From Pixels and Minds to the Mathematical Knowledge in Digital Library

• Authors: SOJKA Petr; RÁKOSNÍK Jiří
• Year of publication: 2008
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: DML 2008: Towards Digital Mathematics Library
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Informatics

Web

• full paper in digital repository by publisher
• videotaped lecture
• web of the workshop
• presentation
• slides

• Field: Documentation, library studies, information management
• Keywords: digital mathematics library; retro-digitization; DML-CZ; digitization process
• Description: 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.

Related projects

• DML-CZ: Czech Digital Mathematical Library