W3C Newsletter: April/May 2005

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Past Event:

 

One-Day Semantic Web Symposium Photo Gallery

 <http://www.w3c.org.hk/Talks/photo.php?image_dir=050412-Hongkong-VS/photos>
http://www.w3c.org.hk/Talks/photo.php?image_dir=050412-Hongkong-VS/photos

 

Upcoming Events: 

 

The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) - 10-14 May 2005,
Keio University, Japan

 http://www2005.org/

 

W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability - 27&28 April 205,
Washington, DC, USA

http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/


W3C Workshop on XML Shema 1.0 User Experiences - 21&22 June 2005, Redwood
Shores, CA, USA

Position papers are due 20 May:
http://www.w3.org/2005/03/xml-schema-user-cfp

 

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Technical News: 

 

Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web

The  <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/> OEP Task Force of the
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released
Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-classes-as-values-20050405/>  as a
Working Group Note. The note presents the direct approach for representing
classes as property values in the full OWL Web
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/>  Ontology Language
and RDF Schema, mechanisms for OWL DL and OWL Lite, and considerations for
users.

 

Last Call: SVG Tiny Version 1.2

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/> . The SVG language
delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The draft is a
complete language specification and is implementable on devices large and
small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Comments
are welcome through 20 May. SVG Full 1.2
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVG12-20050413/> , published as a placeholder
today, will become a superset of SVG 1.2 Tiny.

 

Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF

The third Working Draft of the SPARQL
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/>  Query Language
for RDF has been released. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers
and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide
range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata
about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources.

 

Working Draft: Web Services Addressing WSDL Binding

An updated Working Draft of Web
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20050413/>  Services Addressing
1.0 - WSDL Binding has been released. The document defines how the
properties in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core
<http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-addr-core/>  are described in the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL <http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/> ). Web Services
Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work
with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0.

 

Working Draft: Compound Document use Cases and Requirements

The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released an updated Working
Draft of Compound <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDRReqs-20050404/>  Document
by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0. A compound document
combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This
draft introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and
XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase.

 

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