On Monday, August 12, 2019 at 5:42:30 AM UTC-7, E. Madison Bray wrote: Although it was designed primarily with astronomy applications in > mind, the core format is domain-agnostic. It would be really neat to > see some ASDF "schemas" (descriptions of how specific types of data > are serialized in ASDF) for pure mathematics. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Scientific_Data_Format >
On that scale of operation, there have been other initiatives; for instance OpenMath/MathML. I don't think OpenMath managed to get much traction. From the perspective of a single computer algebra system there's always the problem that OpenMath isn't fully suited for the particular niche data that particular system is interested in. If you go back you'll find that in the early days, Sage actually had a design criterion that overlapped with some of the intended applications of OpenMath: interoperability of math software. I'd say sage has (in practice) been more successful in achieving that than OpenMath. If you're interested in positioning ASDF for interoperability and long-term object storage in mathematics it would probably be good to compare it to OpenMath and point out where it's different (if OpenMath has indeed failed -- I may just be not aware of areas where it's been successful). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/5279d6ea-4c5b-49f5-b649-0803071936ab%40googlegroups.com.
