W3C Weekly News - 26 August 2003

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Web Ontology Language (OWL) Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology
   Language to Candidate Recommendation. OWL is used to publish and
   share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search,
   software agents and knowledge management. Comments are welcome.
   The OWL Web Ontology Language in six parts:

   * Overview
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-features-20030818/
   * Guide
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-guide-20030818/
   * Reference
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-ref-20030818/
   * Semantics and Abstract Syntax
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-semantics-20030818/
   * Test Cases
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-test-20030818/
   * Use Cases and Requirements
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-webont-req-20030818/

   Read the press release and FAQ and more about the Semantic Web
   Activity:
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owl-pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owlfaq
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Call for Participation: Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages

   Registration is open for the W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy
   Languages hosted by IBM in St Leonards, Sydney, NSW, Australia on
   9 September. Attendees will discuss the future of the Platform for
   Privacy Preferences (P3P), APPEL and other technologies including
   EPAL. The event is colocated with the 25th International Conference
   of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sydney.html
    http://www.w3.org/P3P/

Five XQuery and XPath Working Drafts Published

   The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released
   five Working Drafts. Comments on all of these documents are invited,
   especially on open issues.

   * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20-20030822/
   * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-20030822/
   * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-semantics-20030822/
   * XML Query Use Cases
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-use-cases-20030822/
   * XPath Requirements Version 2.0
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20req-20030822/

   Visit the XML home page:
    http://www.w3.org/XML/

Web Services Choreography Requirements Published

   The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the first
   public Working Draft of "Web Services Choreography Requirements 1.0."
   Choreography defines message protocols, interfaces, sequencing, and
   associated logic for transactions among Web services and their
   clients.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-chor-reqs-20030812/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Device Independence Glossary of Terms Published

   The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public
   Working Draft of the "Glossary of Terms" used in the group's
   publications. The glossary definitions are maintained with unique
   identifiers, and can be linked to from documents new and old. Read
   about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for
   all Web access devices.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-di-gloss-20030825/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

CSS Working Group Publishes Three Working Drafts

   The CSS Working Group has released three Working Drafts for the
   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. "CSS3 Module: Presentation
   Levels" allows slide presentations and outline views of documents.
   The "CSS Print Profile" works with XHTML-Print for printing to
   low-cost devices. "CSS3 Module: Syntax" describes the basic
   structure, parsing rules, and linking of CSS style sheets.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-preslev-20030813/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css-print-20030813/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-syntax-20030813/

   Visit the CSS home page:
    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

W3C System Status Available

   W3C public and Member email lists were not operating for part of last
   week. The W3C Communications and Systems Teams make W3C System Status
   available from our home page. Similar to system status for
   subscribers to Internet service providers (ISPs), this resource
   covers items such as power outages at W3C hosts MIT, ERCIM and Keio;
   email; and mailing list services. W3C Members also have the Member
   home page.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/system-status

Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 Working Draft Published

   The Internationalization Working Group has released an interim
   Working Draft of "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0." The
   document addresses character encoding identification, early uniform
   normalization, string identity matching, string indexing, and URI
   conventions, building on the Universal Character Set defined by
   Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Read about the Internationalization
   Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/
    http://www.w3.org/International/

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