- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:23:53 -0700
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W3C Weekly News 8 September - 15 September 2005 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ xml:id Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium released "xml:id Version 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. The specification defines an attribute name, xml:id, that can always be treated as an identifier and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external resources, and without relying on an internal subset. The Recommendation is the latest deliverable of the XML Core Working Group, part of the W3C XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xml-id-20050909/ http://www.w3.org/XML Last Call: SPARQL Protocol for RDF The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Last Call 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. Comments are welcome through 14 October. Visit the Semantic Web home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20050914/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)." The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy. Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-i18n-20050914/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Working Draft: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles The Compound Document Formats Working Group released the second Working Draft of "Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles." The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the desktop and high-capability handhelds. Visit the Compound Document home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WICD-20050915/ http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/ Working Draft: EARL 1.0 Schema The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema." EARL is a flexible format used to exchange, combine and compare test results including bug reports, test suite evaluations and conformance claims. The test subjects might be Web sites, authoring tools, user agents or other entities. The group welcomes feedback from Web developers and researchers. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-EARL10-Schema-20050909/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Working Group Note: Test Metadata The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published "Test Metadata" as a Working Group Note. Developed on the W3C QA wiki, this set of metadata elements can be used to track and filter tests, to identify what is tested, to construct a test harness and to format test results. Dublin Core is reused where appropriate. Visit the QA home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-test-metadata-20050914/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ Position Papers Due 23 September for W3C Workshop on Internationalizing SSML W3C holds the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Position papers are due 23 September. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page. http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Upcoming W3C Talks (continued) * Daniel Dardailler and Richard Ishida present "W3C, Multilinguism and Accessibility" at lunchtime at PrepCom3 on 23 September in Geneva, Switzerland. * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Hagenberger Web Entwicklertag on 29 September in Hagenberg, Austria. * Steven Pemberton presents a tutorial at an event organized by the W3C Benelux and ISOC Belgium on 3 October in Antwerp, Belgium. * Klaus Birkenbihl gives a tutorial for the Semantic Web School on 6 October in Vienna, Austria. * Ivan Herman presents at the Semantic Web Days on 7 October in Munich, Germany. * Steven Pemberton gives tutorials on 27-28 October at User Experience 2005 in Boston, USA. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Talks/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 394 Member organizations and 66 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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