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- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 22:40:33 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
10 May - 19 May 2006
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DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content
The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of "Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL)." DIAL
describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making
Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the
thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press
release and more about device independence.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/dial-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity
W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository
W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device
Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss
the design, implementation and use of a repository of device
information for content and service providers. Position papers are due
31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the
Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/
http://www.w3.org/2006/05/ddrworkshop-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum
In a 17 May 2006 press release, United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening
the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a new forum for a multi-
stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel Dardailler,
W3C's Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the new
Advisory Board. W3C looks forward to sharing its experience in
distributed consensus-building within this new international
environment for standardization.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm
W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the WebCGM Working Group.
Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered
through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0
of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home
page.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/webcgm-charter.html
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39256/join
Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set
The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of the "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)
Version 1.0," a First Public Working Draft of "Best Practices for XML
Internationalization," and updated requirements. Organized by data
categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the
internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for
existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call
comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping
The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0:
RDF Mapping." Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and
describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft
describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming
WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated
Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" that incorporates
comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This
document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce
Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and
small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
Working Draft: RDFa Primer
The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and
Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working
Draft of the "RDFa Primer 1.0." RDFa expresses metadata in
XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of
user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force,
the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about
the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/
http://www.w3.org/Markup/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content
The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working
Groups jointly released a Working Draft of "Authorizing Read Access to
XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0."
The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that
allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content.
Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the
Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-access-control-20060517/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* Erik Bruchez, Christian Lieske, Steven Pemberton, Dave Raggett,
Sebastian Rahtz, Felix Sasaki and Henry Thompson present on
16-19 May 2006 at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at W4A2006 - Building the Mobile
Web: Rediscovering Accessibility? on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.
* Ivan Herman presents at the Workshop on E-Government: Barriers
and Opportunities on 23 May in Edinburgh, UK.
* Ivan Herman, Richard Ishida and Steven Pemberton give tutorials
on 24-26 May at WWW2006 in Edinburgh, UK.
* Daniel J. Weitzner gives a keynote on 26 May at WWW2006 in
Edinburgh, UK.
* Wonsuk Lee presents at the 2006 웹코리아포럼 심포지엄 on 30 May in
Seoul, Korea.
* Olle Olsson gives a keynote at the Metadatas roll inom rättslig
informationsförsörjning on 1 June in Stockholm, Sweden.
* Shawn Henry presents at UPA 2006 on 13 and 15 June in Broomfield,
CO, USA.
* Molly Holzschlag presents at @media 2006 on 15 June in
London, UK.
* On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Ivan Herman gives a
keynote at AusWeb06 on 3 July in Australis Noosa Lakes,
Queensland, Australia.
* Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at The Next Web on 7 July in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at The Twenty-First National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence on 18 July in Boston, MA,
USA.
* Olle Olsson presents at the DFS-ITvet meeting on 18 September
in Stockholm, Sweden.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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