The SymbolicData Project Towards an Electronic Repository of Tools and Data for Benchmarks of Computer Algebra Software

The SymbolicData project has the following three main goals: 1. to systematically collect existing symbolic computation benchmark data and to produce tools to extend and maintain this collection; 2. to design and implement concepts for trusted benchmarks computations on the collected data; and 3. to provide tools for data access/selection/transformation using di erent technologies. SymbolicData has developed from a \grass root initiative" of a small number of people to a stage where it should be presented to, and evaluated and used by a wider community. In this paper we report about the current state of the project, i.e., we describe the main design principles and tools which were developed to realize our goals.