W3C Weekly News - 28 January 2006

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                     18 January - 28 January 2006

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W3C to Hold Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

  W3C holds the "Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web" on 9-10 March in
  Tokyo, Japan. The Ubiquitous Web "takes advantage of the diversity
  of networked devices," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will
  examine technologies and help W3C make choices for standardization to
  realize the vision of distributed applications that adapt to users'
  needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Position
  papers are due 10 February. Read the press release and about W3C
  Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/01/ubiweb-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

W3C Names Steve Bratt Chief Executive Officer

  W3C has named Dr. Steven R. Bratt to the newly-created position of W3C
  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 20 January. In this capacity,
  Steve will continue to oversee worldwide operations and outreach,
  including overall management of Member relations, the W3C Process, the
  staff, strategic planning, budget, legal matters, external liaisons and
  major events. Since joining W3C in 2002, Steve served as W3C's Chief
  Operating Officer and subsequently also as Acting Chair. Read about the
  W3C management team and more about W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/all#steve
   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

W3C Seminar on Using Web Services

  As part of the European IST Programme's WS2 project, the seminar "Using
  Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics" will be held in Paris,
  France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia
  and W3C technical staff will demonstrate the use of Web services
  technologies in real world scenarios. Please register. The seminar is
  free and open to the public. Visit the Web Services home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2004/WS2/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html
   http://dakini.fr/w3c/form.php
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Last Call: SPARQL Protocol for RDF

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second 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 10 February. Visit the
  Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20060125/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Last Call: SPARQL Query Results XML Format

  The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call
  Working Draft of the "SPARQL Query Results XML Format." The SPARQL
  query language (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
  a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
  information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
  digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
  of integration over disparate sources. Comments are welcome through 10
  February. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20060125/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility

  The XML Query Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts
  of the "XQuery Update Facility" and its "Use Cases." XML Query can
  perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances
  such as documents and databases. Today's drafts provide expressions
  to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the
  XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060127/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060127/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
  of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
  Abstraction 1.0." SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel
  State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language
  within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under
  development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Visit the
  Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-scxml-20060124/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Upcoming W3C Talks

  * Felix Sasaki presents at the 翻訳支援環境に関するセミナー
    on 28 January in Tokyo, Japan.
  * Deborah Dahl and Dave Raggett present 30 January - 1 February
    at AVIOS/SpeechTek West in San Francisco, CA, USA.
  * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Instruments pour faire de
    l'accessibilité du Web une réalité on 30 January in Paris,
    France.
  * Olle Olsson presents at the SITI-konferensen 2006 on 2 February
    in Stockholm, Sweden.
  * 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.
  * Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at the Euro American
    Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2006)
    on 7 February in Santa Marta, Colombia.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the Victoria Online Seminar Series
    on 8 February in Melbourne, Australia.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the February WSG Meeting on 9 February
    in Melbourne, Australia.
  * Olle Olsson presents at Aktuella utmaningar on 10 February in
    Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Ivan Herman presents at LinuxWorld Asia on 10 February in
    Delhi, India.
  * On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Richard Ishida presents
    at the February W3C/WSG Meeting on 10 February in Canberra,
    Australia.

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

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

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