W3C Newsletter:March/April 2006

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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

 

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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.

 

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