The grand vision of a Digital Mathematics Library (DML), coordinated by a group of institutions that establish polices and practices regarding digitization, management, access, and preservation, has not come to pass. The project encountered two related problems: it was overly ambitious, and the approach to realizing it confused local and community responsibilities. While the vision called for a network of distributed, interoperable repositories, we approached and planned the project as if we were building a single, unified library. After a discussion of this, a brief status report on Project Euclid is given. This is followed by a description of activities that local repositories and the mathematics community can engage in to encourage the development of network services.
@article{702554,
title = {The Evolving Digital Mathematics Network},
booktitle = {Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009},
series = {GDML\_Books},
publisher = {Masaryk University Press},
address = {Brno, Czech Republic},
year = {2009},
pages = {3-16},
zbl = {1176.68072},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/702554}
}
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