W3C Weekly News - 11 February 2006

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                     3 February - 11 February 2006

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W3C Launches Incubator Activity

  W3C announces the launch of its Incubator Activity, a new initiative
  to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. "With the
  Incubator Activity, W3C Members and Invited Experts can now combine Web
  technology discovery with the outstanding technical resources of W3C
  and see what develops," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Executive Officer.
  The first Incubator Group (XG) to be launched addresses the issue of
  content labels. Read the press release and the new XG charter.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/02/incubator-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Note: RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has
  published "A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals" as a
  Working Group Note. The Note records existing proposals for integrating
  data represented in W3C's RDF/OWL family of languages with data
  represented in ISO's Topic Maps. It is a starting point for
  establishing guidelines for combined usage of these standards,
  assuring interoperability. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rdftm-survey-20060210/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Device Description Landscape

  The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public
  Working Draft of "Device Description Landscape," a companion to "Device
  Description Ecosystem." This draft describes the current state of the
  various options that exist for providing Device Descriptions to enable
  device-aware applications. 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-dd-landscape-20060210/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Working Drafts: Remote Events for XML (REX)

  A joint effort of the SVG and Web API Working Groups, the REX Task
  Force has released the First Public Working Draft of "Remote Events for
  XML (REX) 1.0" and their Requirements. Using the REX grammar, endpoints
  can interact with DOM Events remotely as if they were at the same
  location. Read more about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Web APIs.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rex-20060202/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rex-reqs-20060202/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/

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