W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-01-14

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Welcomes Review of Three OWL 1.1 First Public Drafts

   The OWL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
   of three Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.1 specifications: "Structural
   Specification and Functional-Style Syntax," "Model-Theoretic
   Semantics," and "Mapping to RDF Graphs." OWL is used to define
   Semantic Web vocabularies. Together, these new specifications extend
   the W3C "OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0" with a small but useful set
   of features that have been requested by users, for which effective
   reasoning algorithms are now available, and that OWL tool developers
   are willing to support. The three specifications cover,
   respectively, the syntax, semantics, and mapping to RDF of OWL 1.1
   ontologies. Learn more about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-syntax-20080108/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-semantics-20080108/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-mapping-to-rdf-20080108/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Service Modeling Language 1.1 Drafts

   The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group has published the
   third Working Drafts of "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1" and
   "Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1." The
   former defines the SML 1.1, intended to model complex services and
   systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best
   practices. The latter defines the SML 1.1 interchange format,
   designed to ensure accurate and convenient interchange of the
   documents that make up an SML model. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-20080114/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-if-20080114/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: SMIL Timesheets 1.0

   The SYMM Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of
   "SMIL Timesheets 1.0" ; this is also the First Public Working Draft.
   This document defines an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0
   element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of
   other XML languages. This language allows SMIL timing to be
   integrated into a wide variety of a-temporal languages, even when
   several such languages are combined in a compound document. Because
   of its similarity with external style and positioning descriptions
   in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language, this functionality has
   been termed SMIL Timesheets. Comments are welcome through 15
   February. Learn more about W3C work on Synchronized Multimedia.

   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-timesheets-20080110/
   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

XHTML Access Module; Comments Welcome

   The XHTML2 Working Group has published the First Public Working
   Draft of XHTML Access Module. This document is intended to help make
   XHTML-family markup languages more effective at supporting the needs
   of the accessibility community. It does so by providing a generic
   mechanism for defining the relationship between document components
   and well-known accessibility taxonomies. Learn more about the HTML
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/WD-xhtml-access-20080107/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/
   W3C Questions and Answers Blog

   http://www.w3.org/QA/
   http://www.w3.org/QA/atom.xml

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
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       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 23 January: eGovernment and the Web. José Manuel Alonso is at
       Virtual W3C Seminar.
     * 23 January, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
       Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
       Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
     * 28 January, Albany, NY, USA: Making the Web Accessible to All.
       Shawn Henry presents at University at Albany.
     * 30 January, Stockholm, Sweden: The Semantic Web. Olle Olsson
       presents at JFokus 2008.
     * 31 January, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
       Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
     * 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
       Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your
       Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
     * 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
       presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
     * 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
       Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
       Conference.
     * 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
       (tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
       Web 2.0 Telecoms.
     * 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
       Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
       Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
     * 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
       internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April, 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, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
       (through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
       World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
       Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
       Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
       2008.
     * View upcoming talks by country
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