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The acronym MOWGLI stands for “Mathematics On the Web: Get it by Logic and Interfaces”. MOWGLI is a European Project founded by the European Community in the “Information Society Technologies” (IST) Programme. The partners are the University of Bologna, INRIA (Rocquencourt), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI, Saarbrücken), the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm), Trusted Logic (Paris) and TU Berlin.
The aim of the project is the study and the development of a technological infrastructure for the creation and maintenance of a virtual, distributed, hypertextual library of mathematical knowledge based on a content description of the information. Currently, almost all mathematical documents available on the Web are marked up only for presentation, severely crippling the potentialities for automation, interoperability, sophisticated searching mechanisms, intelligent applications, transformation and processing. The goal of MOWGLI is to overcome these limitations, passing from a machine-readable to a machine-understandable representation of the information, and developing the technological infrastructure for its exploitation.
The project deals with problems traditionally belonging to different scientific communities: digital libraries, Web publishing, automation ofmathematics and computer aided reasoning. Any serious solution to the complex problem of mathematical knowledge management needs a co-ordinated effort of all these groups and a synergy of their different expertise. MOWGLI attempts to build a solid co-operation environment between these communities. The current paper will describe the objectives and first achievements of MOWGLI in some detail.
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Asperti, A., Wegner, B. (2003). MOWGLI – An Approach to Machine-Understandable Representation of the Mathematical Information in Digital Documents. In: Bai, F., Wegner, B. (eds) Electronic Information and Communication in Mathematics. ICM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45155-6_2
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