To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 9-Dec-1968 NLS demo[1], we take pleasure in announcing the release of the Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension into beta today (9-Dec-2008) as free and open source software (under the GNU GPL v2 license.) "Purple Numbers" have their root in the NLS system. They allow web content to be addressed at a fine granular level (for example you can point people to a particular paragraph in a web document, rather than just to a web page) and open up possibilities of improved navigation, communication, reference, search, semantics and knowledge support. PMWX enables "Purple Numbers" in MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki implementations, and provides that fine-grained addressability to wiki contents. Please refer to details about the Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension and this release at: o the PMWX project homepage: http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX o the PMWX Release Notes: http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX_Release_Notes o the MediaWiki extensions catalog: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purple_MediaWiki We invite you to install, try and make use of PMWX, and would love to get your feedback! Best regards. =ppy for the key members of the PMWX project team who have contributed to this release, Northeastern University - CCIS Dept. Ken Baclawski Viral Gupta Tejas Parikh CIM Engineering, Inc. ("CIM3") Jonathan Cheyer Peter P. Yim P.S. [1] the oNLineSystem demo made by Doug Engelbart and his team, which exposed the world to the possibility of mouse, windows, hypertext, distributed collaboration ... more widely know as the "Mother of All Demos" - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos & http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html [2] we will be making a presentation on PMWX as part of the SemanticWiki mini-series session-3 panel on the Ontolog Forum. Do join us at that virtual event if you can. Refer to details at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_12_11 _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://project.cim3.net/forum/pmwx-dev/ Shared Files: http://project.cim3.net/file/work/project/pmwx/ Community Wiki: http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX -- Thanks n Regards Viral Gupta When a man knows what he wants, the world steps aside to make way for him.