W3C Public Newsletter 9 April 2007 Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. Part of a powerful trend towards Web access via interactive voice response, SISR tags are used to extract meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Visit the Voice Browser home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-semantic-interpretation-20070405/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Last Call: EMMA The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last Call 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. Comments are welcome through 30 April. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-emma-20070409/ http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-framework/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ Note: GRDDL Use Cases: Extracting RDF Data From XML Documents The GRDDL Working Group has published "GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents" as a Working Group Note. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such XSLT transformations. Learn more about the Semantic Web http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-grddl-scenarios-20070406/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group Recommends that CCXML Advance A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the Voice Browser Working Group has concluded in a public report that the Working Group should continue to advance the "CCXML" specification along the W3C Recommendation Track. The conclusion follows an assertion from Nortel that the company does not believe that US patent number 6,701,366 includes any essential claims, as defined of the W3C Patent Policy. Nortel excluded the claims of that patent from its Royalty-Free licensing commitment when it joined the Voice Browser Working Group in June 2005. W3C appreciates communications from Nortel that helped the PAG reach their conclusion. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/2007/03/voice-pag-report http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirement s http://www.w3.org/Voice/ XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070405/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C Sets New Standard for Internationalized Web Content The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. Creators of XML content can use the ITS set of elements and attributes to prepare schemas and documents for localization and to internationalize them for a global audience. "Working with document formats internationally becomes much easier, whether you are creating a new schema or working with an established one," said Richard Ishida (W3C). Implementations provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook, and OpenDocument. Read the press release and visit Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/2007/04/its-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/International/ 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 * More About Workshops... http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar... http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings Upcoming Talks * 11 April, Tübingen, Germany: Markup Languages and Schema Languages for Linguistic, Textual, Documentary Resources. Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at Datenstrukturen für linguistische Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen (GLDV Frühjahrstagung). * 12 April, Hammamet, Tunisia: Web Accessibility – It’s not Magic, it’s Art. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility. * 20 April, Durham, NC, USA: How the W3C Process got its Stripes. Dan Connolly presents at Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface. * 23 April, Stavanger, Norway: Introduction to the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Semantic Days 2007. * 24 April, Stavanger, Norway: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman presents at Semantic Days 2007. * 1 May, McLean, VA, USA: Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at SOA for eGovernment 2007. * 2 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Abstraction and extraction: in praise of. Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at Apachecon 07. * 8 May, Stockholm, Sweden: Mot web 2.0, och bortom. Olle Olsson presents at TelekomDagarna. * 9 May, Banff, Canada: W3C booth. Marie-Claire Forgue is at The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007). * 10 May, Banff, Canada: Usability Design and Testing for Security. Rachna Dhamija presents at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007). * 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. * More talks... http://www.w3.org/Talks/ Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada: 9 May * Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead, by Michael Smith, Daniel Appelquist * CSS, 10 Years After, by Bert Bos * Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0, by Michael Cooper * WICD and Ubiquitous Web Applications, by Dave Raggett * Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results, by Shadi Abou-Zahra * Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, by Charles McCathieNevile * Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need your Participation, by Rhys Lewis * Next steps for HTML Forms, by Dave Raggett * HTML Reloaded, by Chris Lilley * Mobile Web Applications, by Kevin Kelly * Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories, by Michael Smith * Enriching the Web Application Model?, by Arun Ranganathan * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), by Dave Raggett * The Future of the Web Page, by Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett * Widgets and Web Applications, by Art Barstow * Towards a mobileOK Web, by Daniel Appelquist 10 May * Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and RDFa, by Harry Halpin, Fabien Gandon * Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open Source Projects, by Mike Beltzner * Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language 2.0?, by Philippe Le Hégaret * Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards Work, by Mary Ellen Zurko * Semantic Annotations for WSDL, by Jacek Kopecky * Web Services Policy Language, by Charlton Barreto * Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A HCLS IG Demo, by Susie Stephens, Alan Ruttenberg * Rule Interchange Format Work Report, by Sandro Hawke * Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop, by Philippe Le Hégaret 11 May * Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges, by Jerry Carter * Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers, by Mary Holstege * How to Author Multimodal Web Applications, by Kazuyuki Ashimura * Efficient XML Interchange, by Mike Cokus * XML Application Components and Controllers, by Rafah Hosn * State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web Applications, by Rafah Hosn * xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming Language, by Mark Birbeck * XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language, by Sharon Adler, Liam Quin * The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane, by John Boyer W3C Membership W3C Members receive the W3C Member Newsletter, a weekly digest of Member-only announcements and other benefits. 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