NAOMI

	The North American OpenMath Initiative
*Building the networked science dream*

There is a strong need for a single standard for storing, transmitting, and manipulating mathematical information in online scientific documents and systems. This is required to allow advanced scientific collaboration systems for education and for research uses, as well as to allow for stable archiving of scientific information.

The International OpenMath Consortium started in Europe to create such a standard. Now, the OpenMath standard itself has matured to the point where it will be a way of describing semantic mathematical information in the World Wide Web Consortium's MathML (HTML Math) effort (details available on W3C's pages, including basics).

The North American scientific and engineering community can make a major contribution to this process, and to building and promoting real-world applications that use OpenMath. Thus the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics' PolyMath Group, IBM, and Waterloo Maple Inc., have founded the North American OpenMath Initiative (NAOMI).

OpenMath Consortium. International cooperation in action.
Why OpenMath? The need for a common standard.
Why NAOMI? Our aims and goals.
Member organizations and members. Bringing academia and industry together.
NAOMI Executive Committee members.
NAOMI Working Groups, including specialized discussion groups.
Content Dictionaries. The details of math.
NAOMI products. Technologies that implement OpenMath.
NAOMI.disc, NAOMI discussion group.
NAOMI.exec, NAOMI Exec discussion group (Restricted to Exec members).

If you are interested in joining NAOMI, or have other questions, please feel free to contact us.

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