W3C Weekly News - 2 June 2005

                            W3C Weekly News

                         27 May - 2 June 2005

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W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web in Europe

  The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its
  European presence with a celebration on 3 June at CERAM in the Sophia
  Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How it All
  Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe," "Policies
  Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and reception.
  Read the media advisory and more about W3C10 Europe.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/05/w3c10-Europe_media_advisory
   http://www.w3.org/2005/06/W3C10.html

Working Draft: XHTML 2.0

  The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft
  of "XHTML 2.0." A modularized language without presentation elements,
  XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. See the
  introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2.
  Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an
  implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations
  to follow. Visit the HTML home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/introduction.html#s_intro
  http://relaxng.org/
  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft
  of the "SPARQL Protocol for RDF." The draft describes RDF data access
  and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The
  protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced
  "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query
  languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20050527/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft
  of the "SPARQL Query Results XML Format." The SPARQL query language
  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-XMLres-20050527/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Talks in June

  * Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at W3C10 Europe on 3 June in
    Sophia Antipolis, France.
  * Steven Pemberton presents at the 40th Annual General Meeting
    of the International Press Telecommunications Council on 7 June
    in London, UK.
  * Oreste Signore, W3C Italian Office, presents at CMG
    Italia - XIX Convegno Annuale on 9 June in Florence, Italy.
  * Steven Pemberton presents at the First Euro Conference on
    Mobile Government on 10 June in Brighton, UK.
  * Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C German and Austrian Office, gives a
    keynote at the Infopark Internet Congress on 13 June in
    Berlin, Germany.
  * Oreste Signore presents at Etica di Internet on 17 June in
    Rome, Italy.
  * Ivan Herman, Klaus Birkenbihl and Thomas Baker present at W3C
    and the Semantic Web on 20 June in Vienna, Austria.
  * Steve Bratt presents at Global Data Interoperability -
    Challenges and Technologies on 23 June in Sardinia, Italy.
  * Robin Berjon presents at XML Prague 2005 on 25 June in
    Prague, Czech Republic.

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

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

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