1. Our testing ground: PhysDoc: Physics Documents  Link collection of Documents ondistributed database Physics Institutions Servers  Search facility for documentsservice provider allowing qualified queries  using Metadata (DC) in html documents / shadow files  also still: extractors try to structure documents from layout Using XML for encoding Metadata in distributed systems (PhysDoc) Th. Severiens & E. R. Hilf Lisbon, September 2000

2. Documents stay with the Authors  Need for easy to use tools  for document upload  for qualifying documents  for guaranteeing consistency (theses) Lisbon, September 2000

3. Documents stay with the Authors  Need for easy to use tools  for document uploadUpload  for qualifying documentsMetadata  for guaranteeing consistency (theses)DigSig Lisbon, September 2000

4. Documents stay with the Authors  Need for easy to use tools  for document uploadUpload  for qualifying documentsMetadata  for guaranteeing consistency (theses)DigSig Lisbon, September 2000 Metadata Encoding structure browsable robot read html 2.0 flat yes some html 4.0 little yes no XML high to be done to be done xhtml: well...

5. MetaMaker, one among many: CURD: C ARMEN U PLOADER WITH R DF AND D IGSIG GENERATOR  Generates RDF for Document description  containing DC, vCard, OAMS  Generates DigSig for all or parts  Generates URN (if possible)  Generates html for human reading description  Can manage upload process CURD is Part of the CARMEN Project http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/carmen/ CARMEN is part of the Global Info project of the German Ministry for Education and Research BMBF. Lisbon, September 2000

6. One Example for Encoding of Document Despription: Lisbon, September 2000 <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3c.org/1999/02/22-rdf-synax-ns#" xmlns:dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.0/#" xmlns:vcard = "http://imc.org/vCard/3.0#" xmlns:oams ="http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_oams.htm#"> Classification of phase transitions in small systems... Classification of phase transitions in small systems http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9909184 arXiv:cond-mat/9909184 Peter Borrmann... b6cbc1f60795623cd2e55b978e1d3de00599a5d3 89f6f699669da7f326cf52cb0be85778a72e3fae solo

7. Metadata: Lisbon, September 2000 DC OAMS vCard URN Still no Schema for description of authors rights (was idea of dc.rights) OAMS can be generated form DC and vCard automatically, if the Semantics do match.

8. Contact and Services: Lisbon, September 2000 Thomas Severiens severien@uni-oldenburg.de Eberhard R. Hilf hilf@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de Institute for Science Networking, Oldenburg, Germany http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/institutes/scinst/ Tools forhtml2.0xml Metamaker:MMMCURD (10/2001) usage, adaptioncooperation, testing

9. Author‘s tools The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999 Berkeley, California, December 1-5, 1999 www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/EPS/mmm 9...

10. The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999 Berkeley, California, December 1-5, 1999 Upload:  Starting point of workflow  Dublin-Core MetaData  Description from the author‘s view  Rights contract www.dissonline.org 10

11. The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999 Berkeley, California, December 1-5, 1999 www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/MetaPhys/ 11

12. The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999 Berkeley, California, December 1-5, 1999  Generation of MetaData  Document-upload  Digital Signatures  RDF 12 Global-Info SFM CARMEN Doc. Management Systems

13. Personal Homepages  contain all needed information  names  links to publication lists  description of research-activities Advantages  Information up to date  rights stay with author Problems  highly incoherent syntax  personal layout  highly dynamic information Solution  Professional Homepages  Upload Form  Metadata  Global Search 13

14. The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999 Berkeley, California, December 1-5, 1999 Web-Form Personal Homepage Qualified Professional Homepage www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/EPS/PHP 14 Developed together with R. Schwänzl and J. Plümer