The 8th OpenMath Workshop takes place jointly with the 2nd JEM Workshop. The recent developments and applications of OpenMath are presented at this yearly event. OpenMath is a standard for communicating semantically-rich representations of mathematical objects between all kinds of computer programs. The communication can take place between software packages and on the World Wide Web. The associated tools will permit the display, manipulation and access of mathematical information stored electronically.

The main themes of this year's meeting are the Alignment with MathML3 and the use of OpenMath in Education. The program consisted of tutorials, position papers and contributed talks, and was organized into two one-day tracks.

The W3C has chartered the Math Working Group with revising the MathML2 standard until Spring 2008. In this endeavor, the Math working group is revising the content-MathML sub-language to be isomorphic with OpenMath. This will greatly enhance interoperability of content communication for math software systems and impact the usage of content markup in applications. This was reflected in the main topic of discussion during the panel sessions.

The JEM, Joining Educational Mathematics, thematic network is promoting contributions that highlight new developments and use of semantic markup in digital content designed for eLearning. The possibility to manipulate and communicate mathematical objects without loss of information allows for rich, interactive materials that are ideal in education. JEM contributed talks included the description of a collaborative repository, of a system for step by step problem solving, and of the future evolution for the mathematical grammar library.

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