Project EuDML - A First Year Demonstration

This demonstration describes the results of the first year of the EuDML project, an initiative building a new multilingual service for searching and browsing the content of existing European portals of mathematical content. We demonstrate the first versions and proofs of concept of the EuDML portal, its contents’ aggregator, and a toolset for added value. About EuDML. — EuDML, the European Digital Mathematics Library (www.eudml.eu), is a project that will build a new multilingual service for searching and browsing the content of existing European mathematical portals [5,1]. It will be based on a rich metadata repository, aggregating metadata and full text of heterogeneous and multilingual collections of digitised and born digital content (articles, books, theses, etc.). The service will merge and augment the information about each document from each collection, and also will match documents and references across the entire combined library. Entities such as authors, bibliographic references and mathematical concepts will be singled out and linked to matching items in the collections; similar mechanisms will be provided as public web-services so that end-users or other external services will be able to discover and link to EuDML items. This way, EuDML will be a new major international player in the emerging landscape of scientific information discovery services, enabled for reuse in new added value chains. EuDML is partially funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Commission (CIP ICT PSP Digital Libraries), grant agreement no. 250.503. The EuDML Service Architecture. — The EuDML system can be summarised by the use cases represented in Figure 1. The ultimate purpose will be to serve End Users, who can search and browse anonymously, or can register for personalised services. A set of Business Workers are intended to maintain the services and content, while external business partners contribute their content (bibliographic data and full texts for indexing and added value services). The EuDML Portal. — The first version of the EuDML portal can be accessed from the EuDML website.1 So far, there are no access restrictions, as all the services are available for anonymous users. This demonstration contains approximately 55,000 documents, provided by a group of partners (CEDRAM, DML-CZ, DML-E, ELibM, GDZ, NUMDAM, Portugaliæ Mathematica, and RusDML). 1 Go to http://www.eudml.eu/first-year-demos#system. Project EuDML —A First Year Demonstration 279