W3C Weekly News - 13 January 2005

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                   23 December 2004 - 13 January 2005

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W3C Launches Internationalization Activity

  W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Internationalization
  Activity. The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group, chaired
  by Yves Savourel (Enlaso), is chartered with new work to develop
  elements and attributes to support document internationalization and
  localization. Formerly task forces, the Internationalization Core
  Working Group is chaired by Addison Phillips (webMethods) and the
  Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Working
  Group is chaired by Richard Ishida (W3C). All three Working Groups and
  the Internationalization Interest Group, chaired by Martin Dürst (W3C),
  are chartered through October 2006. Visit the Internationalization home
  page.

   http://www.w3.org/International/

SMIL 2.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

  The World Wide Web Consortium released the "Synchronized Multimedia
  Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Second Edition" as a W3C
  Recommendation. This second edition is not a new version; its purpose
  is to correct errors in the SMIL 2.0 first edition as a convenience to
  readers. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line,
  allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation
  elements for any XML-based host language. Visit the Synchronized
  Multimedia home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/
   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

W3C Offices Meet Face to Face

  W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 10-11 January in Sophia
  Antipolis, France. "Office representatives from five continents have
  gathered at W3C's host in France to discuss local issues, recruiting
  and Membership issues, Office events and outreach as they plan for 2005
  and beyond," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work with
  their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local
  languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international
  participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/01/11-Offices.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0 Last Call Published

  Addressing comments received during the first Last Call, the Voice
  Browser Working Group has published a second Last Call Working Draft of
  "Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0." CCXML, the Call
  Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control
  support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome
  through 31 January. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ccxml-20050111/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1

  The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working
  Draft of the "Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1)." P3P
  simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy
  policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has
  new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C
  workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-P3P11-20050104/
   http://www.w3.org/P3P/

W3C Talks

  * David Booth presented "From Web Services to the Semantic Web:
    Global Data Reuse" at the University of Waterloo and the
    University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada on 10 January.

  * Steven Pemberton presents "Ineluctable Modality of the Visible" at
    A Decade of Webdesign in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 21 January.

  * Hiroyuki Sato, RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG), presents
    on DAWG at the INTAP Semantic Web conference in Tokyo, Japan
    on 10 February.

  * Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair,
    presents "Multimodal Standards For Automating Customer Support"
    at the Service Automation Expo in San Francisco, CA, USA on
    21 February.

  * Deborah Dahl gives a talk at SpeechTEK West in San Francisco, CA,
    USA on 23 February.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
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   http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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