From Pixels and Minds to the Mathematical Knowledge in a Digital Library

summary:Experience in setting up a workflow from scanned images of mathematical papers into a fully fledged mathematical library is described on the example of the project Czech Digital Mathematics Library DML-CZ. An overview of the whole process is given, with description of all main production steps. DML-CZ has recently been launched to public with more than 100,000 digitized pages

DML-CZ: The Experience of a Medium-Sized Digital Mathematics Library

The Czech Digital Mathematics Library, one of the local digital mathematics libraries (DML) that have emerged world-wide in the last decade is presented. Authors survey basic facts about the project: its goals and how they were met, its structure, content and services offered to users, the experience from the first three years of routine operation in modest conditions, and visions of further development. It is believed that such local DMLs can form feasible building blocks for the envisioned global DML

European Digital Mathematics Library

The aim of this paper is to survey the European Digital Mathematics Library project goals and achievements as well as an outlook for sustainable development. “Making mathematics literature published in Europe available online” www.eudml.or

TOWARDS DIGITAL TWIN DRIVEN CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT: A HBIM-BASED WORKFLOW FOR ENERGY IMPROVEMENT OF MODERN BUILDINGS

Europe has numerous historic buildings that need to become more energy-efficient, which need permanent maintenance and refurbishment to fulfill sustainability and use requirements. Asset owners and asset managers need to adopt new strategies to protect listed buildings while optimizing costs and benefits during their life cycle. In this sense, the digital transition proves to be a moment to seize for opening new scenarios. The Digital Twin paradigm promises to be valuable for enabling the sustainable knowledge, conservation, restoration, and management of built assets and solving the dilemma about protecting the architectural identity of these buildings while adapting them to the functional and performance requirements dictated by the regulatory framework. This study proposes a workflow that integrates Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) and Building Performance Simulation (BPS) tools for data-driving the energy improvement of Italian listed modern buildings built between the 1920s and 1960s. After acquiring information about the building, the HBIM model and the Building Energy Model (BEM) are realized based on the International Foundation Classes (IFC) standard. Energy intervention measures are defined, construction costs are computed, and benefits during the intervention life cycle are predicted in thermal demand. Finally, an expeditious multi-criteria analysis allows for comparing different intervention combinations and indicating the optimal solution for the energy improvement of the building concerning energy, economic, and financial issues. These outcomes represent the first step towards realizing a dynamic, accessible, and sharable Digital Twin

Digitization capacity and skills of academic librarians in Nigeria

In order to increase their global visibility and better performance in the web ranking of world universities, more Nigerian universities have been devising creative means of increasing their digital contents in the public domain resulting in more sharability of institutional resources. Digitization builds capacity for the university library system to realize its mandate of supporting learning, teaching and research activities of its parent institutions through the instrumentality of the emerging and evolving information and communications technologies (ICTs). However, certain skill sets and competencies are required by librarians in Nigerian universities to establish and maintain digital collections in their respective institutions. A questionnaire survey is conducted on this category of information professionals in ten selected private and public universities that have minimum ICT infrastructure required for digitization. The collected data are analyzed and results presented in simple descriptive statistics

DML-CZ: česká digitální matematická knihovna v roce 2011

Česká digitální matematická knihovna (DML-CZ) je výsledkem spolupráce tří českých akademických pracovišť (Masarykovy univerzity, České akademie věd, Karlovy univerzity) v rámci stejnojmenného projektu financovaného Českou akademií věd v letech 2005-2009. Od roku 2010 je digitální knihovna v plném provozu. Článek popisuje obsah DML-CZ, její základní funkce a postupy používané při její tvorbě. Zkušenosti získané při budování DML-CZ a vyvinuté nástroje jsou využívány v některých dalších projektech na národní i mezinárodní úrovni, jako je například Digitální knihovna Filozofické fakulty MU nebo Evropská digitální matematická knihovna EuDML.The DML-CZ – Czech Digital Mathematics Library has been implemented by Masaryk University Brno, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Charles University in Prague within the research and development project funded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 2005-2009. Since 2010 the digital library switched over to routine operation. This article presents content of DML-CZ, its implemented features and workflow used in its development. Know-how and tools developed in the DML-CZ are applied in other projects at both national and European levels, examples being the Digital Library of Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University and the European Digital Mathematics Library EuDML