| A report on OpenMath: a protocol for the exchange of mathematical information |
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ACM SIGSAM Bulletin
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Volume 30 , Issue 1 (March 1996)
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Pages: 21 - 24
Year of Publication: 1996
ISSN:0163-5824
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John Abbott
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Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Angel Díaz
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Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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Robert S. Sutor
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Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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 ABSTRACT
The proliferation of general purpose mathematical software and specialized mathematical libraries has provided a wealth of computing resources for students, scientists, and engineers. The challenge remains to harness the power of these independent software tools within a single framework. OpenMath will provide formats and a protocol for the exchange of mathematical expressions and objects, thus enabling a unification from a user's point of view. This work will also allow the inclusion of mathematical objects in a universal format within databases and electronically published scientific and technical documents.This report will detail the steps taken to date by the OpenMath Consortium to achieve the aforementioned goals. In particular, §2 provides an overview of OpenMath. Emphasis is placed on OpenMath's design goals, initial target applications, and Consortium structure. In §3, an exposition of the levels of the OpenMath model which maps mathematical concepts to their respective concrete representations is provided. Some issues that arise when a mathematical object is transcribed between its visual form and internal representation are presented in §4. Finally, §5 and §6 communicate the current state of the OpenMath prototyping efforts and concomitantly detail the future directions of the OpenMath consortium.
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{1} J. Abbott, S. Dalmas, M. Dewar, A. Díaz, S. Sheridan, A. Strotmann, and S. Vorkoetter. OpenMath communications committee report, 13 Nov. 1995. Available from http://www.can.nl/~abbott/OpenMath.
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{2} J. Abbott, A. van Leeuwen, and A. Strotmann. Objectives of OpenMath. Submitted to J. Symbolic Comput. , 30 Mar 1995. Available from http://www.can.nl/~abbott/OpenMath.
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{3} A. Capani, G. Niesi, and L. Robbiano. CoCoA, 1995. Available from http://lancelot.dima.unige.it.
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{4} G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, and H. Schönemann. SINGULAR: A System for Computation in Algebraic Geometry and Singularity Theory. Department of mathematics, 1995. Available from ftp://helios.mathematik.uni-kl.de.
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{5} IBM. techexplorer, 1996. Available from http://www.ics.raleigh.ibm.com/techexp.htm.
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{6} S. Vorkoetter. Specification of OpenMath prototype 0, 14 Jul. 1995. Available from http://www.can.nl/~abbott/OpenMath.
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P. Wang , S. Gray , N. Kajler , D. Lin , W. Liao , X. Zou, IAMC architecture and prototyping: a progress report, Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation, p.337-344, July 2001, London, Ontario, Canada
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Stéphane Dalmas , Marc Gaëtano , Stephen Watt, An OpenMath 1.0 implementation, Proceedings of the 1997 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation, p.241-248, July 21-23, 1997, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, United States
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