Portal/TA1/data guidelines

Data Formats and Serialization

Mission

Our mission is to broaden the accessibility, usability and findability of mathematical research results so that the data can be used amongst different research groups and software systems. Our first goal is to establish a standardised data format for storing abstract mathematical objects and provide guidelines for the serialization of such objects.

Our View on Data

Software and data formats are in a state of flux, which is quite the opposite of mathematical objects. Mathematical data should be made to stand the test of time. Our mission is to provide guidelines and a data format that can be adapted to as many technologies as possible as well as to new technologies.

Current Developments and OSCAR

We are currently developping methods and a data format for the serialization of mathematical objects in OSCAR. OSCAR is an open source computer algebra systems that provides functionality for working with objects such as groups, rings, fields, linear and commutative algebra, number theory, algebraic and polyhedral geometry. OSCAR is in active development, more information can be found here.