W3C Newsletter:February/March 2006

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Upcoming Events: 

 

W3C Seminar: "Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics", 6
March, ERCIM, Paris, France

http://www.w3.org/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html

 

W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web, 9-10 March, Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan

Registration will close by 24 February 2006

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html

 

W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication, 15-16
March, New York, USA

Position papers are due 25 January 2006

http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/

 <http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html> 

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Technical News: 

 

W3C Launches Incubator Activity

W3C announces the launch of its Incubator Activity
<http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/> , a new initiative to foster development
of emerging Web-related technologies.  The first Incubator Group (XG) to be
launched addresses the issue of content
<http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/wcl-charter-20060208>  labels.

 

Internationalization Articles Published

The Internationalization <http://www.w3.org/International/geo/>  GEO
(Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to
help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies.
Recently the group published Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8
<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding> , xml:lang
<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-xmllang>  in XML document
schemas and Localization <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-i18n>
vs. Internationalization, as well as numerous updates and translations.

 

W3C Highlights Mobile Web at 3GSM World Congress

Mobile industry leaders have reached a preliminary agreement on best
practices for mobile Web content. Written to improve user experience, the
Last Call Working Draft of Mobile
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/>  Web Best Practices 1.0
describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to
mobile and small-screen devices. Please send review comments before 17
February 2006.

 

Last Call: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)

The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
Pronunciation <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20060131/>
Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 15
March. Designed for ease of use by developers and internationally, PLS
allows pronunciation information to be specified for speech recognition and
speech synthesis engines in voice browsing applications. Pronunciations
grouped together in a PLS document may be referenced from other markup
languages such as  <http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/> SRGS and
<http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/> SSML.

 

Note: RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rdftm-survey-20060210/>  Survey of RDF/Topic
Maps Interoperability Proposals as a Working Group Note. The Note records
existing proposals for integrating data represented in W3C's RDF/OWL family
of languages with data represented in ISO's Topic Maps. It is a starting
point for establishing guidelines for combined usage of these standards,
assuring interoperability.

 

Working Draft: Device Description Landscape

The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of Device <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210/>
Description Landscape, a companion to Device
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-dd-ecosystem-20051121/>  Description
Ecosystem. This draft describes the current state of the various options
that exist for providing Device Descriptions to enable device-aware
applications.

 

Working Drafts: Remote Events for XML (REX)

A joint effort of the SVG and Web API Working Groups, the REX Task Force has
released the First Public Working Draft of Remote
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rex-20060202/>  Events for XML (REX) 1.0 and
their Requirements <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rex-reqs-20060202/> .
Using the REX grammar, endpoints can interact with DOM Events remotely as if
they were at the same location.

 

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