- From: Eva Tam <etam@cs.ust.hk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:41:03 +0800
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****** W3C Newsletter: March/April 2006 ****** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events: Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web", 5 April 2006, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA The 15th International World Wide Web Conference, 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Registration is open: http://www2006.org/ Workshop on Internationalizing SSML, 30-31 May, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Position papers are due 14 April 2006: http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical News: W3C Renews and Expands Web Services Activity W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Web Services Activity <http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/> through February 2008. The Activity has an Interest Group, a Coordination Group, and four Working Groups including the new Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group. Participation is open to W3C Members <http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List> . Web Services Addressing is a W3C Proposed Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-core-20060321/> Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-soap-20060321/> Binding to Proposed Recommendations. The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/> messages. Comments are welcome through 18 April. XForms 1.0 Second Edition is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/> Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Note: Delivery Context for Device Independence The Device Independence Working Group has updated the Delivery <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-di-dco-20060320/> Context Overview for Device Independence Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Part of a series, the Note describes information that may be included in the delivery context, and how that information may be used and conveyed. Note: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published XML Schema <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/> Datatypes in RDF and OWL as a Working Group Note. Providing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web, the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of values, duration, and the use of numeric types. Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/> Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Working Draft: RDF/A Primer The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310/> 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/> . This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More news and reports are available at http://www.w3.org <http://www.w3.org/> (and http://www.w3c.org.hk <http://www.w3c.org.hk/> ). If you are interested in joining W3C, please e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org for enquiry. Also, e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org if you want to unsubscribe. Chinese mailing-list mail archives http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-talk-china/ to subscribe, send e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org (note: an email will be sent to you asking for your authorization for archive listing of the message you sent to the list) Eva Tam Administrator, W3C Office in Hong Kong c/o Department of Computer Science HKUST, Clear Water Bay Kowloon Tel: +852 2358-7001 Fax: +852 2358-1477
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