Antonella De Robbio,

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Mathematics Subject Classificationand related
schemes in the OAI framework

• Antonella De Robbio,
• Dario Maguolo
• Mathematics Library University Library
  SystemUniversity of Padova ITALY

Electronic Information and Communication in
Mathematics Beijing, August 29-31, 2002 A
satellite conference to the ICM 2002,
International Congress of Mathematicians
Alberto MariniInstitute for Applied
Mathematics and Information Technology
National Research Council (CNR-IMATI), Milano -
ITALY
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Contents

• Subject classification
• Discipline-oriented schemesin mathematics and
  related disciplines
• The structure of classification schemes
• From structure to browsing
• The Scientific Classifications Page
• The OAI framework
• Searching through personal homepages and small
  archives
• E-print communicationtools and networking
  architectures
• The Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• OAI compatible refereed self-archives the
  EPrints software

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Subject classification schemes in mathematics

• MSC Mathematics Subject Classificationfor the
  bibliographic databases
• MathSci, edited by the American Mathematical
  Society
• Zentralblatt MATH, edited by the European
  Mathematical Society, the Fachinformationszentrum
  (FIZ) Karlsruhe, Germany and other Editorial
  Units all over Europe
• ZDM Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik
  Classification Schemefor the bibliographic
  database
• MathDI, edited by the European Mathematical
  Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and Zentrum für Didaktik
  der Mathematik at Karlsruhe University, in
  cooperation with Math Doc Cell (France)

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Subject classification schemes in computing and
physics

• CCS Computing Classification System developed
  by the Association for Computing Machinery
• PACS
• Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
  developed by the American Institute of Physics
• INSPEC Classification
• Section A Physics Astronomy
• Section B Electrical Electronic Engineering
• Section C Computer Control
• Section D Information Technology

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The common structure ofsubject classification
schemes

• Categories Codes and Descriptions
• Main ordering relation mono- or
  multihierarchical
• Cross-references
• Versions

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Classification schemesfrom structure to
browsing

• Browsing for search or data entryin metadata
  repositories
• Organizing knowledgein lexical databases,
  dictionaries, encyclopedias, surveys,digital
  libraries

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The Scientific Classification Pagehttp//www.math
.unipd.it/biblio/math/eng.htm

• Sections
• The Mathematics Classification Page
• Mathematics Subject Classification MSC andDewey
  Decimal Classification DDC
• Relating Scientific Subject Classifications
• Display modes
• Simple frame
• Double view
• KWIC lists of descriptions

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The Mathematics Classification Page

• MSC 2000 in
• simple frame presentation
• English text
• Italian translation
• interleaved English and Italian texts
• with marks of changes from MSC 1991
• with links to subject specific pagesof relevant
  Websites
• double view presentation
• English text

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RelatingScientific Subject Classifications

• linked categoriesin double view presentation of
• ACM CCS (1998) and MSC 2000
• separate KWIC lists of descriptions of
• MSC 2000
• PACS 2001
• ACM CCS (1998) English text English text
  with appended Italian text
• a combined KWIC list of descriptions of
• MSC 2000 and PACS 2001
• MSC 2000 and ACM CCS (1998)

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Towards the OAI framework

• The need of quick researchcommunication vs.the
  slow formal processof journal submission
• Dissemination methodsfrom paper documentsto
  the Internet

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Searching through personal homepages and small
archives

• The fragmented worldof ftp sites and web pages
• Citeseer-Researchindexone solution...

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E-print communicationtools and networking
strategies

• small specialized archives
• arXiv a potentially catch-all archive
• single or networked institutional
  archives(NCSTRL, ERCIM Technical Reference
  Digital Library)
• distributed networks connected by some
  interoperability protocol (RePEc, ReLIS)
• umbrella servers (MPRESS)
• servers connected to groups of journals
• servers sponsored by commercial publishers

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The Open Archives Initiative

• Fundamental concepts and tools
• Data providers
• Service providers
• Search facilities for end users
• Reference linking
• Metadata harvesting
• The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

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OAI compatible refereed self-archivesthe
EPrints software

• EPrints
• developed at the University of Southampton (UK).
• Functions
• Searching in the archive
• Browsing the archive
• User registration
• Depositing an e-print
• Processing a submission
• Exporting metadata for OAI-compliant harvesting

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Conclusions

• The OAI framework can be integrated by
• archives and service providers
• with enriched browsing functionalities
• Hypertextual displays of a full network of
• bridges among specific subject areas can
• guide advanced communication activities
• inside mathematics and between the
• disciplines that live and develop with
• mathematics