Report about the activities of the Committee for Electronic Publishing
of the EMS in 2009 and in the beginning of 2010 (until March 2010):

Date 15.03.2010 
(appended for reference: Previous report dated 12.10.2009):

1. The EuDML project has been successfully negotiated and the project
   has started. Here are further informations:
   
   http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/apps/projects/factsheet/index.cfm?project_ref=250503
   
   http://www.eudml.eu/w/Main_Page

2. As it was mentioned in the previous report, the EPC had helped to
   prepare and had offered to give advice for the intended INFRA proposal 
   of the EMS.

   However, no further involvement of the EPC was requested (except
   that apparently some text snippets authored by EPC members
   eventually have made their way into the proposal).

3. Thierry Bouche's invited talk on the DML 2009 in July 2009
   (cf. http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009-program.html) seems to
   have opened some cooperation with JSTOR, but nothing more definite
   here.

3. Ulf Rehmann was contacted by Springer Verlag (apparently
   because he is chairing the EMS EPC): They want to update their
   Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (EoM) <http://eom.springer.de/> on a
   wikipedia kind of basis and with the help of the mathematical
   community.

   They want to have the EoM content converted into a wiki format and
   want to give the EMS the full editorial control, including any
   updates that the community wants to add here.  The current online
   EoM does contain ca. 8000 pages. 

   An unfortunate technical aspect is: The formulas included in the
   EoS pages are generated from tex and stored as (unflexible) pixel
   images on the server, but apparently the tex sources of these
   images are lost, so most formula stuff needs to be retyped.
   Copyright conditions will be as follows: Springer has to maintain
   the copyright on the old stuff (as they inherited that from the
   previous Russian owner), but all the new content will be under
   Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License.  All the content
   will be freely available on the web.

   The EMS will (hopefully) have rights to set up mirrors of the
   electronic material (in order to distribute and to guarantee
   longevity of the material).
   
   It is probably desirable to get support from the math community, and
   therefore help by EMS, CEIC and IMU at some point might be very welcome.
   (CEIC/IMU have been notified.)

   A letter of intent about the cooperation of Springer and the EMS
   is expected to be signed this week.

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Last years's Report, dated 12.10.2009:

The main concern of the EPC in 2009 were various DML issues:

1. In Spring there was a "Preparatory Meeting Towards a European
   Virtual Library in Mathematics" at Santiago de Compostela - Spain,
   13-14th March 2009 at wich most Committee members and many DML
   experts participated: http://www.usc.es/~esfmaths/.

2. On the occasion of an ESF meeting at Berlin, on June 15, 2009,
   there was a presentation of a Forward Look proposal concerning the
   EVLM by Thierry Bouche, upon a suggestion at the Santiago meeting.

3. In Summer, there was a workshop "Towards a Digital Mathematics
   Library July 8-9th, 2009, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada":
   http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009-program.html, with similar
   participation as at the Santiago meeting.

4. In August, an EU-project concerning the EuDML has been accepted for
   support (1.6 Mill Euro/2 years). It will be negiotiated by José
   Luis Borbinha and Thierry Bouche on October 21 at Luxembourg.

5. Meanwhile, the EU Infrastructure ca,, was released on Juli 30
   (cf. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=262)

   Concerning the Forward Look ESF proposal, it was decided
   to follow the advice of the PESC Standing Committee to
   integrate these efforts into the upcoming EC infrastructure
   proposal.

   The committee is willing to give advice w.r. to an integration of
   DML issues into an EMS infrastructure application.