W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-06-18

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Tim Berners-Lee Appointed Member of the Order of Merit by Queen
Elizabeth II

   Queen Elizabeth II, Head of State of the United Kingdom, appointed
   Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide
   Web, to be a member of the Order of Merit. Founded in 1902, the
   Order of Merit is an honor conferred by the sovereign of the United
   Kingdom to individuals for "exceptionally meritorious service,"
   usually in the arts, learning, literature and sciences. Twenty four
   individuals plus foreign recipients may hold the honor at one time.
   "Awards such as this are for public service, a service which in this
   case has been largely carried out by the W3C. All those involved in
   Consortium activity should feel recognized by this acknowledgment of
   the importance of W3C's work," said Berners-Lee. Read the
   announcement, about Tim Berners-Lee and about W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page5543.asp
   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1880.asp
   http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=291481&NewsAreaID
   =2
   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft

   Documenting changes since Last Call, the Web API Working Group has
   released an updated Working Draft of "The XMLHttpRequest Object."
   The core component of Ajax, the XMLHttpRequest object is an
   interface that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such
   as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read
   about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

   The Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Group released an updated
   Working Draft of "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources." Sandbox
   restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed
   selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
   instruction or both can indicate read access is allowed. Read about
   the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070618/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Names Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations and
Offices

   W3C has named Daniel Dardailler to the new position of Director of
   International Relations and Offices. Daniel oversees W3C Offices and
   liaisons for international bodies such as UN organizations, the
   Internet Governance Forum, ISOC, ISO, and ICANN. Daniel will
   continue his role as Associate Chair for Europe. W3C named Klaus
   Birkenbihl to the new position of Offices Coordinator. Visit the
   Offices home page and read about International Relations and the W3C
   management team.

   http://www.w3.org/People/danield/
   http://www.w3.org/People/danield/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/11/StdLiaison
   http://www.w3.org/People/Klaus/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/IntlRel.html
   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management

SPARQL Query Language for RDF Is a Candidate Recommendation

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "SPARQL Query Language
   for RDF" to Candidate Recommendation. With SPARQL (pronounced
   "sparkle"), developers and end users can consume search results
   across a wide range of information such as personal, technical,
   business or scientific data, social networks, or data about digital
   artifacts like music and images. SPARQL supports extensible value
   testing and constrained queries, both when data is stored as RDF
   natively or viewed as RDF via middleware. Results can be displayed
   in results sets or as RDF graphs. Implementation feedback is invited
   through 12 August. "SPARQL Query Results XML Format" is a Last Call
   Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July. Visit the
   Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20070614/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070614/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board

   The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C
   Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
   guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
   matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
   nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG),
   Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
   (Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
   Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Arun Ranganathan (AOL).
   Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more
   about the Advisory Board.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: Working Drafts

   The Voice Browser Working Group released updated Working Drafts of
   "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1" and its
   "Requirements." Version 1.1 improves on W3C's "SSML 1.0
   Recommendation" by adding support for more conventions and practices
   of the world's languages including Asian, Eastern European, and
   Middle Eastern languages. Both documents follow discussions from the
   three W3C Workshops on extending SSML. See the January 2007 press
   release and visit the Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070611/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ssml11reqs-20070611/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/01/ssml-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
       the Web, 18-19 June
     * W3C/OpenAjax Alliance Workshop on Mobile Ajax, 28 September
     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
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