W3C Weekly News - 13 May 2005

                            W3C Weekly News

                          3 May - 13 May 2005

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W3C Launches Mobile Web Initiative

  The World Wide Web Consortium launched the Mobile Web Initiative
  (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and
  convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "MWI recognizes the
  mobile device as a first class participant of the Web," said Tim
  Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C thanks MWI Founding Sponsors France
  Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Segala M Test, Vodafone and Volantis. Read
  about MWI, how to sponsor MWI and the testimonials and press release.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Sponsoring.html
   http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-testimonials
   http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-pressrelease

XML Key Management (XKMS) Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "XML Key Management
  Specification (XKMS 2.0)" and its Bindings to Proposed Recommendation.
  The documents specify protocols for distributing and registering public
  keys for use with the XML Signature and XML Encryption W3C
  Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 3 June. Visit the XKMS
  home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-xkms2-20050502/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-xkms2-bindings-20050502/
  http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/

Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released
  three First Public Working Drafts: "SKOS Core Guide," "SKOS Core
  Vocabulary Specification," and a "Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus
  on the Semantic Web." The drafts explain how to express classification
  schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies,
  glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in RDF. Previous
  SKOS work was supported by the European project SWAD-Europe. Visit the
  Semantic Web home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20050510/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050510/
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Drafts: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

  The Web Services Description Working Group has published Working Drafts
  of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the first
  complete draft of the "Primer," updates to "Part 1: Core Language" and
  "Part 2: Adjuncts" and a First Public Working Draft of the "SOAP 1.1
  Binding." An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used
  to document distributed systems and automate communication between
  applications. Read about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-primer-20050510/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-20050510/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20050510/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20050510/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

XML 1.1 and XML Schema Processors

  The XML Schema Working Group has published "Processing XML 1.1
  Documents With XML Schema 1.0 Processors" as a Working Group Note.
  Developed to encourage adoption of internationalized XML, the note
  presents a strategy for users, specifications and processors until XML
  Schema addresses this issue normatively. Visit the XML home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml11schema10-20050511/
  http://www.w3.org/XML/

Note: Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML

  The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working
  Group have completed "Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML"
  and published the document as a Working Group Note. The note specifies
  how to indicate the content-type associated with binary element content
  in an XML document and to specify, in XML Schema, the expected
  content-type(s) associated with binary element content. Use of these
  attributes is expected to improve the handling and description of
  binary data in Web services messages. Visit the Web services home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml-media-types-20050504/
  http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Talks

  * Steven Pemberton presents "W3C XForms: improving the user experience
    with accessible, device-independent e-forms" at the First Euro
    Conference on Mobile Government on 10 June in Brighton, UK.

  * Ivan Herman presents "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web";
    Klaus Birkenbihl of the W3C German and Austrian Office presents
    "The Work of W3C"; Thomas Baker presents "Report from the W3C
    Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group" all at W3C and the
    Semantic Web on 20 June in Vienna, Austria.

  * Robin Berjon presents "Binary XML and its Characterization" at XML
    Prague 2005 on 25 June in Prague, Czech Republic.

  * Jim Larson, Chair of the Voice Browser Working Group, presents a
    tutorial "Speech Enabled Web Application" at the 11th International
    Conference on Human-Computer Interaction on 27 July in
    Las Vegas, USA.

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

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

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