W3C Weekly News - 29 October 2005

                            W3C Weekly News

                      21 October - 29 October 2005

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W3C Launches Indian Office

  W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Indian Office in
  Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of
  Advanced Computing (C-DAC Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and
  the Deputy Office Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve
  Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those
  attending the opening ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi. Read
  the press release and about W3C Offices.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/10/inoffice-pressrelease
   http://www.w3cindia.in/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices

XML Processing Model Working Group Launched

  W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the XML Processing Model
  Working Group. Chartered through October 2007 and chaired by Norman
  Walsh (Sun Microsystems), the group will create a language for users to
  specify the order in which technologies process XML documents. The XML
  Pipeline Language and Pipeline Member Submissions and the XML
  Processing Model Workshop serve as input for this work. Participation
  is open to W3C Members. Visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/10/xml-processing-model-wg-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Databinding Working Group Launched

  W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the XML Schema Patterns for
  Databinding Working Group. Chartered through September 2007 and chaired
  by Paul Downey (BT), the group will specify a set of XML Schema
  patterns and their usage, allowing developers to access the data
  structure in Web services and other toolkits efficiently. The group is
  also chartered to build a test suite and to address versioning in
  coordination with the W3C TAG, Web Services Description Working Group,
  and XML Schema Working Group. Participation is open to W3C Members.
  Visit the Web services home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ws-databinding-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/xsdb/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol in WSDL 1.1

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a First Public Working
  Draft of the "SPARQL Protocol for RDF Using WSDL 1.1." The draft
  describes the SPARQL protocol for RDF non-normatively in WSDL 1.1. It
  was written to gain implementation experience using existing Web
  services toolkits until WSDL 2.0 toolkits become widely available. The
  group also provides a wiki for code samples. Visit the Semantic Web
  home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-sprot11-20051024/
  http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlProtocolWsdl11Examples
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Mobile Web Initiative Event in London on 15 November

  Registration is open for the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) event on
  Tuesday, 15 November at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
  (BAFTA) in central London, UK. MWI sponsors will attend. The event is
  free and open to the public. Read the media advisory and about the
  Mobile Web Initiative, a concerted effort to make the Web interoperable
  and usable for users of mobile devices.

  http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/FutureEvents/mobileregister.html
  http://www.w3.org/2005/11/mwi-ukevent.html
  http://www.w3.org/2005/10/mwi-UKevent_media_advisory
  http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Upcoming W3C Talks

   * Steve Bratt presents at the MIT 2005 Research and Development
     Conference on 3 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.
   * Daniel J. Weitzner presents at the 4th International Semantic
     Web Conference on 9 November in Galway, Ireland.
   * Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Application
     Platforms and OSS on 9 November in Vienna, Austria.
   * Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and
     Richard Ishida present at the International Conference &
     Workshop on Web Technologies on 10-11 November in New Delhi,
     India.
   * Olle Olsson presents at SOA, Griddteknik och Standarder on
     10 November in Stockholm, Sweden.
   * Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents on 14 and 16 November at XML
     2005 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
   * Hugo Haas and Charlton Barreto present at the European
     Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) on 14-15 November in Växjö,
     Sweden.
   * Steven Pemberton presents at User Experience 2005 on 17-18
     November in London, UK.
   * José Manuel Alonso, Shawn Henry and Steven Pemberton
     participate at Fundamentos Web 2005 on 22-24 November in Gijón
     and Oviedo, Spain.
   * Klaus Birkenbihl gives a keynote at Semantics 2005 on
     25 November in Vienna, Austria.
   * Masayasu Ishikawa presents at デジタル・ドキュメント・シンポジウム2005
     on 25 November in Tokyo, Japan.
   * Najib Tounsi presents at Normes, standards et plates-formes
     d’enseignement à distance par les NTIC on 28 November in Rabat,
     Morocco.
   * Bert Bos presents at 22C3 on 27 December in Berlin, Germany.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
   an RSS channel.

   http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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