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- From: Hans-Gert Gräbe <graebe informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:35:51 +0000
Das stand neulich im IMU newsletter (IMU = int. Math. Union). Es geht
voran mit Matthias Käthers Vision und der Druck auf die Rechteinhaber
wächst.
Viele Grüße, HGG
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Best Practice for Retrodigitisation
The World Digital Mathematics Library initiative (see
http://www.ceic.math.ca/News/IMUonWeb.shtml#CEIC8) envisions our freely
navigating the mathematics research literature with clickable
citations readily allowing us to "iterate references". But there
remain obstructions to realizing that dream. First, all but the quite
recent literature was not in electronic form. Second, almost all but
the very old literature belongs to its copyright owners. However,
worldwide noncommercial retrodigitization initiatives making their
work freely available (see the draft vision statement at
http://www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/dml_vision.pdf and a brief listing
of major projects at http://www.ceic.math.ca/WDML/projects/
index.shtml) have dealt with chunks of the old literature. Moreover,
many publishers have chosen to digitize their back journals (less
happily, but understandably, they see a need next to recover the costs
of such endeavours).
In order to assist and promote the digitisation efforts the CEIC has
prepared a draft best practices statement on digitisation; see
http://www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/retro_bestpractices.pdf; comment
is invited.
At its Quadrennial Assembly in Shanghai, 2002, the International
Mathematical Union adopted the following notion: that publishers be
asked to contribute to building the strands of the citation web by
agreeing that electronic materials more than five years old be
seamlessly accessible without financial impediment. Although this
"moving wall" principle has only been sporadically embraced it
presents our best hope for building the citation web.
The opinions incidentally expressed above are not necessarily the
views of any person let alone of any organisation.
Alf van der Poorten
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