W3C Weekly News - 16 April 2005

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W3C Track Featured at WWW2005

  The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue runs from 11-13 May at the
  Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) in Chiba,
  Japan. W3C Members and Team present three days of content on W3C
  technologies and achievements. Conference attendees are also invited to
  Developers Day presentations on 14 May. Read the press release.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/01/w3c-track05.html
   http://www2005.org/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/04/www2005-pressrelease

Last Call: SVG Tiny Version 1.2

  The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a Last
  Call Working Draft of the "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2
  Specification." The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text, and
  images to the Web in XML. The draft is a complete language
  specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from
  cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Comments are
  welcome through 20 May. SVG Full 1.2, published as a placeholder,
  will become a superset of SVG 1.2 Tiny. Visit the SVG home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVG12-20050413/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web

  The OEP Task Force of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
  Working Group released "Representing Classes As Property Values on the
  Semantic Web" as a Working Group Note. The note presents the direct
  approach for representing classes as property values in the full OWL
  Web Ontology Language and RDF Schema, mechanisms for OWL DL and OWL
  Lite, and considerations for users. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-classes-as-values-20050405/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Web Services Addressing WSDL Binding

  The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released an updated
  Working Draft of "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." The
  document defines how the properties in "Web Services Addressing 1.0 -
  Core" are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
  Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is
  designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0. Read about Web
  services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20050413/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Talks at WW2005 in Chiba, Japan (continued)

   http://www.w3.org/2005/01/w3c-track05.html

  Tuesday, 10 May
    * Dave Beckett, Steve Harris, Eric Prud'hommeaux, and Andy Seaborne
      give a tutorial "Introduction to RDF query with SPARQL."
    * Nobuo Saito, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, and Akio Kokubu give a tutorial
      "Social Web Content Filtering and Semantic Web."
    * Richard Ishida and Martin Dürst present "Internationalizing Web
      Content and Web Technology."

  Wednesday, 11 May
    * Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote "WWW at 15 Years: Looking
      Forward."
    * Hugo Haas presents "Foundations and Future Directions of Web
      Services."

  Thursday, 12 May
    * Richard Ishida presents "Web Internationalization Developments."

  Friday, 13 May
    * Bert Bos presents "The Device Independent Browser: CSS and
      Grid Layout."
    * Dean Jackson presents "The Web Platform — Browsers and
      Applications."
    * Mark Birbeck and Steven Pemberton present "The Semantic Browser:
      Improving the User Experience."
    * TV Raman presents "XForms — Moving From Online Forms To
      Light-Weight Web Applications."

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

   http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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