W3C Weekly News - 3 May 2005

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W3C Seminar: Multimodal Web Applications for Embedded Systems

  As part of the European IST Programme's MWeb project, a Multimodal Web
  Applications for Embedded Systems seminar will be held in Toulouse,
  France on 21 June. W3C Members and Team will demonstrate innovative
  multimodal Web applications related to new environments such as mobile
  devices, automotive telematics and ambient intelligence. Please
  register. The seminar is free and open to the public. Visit the
  multimodal interaction home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2004/MWeb/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/03/MWeb-seminar.html
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Last Call: Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0

  The Device Independence Working Group released a Last Call Working
  Draft of "Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0."
  DISelect supports 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. Comments are
  welcome through 3 June. Visit the device independence home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-cselection-20050502/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

Working Draft: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released
  a First Public Working Draft of "XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL."
  Posing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic
  Web, the document discusses user defined datatypes, comparison of
  values, duration, and the use of numeric types. The group invites
  public discussion and feedback on implementations. Visit the Semantic
  Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20050427/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: XLink 1.1

  The XML Core Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft
  of "XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1." The XLink 1.1 language
  allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create
  and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
  structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional
  hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Visit
  the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050428/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Drafts: Specification Guidelines

  The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group updated two Working Drafts
  written for W3C editors. "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" is
  designed to help make technical reports easy to interpret without
  ambiguity. The guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance
  and how a specification might allow variation. "Variability in
  Specifications" contains advanced design considerations and
  conformance-related techniques. Visit the QA home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-qaframe-spec-20050428/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-spec-variability-20050428/
  http://www.w3.org/QA/

W3C Holds Rule Languages Workshop

  On 27-28 April in Washington, DC, USA, over sixty industry and
  research organizations participated in a W3C Workshop to discuss
  development of a uniform Rule language - the next layer in the Semantic
  Web development stack. Hosted by ILOG, SA and supported by DARPA, the
  W3C Rule Languages Workshop brought together the leaders in Business
  Rules development, customers, and Semantic Web developers in an effort
  to identify requirements for a common rule language. Read the press
  release and the Call for Participation.

  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
  http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/
  http://www.w3.org/2005/04/swrules-pressrelease
  http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp

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