W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-09-04

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation

   The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Policy 1.5
   as a Recommendation. The Policy "Framework" defines a model for
   expressing 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. Read the press release, the testimonials and about the
   Web Services Policy Working Group and Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-testimonial
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation

   The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Web Services
   Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" as a Recommendation. The specification is
   used to indicate support for "Web Services Addressing 1.0" using
   "Web Services Policy 1.5" and defines how to express WS-Addressing
   properties in "WSDL." Read about the Web Services Addressing
   Working Group and about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

SVG Open 2007 Conference and Exhibition

   SVG Open 2007, the 5th International Conference on Scalable Vector
   Graphics, will be held 4-7 September at Keio University, Japan, on
   the Mita Campus in Tokyo. Over 40 presentations will be delivered,
   from SVG experts all over the world, tackling topics such as mobile
   SVG, Web mapping, geo-location based services and much more. The
   conference schedule and confirmed keynote speakers are now
   available. The conference language is English; translation
   facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese
   communication. On-site registration will be also available at the
   registration desk during the conference. Please also note that
   g-Contents WORLD 2007 will be a joint event of SVG Open 2007
   Conference.

   http://www.svgopen.org/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
   http://www.svgopen.org/schedule_en.shtml
   http://www.svgopen.org/keynotes_en.shtml
   http://www.g-contents.jp/2007/top.htm

Last Call: XQuery Update Facility

   The XML Query Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of
   the "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." Comments are welcome through 31
   October. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
   collections of XDM instances such as documents or databases. The
   update facility provides expressions to create, modify and delete
   nodes within those instances. The specification's " Requirements"
   and "Use Cases" were also published as updated Working Drafts. Visit
   the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-20070828/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-requirements-20070828/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-use-cases-20070828/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Call for Participation

   Position papers are due 5 October for the Workshop on W3C's
   Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces on 16-17 November 2007 in
   Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the
   support and integration of user interface components such as speech,
   GUI and handwriting recognition from multiple vendors, to help the
   Multimodal Interaction Working Group make the "Multimodal
   Architecture and Interfaces" specification more useful in current
   and emerging markets. Read about multimodal interaction and about
   W3C Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a W3C Recommendation

   The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Semantic Annotations
   for WSDL and XML Schema" (SAWSDL) as a Recommendation. With these
   attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services
   Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying,
   discovering, matching, composing and invoking Web services. The
   companion "Usage Guide" is a Working Group Note that shows through
   examples how to associate semantic annotations with a Web service.
   Read about the SAWSDL Working Group and about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-sawsdl-20070828/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-sawsdl-guide-20070828/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Advance Notice of Workshop

   W3C plans a Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces
   on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by W3C/Keio.
   Attendees will discuss the support and integration of user interface
   components such as speech, GUI and handwriting recognition from
   multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
   make the "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces" specification more
   useful in current and emerging markets. A Call for Participation is
   expected shortly. Read about multimodal interaction and about W3C
   Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
       November
     * W3C Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption,
       25-26 September
     * W3C/OpenAjax Alliance Workshop on Mobile Ajax, 28 September
     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 4 September, Bucaramanga, Colombia: Ubiquitous Web Applications.
       Dave Raggett presents at Invited talk.
     * 19 September, Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany: W3C und W3C World
       Offices. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Deutschland und China -
       Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie.
     * 19 September, London, United Kingdom: Will W3C Mobile Web Best
       Practices Help End Fragmentation of Standards and Enable a
       Coherent Web Experience?. Philipp Hoschka participates in a
       panel at Informa Mobile Web 2.0 Conference.
     * 20 September, Québec, Canada: HTML 5 - l'édition des draveurs.
       Karl Dubost presents at Rencontre autour de HTML 5.
     * 21 September, Lisbon, Portugal: The Future of the World Wide
       Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at 4th EU Ministerial
       eGovernment Conference.
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
       Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
       International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
       (ICDAR).
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
       Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
       Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
     * 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS. Bert Bos gives a lecture
       at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
     * 26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
       presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.
       Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast. Bert
       Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 3 October, New York, New York, USA: Web Demand: How Financial
       Services Can Leverage Emerging Web Technologies. Steve Bratt
       presents at IT/Networking Trends & Technology and Solutions.
     * 3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel. Bert Bos participates in
       a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
     * 17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of
       eGovernment. José Manuel Alonso presents at “Webelopers Day” of
       the Internet NG Conference.
     * 17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.
       Ivan Herman presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG
       Conference.
     * 18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web. Klaus
       Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und
       Wissenstechnologien.
     * 19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible
       to People with Disabilities. Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent
       the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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