The Digital Mathematics Library A European perspective Thierry Bouche Cellule Mathdoc, Université Grenoble Alpes ICM Rio de Janeiro August th,
Outline The Digital Mathematics Library Open Access? Examples
DML OA Examples 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 Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 2 / 27
DML OA Examples 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) Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 3 / 27
DML OA Examples 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) Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 3 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 4 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 di ff erent set of actors and skills Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 di ff erent set of actors and skills Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 di ff erent set of actors and skills Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 di ff erent set of actors and skills Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 5 / 27
DML OA Examples The mathematical literature The reference mathematical corpus is About , , items ( 135 · 10 6 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) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 6 / 27
DML OA Examples The mathematical literature The reference mathematical corpus is About , , items ( 135 · 10 6 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) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 6 / 27
DML OA Examples 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? Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 7 / 27
DML OA Examples 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 Numdam : , items GDML “DML ready” : , , items? EuDML : , items Currently stalled : how do we resume towards comprehensiveness? Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 7 / 27
DML OA Examples 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? Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 8 / 27
Outline The Digital Mathematics Library Open Access? 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) 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. .. Th. Bouche (Grenoble) EuDML ICM Rio, 07/08/2018 10 / 27
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