W3C Weekly News - 31 March 2007

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                     24 March - 31 March 2007

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Ubiquitous Web to Simplify Development for Networked Devices

   W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Ubiquitous Web
   Applications Activity. W3C Fellow Dave Raggett chairs the group
   which is chartered to advance the creation of distributed
   applications for network appliances. The first face-to-face meeting
   of the Ubiquitous Web Applications (UWA) Working Group will be 7-8
   June 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by MobileAware, following the
   associated W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
   Applications. The UWA Working Group will take on the deliverables of the
   Device Independence Working Group which is now closed. Read about
   the Ubiquitous Web.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
      http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40755/join

    http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
    http://www.w3.org/2006/10/uwa-charter
    http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/

HTML Mail Workshop: Call for Participation

   Position papers are due 21 April for the W3C HTML Mail Workshop to
   be held 24 May in Paris, France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale
   Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris. Attendees will
   discuss authoring, rendering, interoperability and security aspects
   of HTML in email as well as non-technical topics. Read about W3C
   Workshops and about HTML.

    http://www.w3.org/2007/05/html-mail/
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
    http://www.w3.org/html/

Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop

   W3C plans a Workshop Toward More Transparent Government
   co-sponsored by the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI)
   on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S.
   National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways
   of facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment
   sites, to help shape ongoing research in the development of Web
   technology and public policy, in order to realize the potential
   of the Web for access to, and use of, government information.
   A Call for Participation is expected in a few weeks. See the
   European W3C Symposium on eGovernment Report for information
   about the previous W3C eGovernment event. Read about W3C
   Workshops.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
    http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report

W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Working Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal
   Interaction Working Group to enable users to use their preferred
   modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited Expert)
   chairs the group which is chartered to develop open standards to
   adapt to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow
   multiple modes of Web interaction including GUI, speech, vision,
   pen, gestures and haptic interfaces. Read the about the Multimodal
   Interaction Activity.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
      http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34607/join

    http://www.w3.org/2006/12/mmi-charter.html
    http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

W3C Launches Voice Browser Working Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser
   Working Group to enable users to speak and listen to Web
   applications. Jim Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan (HP)
   chair the group which is chartered to standardize languages for
   capturing and producing speech and for managing the dialog between
   users and computers. Read the about the Voice Browser Activity.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
      http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34665/join

    http://www.w3.org/2006/12/voice-charter.html
    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
    http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Last Call: EARL 1.0 Schema

   The WAI ERT Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft
   of "EARL 1.0 Schema." Comments are welcome through 20 April.
   The Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange,
   combine, and analyze results from different evaluation tools and
   checkers. EARL is introduced in the Evaluation and Report Language
   (EARL) Overview. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) home
   page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-EARL10-Schema-20070323/
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/earl.php
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF

   The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a third Last Call
   Working Draft of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL
   (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to
   write and to consume search results across a wide range of
   information such as personal data, social networks and metadata
   about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides
   a means of integration over disparate sources. Comments are due by
   18 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

   The Web Services Description Working Group released three Last Call
   Working Drafts for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
   Version 2.0: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2:
   Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 15 April on this brief Last
   Call for changes since Candidate Recommendation review. WSDL "RDF
   Mapping" and "SOAP 1.1 Binding" are updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0
   models and describes modular Web services and is used to document
   distributed systems and to automate communication between
   applications. Read about Web services.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-primer-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070326/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Rule Interchange Format Core Design: Working Draft

   The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "RIF Core Design." The document
   specifies the core design for a format that allows rules to be
   translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule
   systems. The group invites comments through 27 April. Visit the
   Semantic Web home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

RDFa Use Cases: Working Draft

   The XHTML2 Working Group and the Semantic Web Deployment Working
   Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of "RDFa
   Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML." RDFa expresses
   metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a
   new world of user functionality. Written for readers somewhat
   familiar with HTML, RDF and N3 notation, these scenarios consider
   publishers, tool builders and users. Read about HTML and the
   Semantic Web.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-scenarios-20070330/
    http://www.w3.org/html/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

GRDDL Test Cases: Working Draft

   The GRDDL Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
   of "GRDDL Test Cases." The test cases demonstrate the expected
   behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent. With important applications such as
   connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to
   extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using
   programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mashups
   at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070328/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Web Services Policy 1.5: Candidate Recommendations

   The Web Services Policy Working Group has published updated
   Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5, documenting
   their progress. The Policy "Framework" model expresses the nature of
   Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
   "Attachment" defines how to associate policies, for example within
   WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. The group published
   updated Working Drafts of the "Primer," "Guidelines" and "Element
   Identifiers" as well. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome
   through 30 June. Read about Web services.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070330/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070330/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070330
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070330
    http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl11elementidentifiers
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

HTTP Vocabulary in RDF: Working Draft

   The WAI ERT Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
   "HTTP Vocabulary in RDF." With these terms, HTTP headers exchanged
   between clients and servers can be recorded in RDF format. Terms
   include vocabulary for the HTTPS scheme as well as other extensions
   to the core specification. Visit the WAI ERT home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-HTTP-in-RDF-20070323/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/

Upcoming W3C Talks

     * Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai give a talk entitled "A W3C és a
       mobil Web (W3C and Mobile Web)" at the "Magyarországi Web
       Konferencia 2007 (Webconference in Hungary 2007)" on Saturday,
       31 March in Budapest, Hungary.

     * Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Finland Office
       entitled "State of the Semantic Web" organized by the Tampere
       University of Technology and the W3C Finnish Office, on
       Tuesday, 3 April in Tampere, Finland.

     * Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives an invited talk entitled "Markup
       Languages and Schema Languages for Linguistic, Textual,
       Documentary Resources" at the "Datenstrukturen für linguistische
       Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen (GLDV Frühjahrstagung) (Data
       structures for linguistic resources and their applications)" on
       Wednesday, 11 April in Tübingen, Germany.

     * Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility –
       It's not Magic, it's Art" at the "Information and Communication
       Technology and Accessibility" on Thursday, 12 April in
       Hammamet, Tunisia.

     * Dan Connolly gives a talk entitled "How the W3C Process got its
       Stripes" at the "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the
       Interface" on Friday, 20 April in Durham, NC, USA.

     * Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the
       Semantic Web" on Monday, 23 April and gives an invited talk
       entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Tuesday, 24 April at
       "Semantic Days 2007" in Stavanger, Norway.

   Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.
    http://www.w3.org/Talks/
    http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss

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