W3C Weekly News - 19 May 2006

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DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content

  The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public
  Working Draft of "Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL)." DIAL
  describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making
  Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the
  thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press
  release and more about device independence.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/dial-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity

W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository

  W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device
  Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
  Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss
  the design, implementation and use of a repository of device
  information for content and service providers. Position papers are due
  31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the
  Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/05/ddrworkshop-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum

  In a 17 May 2006 press release, United Nations Secretary-General
  Kofi Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening
  the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a new forum for a multi-
  stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel Dardailler,
  W3C's Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the new
  Advisory Board. W3C looks forward to sharing its experience in
  distributed consensus-building within this new international
  environment for standardization.

   http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm

W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group

  W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the WebCGM Working Group.
  Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered
  through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0
  of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home
  page.

   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/webcgm-charter.html

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39256/join

Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set

  The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a
  Last Call Working Draft of the "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)
  Version 1.0," a First Public Working Draft of "Best Practices for XML
  Internationalization," and updated requirements. Organized by data
  categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the
  internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
  Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for
  existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call
  comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20060518/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping

  The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call
  Working Draft of "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0:
  RDF Mapping." Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and
  describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
  systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft
  describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming
  WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated
  Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" that incorporates
  comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This
  document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce
  Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and
  small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working
  Group home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060518/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/

Working Draft: RDFa Primer

  The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and
  Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working
  Draft of the "RDFa Primer 1.0." RDFa expresses metadata in
  XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of
  user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force,
  the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about
  the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/
   http://www.w3.org/Markup/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content

  The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working
  Groups jointly released a Working Draft of "Authorizing Read Access to
  XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0."
  The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that
  allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content.
  Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the
  Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-access-control-20060517/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Upcoming W3C Talks

  * Erik Bruchez, Christian Lieske, Steven Pemberton, Dave Raggett,
    Sebastian Rahtz, Felix Sasaki and Henry Thompson present on
    16-19 May 2006 at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  * Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at W4A2006 - Building the Mobile
    Web: Rediscovering Accessibility? on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.
  * Ivan Herman presents at the Workshop on E-Government: Barriers
    and Opportunities on 23 May in Edinburgh, UK.
  * Ivan Herman, Richard Ishida and Steven Pemberton give tutorials
    on 24-26 May at WWW2006 in Edinburgh, UK.
  * Daniel J. Weitzner gives a keynote on 26 May at WWW2006 in
    Edinburgh, UK.
  * Wonsuk Lee presents at the 2006 웹코리아포럼 심포지엄 on 30 May in
    Seoul, Korea.
  * Olle Olsson gives a keynote at the Metadatas roll inom rättslig
    informationsförsörjning on 1 June in Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Shawn Henry presents at UPA 2006 on 13 and 15 June in Broomfield,
    CO, USA.
  * Molly Holzschlag presents at @media 2006 on 15 June in
    London, UK.
  * On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Ivan Herman gives a
    keynote at AusWeb06 on 3 July in Australis Noosa Lakes,
    Queensland, Australia.
  * Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at The Next Web on 7 July in
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  * Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at The Twenty-First National
    Conference on Artificial Intelligence on 18 July in Boston, MA,
    USA.
  * Olle Olsson presents at the DFS-ITvet meeting on 18 September
    in Stockholm, Sweden.

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

   http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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