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- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:55:10 -0600
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W3C Weekly News
14 January 2004 - 26 January 2005
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W3C Recommendations Enhance SOAP Performance
The World Wide Web Consortium has released three W3C Recommendations to
improve Web services performance by standardizing the transmission of
large binary data. "Web services have just become faster and more
usable," said Yves Lafon (W3C). Read the press release and testimonials
and visit the Web services home page.
* Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging"
(XOP) allows efficient serialization of XML element content.
* Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message Transmission
Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges
between SOAP nodes.
* The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications
to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message.
http://www.w3.org/2005/01/xmlp-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2005/01/xmlp-testimonials
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xop10-20050125/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-soap12-mtom-20050125/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-soap12-rep-20050125/
W3C Supports the URI Standard and IRI Proposed Standard
W3C is pleased to announce its support for two publications that are
important for Web addressing and increase the international reach of
the Web. The documents are coordinated efforts of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) and W3C. Read the press release.
* "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax" (RFC 3986,
STD 66) was written by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), Roy Fielding (Day
Software) and Larry Masinter (Adobe) with involvement of the
W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Simple text strings
that refer to Internet resources, URIs may refer to documents,
resources, to people, and indirectly to anything. URIs are the
most fundamental component of the Web.
* "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)" (RFC 3987) was
written by Martin Dürst (W3C) and Michel Suignard (Microsoft) with
involvement of the W3C Internationalization Working Group.
Lifting the limitation of URIs to a subset of US-ASCII, IRIs allow
characters in the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646).
Content developers and users can now identify resources in their
own languages.
http://www.w3.org/2004/11/uri-iri-pressrelease
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
The W3C Advisory Committee has elected David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice
(HP), Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) and Norman Walsh (Sun
Microsystems) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The
Director also appointed Vincent Quint (INRIA) to the TAG; he will serve
as co-Chair along with Tim Berners-Lee. Continuing TAG participants are
Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), and Roy Fielding (Day
Software). Created in 2001, the TAG documents principles of Web
architecture and works with other groups to resolve architectural
issues. Read the Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One and
visit the TAG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Activity
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction
Activity. The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is chaired by
Deborah Dahl and is chartered through 31 January 2007. The Activity
extends user interaction with the Web to multiple modes such as GUI,
speech, vision, pen, haptic interfaces, and gestures. Their work
enables rich capabilities for mobile phones and other devices with
limited resources, and for future generations of multimodal devices.
Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the multimodal interaction
home page.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
W3C Launches Voice Browser Activity
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser Activity.
The Voice Browser Working Group, co-chaired by Jim Larson (Intel) and
Scott McGlashan (HP), is chartered through 31 January 2007. Voice
browsing includes Web interaction with key pads, spoken commands,
listening to prerecorded speech, synthetic speech and music. The
Activity is defining a suite of markup languages for dialog, speech
synthesis, speech recognition, call control and other aspects of
interactive voice response applications. Participation is open to W3C
Members. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public 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-20050114/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Working Draft: Glossary of Terms for Device Independence
The Device Independence Working Group has released an updated Working
Draft of the "Glossary of Terms" used in the group's publications. The
glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be
linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device
independence and single-authored content for all Web access devices.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-di-gloss-20050118/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
Working Group Note: Delivery Context Overview
The Device Independence Working Group has published "Delivery Context
Overview for Device Independence" as a Working Group Note. The term
delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the
capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. This document explains the
role of delivery context in achieving a device independent Web. The
group plans no further changes. Visit the device independence home
page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-di-dco-20050118/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* Steve Ross-Talbot, Chair of the Web Services Choreography
Working Group, speaks at Web Services on Wall Street in
New York, NY, USA on 1-2 February.
* José Manuel Alonso, W3C Spanish Office, presents at Primer
Congreso Nacional de BPMS 2005 (First National BPMS Conference
2005) in Madrid, Spain on 2 February.
* Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at PAGE2005
in Tokyo, Japan on 4 February.
* Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel at the Internet
Caucus State of the Net Conference in Washington, DC, USA on
9 February.
* Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Semantic Web Seminarie in
Antwerpen, Belgium on 16 February.
* Jim Larson, Chair of the Voice Browser Working Group, presents
in San Francisco, CA, USA at the Service Automation Expo and
Conference on 21 February and at SpeechTEK West on 23 February.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 361 Member organizations and 71
Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France,
and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications,
guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C
supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability,
evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information
about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/
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