W3C Weekly News - 16 December 2004

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'Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One' is a W3C Recommendation

   The World Wide Web Consortium released "Architecture of the World Wide
   Web, Volume One" as a W3C Recommendation. The Web uses relatively
   simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility
   that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of
   interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures and media.
   This architecture document discusses the core design components of the
   Web in an effort to preserve these properties of the information space
   as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member
   testimonials, and visit the TAG home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/
    http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-testimonials
    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

W3C Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

   This year, the World Wide Web Consortium celebrates its tenth
   anniversary--ten years of its mission to lead the Web to its full
   potential. On 1 December, W3C Members, Team, invited speakers, and
   international media will gather in Boston, USA to reflect on the
   progress of the Web, W3C's central role in its growth, and the risks
   and opportunities facing the Web during W3C's second decade. "This
   special anniversary brings the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of
   the Web and the W3C's stewardship role," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
   Director. "I hope it will also inspire ever more collaboration,
   creativity, and understanding across the globe." Sign the greeting
   card, read the press release and read more about the W3C Tenth
   Anniversary Celebration.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/09/birthdaycard/
    http://www.w3.org/2004/11/w3c10pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/2004/09/W3C10.html

Working Drafts: Web Services Addressing

   The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released three First
   Public Working Drafts. "Web Services Addressing - Core" enables message
   transmission through networks that include processing nodes such as
   endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a transport-neutral
   manner. "WSDL Binding" defines how the core specification's properties
   are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). "SOAP
   Binding" defines their association to SOAP messages. Read about Web
   services.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-addr-core-20041208/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20041208/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-addr-soap-20041208/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

EMMA Working Draft Updated

   The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language
   (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems.
   Part of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification
   describes markup for describing user input together with annotations
   such as confidence scores, timestamps and input medium. This version
   includes the associated XML schema. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
   home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-emma-20041214/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-framework/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences: Summary

   The summary and position papers have been published from the W3C
   Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences held in Cambridge, MA, USA
   on 27-28 October. The workshop concluded that work is needed in core
   vocabularies and integration of life science identifiers (LSID) and Web
   resources, and that an implementers Interest Group will be beneficial.
   W3C thanks all 150 attendees for their valued participation. Read about
   workshops and Technology & Society at W3C.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/10/swls-workshop-report.html
    http://www.w3.org/2004/10/swls/pospapers.html
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
    http://www.w3.org/TandS/

Massachusetts Governor Declares December 2004 "W3C Month"

   In a proclamation issued 1 December, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
   has declared December 2004 to be World Wide Web Consortium Month. Read
   by COO Steve Bratt at the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration, the
   proclamation cites W3C for "its good work and concern for the diverse
   users of the Web" and says W3C "earned their respect, trust and
   support." See the official document and read the full text.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/12/01-RomneyProclamation5.png
    http://www.w3.org/2004/12/romneyproclamation.html

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

   W3C held its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 2-3 December in
   Cambridge, MA, USA. W3C Member organizations participated in two days
   of discussions on W3C Activities. If your organization would like to
   join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. The next Advisory
   Committee Meeting will be held 5-7 June 2005 in Mandelieu, France.

    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Activities
    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

Upcoming W3C Talks

   * Daniel Dardailler presents on W3C at Open Source Applications
     and Standards in Sophia Antipolis, France on 16 December.

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

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

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 368 Member organizations and 72
Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
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about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/
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