Public/Restricted Content and Interfaces in MathHub

MathHub encourages the development of a public domain of flexiformal mathematics, but acknowledges the need for private development practices. Therefore it supports both at every level.

Public/Restricted Content

As MathHub delegates all user/permission management to the underlying GitLab, we adopt its three visibility levels public, internal (visible to all authenticated users) and private (visible to restricted set of users); we call the latter two categories restricted content. MathHub.info only sees public content, where as a local MathHub working copy can contain restricted content (to which the user has access).

Public/Private Portal

As the MathHub system uses a container-based architecture, it is very easy to configure and deploy (e.g. on localhost:8080 or an intranet) using a local MathHub working copy as the basis. We call this a private MathHub. The documentation on this wiki is mostly about the public portal MathHub.info, but applies equally to private MathHubs. The main use case for a private MathHub is full support content development with restricted content. This setup usually links the local MathHub working copy into the MMT container to avoid duplication of content and ensure direct compatibility with local editing workflows.

MathHub Light (to be completed)

An alternative to a private MathHub is a MathHub setup that only uses the frontend component - in particular it re-uses the system MMT process and the local MathHub working copy. This is the most lightweight and flexible setup for MathHub – we call this MathHub Light. It allows co-developing MMT, exporters, and services with the content.

Public/Restricted Services

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