W3C Weekly News - 30 March 2006

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                       23 March - 30 March 2006

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XLink 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XML Linking Language
  (XLink) Version 1.1" to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome
  through 1 July. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be inserted
  into XML documents in order to create and describe links between
  resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe
  links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML,
  as well as more sophisticated links. Visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xlink11-20060328/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Draft: Rule Interchange Format Use Cases and Requirements

  The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published the First
  Public Working Draft of "RIF Use Cases and Requirements." Synthesized
  from nearly fifty use cases, the document specifies use cases and
  requirements for a format that allows rules to be translated between
  rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group
  invites comments through 21 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rif-ucr-20060323/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Image Annotation

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has
  published the First Public Working Draft of "Image Annotation on the
  Semantic Web." Produced by the group's Multimedia Annotation in the
  Semantic Web Task Force, the draft describes creation, storage,
  manipulation, interchange and processing of image metadata. Guidelines
  and an overview of tools and RDF and OWL vocabularies are provided.
  Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace

  The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released the First
  Public Working Draft of "The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace."
  This finding on a TAG issue addresses the question of whether or not
  adding new names to a (published) namespace is a sound practice. The
  TAG's mission is stewardship of the Web architecture. Read
  "Architecture of the World Wide Web" and the TAG findings, and visit
  the TAG home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-namespaceState-20060329/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings
   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Updated: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

  The Web Services Description Working Group has updated three Candidate
  Recommendations for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
  Version 2.0: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2:
  Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 1 July. WSDL "RDF Mapping" and
  "SOAP 1.1 Binding" are updated Working Drafts. 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-20060327/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060327/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060327/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060327/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060327/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Talks in April

  * Steve Bratt presents "One Web: Going Mobile" at CTIA Wireless
    2006 on 4 April in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

  * Tim Berners-Lee presents "The Future of the Web" on 5 April
    at the Spencer Trask Lectures Series at Princeton University
    in Princeton, NJ, USA.

  * Molly Holzschlag presents "HTML and CSS does not Accessibility
    Make" at Knowbility Access U on 6 April in San Francisco, CA, USA.

  * José Manuel Alonso presents "Servicios en la Web" at the CIO
    Summit 2006 on 20 April in Madrid, Spain.

  * On behalf of the W3C Hong Kong Office, Ivan Herman presents "W3C
    and the Mobile World" at the Hong Kong University of Science and
    Technology (HKUST) on 24 April in Hong Kong, China.

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

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

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