The Role and Challenges of the Digitalization Process in the Preservation and Development of Scientific Schools

Abstract

The problem of preserving knowledge in the digital space
 arose in the middle of the last century and is gradually aggravated with the
 increase in the flow of digital information. The scientific community is faced
 with new challenges related to the speed of dissemination of information and
 scientific ideas. Classical scientific schools, which were the basis of
 university education, have undergone changes in connection with distance
 learning and the idea of openness of science as part of the common values of
 society. Against the background of increasing information noise, the search
 for reliable data is becoming an independent activity. The period of
 accumulation of digitized information is being replaced by the accumulation
 of knowledge in an integrated form, in the form of structured data. However,
 the increase in the number of information resources does not improve the
 quality of the information provided. One of the tasks of the scientific
 community is to provide an expert assessment of the accumulated digital
 knowledge. This assessment should be based on the authority of scientific
 schools. The paper discusses the problem of supporting information images
 of traditional scientific schools and their development in the digital space.
 On the example of the integration of mathematical knowledge, the tasks and
 ways of their solution in the process of assessing and preserving digitized
 knowledge are formulated. A variant of specialized author indexes and
 thesauri of mathematical schools is proposed. The content of the digital
 library LibMeta and the Russian Mathematical Encyclopedia edited by
 I.M. Vinogradov.