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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>
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- <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>
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- <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>
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- <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>
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- <dt>Interoperability</dt>
- <dd>Disposing of a common, machine understandable layer is a major and
- essential step in this direction.</dd>
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- <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>
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- <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>
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- <h2>Milestones and Expected Results</h2>
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- <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>
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- <dt>Advanced MOWGLI prototype (month 24)</dt>
- <dd>Supporting distribution, indexing, searching and retrieval (based on a
- sophisticated metadata model).</dd>
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- <dt>Final MOWGLI prototype (month 30)</dt>
- <dd>Result of validation.</dd>
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