Cost-Effective Integration of MKM Semantic Services into Editing Environments

TL;DR

This paper presents a unified architecture for integrating MKM semantic services into editing environments, significantly reducing development time and effort through real-time synchronization and a service broker.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture that simplifies and accelerates the integration of MKM services into multiple editors using a single setup process.

Findings

Integration time reduced to 3-4 hours per service

Single integration approach for multiple editors

Simplified development process for MKM services

Abstract

Integration of MKM services into editors has been of big interest in both formal as well as informal areas of MKM. Until now, most of the efforts to integrate MKM services into editing environments are done on an individual basis which results in high creation and maintenance costs. In this paper, I propose an architecture which allows editing environments and MKM services to be integrated in a more efficient way. This is accomplished by integrating editors and services only once with a real-time document synchronization and service broker. Doing so, simplifies the development of services as well as of editor integrations. My experience suggests that integrating new services into an arbitrary number of already integrated editors can take as little as 3-4 hours of work.