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The Digital Mathematics Library A European perspective

Thierry Bouche

Cellule Mathdoc, Université Grenoble Alpes

ICM  Rio de Janeiro August th, 

Outline

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The Digital Mathematics Library

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Open Access?

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Examples

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The Mathematics Library

The libraries’s main functions are : Selection of collections by subject, document type Not necessarily formally published : theses, reports, preprints. .. Some grey literature needs to be archived or made accessible to patrons (e.g. Nash, Perelman...) Acquisition of actual documents (books, journals...) Cataloguing for collection maintenance and easy retrieval Archiving and Preservation of the curated collections Access provision maintained for patrons

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The Digital Mathematics Library

EuDML tries to recreate this in the digital era A curated digital archive Physically hosted at public (at least non-profit, science-driven) institutions Free to use (possibly after some moving wall) GDML/IMKT could add Enhanced with intelligent math-aware agents More accessible to humans with disabilities Free to mine (more accessible to machines)

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The Digital Mathematics Library

EuDML tries to recreate this in the digital era A curated digital archive Physically hosted at public (at least non-profit, science-driven) institutions Free to use (possibly after some moving wall) GDML/IMKT could add Enhanced with intelligent math-aware agents More accessible to humans with disabilities Free to mine (more accessible to machines)

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Recommendations A global (distributed) facility dedicated to archive newly published or digitised material An up-to-date registry of all available resources Mechanisms for interlinking the holdings with existing and future infrastructures Seamless navigation across the whole corpus Instant and perpetual access

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Facets

What is the mathematical literature? Many document sets for different features! Preprints and other volatile material (grey literature) enable ongoing research and fast communication between colleagues Formal publishing of refereed results is slow but needed to produce the version of record Archiving and providing long term access to the validated mathematical corpus is critical as mathematical results last for ever and can be used by any science at any time after their publication These facets are all equally useful : complementary indeed Each one needs a dedicated infrastructure and a different set of actors and skills

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Facets

What is the mathematical literature? Many document sets for different features! Preprints and other volatile material (grey literature) enable ongoing research and fast communication between colleagues Formal publishing of refereed results is slow but needed to produce the version of record Archiving and providing long term access to the validated mathematical corpus is critical as mathematical results last for ever and can be used by any science at any time after their publication These facets are all equally useful : complementary indeed Each one needs a dedicated infrastructure and a different set of actors and skills

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Facets

What is the mathematical literature? Many document sets for different features! Preprints and other volatile material (grey literature) enable ongoing research and fast communication between colleagues Formal publishing of refereed results is slow but needed to produce the version of record Archiving and providing long term access to the validated mathematical corpus is critical as mathematical results last for ever and can be used by any science at any time after their publication These facets are all equally useful : complementary indeed Each one needs a dedicated infrastructure and a different set of actors and skills

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Facets

What is the mathematical literature? Many document sets for different features! Preprints and other volatile material (grey literature) enable ongoing research and fast communication between colleagues Formal publishing of refereed results is slow but needed to produce the version of record Archiving and providing long term access to the validated mathematical corpus is critical as mathematical results last for ever and can be used by any science at any time after their publication These facets are all equally useful : complementary indeed Each one needs a dedicated infrastructure and a different set of actors and skills

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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The mathematical literature

The reference mathematical corpus is About ,, items (135·106 pages?) Heavily multilingual Growing by about , new items a year... (mostly English) Document types Mostly journal articles or conference proceedings ( %) Books

• Ph. D. theses

Surveys, encyclopediæ + Preprints, Blogs, wikis, internet fora... + Multimedia, data, computer code, software. ..

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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The mathematical literature

The reference mathematical corpus is About ,, items (135·106 pages?) Heavily multilingual Growing by about , new items a year... (mostly English) Document types Mostly journal articles or conference proceedings ( %) Books

• Ph. D. theses

Surveys, encyclopediæ + Preprints, Blogs, wikis, internet fora... + Multimedia, data, computer code, software. ..

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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Still a long way

A remark from a colleague to whom I showed a preview of the first online posting of Numdam (Dec. ,  journals) : Why isn’t it all there?

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Still a long way

A remark from a colleague to whom I showed a preview of the first online posting of Numdam (Dec. ,  journals) : Why isn’t it all there? Numdam  : , items EuDML  : , items Numdam  : , items

GDML

“DML ready” : ,, items? Currently stalled : how do we resume towards comprehensiveness?

• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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The Digital Mathematics Library

Risks

Beware confusion Trusted archive (DML) vs. Encyclopedia

= ⇒ we need access to the original sources!

Mathematical corpus vs. math. knowledge as big data

= ⇒ True vs. plausible theorems?

Can we rely on social scoring to identify reliable or relevant results?

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Outline

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The Digital Mathematics Library

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Open Access?

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Examples

DML OA Examples

Open access

Mathematicians have an overall favorable attitude towards Open Access, but not at any cost Good options Eventual perpetual OA to all (through GDML/IMKT) Diamond OA, with some regulation (e.g. funded and monitored by a scientific organization) Reasonably priced subscription journals are better than crap OA journals! Concerns An obvious dangerous cost : APCs Putting societies’ publications at risk Research integrity might be endangered by open access mandates, citation

• advantage. ..
• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

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Open access

Mathematicians have an overall favorable attitude towards Open Access, but not at any cost Good options Eventual perpetual OA to all (through GDML/IMKT) Diamond OA, with some regulation (e.g. funded and monitored by a scientific organization) Reasonably priced subscription journals are better than crap OA journals! Concerns An obvious dangerous cost : APCs Putting societies’ publications at risk Research integrity might be endangered by open access mandates, citation

• advantage. ..
• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 10 / 27

DML OA Examples

Open access

Mathematicians have an overall favorable attitude towards Open Access, but not at any cost Good options Eventual perpetual OA to all (through GDML/IMKT) Diamond OA, with some regulation (e.g. funded and monitored by a scientific organization) Reasonably priced subscription journals are better than crap OA journals! Concerns An obvious dangerous cost : APCs Putting societies’ publications at risk Research integrity might be endangered by open access mandates, citation

• advantage. ..
• Th. Bouche (Grenoble)

EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 10 / 27

DML OA Examples

Open access

Mathematicians have an overall favorable attitude towards Open Access, but not at any cost Good options Eventual perpetual OA to all (through GDML/IMKT) Diamond OA, with some regulation (e.g. funded and monitored by a scientific organization) Reasonably priced subscription journals are better than crap OA journals! Concerns An obvious dangerous cost : APCs Putting societies’ publications at risk Research integrity might be endangered by open access mandates, citation

• advantage. ..
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ICSU recommendation

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ICSU recommendation

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The mathematical literature

Towards a not-for-profit system?

Journal articles in MR : commercial vs. non-commercial publishers

• D. E. McClure, AMS 
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The mathematical literature

Everything on the arXiv?

Percentage of arXiv coverage for main MSC subject classes.

Müller, F., Teschke, O. : Will all mathematics be on the arXiv (soon)?

• Eur. Math. Soc. Newslett.  ()
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Jussieu call

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Jussieu call

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Math OA

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Free journal network

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ELibM

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Centre Mersenne

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DEAL

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SciPost

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SciPost

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Peer Community in X

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Open Library of Humanities

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Knowledge unlatched

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Thank you

Thierry BOUCHE Institut Fourier & Cellule Mathdoc, Grenoble http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~bouche/ Mathdoc director EuDML initiative chair EMS Publications and Electronic Dissemination Committee chair IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication member