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The 2010-05-17 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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XProc Standard Defines Way to Organize and Share XML Workflows
11 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8793
Today W3C announced a powerful tool for managing XML-rich
processes such as business processes used in enterprise
environments. The W3C Recommendation " "XProc: An XML Pipeline
Language,"" provides a standard framework for composing XML
processes. XProc streamlines the automation, sequencing and
management of complex computations involving XML by leveraging
existing technologies widely adopted in the enterprise setting.
"XML is tremendously versatile," said Norman Walsh, MarkLogic,
and one of the co-editors of the specification. "Just off the
top of my head, I can name standard ways to store, validate,
query, transform, include, label, and link XML. What we haven't
had is any standard way to describe how to combine them to
accomplish any particular task. That's what XProc provides."
Read more in the press release and learn more about XML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xproc-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/2010/05/xproc-pr
http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/
Last Call for Drafts Related to XML Security: Encryption, SIgnature,
Generic Hybrid Ciphers
17 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8801
The XML Security Working Group has published three Last Call
Working Drafts: "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version
1.1," "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1," and
"XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers." The group also
published a Working Draft of "XML Security Algorithm
Cross-Reference." XML Encryption specifies a process for
encrypting data and representing the result in XML. XML
Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or
signer authentication services for data of any type, whether
located within the XML that includes the signature or
elsewhere. The third document augments XML Encryption by
defining algorithms, XML types and elements necessary to enable
use of generic hybrid ciphers in XML Security applications. The
final document summarizes XML Security algorithm URI
identifiers and the specifications associated with them. Last
Call comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about the
Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20100513/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core1-20100513/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20100513/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20100513/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
State Start XML (SCXML) Draft Published
17 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8800
The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
Abstraction." SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state
machine language that can be used in many ways. It can be used
as a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's
encapsulated speech modules. It can also be used as a voice
application metalanguage, where in addition to VoiceXML 3.0
functionality, it may also control database access and business
logic modules. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-scxml-20100513/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C Launches Audio Incubator Group
14 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8797
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Audio Incubator
Group, whose mission is to explore the possibility of starting
one or more specifications dealing with various aspects of
advanced audio functionality, including reading and writing raw
audio data, and synthesizing sound or speech. The Audio
Incubator Group will engage the various constituents of such
specifications, including musicians, audio engineers,
accessibility experts, user-interface designers, implementers,
and hardware manufacturers, to collect use cases and
requirements on what can and should be done for various
specifications at different levels of priority, and deliver one
or more reports including recommendations for specification
work items. The following W3C Members have sponsored the
charter for this group: Mozilla Foundation, PUC-Rico, BBC, and
Google. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative
to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
Incubator Activity work is not on the W3C standards track but
in many cases serves as a starting point for a future Working
Group.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/audio/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
First Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1 Draft Published
12 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8796
The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1." This
specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT 2.1, a
language for transforming XML documents into other XML
documents. The main focus for enhancements in XSLT 2.1 is the
requirement to enable streaming of source documents. This is
needed when source documents become too large to hold in main
memory, and also for applications where it is important to
start delivering results before the entire source document is
available. The approach adopted in this specification is
twofold: it identifies a set of restrictions which, if followed
by stylesheet authors, will enable implementations to adopt a
streaming mode of operation without placing excessive demands
on the optimization capabilities of the processor; and it
provides new constructs to indicate that streaming is required,
or to express transformations in a way that makes it easier for
the processor to adopt a streaming execution plan. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xslt-21-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Advances to Proposed Recommendation
11 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8795
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published
six Proposed Recommendations. Together, they allow systems
using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies
to interoperate with each other and with Semantic Web
technologies.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal semantics
for storing and transmitting rules:
* The RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD) is designed for the
kinds of rules used in modern Business Rule Management
systems.
* The RIF Basic Logic Dialect (BLD) is a foundation for Logic
Programming, classical logic, and related formalisms.
* The RIF Core Dialect is the common subset of PRD and BLD,
useful when having a ubiquitous platform is paramount.
The other drafts:
* RIF Datatypes and Builtins (DTB) specifies the datatypes
and standard operations (modeled on XPath Functions)
available in all RIF dialects
* RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies how RIF works with
RDF, RDFS, OWL 1, and OWL 2.
* RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD) provides a mechanism
for specifying extended dialects, beyond BLD, when more
expressive power is required.
The group has also published a new version of "RIF Test Cases"
, and three other Working Drafts: "RIF Overview," "RIF
Combination with XML data" and "OWL 2 RL in RIF."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-test-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-overview-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-xml-data-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-owl-rl-20100511/
RIF implementation information is available. Review comments
are welcome until 8 June. Learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/Implementations
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
Last Call: Digital Signatures for Widgets
11 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8794
The Web Applications Working Group has published a second Last
Call Working Draft of "Digital Signatures for Widgets." This
document defines a profile of the XML Signature Syntax and
Processing 1.1 specification to allow a widget package to be
digitally signed. Widget authors and distributors can digitally
sign widgets as a mechanism to ensure continuity of authorship
and distributorship. Comments are welcome through 01 June.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-digsig-20100511/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2010-06-15 (15 JUN) – 2010-06-16 (16 JUN)
Augmented Reality on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-om
web.htm
Barcelona, Spain
Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own
right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As
mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the
workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and
the Web. The objective of this Workshop is to provide a
single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss
the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the
mobile platform, and what role standardization should play
for Open Augmented Reality.
* 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
Somerset, NJ, USA
Openstream
The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
support for language capabilities that are unsupported
today.
* 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
RDF Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
Palo Alto, CA
Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(NCBO), at Stanford University
The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
version of RDF.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/
* 2010-07-12 (12 JUL) – 2010-07-13 (13 JUL)
W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
London, England
Hosted by Vodafone
As the Web advances toward becoming an application
development platform that addresses needs previously met by
native applications, work proceeds on APIs to access
information that was previously not available to Web
developers. The broad availability of possibly sensitive
data collected through location sensors and other
facilities in a Web browser is just one example of the
broad new privacy challenges that the Web faces today.
Earlier approaches to address privacy issues for the Web,
especially through policy languages, have not seen broad
implementation in current-generation Web browsers.
This workshop serves to investigate strategies toward
better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and
lead to benefits in the near term.
W3C Blog
* Asia and W3C
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/asia_and_w3c
14 May 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
* HTML5 Video
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/html5_video
14 May 2010 by Philippe Le Hégaret
http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-05-19 (19 MAY)
What is W3C?
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0519-Prism-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
PRISM Forum Spring Meeting
Stockholm, Sweden
* 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
Organization
by Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-25 (25 MAY)
Les standards ouverts du Web et les logiciels libres
associés
http://www.w3c.org.ma/Talks/Tanger2010/openStandards
by Najib Tounsi
INTERNATIONAL FREE-LIBRE SOFTWARE DAYS, towards an
ecological computing
http://jlazaar.free.fr/lacolombe/Affiche-Workshoplacolombe.
pdf
TANGIER , Morocco
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
panel features Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Semantically-Enabled Standard development
by Laurent Lefort
Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
Ideas
http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
Canberra, Australia
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Transforming eGov Accessibility
by Judy Brewer
Gov 2.0 Expo
http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010/
Washington, DC, USA
* 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
by Richard Ishida
Localization World
http://www.localizationworld.com/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-06-10 (10 JUN)
SVG: Today and Tomorrow
by Doug Schepers
@media 2010
http://atmedia.webdirections.org/
London, United Kingdom
* 2010-06-22 (22 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0622-SemTech-IH/
by Ivan Herman
2010 Semantic Technology Conference
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
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