The Digital Mathematical Library
Mathematicians depend on having access to scientific texts for a much longer time than in more experimental disciplines. They have therefore organized a long-term system of publication, attached to a worldwide network of reference libraries. The translation of this organization into the digital paradigm raises a certain number of questions for which the Mathdoc unit has provided certain answers via services such as CEDRAM (platform for digital publication in LaTeX and XML/PDF), NUMDAM (a free digital library comprised of documents that come either from the digitization or direct acquisition of documents from publishers).
While these models are being developed internationally with the plan of creating broader access, new means of publication are being created; means that question the validity and reproducibility of results (associating traditional demonstrations data, algorithms, or computer code), creating new challenges for the conservation, duplication, and durability of results published this way.
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