Workshop in Edinburgh: "Online databases: from L-functions to combinatorics"

[Paul-Olivier Dehaye]

The American Institute of Mathematics and the International Center for
Mathematical Sciences are sponsoring a workshop on

"Online databases: from L-functions to combinatorics" (co-organized by
Nicolas M. Thiery and me)

This workshop will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from January 21
to January 25, 2013.

Space and funding is available for a few more participants. Anyone
with experience in one or more of the relevant topics is strongly
encouraged to apply (design of core features of sage, mathematical
databases, L-functions, sage-combinat,...)

More information is available at:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/onlinedata.html

Paul-Olivier Dehaye
ETH Zurich / University of Zurich

[Volker Braun]

Is the topic databases that you can download from the internet, or a system to serve mathematical data over the internet without requiring a local install? I've though about the latter at times. Its definitely not feasible to install every database known to man locally. So it would be nice to have a online service to hook into if you just want to look up something. 

[Rob Beezer]

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 8:28:03 AM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote:

So it would be nice to have a online service to hook into if you just want to look up something.

 
See http://www.lmfdb.org/

[Volker Braun]

Thanks now I can see where this is going. By "online service" I meant something that can be queried in code, not where I can manually fill in forms and then copy&paste the output. 

[Paul-Olivier Dehaye]

There are many issues that could/should/will be addressed.

The main one is how to get easily from the kind of files that a math
researcher would keep (some compressed version of the data that would
make sense to a couple people if lucky) to something like
"www.lmfdb.org". In addition, one possibility that is not visible to
outsiders of the lmfdb project is "How do I query this data from my
sage command-line?". It is sort of possible to do that at the moment,
if you have some knowledge of the lmfdb code ( at
http://code.google.com/p/lmfdb/ ), but it s only sometimes possible,
not really easy or consistent yet.

If a clear, efficient and standardized path is offered that allows to
do all that, it will help in many other situations (for an individual
serving their own data, or retrieving data, or adding data to existing
database, etc).

Paul

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