1. Digital Mathematics Library July 29, 2002 Technical Discussion

2. 2 Technical Issues HardwareSoftwareFinances

3. 3 Hardware Redundancy & Reliability ScalabilityMaintenance Moore’s law

4. 4 Software Content Lifecycle Tools –Selection –Acquisition –QA & Enhancement –Storage & Management –Search, Discovery, Research –Delivery –Tracking –Revision, maintenance, workflow Architecture –Distributed model or harvest model? –Interoperability with other systems –Modularity & ScalabilityStandards –Format –Semantic interoperability: metadata & IP –Functional/syntactic Interoperability Tools & processes may be among the most valuable results

5. 5 Financial Total cost > Initial cost Services & support are significant (open source is not free!) Good planning is cheaper than poor execution Manage risks, don’t let risks manage you R&D ????