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