Sharing Knowledge: Scientific Communication - SSOAR

MPRESS - transition of metadata formats 1
Judith Plümer
Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
Abstract
Progress in science is based on the availability and accessibility of its state of the
art. Nowadays, in mathematics and related sciences this state of the art is reflected
in electronically published preprints. In this way every author becomes his or
her own publisher, consequently there is a lack of an organized accessibility of
this material.
The Mathematics PREprint Server System (MPRESS) is a service which offers
an index of mathematical preprints which have been electronically published
all over the world.
Referencing more than 50,000 documents which reside on more than 100
WWW servers, MPRESS is the largest index of mathematical preprints worldwide.
The index data of the preprints are enriched by the use of metadata which
improve the quality of retrieval dramatically.
The development of metadata schemes and metadata encoding enforces a
transition from plain metadata to RDF, as recommended by W3C.
The paper sketches out the system of MPRESS and the related development
in the area of metadata. The problems that these developments cause for a system
like MPRESS are discussed and the transition to a new metadata scheme is
presented together with the improvements that result from this transition.
MPRESS - Transformation von Metadaten Formaten
Wissenschaftlicher Fortschriff basiert auf der Verfügbarkeit des State of the Art.
In Mathematik und verwandten Wissenschaften spiegelt sich der State of the Art
in Preprints wieder, die heutzutage electronisch publiziert werden. Da jeder
Author so zum Verleger wird, fehlt es an Organisation zur Verfügbarkeit des
Materials.
Das Mathematical Preprint Server System (MPRESS) ist ein System zur Bereitstellung
eines Index mathematischer Preprints aus der ganzen Welt.
Mit über 50.000 Dokumenten von über 100 WWW-Servern ist MPRESS der
größte Nachweis mathematische Preprints weltweit. Die Indexdaten der Pre-
1 This project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).