W3C Weekly News - 10 February 2007

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                       1 February - 9 February 2007

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Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a Proposed
Recommendation

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Semantic Interpretation
   for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation.
   SISR tags are used to extract 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 5 March. Visit
   the Voice Browser home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-semantic-interpretation-20070205/
    http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata

   Based on feedback received during Candidate Recommendation, the Web
   Services Addressing Working Group has released "Web Services
   Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are
   welcome through 23 February. The proposed WSDL extension element and
   WSDL SOAP module have been removed, and Web Services Policy assertions
   have been introduced into the specification. The document was formerly
   titled "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." Read about Web
   services.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070202/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Paged Media, Behavioral Extensions: CSS3 Working Drafts

   The CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for
   Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). "Generated Content for Paged
   Media" describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers
   and footers often used in printed publications. "Behavioral Extensions
   to CSS" allow bindings like XBL to be linked from CSS style sheets, so
   bindings can be used with user and alternate style sheets and media
   selection. Visit the CSS home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070205/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-becss-20070205/
    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft

   The Web Application Formats Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0 Requirements." These design goals are
   the requirements for device-independent standards for scripting,
   digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side Web
   applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are
   small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and
   weather forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the
   Web browser environment. Read about Rich Web Clients.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-reqs-20070209/
    http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Offices Meet Face to Face

   W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 5-6 February in Sophia
   Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's sixteen world Offices met
   at INRIA to discuss W3C Membership issues, Office events and new
   staff, outreach, and plans for the future. 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/Consortium/Offices/
    http://www.w3.org/2007/02/OfficesMeeting.html

Upcoming W3C Talks

     * Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Philipp
       Hoschka run booth 7D56 in Hall 7 at the "3GSM World Congress"
       from Monday, 12 February through Thursday, 15 February, in
       Barcelona, Spain.
     * Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the
       Semantic Web" on Wednesday, 21 February and
       gives a keynote entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Friday,
       23 February at the "International Conference on Semantic Web &
       Digital Libraries" in Bangalore, India.

   Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.
    http://www.w3.org/Talks/
    http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss

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