On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:25:21PM +0600, AMJAD USMAN wrote: > can anyone tell me how dspace handles formula or mathematical equcations?
DSpace takes very little notice of mathematical forms. In the main, it simply stores well-described documents, and the documents contain the math. (or other complex notations) in a fashion that is opaque to most of DSpace. I can think of three areas where technical notation might be significant: o Abstracts. I don't believe there has ever been any conscious effort to support advanced mathematical notations in the abstract field. It is inserted into the middle of an existing XHTML page template, and that always makes markup tricky. Possibly the template could be extended to reference the MathML namespace, but still it would be difficult to get right, perhaps too difficult to explain to submitters unfamiliar with XHTML and its quirks. o Titles. The situation is similar to that of abstracts. o Plain-text extraction for indexing. DSpace depends on code developed by others to flatten PDFs, for example, so if there is math. notation then the extracted text will have whatever form of it those third-party packages produce. In addition, when the result is presented to the indexing code, "interesting" results may occur. What I have written above is all theoretical -- I haven't tested DSpace with extensive mathematical notation. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_
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