München 2006 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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AKI: Information

AKI 1: Semantische Kodierung physikalischer Information

AKI 1.1: Fachvortrag

Dienstag, 21. März 2006, 10:30–11:00, I

Web-search of Physics Content - The concept of Physics Markup Language — •Eberhard Hilf and Michael Schlenker — Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg

Field specific Markup Languages are needed to enable authors to encode the scientific content of a document such that retrieval engines can be used to find it. A Physics Markup Language PML is still to be set up, while for mathematical content MathML, and for chemistry CML is already in use.

The concept has to start from a class of primary objects, with their properties to be attached. In physics this is the physical observable (like momentum, charge, ..) with its properties such as the respective mathematical object and its algebra, the physical dimension, the experimental setup and range, etc.

For a small but suited subfield of physics, thermodynamics, a demonstration of how PML works, is given. PML as all markup languages has to be internationally agreed on. The status of PML in IUPAP is given.

PML will revolutionize the daily work, searching for physics content in the web, automatic checking of algebraic and dimensional formulae of online publications, etc.