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Last modified: September 21, 1999
OpenMath Standard

The OpenMath Project "is a three-year project funded by the European Commission under the Esprit Multimedia Standards Initiative (project No. 24.969), commencing September 1997. It is part of a wider community which has been working in this area since 1993." With activities coordinated by the OpenMath Society, "OpenMath is an emerging standard for communicating semantically-rich representations of mathematical objects between all kinds of computer programs. The communication can take place between software packages and on the WorldWide Web. The associated tools, which will be developed as part of the project, will permit the display, manipulation and access of mathematical information stored electronically."

"OpenMath is highly relevant for heavy industry, working with large engineering type databases (e.g., aerospace, car manufacturing) as well as technical and mathematical publishing. OpenMath intends to provide standards for mechanisms which permit the interactive manipulation of mathematical objects inside a web browser. Envisaged results of the OpenMath activities are: (1) The OpenMath Standard: a mechanism for representing mathematical objects and describing their semantic content; (2) a mechanism for introducing new content and user-extension of the standard; (2) A range of Content Dictionaries: accepted collections of definitions of mathematical concepts; (4) Tools for manipulating OpenMath objects and Content Dictionaries; (5) A range of applications and plug-ins which use OpenMath in several areas."

Note that the OpenMath Standard has a specification for XML encoding as well as for binary encoding. "This encoding has been designed with two main goals in mind: (1) to provide an encoding that uses the most common character set (so that it can be easily included in most documents and transport protocols) and that is both readable and writable by a human. (2) to provide an encoding that can be included (embedded) in XML documents. This encoding is rather simple and straightforward (except, maybe, for character strings)."

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