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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementation of OWL 2
The OWL Working Group invites implementation of its OWL 2 Web
Ontology Language. OWL 2 is a compatible extension to " OWL 1,"
providing " additional features" for people using ontologies. An
ontology is a structured set of terms that a particular community
uses for organizing data, such as "title", "author", and "ISBN" for
data about books. The OWL 2 document set contains 9 technical
specifications and 4 instructional documents. The
Recommendation-track specifications are now Candidate
Recommendations, indicating that the Working Group and the W3C
Director believe this is a good time for systems to begin adopting
OWL 2 features on an experimental basis. The group maintains a list
of implementations and encourages new information about
implementations and other feedback to be sent to it comments
address. The 4 instructional documents, which provide an
introduction to OWL 2, are now at Last Call: " overview," "primer"
, " new features and rationale," and " quick reference." Finally,
a new datatype used within both OWL and RIF, called
"rdf:PlainLiteral" (formerly called rdf:text) is also a Candidate
Recommendation. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-new-features-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Implementations
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-primer-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-new-features-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-quick-reference-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-rdf-plain-literal/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
W3C Celebrates Semantic Web Progress at SemTech 2009
W3C technical staff and more than 30 W3C Member organizations will
present at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) this week in
San Jose, California. Sessions led by W3C staff and Member
organizations highlight the accelerating rate of adoption and
deployment of Semantic Web technologies in the past year. "We have
gathered a growing number of Semantic Web use cases and case studies
in the past 12 months," said Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead
for W3C and one of the presenters. "What thrills me is the diversity
of application areas for the Semantic Web, including more software,
services and tools, as well as successful deployment in business and
industry." Read the full press release and learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/SemTech-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Review: SKOS Reference Proposed Recommendation
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Proposed
Recommendation of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Reference." SKOS provides a common data model for sharing and
linking knowledge organization systems via the Web. SKOS is a
vocabulary for expressing the basic structure and content of concept
schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading
schemes, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other similar types of
controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description
Framework ( "RDF" ), SKOS allows concepts to be composed and
published on the World Wide Web, linked with data on the Web and
integrated into other concept schemes. Along with this publication
of the SKOS Reference Proposed Recommendation the Working Group has
published an updated "SKOS Primer Working Draft." Comments are
welcome through 15 July. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-skos-reference-20090615/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090615/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Prior Art Related to US Patent 5,764,992
This is a public call for prior art. On 5 March 2009, pursuant to
its rights under W3C's Patent Policy, Apple, Inc. disclosed US
patent 5,764,992 and claimed that it applies to the "Widgets 1.0:
Updates specification." Apple excluded all claims from the W3C
Royalty-Free License commitment of the W3C Patent Policy given by
Participants of the Web Applications Working Group. In accordance
with the exception procedures of the Patent Policy, W3C launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to determine possible solutions. The PAG
has advised W3C to issue this call for prior art. The PAG seeks
information about software update systems available before June 1995
that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of updates in
Widgets. People who wish to provide feedback should refer to the
call for prior art for more information.
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag/cfpa.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/p66
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-updates-20081007/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter#L381
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag/cfpa.html
W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery Update Facility 1.0
The XML Query Working Group has published a minor update to the
Candidate Recommendation of "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." This
document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query
language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions
that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. This draft reflects " changes"
made in response to comments received so far during the Candidate
Recommendation period. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xquery-update-10-20090609/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xquery-update-10-20090609/#id-revision-
log
http://www.w3.org/XML/
UK Government Moves to Put Data on the Web
Today the Office of the Prime Minister in the UK announced that Tim
Berners-Lee will "help drive opening of access to Government data on
the web over the coming months." The announcement is an important
step in helping to fulfill the vision for a Web of Linked Open Data
built on W3C's open Semantic Web standards, espoused by Berners-Lee
in his TED 2009 talk. "Government data — the people's data — is an
important component to the larger Linked Open Data movement," said
Berners-Lee. "I look forward to working with multiple government
agencies and local enthusiasts to help early adopters bring their
data to the bigger picture." In April, Berners-Lee engaged similarly
with the US government offering to help them join the "rapidly
growing Linked Open Data cloud, to which US recovery data will be a
welcome addition." W3C's own eGovernment Interest Group has also
been actively building an international network of support to work
with governments on issues of transparency, accountability, and
efficiency through open data. Learn more about W3C's eGovernment and
Semantic Web Activities.
http://twitter.com/DowningStreet/status/2102188386
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.h
tml
http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/linked-open-data
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Note: Requirements for Japanese Text Layout
Participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force (from four W3C Groups
(CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups)
published a Group Note of "Requirements of Japanese Text Layout."
This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout
realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is
mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However,
it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. A
"Japanese version" is also available. Learn more about W3C's
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/ja/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Call for Review: POWDER Suite is a Proposed Recommendation
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published three Proposed Recommendations: "Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources,"
"Description Resources," and "Formal Semantics." The Protocol for
Web Description Resources (POWDER) suite facilitates the publication
of descriptions of multiple resources such as all those available
from a Web site (see "POWDER use cases" ). The first of these three
documents describes how sets of IRIs can be defined such that
descriptions or other data can be applied to the resources obtained
by dereferencing IRIs that are elements of the set. The second
details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs),
which encapsulate POWDER metadata. The third describes the formal
semantics of the formalism. Comments are welcome through 05 July.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-grouping-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-dr-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-formal-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-use-cases/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
W3C Invites Implementations of SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0
The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0."
The work described in this and related documents is aimed at a set
of standards for the transport of SOAP messages over JMS [Java
Message Service]. The main purpose is to ensure interoperability
between the implementations of different Web services vendors. It
should also enable customers to implement their own Web services for
part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with
vendor provided Web services. The main audience will be implementers
of Web services stacks; in particular people who wish to extend a
Web services stack with an implementation of SOAP/JMS. This document
specifies how SOAP should bind to a messaging system that supports
the Java Message Service (JMS). Learn more about the Web Services
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-soapjms-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Registration Open: Live Training Sessions On Mobile Web Design
Today, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative opens registration for its
first ever live training day. Training will take place Thursday, 2
July 2009, in Cambridge, UK. Students will attend a full day of
lectures and hands on sessions on the "W3C Mobile Web Best
Practices" standard, and more generally on mobile Web design. This
training event is part of the MobiWeb 2.0 project supported by the
European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). Read the
full announcement and learn more about the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative.
http://www.3gwebtrain.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=14
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/
http://www.w3.org/2008/MobiWeb20/
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/live_mobile_training.html
http://www.w3.org/Mobile
Drafts of MathML 3.0 and MathML for CSS Profile Published
The Math Working Group has published Working Drafts of "Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0" and "A MathML for CSS profile"
. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation
and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the
World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for
text. This document describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits
formatting with Cascading Style Sheets. Learn more about the Math
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-MathML3-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mathml-for-css-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/Math/
Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0
Draft Published
The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object
1.0." This document specifies use cases and requirements as an
input for the development of the "Ontology for Media Object 1.0" and
the "API for Media Object 1.0". The ontology will be a simple
ontology to support cross-community data integration of information
related to media objects on the Web. The API will provide read
access and potentially write access to media objects, relying on the
definitions from the ontology. Learn more about the Video in the Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Last Call: WebCGM 2.1
The WebCGM Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of
"WebCGM 2.1." Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard,
defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and
mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds
Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical
illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data
visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in 1999,
WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM utilization in
Web document applications. It therefore represents a significant
interoperability agreement amongst major users and implementers of
the ISO CGM standard. Comments are welcome through 02 July. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Last Call: Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format
Exchange Profile (DFXP)
The Timed Text Working Group has published a third Last Call Draft
of "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format
Exchange Profile (DFXP)." Timed text is textual information that is
intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information.
The timed text authoring format is a content type that represents
timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring
systems. See " changes in this draft." Comments are welcome through
30 June 2009. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20090602/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20090602/#change-history-cr1
-to-lc3
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Published
The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working
Draft of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0."
VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive
media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken
and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and
recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including
digitized audio, and digitized video. The primary goal of this
version 3.0 is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and
content delivery to interactive voice response applications. See the
"diff-marked version" showing changes made since the "19 December
2008 draft." Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090602/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090602/diff.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-voicexml30-20081219/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (IBM),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Ora Lassila (Nokia),
Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software), Takeshi Natsuno (Keio
University), and Arun Ranganathan (Mozilla). Steve Zilles continues
as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
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Architecture and Interfaces, 10-11 July
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Upcoming Talks
* 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web. Dave Raggett,
Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 18 June, Gijón, Spain: La reutilización de información del
sector público y la Web: Open Government Data. José Manuel
Alonso presents at Jornada #admin20 en Internet Meeting Point.
* 30 June, Berlin, Germany: Wie implementiert man einen Standard?
Eine Anleitung für Praktiker. Felix Sasaki presents at Tutorial
organized by the Berlin University of the Arts.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 2 July, Brisbane, Australia: W3C: a Use Case for Web
Technologies. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at NICTA, Queensland
Research Laboratory.
* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 20 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility: It's for Everyone and
Everything. Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009
Seattle.
* 21 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009 Seattle (discount
"Passport" registration code: S9W06).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
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