3 Web Site

In this section, we address some of our design goals for the DLMF Web site, and the implications these goals have for the information architecture of the project. We then give an overview of how we plan to implement that architecture, particularly, how we plan to translate the material our authors will provide into an appropriate internal representation which satisfies the needs of the site.

The bulk of this section describes the plans for the ultimate implementation of the DLMF. However, we have experimented with many of the features described here in a ``mock up'' of the eventual site (See http://dlmf.nist.gov/, particularly Chapter 11 on Airy Functions[7].), which was prototyped using a highly modified version of LATEX2HTML.