Committee on Electronic Information and Communication

Link: http://www.ceic.math.ca

• Established 1998 by IMU, renewed in 2002
• Terms of reference:
  • Standing committe of the Executive committee of the IMU
  • Reviewed every four years
  • May meet, sponor meetings, publish proceedings, reports, reviews, surveys
  • May suggest interational standards and "best practices"
  • Support dissemination of mathematical materials in electroninc form
  • Advises and guides scholarly communication and publication
  • Play active role in development of a Digital Mathematics Library
• Issues from March Meeting (see http://www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/Minutes/7th_Minutes.pdf)
  • How authors structure documents
  • Minimal metadata for searching of digitized material
  • Cost of journals
  • World Digital Mathematics Library (http://www.wdml.org/)
  • Federated World Directory of Mathematicians