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ICMS 2016: Mathematical Software – ICMS 2016 pp 419–422Cite as

Linking Mathematical Software in Web Archives

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Abstract

The Web is our primary source of all kinds of information today. This includes information about software as well as associated materials, like source code, documentation, related publications and change logs. Such data is of particular importance in research in order to conduct, comprehend and reconstruct scientific experiments that involve software. swMATH, a mathematical software directory, attempts to identify software mentions in scientific articles and provides additional information as well as links to the Web. However, just like software itself, the Web is dynamic and most likely the information on the Web has changed since it was referenced in a scientific publication. Therefore, it is crucial to preserve the resources of a software on the Web to capture its states over time.

We found that around 40 % of the websites in swMATH are already included in an existing Web archive. Out of these, 60 % of contain some kind of documentation and around 45 % even provide downloads of software artifacts. Hence, already today links can be established based on the publication dates of corresponding articles. The contained data enable enriching existing information with a temporal dimension. In the future, specialized infrastructure will improve the coverage of software resources and allow explicit references in scientific publications.

This work is partly funded by the German Research Council under FID Math and the European Research Council under ALEXANDRIA (ERC 339233).

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    http://www.swmath.org.

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    http://web.archive.org.

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    http://www.zbmath.org.

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  1. L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Helge Holzmann

  2. German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Welfengarten 1b, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Mila Runnwerth

  3. zbMATH, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Franklinstr. 11, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfram Sperber

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  1. Universität Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Gert-Martin Greuel

  2. Zuse Institute Berlin , Berlin, Germany

    Thorsten Koch

  3. Johannes Kepler University Linz , Hagenberg, Austria

    Peter Paule

  4. University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

    Andrew Sommese

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Holzmann, H., Runnwerth, M., Sperber, W. (2016). Linking Mathematical Software in Web Archives. In: Greuel, GM., Koch, T., Paule, P., Sommese, A. (eds) Mathematical Software – ICMS 2016. ICMS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42432-3_52

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