[Note from moderator: The NUMDAM project has extraordinary interest for category theorists, not least because Mme Ehresmann has told me that Cahiers will be aomng the journals covered there before long. Some of the seminars already available are more than classic. Other URL's mentioned below lead to more treasures. Enjoy.] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:44:06 -0500 From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca> To: esc+@cms.math.ca Subject: [esc-plus] Digitization - European Progress and more It appears that we have some stiff competition. The NUMDAM project has an impressive list of journals digitized: http://archive.numdam.org/numdam-bin/browse with some nice metadata available http://www.numdam.org/en/infotech.php Another snapshot is provided by http://www.library.cornell.edu/math/digitalization.php at Cornell. As far as OCR of mathematics is concerned, my efforts with Google have not yielded anything "new". For reference these were interesting: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=3304 http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol31/no1/mathematics.html http://www.inftyproject.org/en/ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=190438 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=628842 (and its references) Even this large list http://tev.itc.it/OCR/ResearchProjects.html of research projects only mentions 1 that has to do with mathematics. However, I have searched for sources of freely available TIFFs for experimental purposes - and did not really find any. While it might be possible to get some from Cornell (see http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/help.html), this is not obvious. Jacques