The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced funding for future software development for Integre techexplorer, through the National Sciences Digital Library (NSDL) initiative.

A major obstacle facing the National Sciences Digital Library (NSDL) is lack of support for the rendering and manipulation of mathematics in web browsers. This project will address that shortcoming by continuing the development of Integre techexplorer, a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in originally developed by IBM Research that renders mathematics written in either MathML or TEX markup. Dynamic mathematical expressions are supported using techexplorer’s application programming interfaces (APIs). With further development, techexplorer will also provide consistent cross-platform browser support for wysiwig equation editing and document annotation, making techexplorer a robust development and delivery environment for interactive mathematical content and web services.

techexplorer is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Sciences Digital Library under NSF grant DUE 03-33694. If your organization maintains a collection that is part of NSDL, and you would like to use techexplorer to deliver content from your collection, you are entitled to a site license at no charge. Please contact Integre for more information.