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

Author(s): 
Hombeline Languereau (IREM-Université de Franche-Comté) and Anne Michel-Pajus (IREM-Université Paris Diderot)

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.

 

Hombeline Languereau (IREM-Université de Franche-Comté) and Anne Michel-Pajus (IREM-Université Paris Diderot), "Using the Publimath Database to Bring History into our Teaching: More about Publimath and the Authors," Convergence (April 2019)