SINM, Beijing (China)

Abstract

SINM is the Italian National Information System for Mathematics.
It allows the Italian mathematical community to have easy access to a coordinated system of bibliographical, documentary, full-text and multimedia resources.
It aims at development, diffusion and sharing of electronic information resources regarding mathematics, with the less possible waste of technical and financial resources.
SINM website is accessible at the URL http://siba2.unile.it/sinm
Since 1991 SINM is coordinated by the University of Lecce, in particular by the SIBA Coordination (http://siba2.unile.it), in agreement with Italian mathematical libraries of Universities and Research Organizations.
Within this Information System, SIBA Coordination has developed many national projects for the cataloguing, the digitalization and the fruition of bibliographical and documentary material, for the publication and consultation of electronic journals and for the conversion in electronic format of the back volumes. Among them we can mention: the National Catalogue of Mathematical, Phisycal, Computer and Technological Sciences (http://siba2.unile.it/archives/bibsearch.html) integrated with the “Archive of Indexes” of journals of greater interest (http://siba2.unile.it/cgi-bin/waisidx), with the “Electronic Journal Catalogue Directory” (http://siba2.unile.it/ej-catalogue) and with other network resources (databases and electronic journals full-text); the OldenMath System for the cataloguing and the digitalization of rare and valuable editions in the mathematical area (http://siba3.unile.it/archives/omsearch.html); the SINM-MPRESS (http://siba-sinm.unile.it/mpress), the Italian National Index of Mathematical Preprints, interoperable with the ETRDL System (http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/EDL/edl.htm) and included into the international system MPRESS/MathNet.preprints (http://euler.zblmath.fiz-karlsruhe.de/MPRESS); the REIM Project (Italian Mathematical Electronic Journals) for the coordination and the consultation of electronic journals in the mathematical area (http://siba2.unile.it/sinm/reim.htm).
SIBA Coordination furthermore has achieved many consortium-related agreements with producers and distributors of electronic resources for an easy access to electronic journals and to the most important databases of the mathematical area. Among the last ones, we can mention MathSci and, in particular, ZMATH (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/ZMATH) and MATHDI (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/MATHDI), whose Italian national mirrors are managed by SIBA Coordination and allow, besides, to link dynamically to the National Journals Catalogue and to the other network resources accessible through the SINM web server.
SINM is connected with other European Information Systems, with the main national and international mathematical Organizations and Associations, in particular with the Italian Mathematical Union and with the European Mathematical Society.
Together with the latter one and with other European partners, SIBA Coordination cooperates to the LIMES (Large Infrastructure Mathematics-Enhanced Services) project, financed by the European Union for the scientific and technological development of ZMATH Database (http://www.emis.de/projects/LIMES/). Within LIMES project SIBA Coordination is the Italian Editorial Unit of ZMATH (http://siba2.unile.it/sinm.editZMATH), it attends to the reviewing of the Italian journals, monographs and proceedings and cooperates to the update and the development of the same database.

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SINM (Sistema Informativo Nazionale per la Matematica) is the Italian National Information System for Mathematics.
It enables the Italian mathematical community to have easy access to a coordinated system of bibliographical, documentary, full-text and multimedia resources.
It aims at the development, diffusion and sharing of electronic information resources regarding mathematics, at a less possible waste of technical and financial resources.
The SINM Web site is accessible at the URL http://siba2.unile.it/sinm
Since 1991 SINM is coordinated by the University of Lecce, in particular by SIBA Coordination (http://siba2.unile.it), in agreement with the Italian mathematical Universities and research organizations libraries.
Within this Information System, SIBA Coordination has developed many national projects for the cataloguing, digitalization and fruition of bibliographical and documentary material, for the publication and consultation of electronic journals and for the conversion in electronic format of the back volumes.

SIBA Coordination furthermore has achieved numerous consortium agreements with producers and distributors of electronic resources aiming at an easy access to electronic journals and to the major databases of the mathematical area. Among these databases we can mention MathSci and, in particular, ZMATH (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/ZMATH) and MATHDI (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/MATHDI), whose Italian national mirrors are managed by SIBA Coordination.
These databases, as mentioned above, allow also dynamically linking to the National Journals Catalogue and to the other network resources accessible through the SINM Web server.
SINM is connected with other European Information Systems, with the main national and international mathematical Organizations and Associations, in particular with the Italian Mathematical Union and with the European Mathematical Society.
Together with the latter one and with other European partners, SIBA Coordination cooperates to the LIMES (Large Infrastructure Mathematics-Enhanced Services) project, financed by the European Union for the scientific and technological development of ZMATH Database (http://www.emis.de/projects/LIMES/).
Within the LIMES project SIBA Coordination is the Italian Editorial Unit of ZMATH (http://siba-sinmlimes.unile.it/editZMATH/), it attends the reviewing of the Italian journals, monographs and proceedings and is actively involved in the development and the updating of the same database.

(*) Dr Virginia Valzano
SINM national Coordinator and SIBA general Coordinator
University of Lecce
Coordinamento SIBA, Via per Monteroni, Edificio La Stecca
73100 Lecce (Italy)
tel. +39 0832-320261-2; fax +39 0832 320261
http://siba2.unile.it; http://siba2.unile.it/sinm
e-mail: siba@unisalento.it

(**) Dr Maria Carmela Catamo
Technical collaborator SIBA and SINM
University of Lecce
Coordinamento SIBA, Via per Monteroni, Edificio La Stecca
73100 Lecce (Italy)
tel. +39 0832-320261-2; fax +39 0832 320261
http://siba2.unile.it; http://siba2.unile.it/sinm
e-mail: siba@unisalento.it

	The *National Journals Catalogue of Mathematical, Physical, Computer and Technological Sciences* contains the bibliographical descriptions and holdings of the journals of the Italian scientific libraries belonging to SINM as well as the registry data of the same libraries; moreover, it contains the bibliographical descriptions of the journals available in electronic format and links to the relevant Web sites. It is integrated with the Archive of Indexes of journals of major interest for mathematicians (http://siba2.unile.it/cgi-bin/waisidx), with the Electronic Journals Catalogue Directory (http://siba2.unile.it/ej-catalogue) - both realized by the same SIBA Coordination - and with other network resources (databases and electronic journals full-text). The Catalogue, accessible by Web at the URL http://siba2.unile.it/archives/bibsearch.html, allows the user to find the desired information in an extremely simple way, to request automatically copies of journal articles by e-mail (clicking on the library of interest and the relevant e-mail address), exclusively for scientific purposes, or to access directly the electronic version available both on the Web servers of the publishers and on the ScienceDirect OnSite Server of CASPUR, Rome (http://periodici.caspur.it). The more, dynamic links enable to extend the searching on the databases shared on the ERL-WebSpirs server (http://siba2.unile.it:8590), on the Electronic Journals Catalogue Directory (http://siba2.unile.it/ej-catalogue) and on the ZMATH (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/ZMATH) and the MATHDI (http://siba-sinmdb.unile.it/MATHDI) Databases, to the Catalogue, in order to locate journals and to find documents.

	The OldenMath System (http://siba3.unile.it/archives/omsearch.html) intends to catalogue rare and valuable editions in the mathematical area held by the Universities and research organizations belonging to SINM and to digitize the same editions, partially or completely, by means of the SIBA Coordination System for digital acquisition and processing of images (http://siba2.unile.it/sedi/labim.html). The software for the on-line management and consultation, developed ad hoc by SIBA Coordination, is based on the CDS/ISIS System (environment MS-DOS and UNIX). The Web interface being realized for an easy access to the catalogue uses the search engine WAIS-ISIS. The search template allows the location of a specific work within the catalogue, searching for title, author and/or editor, publisher and/or typographer, publication place and date. It allows moreover to navigate on authors, publishers, typographers, publication place and date, series and/or collective titles. By a common browser (such as Internet Explorer 4.0 or equivalent) the user can access bibliographical descriptions of documents and the relative digital images. Moreover, it can browse entirely digitized documents, get information about the libraries to which they belong and access their relative Web sites. The current OldenMath Catalogue (http://siba3.unile.it/archives/omsearch.html), realized within the homonymous Project and the I17 Initiative of the Coordinated Project of the Universities of Catania and Lecce, contains bibliographical descriptions of olden, rare and valuable editions, held by mathematic libraries of the Universities of Pisa, Bologna, Milano and Padova. Bibliographical descriptions follow the ISBD(A) standard. Images refer to the partial or entire reproduction of some editions and to the more significant pages of the other ones (title page, incipit, colophon, etc.). The resolution of the images stored (in JPEG format) in the on-line Catalogue, accessible by Internet, is of about 550x850 pixels; the resolution of images stored in the historical archive, for a more in-depth study by scholars, is of 2000x3000 pixels. On each image accessible by Internet a logo has been applied, indicating the name of the University of Lecce and of SIBA Coordination (who realized the images), in order to prevent somehow any embezzlement. To cite some volumes present in the OldenMath Catalogue: the II Tome of the Elements d'algèbre of Euler, De l'Analyse Indéterminée, published at Lyon in 1774, held by the library of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Physics of the Pisa University; the volume has been entirely digitized and it is possible to browse its pages one by one; to proceed skipping 20 pages at a time or to go directly to the desired image; a work of Plucker, Analytisch-geometrische Entwicklungen, also held by the Department of Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Physics of the Pisa University and entirely digitized; a volume of the Geometria by Cartesio, held by the library of the Department of Mathematics of the Milano University, from which currently only the more significant pages have been digitized; two entirely digitized specimens of the library of the Mathematical Seminar of the Padova University: Optice by Isaac Newton and Mathematicae Collectiones by Pappus Alexandrinus; the De planis triangulis by Magini, held by the Mathematics Library of the Bologna University; the 2nd edition of Algebra by Raffaele Bombelli, published at Bologna in 1579, volume that Riccardi defined as "rare and valuable". It is a very important work for the history of mathematics. The volume belongs to the "Bortolotti Fund" that takes its name from the Bolognese mathematician and historian who discovered, in the Library of the "Archiginnasio", a manuscript containing the IV and V volumes of the work, and he published it.

	The SINM-MPRESS (http://siba-sinm.unile.it/mpress) is the Italian National Index of Mathematical Preprints; it collects and indexes the preprints of Italian mathematicians, and is included in the international system MPRESS/MathNet.preprints (Mathematics Preprint Search System, http://euler.zblmath.fiz-karlsruhe.de/MPRESS). It is based on Harvest, a highly flexible software that works in a distributed way, giving the possibility to index both preprints entirely hosted on the SINM-MPRESS server and those stored on other Web sites. Moreover, SINM-MPRESS is interoperable with the ETRDL System (http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/EDL/edl.htm) of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics preprints of CNR and ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics).

	REIM (Riviste Elettroniche Italiane di Matematica = Italian Electronic Mathematical Journals) is a project aiming at the coordination and the development of the National System for the Web publication and consultation of the Italian electronic mathematical journals. The project aims also at the conversion in electronic format of the back volumes of the journals, based on the system developed by EMIS (European Mathematical Information Service, http://siba-sinmemis.unile.it) within the ERAM project (Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics, http://www.emis.de/projects/JFM). The REIM System for the management and consultation of electronic journals has been implemented by SIBA Coordination in January 2000 with the publication of the electronic version of the Journal "Note di Matematica" (http://siba2.unile.it/notemat) by the University of Lecce. Like the ESE System (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/home.htm), implemented by the same SIBA Coordination within the ESE project (Electronic Scientific Publishing of University of Lecce), REIM is based on standard and open technologies (SQL, PHP), on the use of standard formats for the access and electronic distribution of documents (PDF, PostScript, TeX) and on the use of standard communication protocols (HTTP). REIM enables the editorial management of electronic journals, the loading of full-text documents and the management of the relative metadata by means of a specific Web interface (http://siba2.unile.it/sinm/reim). The more, it allows to consult journals by means of a sole Web interface (http://siba2.unile.it/sinm/reim/search). It enables to search by title, author, abstract, keywords, MSC classification (Mathematical Subject Classification) and DOI code (Digital Object Identifier) contemporaneously on one or more journals. Each indexed article in the REIM System has a DOI code (assigned by SIBA Coordination) automatically generated and registered by the same system in the international index (DOI Directory). The DOI coding is universally acknowledged and enables the unequivocal and permanent identification of each document in electronic format through the assignment of an alphanumeric code to that document by the publisher. The REIM System enables to control the access to full-text documents through the authentication of the user by IP address or by password. The authorized user may access the full-text document directly on the REIM System. The REIM System enables also to consult, through the same Web interface, the electronic journals of other publishers: the System indeed allows also the indexing of the metadata concerning external electronic documents. In this case the System refers to the full-text on the publisher Web site.

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SINM: The Italian National *Information System for Mathematics*** V. Valzano^, M. C. Catamo^* [versione italiana]