- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:34:13 -0800
- To: w3c-announce@w3.org
W3C Weekly News
26 March - 1 April 2003
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Early Bird Registration: W3C Track at WWW2003
The W3C Track has been announced for the Twelfth International World
Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) in Budapest, Hungary. On 21-23 May, W3C
presents three days of presentations on the Web, future Web browsers,
W3C architectural principles, the XML family, Web services, the
Semantic Web, new devices, and horizontal essentials. WWW2003 early
bird registration is open through 15 April.
http://www.w3.org/2003/03/w3c-track03.html
http://www2003.org/
http://www2003.org/registration.html#Registration
DOM Level 3 XPath Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Document Object
Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification" to Candidate Recommendation.
The document provides access to a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Reviews
are welcome through 26 May. Implementers are invited to send a
message to the DOM public mailing list. Visit the DOM home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/DOM/
DOM Level 3 Events Last Call Published
The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Last
Call Working Draft of the "DOM Level 3 Events" specification.
Comments are welcome through 1 May. Language and platform neutral,
the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event
flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event.
Read about the DOM Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
OWL Last Call Working Drafts Published
The Web Ontology Working Group has released six Working Drafts, five
in Last Call, for the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0, including the
OWL Guide, Overview, Use Cases and Requirements, Semantics and
Abstract Syntax, Reference, and Test Cases. Comments are welcome
through 9 May. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called
ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and
knowledge management. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-guide-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-features-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webont-req-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-semantics-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-ref-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-test-20030331/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
China International Forum Postponed
The China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003 to be held in
Beijing, China on 16-17 April has been postponed. W3C, the W3C Office
in Hong Kong, and the China Computer Federation regret the
inconvenience to everyone who planned to attend. Once they have been
determined, new dates will be publicized.
http://www.w3c.org.hk/CIFWeb03/
http://www.w3c.org.hk/
http://www.ccf.org.cn/
W3C Team Talks in April
* Stephane Boyera presents at the INRIA Intech Seminar in
Sophia-Antipolis, France on 3 April.
* Liam Quin participates in a panel at the e(X)literature
Conference 2003 "Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of
Electronic Literature" at the University of California in Santa
Barbara, CA, USA on 4 April.
* Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial on 5 April and Shawn Lawton
Henry gives a tutorial on 6 April at the CHI 2003 Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
* Daniel Dardailler chairs a panel at "New Technologies for a
More Accessible Society" in Paris, France on 19 April.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, available as an RSS
channel and in iCalendar format.
http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/
SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization Published
The XML Protocol Working Group has released "SOAP Version 1.2 Message
Normalization" as a W3C Note. The document defines a transformation
algorithm that renders all semantically equivalent SOAP messages
identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
environment. Visit the Web Services home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-soap12-n11n-20030328/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated
Working Draft of the "Architecture of the World Wide Web." Comments
are welcome. The draft discusses architectural principles of the Web
and the behavior of agents exchanging information within it. It
addresses some social issues that contribute to the shared
information space. Visit the TAG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20030326/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 417 Member organizations and 73
Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(MIT LCS) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, and Keio University in Japan.
The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools.
Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic
Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler
multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/
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