The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has declared
their activities in the field of electronic information
and communication a major topic of its work.
Especially the IMU supports the Math-Net activities to build
up a user-friendly information and communicationm network
in mathematics. Mathematicians and mathematical institutions
should provide their information in a standardized way. Web services
gather and process the information to make the information
accessible in an efficient way.
Such a knowledge system requires a standardized semantic
description of the resources in the system.
The Math-Net initiative
has developed RDF/RDFS metadata schemes
for a semantic annotation for special resource classes.
E.g., Math-Net Pages are portals to the core information of
mathematical institutions.
The Math-Net Navigator processes this information and provides
different functionalities to retrieve and search the information
which are accessible by the Math-Net Pages: