Using the Publimath Database to Bring History into our Teaching: More about Publimath and the Authors

Usage statistics are available at: http://publimath.univ-irem.fr/usage/.     

This database, launched in 1996, is maintained by a team of about ten people who, in addition to writing and improving the fiches, each have a specific task, such as

• ensuring the architecture of the database.
• following the census of publications of interest to our public (in French).
• maintaining connections with
  • the CII History and Epistemology of Mathematics;
  • APMEP publications;
  • international publications.
• performing English-French translations.
• populating the glossary.

For the last 5 years, the two big new tasks have been:

• the creation of a classification based on the ZDM ontology, which is in the testing phase; in the “fiches,” you find this in the field “Classification.”
• the digitization of IREM's and APMEP’s documents.

Hombeline Languereau is currently co-responsible for CII Publimath (with Michèle Bechler, who has served in this role since the creation of the CII in 1996). Anne Michel-Pajus ensures in particular the connections with the CII History of Mathematics and international publications.