W3C Weekly News - 26 April 2005

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W3C Lowers Membership Fee in Developing Countries

  The World Wide Web Consortium is pleased to announce reduced
  Membership fees in developing countries. "W3C is all about building
  Web technologies that can be of service to the world," said
  Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer. W3C is actively soliciting
  participation from organizations in the developing world, with help
  from its Members, government and NGOs, philanthropic organizations,
  and the W3C global Offices network. Read the press release, "About
  W3C" and "How to Become a W3C Member."

   http://www.w3.org/2005/04/dcfee-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

Working Draft: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces

  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the First Public
  Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces." This
  document describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user
  interfaces, which allows for co-resident and distributed
  implementations, and focuses on the role of markup and scripting, and
  the use of well defined interfaces between its constituents. Visit the
  Multimodal Interaction home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mmi-arch-20050422/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the third Working Draft
  of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle")
  offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search
  results across a wide range of information such as personal data,
  social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and
  images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate
  sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Talks (continued)

  * Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean Office, presents 유비쿼터스 웹서비스 (Web
    Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environment) at IT Forum Korea
    on 27 April in Seoul, Korea.

  * Ivan Herman and José Manuel Alonso present at Acto de Entrega del
    Primer Premio W3C a la Estandarización Web on 28 April in
    Oviedo, Spain.

  * Hugo Haas presents "Foundations and Future Directions of Web
    Services" on 11 May at the 14th International World Wide Web
    Conference (WWW2005) in Chiba, Japan.

  * Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean Office, presents
    W3C의 차세대 웹 표준화 현황 및 전망 (W3C Overview and Prospects of Web
    Standards) at Yangsan University on 19 May in Busan, Korea.

  * Ivan Herman (24 May) and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (26 May)
    present at XTech 2005 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  * Ivan Herman presents "RDF/OWL Semantic Technologies" at the News
    Standards Summit 2005 on 24 May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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

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

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