Interactively link mathematical documents to web resources

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• Difficulty: medium
• Implementation: required; good JavaScript skills needed
• Paper possibilities: quite OK, maybe workshop on mathematical user interfaces, deadline May 2010

We have developed a framework for interactive mathematical documents, which you can see in action here. So far, one can look up the definitions of unknown mathematical symbols in a database that we maintain. However, as there is a lot of mathematical knowledge on the web (e.g.  Wikipedia,  MathWorld,  PlanetMath), it would make sense to make that knowledge immediately accessible from documents.

The task is

• to develop a way of establishing links from our own resources of mathematical knowledge to those external sources
• to create a user interface for making this external information available on request