OpenMath Home Page

The OpenMath Home Pages have moved to http://www.can.nl/~abbott/OpenMath/. They are now being edited by John Abbott.

This page is the entry-point to an archive of old OpenMath Home Pages edited by Andreas Strotmann.

Welcome to the OpenMath information pages.

Our goal is to provide as complete a collection of information sources about OpenMath in particular and about efforts in Distributed Computer Algebra in general. If you have pointers to information missing in this collection, please do not hesitate to tell us about it: E-mail to Strotmann@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE.

OpenMath Draft Documents

OpenMath Workshops

A series of workshops is being sponsored in part by the European Community's HCM Network "Editing and Computing" (aka HCM Network OpenMath).

First OpenMath Workshop

The First OpenMath Workshop took place at the Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen of the ETH Zürich in December 1993.

A preliminary report on the workshop was submitted to and discussed on the OpenMath mailing list (see below).

Second OpenMath Workshop

The Second OpenMath Workshop took place just before ISSAC'94 on July 18 and 19, 1994 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. Proceedings of the workshop are available from
Prof. Dr. G. Gonnet
Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
ETH-Zentrum
CH-8092 Zürich

Much of the material from the proceedings is available online.

Third OpenMath Workshop

The 3rd OpenMath Workshop took place at RIACA (Research Institute for Applications of Computer Algebra) in Amsterdam on February 9 and 10, 1995.

Copies of slides presented at the workshop are available on paper from RIACA (e.g. by e-mail request to riaca@can.nl) and online here.

Fourth OpenMath Workshop

The 4th OpenMath Workshop took place September 1-2, 1995, in Copenhagen. The "proceedings" are being made available here.

Fifth OpenMath Workshop

Announcement:

The fifth OpenMath Workshop will be on held on Friday and Saturday, January 12 and 13, 1996, at the University of Bath, Bath, UK. The local coordinator for this workshop will be James H. Davenport.

A detailed programme will be distributed several weeks before the workshop. It is anticipated that demonstrations of prototype OpenMath implementations will be available and that several talks will discuss details of the OpenMath Definition document.

The preliminary programme of the workshop as well as travel and accomodation information are available in a separate page.

Future OpenMath Workshops

The OpenMath HCM network home page contains information on OpenMath workshops planned for the near future.

OpenMath Working Groups and Mailing Lists

Note: The automatic listserver for OpenMath mailing lists is currently out-of-order.

OpenMath

One result of the first OpenMath Workshop was the installation of a mailing list to discuss it on. To join this discussion, please send an e-mail message containing the line subscribe to openmath-request@can.nl. By sending the line index to the same address you can retrieve a list of files making up the archive of the discussion going on on that list. A hypertext version of the mail archive (automatically up-dated) is available at CAN.

OpenMath Steering Committee

The OpenMath Steering Committee may be reached by sending e-mail to openmath-sc@can.nl.

OpenMath Objectives

At the Second OpenMath Workshop it was decided that a small group should work out a proposal on OpenMath Objectives. The result is a paper on "Objectives of OpenMath".

Version 0.6.4 (14-Jan-1995) of that paper was discussed at the third OpenMath workshop. It is available as PostScript, as compressed PostScript, as a LaTeX source file (it requires the PostScript figures native.eps and tree.eps), and as browsable hypertext.

The current version of the paper (0.8.5 , 30-Mar-1995) has been submitted to the Journal of Symbolic Computation. It is available as browsable hypertext, as PostScript, as compressed (gzip'ed) PostScript, as a LaTeX source file (it requires the PostScript figure sinjsc.eps and the JSC LaTeX style file).

This proposal is being discussed on a small mailing list. The archive of the discussion that went on on that mailing list is available as Hypertext (automatically kept up-to-date by the list server) or by sending the E-mail message index to openmath-obj-request@can.nl.

OpenMath Standardization Committee

It was also decided that a small group should join the Objectives group to discuss and propose a further draft version of an OpenMath standard based on the principles developped by the Objectives group.

The mailing list archive for this group is available as hypertext (automatically kept up-to-date by the list server) or by sending the E-mail message index to openmath-dev-request@can.nl.

OpenMath Communications Committee

The mailing list archive for the Communications committee is available as hypertext (automatically kept up-to-date by the list server) or by sending the E-mail message index to openmath-comms-request@can.nl.

The OpenMath Communications Committee Report is available as gzip'd LaTeX source file (14 kB), as a DVI file (49 kB), and as a gzip'd PostScript file (41 kB).

OpenMath Implementation Efforts

Currently, there is only the preliminary implementation by Stefan Vorkoetter of MapleSoft available at ftp://maplesoft.on.ca/pub/openmath/sample/.

A demo of a link between Maple and REDUCE using an prototype OpenMath implementation was presented at the third OpenMath workshop.

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