extendedmatrix.org, refreshed

extendedmatrix.org reopens today with a redesigned homepage and a clearer first path through the framework — what EM is, what it produces, and which piece of the toolchain to pick up first.

The new front page puts the 1.5 stable line at the centre. With the LTS commitment now in place, 1.5 is the default download target for any new project, and the download picker serves EM Tools 1.5 binaries for Blender 5.0 and 5.1 on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Existing 1.4 projects keep working — the legacy line remains documented and linked — but for anyone starting fresh, 1.5 is where to start.

In parallel, the 1.6 development track is open and visible. The in-progress work on a Postgres backend, graph-to-database sync, and a broader interoperability surface lives on the development tracker, and anyone curious about the next-language iteration can follow it without committing to it.

The site also makes the project’s architectural framing easier to read at a glance: Extended Matrix is the score — the human-readable notation that archaeologists and conservators author by hand; s3dgraphy is the engine that turns that notation into a computable property graph; StratiGraph and ECCCH are the European infrastructure that takes those graphs into shared, FAIR, long-term heritage data space.

If you want to wander rather than read, the projects gallery now ships with curated cover images for each case study, the tools matrix gives the full picture of the toolchain, and the how-to-cite EM page is the right starting point if you are about to publish work that uses the framework. Feedback, as always, is welcome — by email or via the channels listed across the site.