W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-06-24

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
(Candidate Recommendation); Primer Updated

   The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and XHTML2 Working Group
   have published a Candidate Recommendation of "RDFa in XHTML: Syntax
   and Processing." Web documents contain significant amounts of
   structured data, which is largely unavailable to tools and
   applications. When publishers can express this data more completely,
   and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality
   becomes available, letting users transfer structured data between
   applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to
   improve the user experience. RDFa is a specification for attributes
   to be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express
   structured data. See the groups' RDFa implementation report. The
   Working Groups also updated the companion document "RDFa Primer."
   Learn more about the Semantic Web and the HTML Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-rdfa-syntax-20080620/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/implementation-report/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20080620/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 (Structures,
Datatypes)

   The XML Schema Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts
   of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures"
   and " Part 2: Datatypes." The former specifies the XML Schema
   Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing the
   structure and constraining the contents of XML documents, including
   those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The latter defines
   facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well
   as other XML specifications. Comments are welcome through 12
   September. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema11-1-20080620/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema11-2-20080620/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1

   The Voice Browser Working Group has released the Last Call Working
   Draft of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1."
   SSML provides a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the
   generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. SSML
   1.1 improves on W3C's "SSML 1.0 Recommendation" by adding support
   for more conventions and practices of the world's languages
   including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern languages.
   Comments are welcome through 20 July. See the "list of changes" in
   this draft and learn more about W3C's Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-speech-synthesis11-20080620/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-speech-synthesis11-20080620/#AppG
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * Old School Netiquette… still good! by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/netiquette-w3c-mailing-list.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Update of the RDFa distiller by Ivan Herman
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/update_of_the_rdfa_distiller.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
     * How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/contribute-w3c-work.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Interview: David Baron on Firefox 3 and W3C Standards by Ian
       Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/interview_david_baron_on_firef.html
     * Lithuania is first by Philippe Le Hégaret
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/lithuania_is_first.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
     * About the Love - w3.org Redesign by Ian Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/about_the_love_w3org_redesign.html
     * Optimizing your Web server by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/optimize-http-web-server.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
       Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
       Conference 2008.
     * 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
       Korea Computer Congress 2008.
     * 11 July, Linz, Austria: Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web.
       Michael Cooper gives a keynote at ICCHP 2008 11th International
       Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs.
     * 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
       Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
       CSS.
     * 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
       Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
     * 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
       Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
       Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
       Models for Virtual Goods.
     * 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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