Note: this is not an official project page; it exists merely as a convenience for some participants to track the project and manage some of the work on it.
MathWeb refers to a general initiative to improve the integration of mathematical information on the web. The initiative is meant to span free/open mathematics information sources of all stripes; whether produced by open communities or gated ones, whether funded or voluntary (and all stages in between), and whether popular or expert/niche. Basically, all resources that can be logically connected in a beneficial way to some degree should be. The initiative focuses on motivating progress by connecting people, projects, software tools, and to some extent finding funding streams, when such connections could bring about considerable benefit at a low cost.
At this time, the initiative has no official organizational format.
For more information: Mathematics Web Development proposal
The following people are principals of the initiative:
Other "project-level" supporters include:
People doing implementation (in addition to most of the principals above) are:
General supporters include:
These are sub-projects which have "grown" directly out of MathWeb.
These projects already existed but share a high degree of goal overlap with MathWeb and have expressed interest or have otherwise made moves in support of it:
These are organizations that are putting forward resources, endorsing, or otherwise supporting the MathWeb initative or it's sub-projects:
Links to working and completed documents, presentations, and more can go here.
Reminds me of the Metacommons Manifesto more than anything else. However, it also reminds me of our discussion of licenses. In my view it remains to be determined exactly how content from different license domains can be connected.
This is the same sort of language I've taken issue with before. I think I support the idea of the project, but does my name go on the list? I would suggest that you make this sub-heading more specific. Similarly with "Allied Projects" and "Allied Organizations".
Indeed, rather than a list of alliances (which is the sort of vague thing you see way too much of on the IntarWeb?), why not give specific details on the nature of the alliances? How do the various organizations mentioned relate to this particular nexus. The ; : markup works good for that :).
(As in fiction, specificity does wonders for nonfiction. I can't say I find "share a high degree of goal overlap", for example, to be a particularly enlightening statement when the goalset is complex.)
--jcorneli
Let me continue. In addition to being linguistically vague, the format here has the potential to be misleading, particularly since "MathWeb" was a pre-existing term (used by Michael) before it was used by Pitman.
I throw my hands up in the air, and wave them like I just don't care – will someone who knows what is going on please maintain this webpage?
--jcorneli
The information presented on the MathWeb homepage:
is not sufficiently connected with actual MathWeb products or overviews thereof for it to be immediately useful (or even immediately believable). I'd like to see it replaced or supplemented by a more easily understandable encyclopedia-style survey of the project.
--jcorneli