- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:04:27 -0800
- To: w3c-announce@w3.org
- Message-ID: <42431D4B.3020507@w3.org>
W3C Weekly News
26 February - 24 March 2005
Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
_________________________________________________________________________
Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences
Position papers are due 20 May for the W3C Workshop on XML Schema 1.0
User Experiences to be held 21-22 June in Redwood Shores, California,
USA. Schema authors and users, developers and vendors of schema-aware
code generators, middleware, validators, and the W3C XML Schema Working
Group will gather to discuss user experience with XML Schema 1.0. The
workshop goal is to arrive at plan of action for XML Schema 1.0
interoperability, errata and clarification. Read about W3C workshops
and visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/2005/03/xml-schema-user-cfp
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: Timed Text Distribution Profile
The Timed Text (TT) Working Group has released a Last Call Working
Draft of the "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Distribution Format
Exchange Profile (DFXP)." The format enables authors and authoring
systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text.
DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy
systems. Comments are welcome through 11 April. Visit the Synchronized
Multimedia home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20050321/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements
The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released the First
Public Working Draft of "Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and
Requirements Version 1.0." A compound document combines multiple
formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This draft
introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and
XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase. Visit the
Compound Document home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDRReqs-20050315/
http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/
Internationalization Articles Published
The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand
and use W3C technologies. Recent articles are "An Introduction to
Multilingual Web Addresses" and "Language Tags in HTML and XML." Read
about W3C internationalization RSS feeds and news filters and visit the
Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
http://www.w3.org/International/log/description
http://www.w3.org/International/
W3C Hosts Fifth Annual Technical Plenary Week
W3C held its Technical Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest
Groups held face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests
attended plenary day for talks and demos on extensibility and
versioning, XML, test suites, Web applications, Web site usability and
design, multimodal interaction and voice. Read the minutes, learn how
to join W3C and read about W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/allgroupoverview.html
http://www.w3.org/2005/03/plenary-minutes.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
W3C Talks
* Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean Office, presented at the e-Biz World 2005
Conference on 23 March in Seoul, Korea.
* David Booth presents at the the University of Waterloo, University
of Toronto, and Agfa-Gevaert on 5 April in Toronto and Waterloo,
Canada.
* Ivan Herman gives a tutorial and Vincent Shen, W3C Hong Kong
Office, presents at the Semantic Web Symposium on 12 and 14 April
in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
* Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean Office, presents at ICAT 2005 on 12 April
in Seoul, Korea.
* Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial on behalf of the W3C German and
Austrian Office on 19 April in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
* Jim Hendler gives a tutorial on behalf of the W3C Israel Office on
20 April in Jerusalem, Israel.
* Steve Bratt gives a keynote at the Application Integration and Web
Services Summit on 20 April in Los Angeles, California, USA.
* Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean Office, gives an invited talk at IT
Forum Korea 2005 on 27 April in Seoul, Korea.
* Ivan Herman presents at the First W3C Spanish Office Prize Award
Ceremony on 28 April in Oviedo, Spain.
* Dave Beckett, Steve Harris, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Andy Seaborne,
Nobuo Saito, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Akio Kokubu, Richard Ishida and
Martin Dürst present at the 14th International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2005) on 10 May in Chiba, Japan.
* Ivan Herman and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux present at XTech 2005
on 26 May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* Ivan Herman presents at the News Standards Summit 2005 on 24 May
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* 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/
_________________________________________________________________________
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 364 Member organizations and 70
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/
_________________________________________________________________________
To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to
mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject
line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org
with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Comments may be sent to
the public mailing list mailto:site-comments@w3.org which is archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/. This newsletter is
archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/. Thank you.
________________________________________________________________________
Received on Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:04:35 UTC