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- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:01:31 -0700
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W3C Weekly News
24 March - 31 March 2007
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Ubiquitous Web to Simplify Development for Networked Devices
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity. W3C Fellow Dave Raggett chairs the group
which is chartered to advance the creation of distributed
applications for network appliances. The first face-to-face meeting
of the Ubiquitous Web Applications (UWA) Working Group will be 7-8
June 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by MobileAware, following the
associated W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
Applications. The UWA Working Group will take on the deliverables of the
Device Independence Working Group which is now closed. Read about
the Ubiquitous Web.
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40755/join
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/uwa-charter
http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/
HTML Mail Workshop: Call for Participation
Position papers are due 21 April for the W3C HTML Mail Workshop to
be held 24 May in Paris, France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris. Attendees will
discuss authoring, rendering, interoperability and security aspects
of HTML in email as well as non-technical topics. Read about W3C
Workshops and about HTML.
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/html-mail/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/html/
Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop Toward More Transparent Government
co-sponsored by the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI)
on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways
of facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment
sites, to help shape ongoing research in the development of Web
technology and public policy, in order to realize the potential
of the Web for access to, and use of, government information.
A Call for Participation is expected in a few weeks. See the
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment Report for information
about the previous W3C eGovernment event. Read about W3C
Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report
W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal
Interaction Working Group to enable users to use their preferred
modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited Expert)
chairs the group which is chartered to develop open standards to
adapt to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow
multiple modes of Web interaction including GUI, speech, vision,
pen, gestures and haptic interfaces. Read the about the Multimodal
Interaction Activity.
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34607/join
http://www.w3.org/2006/12/mmi-charter.html
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
W3C Launches Voice Browser Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser
Working Group to enable users to speak and listen to Web
applications. Jim Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan (HP)
chair the group which is chartered to standardize languages for
capturing and producing speech and for managing the dialog between
users and computers. Read the about the Voice Browser Activity.
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34665/join
http://www.w3.org/2006/12/voice-charter.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Last Call: EARL 1.0 Schema
The WAI ERT Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft
of "EARL 1.0 Schema." Comments are welcome through 20 April.
The Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange,
combine, and analyze results from different evaluation tools and
checkers. EARL is introduced in the Evaluation and Report Language
(EARL) Overview. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) home
page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-EARL10-Schema-20070323/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/earl.php
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a third Last Call
Working Draft of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL
(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 due by
18 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
The Web Services Description Working Group released three Last Call
Working Drafts 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 15 April on this brief Last
Call for changes since Candidate Recommendation review. 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/2007/WD-wsdl20-primer-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070326/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Rule Interchange Format Core Design: Working Draft
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "RIF Core Design." The document
specifies the core design for a format that allows rules to be
translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule
systems. The group invites comments through 27 April. Visit the
Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
RDFa Use Cases: Working Draft
The XHTML2 Working Group and the Semantic Web Deployment Working
Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of "RDFa
Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML." RDFa expresses
metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a
new world of user functionality. Written for readers somewhat
familiar with HTML, RDF and N3 notation, these scenarios consider
publishers, tool builders and users. Read about HTML and the
Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-scenarios-20070330/
http://www.w3.org/html/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
GRDDL Test Cases: Working Draft
The GRDDL Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
of "GRDDL Test Cases." The test cases demonstrate the expected
behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent. With important applications such as
connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to
extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using
programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mashups
at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070328/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Web Services Policy 1.5: Candidate Recommendations
The Web Services Policy Working Group has published updated
Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5, documenting
their progress. The Policy "Framework" model expresses the nature of
Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
"Attachment" defines how to associate policies, for example within
WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. The group published
updated Working Drafts of the "Primer," "Guidelines" and "Element
Identifiers" as well. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome
through 30 June. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070330/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070330/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070330
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070330
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl11elementidentifiers
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF: Working Draft
The WAI ERT Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
"HTTP Vocabulary in RDF." With these terms, HTTP headers exchanged
between clients and servers can be recorded in RDF format. Terms
include vocabulary for the HTTPS scheme as well as other extensions
to the core specification. Visit the WAI ERT home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-HTTP-in-RDF-20070323/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai give a talk entitled "A W3C és a
mobil Web (W3C and Mobile Web)" at the "Magyarországi Web
Konferencia 2007 (Webconference in Hungary 2007)" on Saturday,
31 March in Budapest, Hungary.
* Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Finland Office
entitled "State of the Semantic Web" organized by the Tampere
University of Technology and the W3C Finnish Office, on
Tuesday, 3 April in Tampere, Finland.
* Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives an invited talk entitled "Markup
Languages and Schema Languages for Linguistic, Textual,
Documentary Resources" at the "Datenstrukturen für linguistische
Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen (GLDV Frühjahrstagung) (Data
structures for linguistic resources and their applications)" on
Wednesday, 11 April in Tübingen, Germany.
* Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility –
It's not Magic, it's Art" at the "Information and Communication
Technology and Accessibility" on Thursday, 12 April in
Hammamet, Tunisia.
* Dan Connolly gives a talk entitled "How the W3C Process got its
Stripes" at the "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the
Interface" on Friday, 20 April in Durham, NC, USA.
* Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the
Semantic Web" on Monday, 23 April and gives an invited talk
entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Tuesday, 24 April at
"Semantic Days 2007" in Stavanger, Norway.
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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