W3C Weekly News - 22 March 2006

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                       15 March - 22 March 2006

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W3C Renews and Expands Web Services Activity

  W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Web Services Activity
  through February 2008. The Activity has an Interest Group, a
  Coordination Group, and four Working Groups including the new Semantic
  Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working
  Group. Participation is open to W3C Members. "W3C is bringing
  communities together... to work on a standard solution for Web
  automation," said Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck), Chair of the SAWSDL
  Working Group. Read the press release and about W3C Activities.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/saws-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities

Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Web Services
  Addressing - Core" and its "SOAP Binding" to Proposed Recommendations.
  The core specification defines properties that allow uniform
  addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the
  underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties'
  association to SOAP messages. Comments are welcome through 18 April.
  Visit the Web services home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-core-20060321/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-soap-20060321/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Names Ubiquitous Web and Interaction Domain Leaders

  W3C is pleased to announce new management of Activities related to
  the Web's user interface. Philipp Hoschka leads the newly created
  Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes the Device Independence, Mobile
  Web Initiative (MWI), Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser
  Activities, and continues his role as W3C Deputy Director for Europe.
  Chris Lilley leads the Interaction Domain which includes the Graphics,
  HTML, Math, Rich Web Clients, Style, Synchronized Multimedia and XForms
  Activities. Read about W3C's Management Team and Activities.

   http://www.w3.org/People/hoschka/
   http://www.w3.org/People/chris/
   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities

Call for Participation: Workshop on Internationalizing SSML

  Following a successful Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second
  Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language
  (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by the Foundation for Research and
  Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office
  in Greece. Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and
  additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English
  languages. Position papers are due 14 April. Read about W3C Workshops
  and visit the Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Note: Delivery Context for Device Independence

  The Device Independence Working Group has updated the "Delivery Context
  Overview for Device Independence" Working Group Note. The term delivery
  context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of
  user Web access mechanisms. Part of a series, the Note describes
  information that may be included in the delivery context, and how that
  information may be used and conveyed. Read more about device
  independence.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-di-dco-20060320/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

W3C Talks

Upcoming W3C Talks

  * Oreste Signore participates in a panel at Broadcasting &
    Videoconferencing on 22 March in Milan, Italy.
  * Tim Berners-Lee presents a Richard Snyder Presidential
    Lecture at Tufts University on 28 March in Medford, MA, USA.
  * Tim Berners-Lee presents at the Spencer Trask Lecture
    Series at Princeton University on 5 April in Princeton, NJ, USA.
  * Molly Holzschlag gives a keynote at Knowbility Access U on
    6 April in San Francisco, CA, USA.
  * Molly Holzschlag gives a tutorial at the Los Alamos
    National Laboratories Web Design Conference on 15 May in Los
    Alamos, NM, USA.
  * Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial at XTech 2006 on 16 May
    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 and Richard Ishida give tutorials on 24-26 May at
    the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)
    in Edinburgh, UK.

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

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

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