Author:
Henry Lin
Affiliation:
Tsinghua University, China
Keyword(s):
Online collaboration, Mathematics, Organization, Web 2.0 technologies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Business Analytics
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Data and Information Retrieval
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Data Engineering
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Data Management and Quality
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Data Semantics
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Data Storage and Query Processing
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Ontologies and the Semantic Web
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Ontology Engineering
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a new idea for developing a collaborative online system for storing mathematical work similar to Wikipedia, but much more suitable for storing mathematical results and concepts. The main idea proposed in this paper is to design a system that would allow users to store mathematics in a structured manner, which would make related work easier to find. The proposed system would have users use indentation to add a hierarchical structure to mathematical results and concepts entered into the system. The hierarchical structure provided by the indentation of results and concepts would provide users with additional search functionality useful for finding related work. Additionally, the system would automatically link related results by using the structure provided by users, and also provide other useful functionality. The system would be flexible in terms of letting users decide how much structure to add to each mathematical result or concept to ensure that contributo
rs are not overly burdened with having to add too much structure to each result. The system proposed in this paper serves as a starting point for discussion on new ideas to organize mathematical results and concepts, and many open questions remain for new research.
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