W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-11-10

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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New Working Group to Refine Web Services Resource Access Specifications

   W3C today launched the Web Services Resource Access Working Group
   with a mission to produce W3C Recommendations for a set of Web
   Services specifications by refining the WS-Transfer,
   WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-MetadataExchange and
   WS-Eventing Member Submissions. The group will address existing
   issues in those specifications, and review implementation experience
   and interoperability feedback from implementers and considering
   composition with other Web services standards. Learn more about the
   Web Services Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
   http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Transfer/
   http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSRT/
   http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-MetadataExchange/
   http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Eventing/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Invites Implementations of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Version 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)

   The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the
   Candidate Recommendation of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
   Version 1.1." The Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification is
   designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting
   the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications.
   The essential role of the markup language is to provide authors of
   synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech
   such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different
   synthesis-capable platforms. See the implementation report plan and
   learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-speech-synthesis11-20081107/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/2008/ssml11-irp/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Note: Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification

   The XML Core Working Group has published the Group Note of "Legacy
   extended IRIs for XML resource identification." For historic
   reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are
   somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system
   identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a
   definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these
   variants for easy reference. These variants have to be used with
   care; they require further processing before being fully
   interchangeable as IRIs. New protocols and formats should not use
   Legacy Extended IRIs. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
   Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-leiri-20081103/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * W3C Open Web Standards by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/w3c-open-web-standards.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Meet W3C Staff version 2008 by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/meet-w3c-staff.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to
       expected December 2008 publication by Shawn Henry
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/with_real_world_implementation.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January
       2009
     * W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
       Gas, 9-10 December
     * W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web,
       10-11 December
     * W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
       2009
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamais.
       Daniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
     * 18 November, Sophia Antipolis, France: The W3C Multimodal
       Architecture. Ingmar Kliche presents at ETSI Workshop on
       Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices .
     * 20 November, Budapest, Hungary: tba. Andrew Arch presents at
       Info-kommunikációs Akadálymentességi Műhelykonferencia 2008.
     * 27 November, Milano, Italy: Il Web compie 20 anni. Dovè il
       Semantic Web?. Oreste Signore presents at The 13th KNOWLEDGE
       MANAGEMENT FORUM.
     * 28 November, Berlin, Germany: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
       better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at
       E-Government-Standards Kongress.
     * 4 December, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
       Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
     * 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile
       Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.
       Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design:
       cultivating diversity.
     * 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards
       Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA
       Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
     * 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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