W3C Weekly News - 9 September 2003

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                      3 September - 9 September 2003

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RDF Core Working Group Publishes Six Working Drafts

   The RDF Core Working Group has released six Working Drafts in
   response to Last Call comments. The Resource Description Framework
   (RDF) supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Also published
   as a Working Group Note is LBase, a framework for specifying the
   meaning of Semantic Web languages.
   * RDF Primer
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-primer-20030905/
   * RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-concepts-20030905/
   * RDF Semantics
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030905/
   * RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030905/
   * RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-schema-20030905/
   * RDF Test Cases
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-testcases-20030905/

   Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
     http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Amaya 8.1b Released

   Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.1b has
   editing enhancements and bug fixes for XHTML, HTML, CSS and SVG.
   Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian
   and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home
   page.

    http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Upcoming W3C Talks (continued)

   * Rigo Wenning presents at the W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise
     Privacy Languages on 9 September, participates in a panel at the
     25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
     Commissioners on 11 September, and lectures at the University of
     Technology Sydney on 12 September, all in Sydney, Australia.
   * Dave Raggett gives a talk at the UK Unix Users Group AGM held
     at University College London, UK on 25 September.
   * Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair,
     and James Larson, W3C Voice Browser Working Group co-Chair,
     present at SpeechTEK 2003 held 29 September to 2 October in
     New York, NY, USA.
   * Ivan Herman participates in a panel at iX 2003 on 1 October and
     presents to the IT Standards Committee on 3 October, both in
     Singapore.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
   channel and in iCalendar format.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:12:19 UTC