1. Robert Roggenbuck Universität Osnabrück/ IWI Osnabrück Wolfram Sperber Konrad-Zuse- Zentrum für Informationstec hnik Berlin (ZIB) Osnabrück, 2003-03-13 Math&Industry: Sharing knowledge betweeen mathematics and industry Robert Roggenbuck Wolfram Sperber IuK 2003 Sharing Knowledge: Scientific Communication

2. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

3. Roggenbuck/Sperber Introduction Applied mathematics plays an important role to understand mathematics Mathematics is used in a lot of application fields and a tool to solve problems for a long time ago. It is a good way for non-mathematicians to understand what mathematics is doing to study the use of mathematics in applications

4. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

5. Roggenbuck/Sperber The BMBF programs in mathematics sponsoring of more than 150 projects in applied mathematics at german research institutions and companies three programs: 1993 - 1997 1997 - 2001 2001 – 2004 a fourth program will start 2004 (currently: call for participation)

6. Roggenbuck/Sperber Presentation of the projects: the print version

7. Roggenbuck/Sperber Comments Difficulties for the presentation of applied mathematics: Classification of projects (by mathematics, by application fields?) What is with multimedia-based information, e.g., visualization, software,...? time delay, updating of printed information

8. Roggenbuck/Sperber Advantages of the Web Potential advantages of the Web: Web is multimedia-based, software, visualisations, simulations, demos, interactive presentations,... ) several communities can be addressed (developers, ingeneers, managers, students, mathematicians in industry and services or in research institutions)I local management and updating of information central services provide an added value

9. Roggenbuck/Sperber Up to the Math&Industry In the past, the Web presentation of the BMBF programs in mathematics was restricted to general information about the program information about the status seminars a list of the projects http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/amj/bmbf/bmbf.html this is not enough to provide a comprehensive view about the objectives and aims of the projects

10. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

11. Roggenbuck/Sperber Main aims of the project „Math&Industry“ development of a concept for a comprehensive, high-quality and standardized Web presentation projects of projects in applied mathematics main requirements: user-friendly, efficient access to the information of projects, flexible, long-term stable. implementation of the concept within the BMBF programs in applied mathematics

12. Roggenbuck/Sperber Project data start of the project: 2001-09-01 Participating institutions:  ZIB Berlin (project office, management, pilot user)  IWI Osnabrück (technical development)  IWR Heidelberg (pilot user)  Uni Freiburg (pilot user)

13. Roggenbuck/Sperber dezentral architecture (the Math-Net principle) Web site project 1 Web site project 2 Web site project n central components of Math&Industry...

14. Roggenbuck/Sperber Local Web sites Tasks:  to provide information about projects in a standardized form: uniform structure of the project information comprehensive information about a project, particularly for users with non-mathematical background enrichment of information by metadata, allowing to process the information by machines

15. Roggenbuck/Sperber Central components  Central portal http://www.mathematik-21.de:http://www.mathematik-21.de Gathering and processing of the local information (particularly of the metadata) Services, which provide different views to the information of projects Development of ontologies (to define the relations real problems - modelling - mathematical aspects) Archiving of finished projects

16. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

17. Roggenbuck/Sperber Presentation of projects in the Web? Example: UmlaufplanungUmlaufplanung

18. Roggenbuck/Sperber A first summary  each project has a lot of relevant information: the problem and the aims the modeling of the problem the mathematical approach results and products administrative data to present a mathematical project is much more than a single Web page!

19. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

20. Roggenbuck/Sperber Aims the Web presentations of the projects are addressed particularly to engineers, managers, technicians, and mathematicians coming from industry and services (users, who work actively in this field and also users, who could be interested in this field) the presentations should be focused to the real problems and the results of a project the Web presentations should provide a fast overview about a project detailed information about special aspects of the problem and its solution

21. Roggenbuck/Sperber Structure of Websites  advantages of the standardization: a easy navigation for the human user (uniform navigation within the Web presentation of a project) allows to process the information by machines (  better retrieval functionalities in the information space, defined by the Web presentations of the projects in the BMBF programs in mathematics)

22. Roggenbuck/Sperber Structuring the project information (top level) Overview about the Project (Projektübersicht) The Problem (Das Problem) Results and Products (Anwendungen und Produkte) Models* (Modelle) Participants (Beteiligte) Mathematical Aspects (Mathematische Behandlung) * topic specific and mathematical modeling

23. Roggenbuck/Sperber Groups and subgroups of the Math&Industry Page

24. Roggenbuck/Sperber Participants (Beteiligte) Project officer / Associates (Projektverantwortliche /Mitarbeiter) Companies / Scientific institutions (Firmen / Wissenschaftliche Institutionen) The problem (Das Problem) Problem specification (Problembeschreibung) Glossary (Glossar) Related questions (Verwandte Fragestellungen) Groups and subgroups

25. Roggenbuck/Sperber Models (Modelle) Modeling ( Modellierung) Glossary (Glossar) Similar models (Ähnliche Modelle) Mathematical Aspects (Mathematische Behandlung) Mathematical Models (Mathematische Modelle) Mathematical methods and procedures (Mathematische Methoden und Verfahren) Publications (Publikationen) Software /Simulations (Software / Simulationen) Glossary (Glossar) Related mathematical problems (Ähnliche mathematische Probleme) The groups and subgroups

26. Roggenbuck/Sperber Currently, the proposal is under discussion (until end of March) problems names of the groups and subgroups redundance: the contents of the groups may overlap assignment subgroups - groups

27. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

28. Roggenbuck/Sperber The Math&Industry Page: a local portal to the information of a project Some comments: The Math&Industry Page is a classification schema for the information of a project. the core of the Math&Industry Page: the links to the information in the groups and subgroups further on the Math&Industry Page: the title of the project in the future: a navigation bar, linked to the central services of Math&Industry

29. Roggenbuck/Sperber Example:„Umlaufplanung“ the project page „Über das Projekt“Über das Projekt

30. Roggenbuck/Sperber Example:„Umlaufplanung“ the project page „Anwendungsszenarien“

31. Roggenbuck/Sperber If the projects would reorganize its Web presentation in this way, then the information of the projects could be harvested and indexed according to this structure, then the central services could generate and manage various views over the projects, e.g., a list of all projects, a list of all projects providing software, etc. an enhanced search (a search over the whole information space and also a search in the groups/subgroups of the Math&Industry Page)

32. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

33. Roggenbuck/Sperber More semantic information about the single facts of a project A more sophisticated access to the information requires more semantic annotation of the information a better semantic annotation of the contents of the groups and subgroups is needed This means: standardization for the description of information for publications, persons, institutions, glossaries,...

34. Roggenbuck/Sperber The approach Question 1: What should be presented? structuring of information, fixing the vocabulary Question 2: How should the contents be presented? partly the Math-Net developments can be used

35. Roggenbuck/Sperber Example: data about publications Metadata: Author Title URL Keywords Classification: MSC, PACS,....... To do: create the HTML pages and the according metadata

36. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

37. Roggenbuck/Sperber The concept of the WebSiteMaker a tool to generate a complete Web presentation for a project two levels: 1.top level (choose the subgroup, for which a Web page should be generated) 2.Subgroup level: forms to create Web pages and the corresponding metadata

38. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker the start form

39. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker project data

40. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker the choice page

41. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker The PageMaker for publications: the start page

42. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker The PageMaker for publications: the input form

43. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMaker The PageMaker for publications: the generated Web page

44. Roggenbuck/Sperber Prototype of the WebSiteMake

45. Roggenbuck/Sperber Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Presentation of applied mathematics 3.The Math&Industry project: Aims 4.An example 5.Structuring of information 6.The Math&Industry-Page 7.Metadata 8.The WebSiteMaker 9.About the central portal

46. Roggenbuck/Sperber The Search Services Lists of special subjects (e.g., projects, institutions) Simple fulltext query Field-specific queries (e.g., for document titles, names, organizations,...) Searching / browsing through a glossary

47. Roggenbuck/Sperber The central portal - First steps: More information of projects http://www.mathematik-21.de

48. Roggenbuck/Sperber State of the art – next steps currently: test phase of the WebSiteMaker discussion and updating of the WebSiteMaker creating Web presentations of the projects according to the concept building up central services for Math&Industry

49. Roggenbuck/Sperber Thanks!