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- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:22:19 -0400
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The 2007-05-14 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Southern Africa Office
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa
Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria,
South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler
and Stephane Boyera are among those who attended the opening
ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page.
http://www.w3c.org.za/
http://www.w3c.org.za/
http://www.meraka.org.za/
http://www.csir.co.za/
http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26
October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop
attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for
expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is
expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2007
We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held in Banff, Alberta,
Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the W3C track
will cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C
Activities. Read the press release.
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/w3c-track.html
http://www2007.org/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
http://www.w3.org/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease.html
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in
Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate
in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C
Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and
join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with
Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
Past home page news...
http://www.w3.org/News/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
* W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
Applications, 5-6 June
* Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
the Web, 18-19 June
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification
using XML Schema 1.0. Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial
at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
* 15 May, Paris, France: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
Dave Raggett presents at XTech 2007.
* 15 May, Paris, France: XForms 1.1. Steven Pemberton gives a
tutorial at XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web”.
* 23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web:
una historia de amor?. José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en
España 2007.
* 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
* 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
* 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
* 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR).
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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New Members
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* Marden Edwards Limited [United Kingdom]
* SBsquared Limited [United Kingdom]
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