W3C Weekly News - 14 June 2004

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                             4 June - 14 June 2004

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Tim Berners-Lee Receives Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki

   W3C is pleased to announce that on 15 June in Helsinki, Ms. Tarja
   Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, will present the first
   Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award
   is given in one of four disciplines for "outstanding technological
   achievements that directly promote people's quality of life, are based
   on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic development." The
   ceremonies are held in conjunction with the Millennium Technology
   Conference in Espoo, Finland on 13-16 June.

    http://www.technologyawards.org/
    http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

Last Call: SOAP Transmission Optimization, XML-Binary Packaging

   The XML Protocol Working Group has released "SOAP Message Transmission
   Optimization Mechanism" and "XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)" as
   Last Call Working Drafts. The drafts improve SOAP Version 1.2
   performance. Comments are welcome through 29 June. Also published are
   "XOP Frequently Asked Questions," the "Attachment Feature" which is
   superseded, and the completed "Use Cases and Requirements." Visit the
   Web services home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-mtom-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xop10-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-xopinc-FAQ-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-soap12-af-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-os-ucr-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Last Call: SOAP Resource Representation Header

   The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft
   of the "SOAP Resource Representation Header." Comments are welcome
   through 29 June. The document describes a SOAP header block that allows
   applications to carry a representation of a Web resource in a SOAP
   message. 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/2004/WD-soap12-rep-20040608/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Working Draft: Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML

   The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working
   Group jointly released the First Public Working Draft of "Assigning
   Media Types to Binary Data in XML." The draft describes how to indicate
   the media type of XML element content and the way to specify that type
   in XML Schema. Visit the Web services home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20040608/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Working Draft: Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0

   The Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public
   Working Draft of "Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect)
   1.0." Part of a markup language supporting the creation of Web sites
   that can be used from diverse devices, this document provides selection
   between versions of materials using only modest processing power. Learn
   more about the W3C Device Independence Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-cselection-20040611/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

XForms 1.1 Requirements Updated

   The XForms Working Group has updated the "XForms 1.1 Requirements"
   Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Version
   1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces SOAP, makes
   XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in other host
   languages. Visit the XForms home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-xforms-11-req-20040611/
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Teleconference: Making Visualizations of Complex Information Accessible

   W3C is pleased to announce "Making Visualizations of Complex
   Information Accessible for People with Disabilities," a teleconference
   sponsored by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Research and
   Development Interest Group. The telecon is 28 June 2004 and includes
   real-time captioning. Registration has closed. Position papers, a
   transcript and a summary of the discussion will be published after
   the event.

    http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2004/06/cfp-viz.html
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Upcoming W3C Talks (continued)

   * Charles McCathieNevile presents to the European Coordination
     Committee on Human Rights Documentation in Venice, Italy on
     3 June.
   * José Kahan and Charles McCathieNevile present at the SWAD-E
     "Introducción al uso de la Web Semántica" workshop in Madrid,
     Spain on 13 June.
   * Tim Berners-Lee presents "The History and Future of the World Wide
     Web" at the Millenium Technology Conference at the Dipoli Congress
     Centre, Espoo, Finland on 16 June. The conference is sponsored by
     the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
   * Max Froumentin presents at the Joint AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on
     "Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms"
     in Martigny, Switzerland on 22 June.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
   an RSS channel.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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