W3C Newsletter:April/May 2006

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News Announcement:

 

W3C Launches China Office (hosted at the School of Computer Science &
Engineering of Beihang University in Beijing)

Press Release: http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease

 

 

Upcoming Events: 

 

Ivan Herman gives a seminar "W3C and the Mobile World", 24 April 2006,
HKUST, Hong Kong

Announcement: http://www.cs.ust.hk/pg/seminars/S06/herman.html

 

Opening Ceremony of W3C China Office, 27-28 April 2006, Beihang University,
Beijing, China

Event Schedule: http://www.chinaw3c.org/schedule.en.htm

 

W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, 21-22 May 2006, hosted by W3C/ERCIM,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Registration is open until 15 May 2006 (Members only)

 

WWW2006 Conference, 22-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

http://www2006.org/

 

 

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Technical News: 

 

SPARQL Specifications are W3C Candidate Recommendations

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the SPARQL specifications to
Candidate Recommendations. With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), developers
and end users can write and 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
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/>  Query Language
for RDF specifies syntax for authoring, matching and testing. SPARQL
Protocol for RDF
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-protocol-20060406/>  describes
remote data access and transmission of queries from clients to processors.
The SPARQL <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20060406/>  Query
Results XML Format is provided for search results.

 

XLink 1.1 is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Linking Language
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xlink11-20060328/>  (XLink) Version 1.1 to
Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 1 July. The XLink 1.1
language allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to
create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional
hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.

 

Working Draft for Device Description Repository

The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of Device <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-DDR-requirements-20060410/>
Description Repository Requirements 1.0. This draft contains requirements
for storing and giving access to device descriptions. Topics include
extensibility and capacity; query, access and management mechanisms,
availability and resilience; extensibility; format and storage; and
validation and accuracy.

 

Working Draft: Window Object

The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of
Window Object <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-Window-20060407/>  1.0. This
draft defines the Window object, a long-standing de facto standard. Window
provides the global namespace for Web scripting languages, access to other
documents in a compound document by reference, timers and navigation to
other locations.

 

Working Draft: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX

The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of The
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/>  XMLHttpRequest
Object. The draft documents features of the XMLHttpRequest object, the core
component of AJAX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX> . The interface allows
scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or
loading data from a remote Web site.

 

Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Structures

The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-1-20060330/>  Schema 1.1 Part 1:
Structures. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of
XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate
semantics with them. This draft has changes for XML 1.1, union types,
context, canonical forms of values, the Simple Type Definition, and white
space handling.

 

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