DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 The State of the RusDML Project: Russian Digital Mathematics Library Bernd Wegner Mathematics Institute, TU Berlin Editor-in-Chief of Zentralblatt MATH Co-ordinator of EMIS, ERAM, and RusDML

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Overview 1. Why WDML or RusDML 2. The Russian part 3. The RusDML project 4. Vision and reality

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 About mathematics Mathematics –is an open field for research. In contrast to a widely spread opinion a lot of problem still have to be solved. –is different from the exercises executed in scholl mathematics About research papers appear annually in the field of mathematics and its applications Published papers are the main research tool of a mathematician, they constitute the knowledge basis for further research and have to be taken into account for that. Easy access to them is essential for fruitful research and applications to other sciences

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Aims and mission WDML should offer all mathematical publications world-wide in digital form WDML should care about retrospective digitization of printed publications WDML should develop convenient access facilities which can be used at affordable rates General ideas and some technical standards available from the NSF-report of the Planning Group

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Digital archives JSTOR, Elsevier Backfiles, Springer SBM Backfiles, SIAM Backfiles, IoP Archives Cornell University Math Collection, Project Euclid ERAM (Jahrbuch project), RusDML at SUB Göttingen National activities –Million Books Project Production of digital publications: commercial and academic publishers Collections of electronic pre-prints Long-term preservation of digital content, self-archiving

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Key problems for digitization Copyright and licences: –Get the approval from authors and publishers to provide access –Remove the paper if the author complains Seamless interlinking of digitised and digitally born content –Pursued consequently by commercial publishers –Academic projects still a little behind –Big problem when academic and commercial parties are supposed to cooperate

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Objectives of RusDML Make all Russian mathematics electronically available Make all Russian mathematics easily accessible Disseminate information on Russian mathematics world wide Establish the Russian part of the WDML with free access as far as possible

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Scope All mathematical publications from Russia and FSU countries Types of publications: –More than 100 periodicals –Large collections of monographs –Reference works and handbooks –Proceedings and collections of articles –Deposited work Refers to retro-digitized work from the “printed only period” and digitally born material

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Main Russian players RAS Moscow as –owner of a series of important journals and –provider of digital versions of these journals The other branches of RAS Smaller academic publishers MGU and other university publishers VINITI –RZMat and other reference works –Surveys –Deposited articles

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Main Russian players Private publishers and agents Publishers at FSU states Digitization centers –GPNTB –Library at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics –Kasan –Other libraries.

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Framework of the RusDML project Project libraries –GPNTB Moscow, SUB Göttingen, TIB Hannover Coordination at TU Berlin, work on metadata External Partners –FIZ Karlsruhe for the export and import of Z-Math metadata Funding organizations –RFBR from Russia –DFG from Germany First period finished in March 2008 GPNTB started with book digitization

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Achievements of the RusDML project Development of a core archive of digitized versions of important Russian publications in mathematics Tools for digitization and metadata production at distributed sites Bilingual tools for convenient access from Russia and from abroad A cooperational structure for a network of repositories Free access to the core archive world-wide

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Achievements of the RusDML project The copies of the core archive will be accessible at the three partner libraries in the near future. The core metadata are available in three versions: –English –Russian in Cyrillic characters –Russian transliterated Search tools will be developed in accordance with the needs at the library partners The tools have been tested successfully and are portable to other projects of similar type.

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Content available -algeilo: 42 Bände, Artikel (ø 41) -sibimazu, 40 Bände, Artikel (ø 125) -matesb, 187 Bände, ca Artikel (ø 40) -zapinasep/l, 235 Bände, ca Artikel (ø 15) -trudmacei, 19 Bände, ca. 380 Artikel (ø 20) -trudsepok, 28 Bände, ca. 504 Artikel (ø 18) -isslepoprm, 15 Bände, ca. 210 Artikel (ø 14) -veromei_k, 12 Bände, ca. 120 Artikel (ø 10) -trudgese, 14 Bände, ca. 280 Artikel (ø 20) -mateis, 127 Bände, ca Artikel (ø 15)

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 RusDML problems Different funding schemes in Russia and Germany Internal Russian rivalries produced unexpected obstructions for the acquisition of digitization licences The consecutive workflow involving four partners was not flexible enough and produced delays The production of the rich set of metadata was too time consuming Filling the gaps was even more time consumig.

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Vision and reality Several good journals agreed to be digitized within the project under the requirements mentioned above. Some journals agreed to open access to their digitally born content through EMIS or other providers. Other are provided only for open access within the Russian Federation, asking for a subscription fee from abroad. With respect to a good distribution of Russian mathematics this is a questionable attitude. There is a chance to extend the core archive by cooperation with other producers of digital content.

DML-CZ Workshop June 2008 Vision and reality Most publications are still on a waiting list without having any chance to be digitized because of lack of money. Relatively high expectations from editors concerning revenues The attitude of content providers to give licences for free access became more reluctant. It will be more likely that they do their own digitization at a low budget level with a low quality result.

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