W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-12-17

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
markup language (Candidate Recommendation)

   The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate
   Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
   language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April
   2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input
   processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal
   Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate
   application specific data with information such as confidence
   scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses,
   and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
   home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi

Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0

   The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
   published the Group Note of "Device Description Repository
   Requirements 1.0." This document describes the use cases for a
   Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in
   order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to
   realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level
   requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a
   discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the Mobile Web
   Initiative Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)

   The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released
   a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of
   URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform
   Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at
   the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. "Cool URIs for
   the Semantic Web" discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the
   Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these
   solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are
   less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January,
   to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's
   charter. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS
profile; XML Entity definitions

   The Math Working Group has published three Working Drafts:
   "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," "A MathML for
   CSS profile," and the First Public Working Draft of "XML Entity
   definitions for Characters." The first defines the Mathematical
   Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for describing
   mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content,
   for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML
   3.0 that admits formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The
   third defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode
   characters. Learn more about the Math Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071214/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20071214/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification
(PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft

   The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Candidate
   Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version
   1.0." Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008;
   please see the PLS 1.0 Implementation Report Plan for more
   information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation
   information for use in "speech recognition" and "speech synthesis,"
   for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have
   irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated "Speech
   Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1." Changes from the
   previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value
   of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be
   "pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio
   element. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20071212/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web

   Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS
   Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla,
   Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting,
   Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other industry leaders have chosen to
   meet in San Jose (California) at the W3C Video on the Web Workshop
   on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more
   people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are
   sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based
   delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and
   other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and
   standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring,
   encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success
   of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the
   community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation
   that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute
   video, and to manage digital rights; see the full agenda. W3C thanks
   Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent
   position papers.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html
   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/agenda.html
   http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html

Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working
Draft

   The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
   released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content
   Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding
   WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0." Following WCAG makes Web
   content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including
   people with disabilities and older users, using many different
   devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments
   are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for
   Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator
Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information
   Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members
   NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is
   to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies
   used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
   forward via an emergency management systems information
   interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an
   initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
   technologies.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
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Upcoming Meetings

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Upcoming Talks 

     * 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
       Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
       Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
     * 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
       Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
     * 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
     * 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
       Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
       Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
       in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
       internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
       (through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
       World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
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