From 35aa9bcdb6a5f00f52725ea299cd15d34d0fdd2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Irene Schena Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:39:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Modified Files: 1) home/html/.cvsignore home/html/Makefile home/xml/home.xml: added chapters 6 e 7 mowgli proposal Added Files: 1) home/xml/EC-contribution.xml: chapters 6 e 7 mowgli proposal --- helm/mowgli/home/html/.cvsignore | 3 +- helm/mowgli/home/html/Makefile | 5 + helm/mowgli/home/xml/EC-contribution.xml | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++ helm/mowgli/home/xml/home.xml | 1 + 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 helm/mowgli/home/xml/EC-contribution.xml diff --git a/helm/mowgli/home/html/.cvsignore b/helm/mowgli/home/html/.cvsignore index 22e6ba4e4..1e51be510 100644 --- a/helm/mowgli/home/html/.cvsignore +++ b/helm/mowgli/home/html/.cvsignore @@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ people-list.html latest-news.xml approaching-deadlines.xml contribution.html -innovation.html \ No newline at end of file +innovation.html +EC-contribution.html \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/helm/mowgli/home/html/Makefile b/helm/mowgli/home/html/Makefile index 4dfae3efe..ddd9a4019 100644 --- a/helm/mowgli/home/html/Makefile +++ b/helm/mowgli/home/html/Makefile @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ DOCUMENTS = \ project-summary.html \ contribution.html \ innovation.html \ + EC-contribution.html \ consortium.html \ project.html \ news.html \ @@ -186,6 +187,10 @@ innovation.html: $(XMLROOT)/innovation.xml \ $(XHTMLCONTENT) sed $(RMDOCTYPE) $< | $(XSLTP) --param path_to_top "'.'" --param use_frames "'$(FRAMES)'" -o $@ $(XHTMLCONTENT) - +EC-contribution.html: $(XMLROOT)/EC-contribution.xml \ + $(XHTMLCONTENT) + sed $(RMDOCTYPE) $< | $(XSLTP) --param path_to_top "'.'" --param use_frames "'$(FRAMES)'" -o $@ $(XHTMLCONTENT) - + mowgli-events/kick-off.html: $(XMLROOT)/mowgli-events/kick-off.xml \ $(XHTMLCONTENT) sed $(RMDOCTYPE) $< | $(XSLTP) --param path_to_top "'..'" --param use_frames "'$(FRAMES)'" -o $@ $(XHTMLCONTENT) - diff --git a/helm/mowgli/home/xml/EC-contribution.xml b/helm/mowgli/home/xml/EC-contribution.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6bfb4ba28 --- /dev/null +++ b/helm/mowgli/home/xml/EC-contribution.xml @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ + + + + + + + Contribution to policies of the European Community + + +

Community added value and contribution to EC policies

The Project relies in an essential way on the convergence of information + processing, communication and new media, meeting the main policy issue of + the IST programme. In fact, due to its very nature, mathematical + information is particularly suited to an integrated analysis under the + different perspectives of elaboration, communication and (hyper)media + publishing, providing a main arena for innovative experiments and + solutions, especially in view of the new technological frontier of the + Semantic Web.

The Project also tries to answer to a clear need for wider + interoperability and coherence in the realm of mathematics over the Web, + especially for educational, scientific and commercial purposes.

Electronic textbooks are rapidly becoming a main tool for education and + knowledge dissemination. Electronic textbooks must be interactive, + allowing intercommunication between the text and scientific software and + graphics. This is very hard to achieve starting form a mere presentational + description of the information, clearly requiring a sophisticated + semantical description of the content.

Similarly, the academic and commercial research communities generate large + volume of dense scientific material. Increasingly, research publications + are being stored in databases, especially for those areas of physics and + mathematics where academic journal prices have been growing at an + unsustainable rate. Still, however, the information is stored in a format + which is machine readable but not machine understandable; in particular it + is not suitable for any form of elaboration other than its rendering. + MOWGLI's content and metadata levels are exactly meant to address complex + elaboration requirements, and to facilitate the maintenance and + operability of large document collections, for which automatic searching + and indexing are crucial.

Corporate and academic scientists and engineers also use technical + documents in their work to collaborate, to record results of experiments + and computer simulations, and to verify calculations. The Web is, + potentially, the natural media for sharing this information; MOWGLI is + meant to provide the basic technology to transform this potentiality into + an actual possibility.

Commercial publishers are also involved with mathematics on the Web at all + levels from electronic versions of printed books to interactive textbooks + and academic journals. In this case, MOWGLI offers support for advanced + capabilities, such as browsing, interactivity, presentational and + stylistic customisation, and advanced searching and retrieving + features.

The project deals with problems traditionally belonging to different + scientific communities: digital libraries, Web publishing, automation of + mathematics and computer aided reasoning. Any serious solution needs a + coordinated effort of all these groups and a synergy of their different + expertise. The members of the consortium have been also carefully chosen + for their experience in the above mentioned areas. From this interaction, + we expect to develop new technologies and solutions, fostering + innovation towards the construction of the Semantic Web.

MOWGLI contributes in the spread of information and know-how, since + new information technologies will be applied to realms such as education + and publishing, which are traditionally not very inclined to innovation. + More competitiveness will be acquired both by the end users of the + system and by the technology providers, which will eventually profit by + the expertise gained by applying new and emerging technologies to the huge + and compelling problem of the management of mathematical documents over + the Web.

By opening new perspectives in the domains of interactive publishing and + education, MOWGLI suggests new job-profiles in these domains, and + increases job opportunities in the Information Society sector.

Finally, the social and cultural cohesion of Europe is eventually + strengthened by the creation of a large distributed repositories of + scientific knowledge.

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Contribution to Community Social Objectives

The quality of life, in a civilised country, strictly depends on the + quality of its services, and in particular on the attention devoted to + those services aimed to preserve, increase and make accessible to a wider + audience its cultural and scientific heritage. Building a user friendly + Information Society, with particular emphasis on digital heritage, + cultural content and education is indeed a main social objective of the + European Community.

The new Information Society is essentially based on the convergence of + information, communication and networking technologies and takes + advantage of infrastructures like the Internet and the Web.

Our project builds on these grounds, to create the technological + infrastructure required for the creation and maintenance of a digital + knowledge base of structured mathematical information, universally + and seamlessly accessible to all people, and in particular to students and + professionals, through interoperable, dependable and affordable products + and services.

From the educational point of view, our system could easily become a main + tool for a wider and more friendly dissemination of mathematical + knowledge. Indeed, its interactive nature, and the possibility to access + single information units, and possibly applying them, provides a more + operational and far less abstract comprehension of mathematical entities, + and should naturally induce the user to play with the knowledge base, + assembling components in the development of new theorems and results. + From the educational point of view, our system could easily become a main + tool for a wider and more friendly dissemination of mathematical + knowledge. Indeed, its interactive nature, and the possibility to access + single information units, and possibly applying them, provides a more + operational and far less abstract comprehension of mathematical entities, + and should naturally induce the user to play with the knowledge base, + assembling components in the development of new theorems and results.

From the point of view of employment and development of individual skills, + there are two different aspects to be considered, according to the + objectives and the methodology of the project.

From the methodological point of view, the project makes an essential use + of technologies which are the very foundations of the information society, + driving their development, enhancing their applicability, and accelerating + their take up in Europe. In particular, we shall build on most of the + recent recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), like XML, + DOM, XSL, XLL, MathML, RDF, etc. testing their applicability to the + definition of a comprehensive, integrated description of a given field of + knowledge.

This kind of tools and techniques is of crucial importance in the + development of the Web and of the Information Technology of the next + years, and our project could play a major role in their dissemination in + Europe, and in training people in their use.

On the other side, MOWGLI itself could become a major source of + inspiration for the re-invention of existing activities, and in particular + for the exploitation of new business in the publishing market. Currently, + digital journals just offer purely textual objects: our project could + help to define new market possibility for content-based publishing (i.e. + structured, possibly formal mathematical developments), with all the + potentialities offered by this approach, from browsing facilities, to the + personalisation of the style, from enhanced forms of searching, to more + or less arbitrarily complex forms of elaboration.

Our system also opens new perspectives on the mechanisation of mathematics + and the automation of formal reasoning. The growing complexity of advanced + technological projects (in the areas of electronic and avionic + engineering, for example) has recently arose a renewed interest in formal + methods. From this respect, our project contributes to build an essential + infrastructure for the exploitation of these methods, providing a major + help for professionals, and fostering their skills.

Let us finally remark that the project has no negative impact on the + natural environment. We could even claim a few benefits, related to the + electronic distribution of documents, such as the minimisation in the use + of means of conveyance and the saving of paper.

The possible customisation via suitable style-sheets of structured + electronic documents could also meet the needs of particular users, such + as disabled (in particular, disabled students) or elderly (as retired + researchers who would like to continue their professional activity), + providing at the same time comfortable working conditions (e.g. at home). + Another general design requirement is the ability to render mathematical + material in other media such as speech or braille, which is extremely + important for the visually impaired.

In conclusion, the aim of our work is to contribute to the creation of the + next generation of user-friendly, dependable and interoperable + general-interest services, meeting user demands for flexible access, for + everybody, from anywhere, at any time.

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