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The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), maintained by the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Reviews (MR) and FIZ Karlsruhe’s Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Zbl), is a scheme for classifying publications in mathematics. While it is widely used, its traditional, idiosyncratic conceptualization and representation did not encourage wide reuse on the Web, and it made the scheme hard to maintain. We have reimplemented its current version MSC2010 as a Linked Open Dataset using SKOS, and our focus is concentrated on turning it into the new MSC authority. This paper explains the motivation and details of our design considerations and how we realized them in the implementation, presents use cases, and future applications.
We would like to thank Joseph Corneli from the PlanetMath encyclopedia for providing us with information on the PlanetMath access statistics. The first author has been supported by DFG project I1-[OntoSpace] of SFB/TR 8 “Spatial Cognition” and EPSRC grant “EP/J007498/1”. The second author thanks the Mathematics Department of the University of Michigan for its support.
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Lange, C. et al. (2012). Bringing Mathematics to the Web of Data: The Case of the Mathematics Subject Classification. In: Simperl, E., Cimiano, P., Polleres, A., Corcho, O., Presutti, V. (eds) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30284-8_58
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