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- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:57:27 -0600
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W3C Weekly News
5 January - 17 January 2006
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Candidate Recommendations: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0" specifications to Candidate
Recommendations: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2:
Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 15 March. SOAP 1.1 Binding is
an updated Working Draft. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web
services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate
communication between applications. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-primer-20060106/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060106/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060106/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Candidate Recommendation: Semantic Interpretation for Speech
Recognition (SISR) 1.0
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Semantic
Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0" language to
Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based
annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech
recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in
the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as
serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20
February. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-semantic-interpretation-20060111/
http://www.w3.org/Voice
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
The W3C Advisory Committee has elected T.V. Raman (Google) and Henry
Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture
Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah
Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Norman Walsh (Sun
Microsystems) and co-Chairs Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Vincent Quint
(INRIA). In 2004, the TAG published the W3C Recommendation
"Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One." Visit the TAG home
page.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0." The draft describes
how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to
mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the
mobile value chain, the document is designed to improve user
experience. Comments are welcome through 17 February. Read about the
W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors,
content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
operators.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
XKMS Activity Completes Work and Closes
W3C is pleased to announce that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working
Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation "XML
Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0)" and its companion "Bindings"
and "Requirements" as well as the Working Group Notes "Using XKMS with
PGP" and "A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS." With XKMS, users can share
public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries.
Please join us in thanking all participants and Chairs Stephen Farrell
(Invited Expert) and Shivaram Mysore (Microsoft) for their
contributions. Read about Technology and Society at W3C.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-20050628/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-bindings-20050628/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-xkms2-req-20030505
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-pgp-20051219/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-wsdl-20051118/
http://www.w3.org/TandS/
Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes
The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
of "XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes." XML schemas define shared
markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those
vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them.
With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML
schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060116/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Keio Hosts Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Tokyo
The Semantic Web Conference 2006 will be held at Keio University in
Tokyo, Japan on 27 January 2006, organized by INTAP. Keio University
holds an exhibition booth, Nobuo Saito gives a welcome message, and
Tatsuya Hagino presents "Past and Future of the Semantic Web" and
moderates a panel discussion on "Semantic Web, the Past, Today and
Tomorrow."
http://www.intap.or.jp/INTAP/whatsnew/17-20060127_swc/index_e.html
W3C Offices Meet Face to Face in Amsterdam
W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 10-11 January in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. "Office representatives from five continents and
members of the W3C Communication Team have gathered at CWI, the hosting
institution of the W3C Benelux Office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Issues related to W3C Membership, Office events, outreach, and plans
for the future of the W3C Office program for 2006 and beyond were
discussed," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work with
their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local
languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international
participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page.
http://www.w3.org/2006/01/OfficeMeeting
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Web Authentication Position Papers Due 25 January
Reminder: Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on
Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March
2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify
steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security
for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client
behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content
providers, and user agent testing. Read the press release, about W3C
Workshops and more about Technology and Society.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2005/12/security-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/TandS/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* José Manuel Alonso presents at Jornadas Técnicas sobre
Administración Electrónica "Abrimos 24 horas" on 20 January
in Gijón, Spain.
* Steve Bratt presents at the RFID Academic Convocation on
23 January in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
* Deborah Dahl presents at SpeechTek West 2006 on 30 January
and 1 February in San Francisco, California, USA.
* Dave Raggett presents at SpeechTek West 2006 on 31 January
in San Francisco, California, USA.
* Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at PAGE2006 on
3 February in Tokyo, Japan.
* Richard Ishida presents at the Open Road Conference on
7 February in Melbourne, Australia.
* On behalf of the W3C Hungarian Office, Ivan Herman presents
at the Magyarországi Web Konferencia on 18 March in
Budapest, Hungary.
* Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at W4A2006 - Building the Mobile
Web: Rediscovering Accessibility? on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
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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
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