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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:04:27 -0800
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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. ________________________________________________________________________
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