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[ontolog-forum] Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension now released into beta

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From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:54:26 -0800
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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.)    (01)

"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.    (02)

Please refer to details about the Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) 
Extension and this release at:    (03)

   o  the PMWX project homepage: http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX    (04)

   o  the PMWX Release Notes: 
http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX_Release_Notes    (05)

   o  the MediaWiki extensions catalog: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purple_MediaWiki    (06)

We invite you to install, try and make use of PMWX, and would 
love to get your feedback!    (07)


Best regards.  =ppy    (08)

for the key members of the PMWX project team
who have contributed to this release,    (09)

Northeastern University - CCIS Dept.
   Ken Baclawski
   Viral Gupta
   Tejas Parikh    (010)

CIM Engineering, Inc. ("CIM3")
   Jonathan Cheyer
   Peter P. Yim    (011)


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    (012)

        [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    (013)

--    (014)

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