RE: [EXTERNAL] Some charter changes

Good changes. I think math search can be a fuzzy search: that is, false positives for the more obscure searches are okay. You need to be able to recognize equations independently of the variable names. You’ll be able to find K-14 math pretty reliably. And it might be useful for more advanced math as well. You need to convert math text on the web in all popular math formats to an efficient canonical format that the search data base uses. The approach needs to be integrated into web search engines.

Thanks,
Murray

From: Neil Soiffer<mailto:soiffer@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 7:52 PM
To: public-mathml4@w3.org<mailto:public-mathml4@w3.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Some charter changes

Based on the meeting today, I have made a few wording changes to the charter. In particular...

1. The intro text was modified to focus on the three goals identified for MathML needs to be useful for: presentation, accessibility, and searchability. The later point probably needs more text describing what is meant by "searchibility". Note that computability is *not* on that list.

2. That success means authoring tools actually generate and consume semantics. I expanded the existing bullet point about 'using core' in the success criteria to be all the new features. I'm not sure that emphasizes the point some were making in the call this morning, so please suggest more text if you feel it is needed.

    Neil