interoperability</dt>
+ <dd>Disposing of a common, machine understandable layer is a major and
+ essential step in this direction.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Distribution</dt>
+ <dd>All XML technology is finally aimed to the access of the Web as a
+ single, distributed resource, with no central authority and few,
+ simple rules.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <p>MOWGLI builds on the solid ground already provided by previous European
+ projects (Such as OpenMAth and Euler) and several XML dialects for the
+ management of mathematical documents (MathML, OpenMath, OMDoc, ...).
+ All these languages cover different and orthogonal aspects of the
+ information; our aim is not to propose a new standard, but to study and
+ to develop the technological infrastructure required for taking advantage
+ of the potentialities of all of them.</p>
+
+ <h2>Milestones and expected results</h2>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>First MOWGLI prototype (month 18)</dt>
+ <dd>Supporting browsing, rendering and on-line consultation of large
+ repositories of (content-based) mathematical knowledge. The translation
+ from content to presentation will be done via suitable notational
+ stylesheets.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Advanced MOWGLI prototype (month 24)</dt>
+ <dd>Supporting distribution, indexing, searching and retrieval (based on a
+ sophisticated metadata model).</dd>
+
+ <dt>Final MOWGLI prototype (month 30)</dt>
+ <dd>Result of validation.</dd>
+ </dl>
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