Re: [sage-devel] OT: SWMATH

[Burcin Erocal]

Hi,

here is an official announcement for the swMATH project.

Cheers,
Burcin

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:00:29 +0200
From: Gert-Martin Greuel <gre...@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
Subject: swMATH

Dear all,

I would like you to inform you about a new service on mathematical
software, www.swmath.org
The database contains information on more than 5,000 software packages
and literature, citing the software. More information is attached.

It would be nice if many of you would check swMATH and provide
feedback. For example, by answering the questions in the (rather
short) questionnaire:
https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/swMATH-survey

Best regards,
Gert-Martin Greuel

--------------- What is swMATH?

swMATH is a freely accessible, innovative information service for
mathematical software. swMATH not only provides access to an extensive
database of information on mathematical software, but also includes a
systematic linking of software packages with relevant mathematical
publications.

The intention is to offer a list of all publications that refer to a
software recorded in swMATH. In particular, all articles are given,
which are included in Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH). It can be both,
articles that describe the background and technical details of a
program, as well as those publications in which a piece of software is
applied or used for research.

In this way, swMATH provides information on actual use of the software
that is otherwise impossible or very difficult to obtain. At the same
time the documentation of literature referring to a software is a
valuable source of information for the authors of the software about
where their software is used. Moreover, if software is cited in
scientific publications, this is also an important quality criterion,
which is used by swMATH for software selection.

swMATH sees itself as a service to the mathematical community.
Additions, corrections and other notes from authors and users of
mathematical software can be communicated under 'Feedback' and are
very welcome.

Project Information

swMATH is a project of the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach
(MFO) and FIZ Karlsruhe (FIZ), funded by the Leibniz Association
2011-2013.

Project leader: Gert-Martin Greuel (MFO); Wolfram Sperber (FIZ)
Concept, programming, design: Michael Brickenstein, Christoph Knoth
(MFO); Sebastian Bönisch, Hagen Chrapary (FIZ)

--

Gert-Martin Greuel

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Head, Centre for Computer Algebra
University of Kaiserslautern
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, P.O.Box 3049, Germany
e-mail: gre...@mathematik.uni-kl.de
phone: +49 631-205-2850 (office) -3141 (Secretary Mrs. Baesell)
fax: +49 631-205-4795 (Secretary)
internet: www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~greuel/en

Editor-in-Chief, Zentralblatt MATH
gre...@zentralblatt-math.org
www.zentralblatt-math.org/zbmath

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
gre...@mfo.de
www.imaginary.org

[John Cremona]

I think someone ought to correct their page on Sage which says

Authors: William Stein; David Joyner; David Kohel; John Cremona; Eröcal, Burçin

but it is hard to know what to replace that list other than "cast of thousands"!

John

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[Burcin Erocal]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:49:16 +0100
John Cremona <john.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think someone ought to correct their page on Sage which says
>
> Authors: William Stein; David Joyner; David Kohel; John Cremona;
> Eröcal, Burçin
>
> but it is hard to know what to replace that list other than "cast of
> thousands"!

Wow! I suppose I should have looked at it a bit before sending the
announcement.

Disclaimer: Even though my name appears on that list (with correct
Turkish characters and all), I had nothing to do with the Sage entry on
swmath.

I guess giving a link to the developer map on sagemath.org would be a
better solution:

http://www.sagemath.org/development-map.html

Any other ideas??


On another note, it is annoying that the swmath site doesn't let me
submit corrections to the entry without filling out a form with all
kinds of other information.

http://www.swmath.org/contribute


Cheers,
Burcin

[Burcin Erocal]

Hi Michael,

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Brickenstein <bricke...@mfo.de> wrote:

> Yes, and it even includes Sage ;-). Well, at the moment it's
> at position 8 in total number of citations which is not bad,
> considering it's age.

How do you see this on the current swmath.org site? I couldn't manage
to get a list of software by citation count.


Cheers,
Burcin