The groundbreaking work of Dr. Douglas Engelbart's Augment system is one of the most important historical artifacts of the software industry and the SGML and XML and Internet communities in particular. In this short paper we briefly discuss the pioneering ideas of Augment and our efforts to faithfully render them in XML in the OpenAugment open source project (OA) www.openaugment.org. (03a)

The OpenAugment Consortium (OA) is a not for profit open source corporation dedicated to the preservation of Augment. OA is working in cooperation with Doug Engelbart's Bootstrap Alliance www.bootstrap.org to ensure that future generations will have access to the Augment heritage. (03b)

We hope that with the assistance of the wider community, others can learn about the pioneering work of the Augment team while also learning about XML and how it can be used to work with complex information. We think that OA is an interesting substantial use case for XML standards developers. Finally and most importantly we hope that our small contribution will help build momentum for Hyperscope, the Open Hyperdocument System (OHS) [Engelbart00] and focus attention on Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution [Engelbart98]. (03c)