Mathematical startup? (MathML)
I really like Yandex Dictionaries . There you can find a lot of things , but what is not there is physical and mathematical literature.
No, there are no problems with the physical literature literature on the web. In RuNet there is the Electronic Library of the Board of Trustees of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University , and for something like a dictionary / encyclopedia, you can take Wikipedia , where there is, among other things, mathematics.
But take, for example, the “library of mekhmat”. It contains links to gigabytes of texts in a completely inconvenient DjVu format; In principle, these texts are not indexed in any way (and due to legal problems the library has turned into a collection of links to files in exchange offices).
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Texts about mathematics in Russian Wikipedia, on the one hand, are often ruled by anyone (using various sources of information), but on the other hand, they are presented in the form of HTML and image formulas, that is, the actual mathematical content is also not very indexable. Wikipedia can never be regarded as a reliable source of citation, because its texts are not constant.
As for problems with indexing, what’s already there, the well-known arXiv.org server that works with LaTeX, and LaTeX, although incredibly popular among mathematicians and physicists, was not created for the Web.
Back in 2003, W3C issued a technical recommendation in the mathematical markup language (MathML) of the second version — an XML-based means of semantic and visual markup of formulas. Browser support already exists: the Gecko engine has built-in support, and Internet Explorer has a couple of tolerable plug-ins.
So why there are no sites with MathML? ..
I know only English-language sites that mostly focus on the technology itself, for example, MathML Central .
I have already matured a plan to launch a Russian-language website that would contain a math reference book in MathML format. For a basis, you can take the well-known paper edition (which has already been tested by time and can be used for citations and references). The resource will be useful for many reasons: it will not only contain useful information for a simple user, but will also become a platform for technical research and experiments, such as the indexation of mathematical information and the search by formulas. The negative side of the venture is that to implement it you will need at least to mark several hundred pages of a book in XML, and people with certain knowledge of MathML will need to deal with the markup.
I share thoughts to ask: is such a project necessary and is it possible to find like-minded people?
All this is interesting to me not as a person who has decided that he has invented something super-ingenious, but as a technologist who wants to work on the implementation of the idea.
No, there are no problems with the physical literature literature on the web. In RuNet there is the Electronic Library of the Board of Trustees of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University , and for something like a dictionary / encyclopedia, you can take Wikipedia , where there is, among other things, mathematics.
But take, for example, the “library of mekhmat”. It contains links to gigabytes of texts in a completely inconvenient DjVu format; In principle, these texts are not indexed in any way (and due to legal problems the library has turned into a collection of links to files in exchange offices).
')
Texts about mathematics in Russian Wikipedia, on the one hand, are often ruled by anyone (using various sources of information), but on the other hand, they are presented in the form of HTML and image formulas, that is, the actual mathematical content is also not very indexable. Wikipedia can never be regarded as a reliable source of citation, because its texts are not constant.
As for problems with indexing, what’s already there, the well-known arXiv.org server that works with LaTeX, and LaTeX, although incredibly popular among mathematicians and physicists, was not created for the Web.
Back in 2003, W3C issued a technical recommendation in the mathematical markup language (MathML) of the second version — an XML-based means of semantic and visual markup of formulas. Browser support already exists: the Gecko engine has built-in support, and Internet Explorer has a couple of tolerable plug-ins.
So why there are no sites with MathML? ..
I know only English-language sites that mostly focus on the technology itself, for example, MathML Central .
I have already matured a plan to launch a Russian-language website that would contain a math reference book in MathML format. For a basis, you can take the well-known paper edition (which has already been tested by time and can be used for citations and references). The resource will be useful for many reasons: it will not only contain useful information for a simple user, but will also become a platform for technical research and experiments, such as the indexation of mathematical information and the search by formulas. The negative side of the venture is that to implement it you will need at least to mark several hundred pages of a book in XML, and people with certain knowledge of MathML will need to deal with the markup.
I share thoughts to ask: is such a project necessary and is it possible to find like-minded people?
All this is interesting to me not as a person who has decided that he has invented something super-ingenious, but as a technologist who wants to work on the implementation of the idea.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11098/
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