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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0; Use Cases Updated
28 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8709
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have
jointly published an update to the Candidate Recommendation of
"XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0," and to the companion "Use
Cases." The former defines the syntax and formal semantics of
XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 which is a language that extends
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 with full-text search capabilities.
Learn more about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-xpath-full-text-10-20100128/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20100
128/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity
Method for Writing Testable Conformance Requirements Published as
Working Group Note
28 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8708
The Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group has
published the First Public Working Group Note of "A Method for
Writing Testable Conformance Requirements." This document
presents a method for writing, marking-up, and analyzing
conformance requirements in technical specifications that can
help other Working Groups develop better specifications more
quickly. Learn more about testing-related work in W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-test-methodology-20100128/
http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/qa#w3c_all
Report Examines Access Control, Privacy Issues
28 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8707
W3C has published a report and full minutes of the Workshop on
Access Control Application Scenarios, held in Luxembourg in
November 2009. Participants from 17 organizations examined the
current limitations of access control, privacy enhancement,
distributed handling of access control, and other challenging
use cases. eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
was a focus of the Workshop, though not the exclusive topic of
conversation. The report summarizes the major "takeaways" from
the Workshop, related to XACML semantics, "sticky" policies,
and credentials-based access control. The OASIS XACML Technical
Committee is expected to take up these topics. W3C's Policy
Languages Interest Group (PLING) is expected to discuss data
handling policies and the matching and triggering of events in
the privacy context.
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/report
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/agenda
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacm
l
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/
http://www.w3.org/Policy/pling/
W3C Seeks Feedback on Early Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths; Six
SPARQL Drafts Updated
27 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8706
The SPARQL Working Group has published a First Public Working
Draft of "SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths," which defines a more
succinct way to write parts of basic graph patterns and also
extend matching of triple pattern to arbitrary length paths.
The group also published six updates, listed below. The group
seeks feedback on open issues in particular. Learn more about
the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-property-paths-20100126/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/track/issues/open
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
* SPARQL 1.1 Query adds support for aggregates, subqueries,
projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query
language.
* SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF
graphs.
* SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF defines an abstract interface
and HTTP bindings for a protocol to issue SPARQL Query and
SPARQL Update statements against a SPARQL endpoint.
* SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and
discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a
SPARQL endpoint.
* SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs
describes the use of the HTTP protocol for managing named
RDF graphs on an HTTP server.
* SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes defines conditions under
which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes
such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF.
UK Government Launches Open Data Site
26 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8705
The UK Government has unveiled its open data website,
data.gov.uk, developed with the help of Tim Berners-Lee (W3C
Director) and John Sheridan (Linked Data Lead for data.gov.uk
and co-Chair of the W3C eGovernment Interest Group). Like
data.gov in the United States, the UK site reflects a growing
awareness inside and outside of government that standards-based
open data is a key enabler of government services and a
building block for new information services across government
and industry. Additionally, this new site showcases Semantic
Web and Linked Data technologies. Learn more about "Publishing
Open Government Data" and eGovernment at W3C.
http://data.gov.uk/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.data.gov/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData
http://www.w3.org/TR/gov-data/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
Uniform Messaging Policy, Level One Draft Published
26 January 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8704
The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "Uniform Messaging Policy, Level One."
The Uniform Messaging Policy (UMP) enables cross-site messaging
that avoids Cross-Site-Request-Forgery and similar attacks that
abuse HTTP cookies and other credentials. For example, content
from customer.example.org can safely specify requests to
resources determined by service.example.com. Rather than
restricting information retrieval to a single origin, as the
Same Origin Policy almost does, the Uniform Messaging Policy
supports origin independent messaging. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-UMP-20100126/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
W3C Blog
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-02-02 (2 FEB)
Enabling Websites - The W3C/WAI Accessibility Guidelines
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
Joint WIPO-ITU Accessibility Workshop
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2010/wipo_itu_wai/
Geneva, Switzerland
* 2010-02-02 (2 FEB)
Mobile Web Best Practice & WCAG 2.0: can you spot the
difference?
by Phil Archer
Joint WIPO-ITU Accessibility Workshop
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2010/wipo_itu_wai/
Geneva, Switzerland
* 2010-02-03 (3 FEB)
Hands on Semantic Web tutorial for developers
First meeting of The Israeli W3C Developers Forum
http://www.w3c.org.il/article/semanticweb
Tel-Aviv, Israel
* 2010-02-08 (8 FEB)
Accessibility Now
keynote by Shawn Henry
CalWAC 5 - California Web Accessibility Conference
http://www.knowbility.org/calwac/
Santa Clara, CA, USA
* 2010-02-11 (11 FEB)
Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Semantic 3D Media
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0211-Sophia-IH/
by Ivan Herman
FOCUS K3D Conference on Semantic 3D Media and Content
http://195.251.17.14/conference/
Sophia Antipolis, France
* 2010-02-18 (18 FEB)
Tecnologie del Web Semantico per le Digital Libraries
http://www.w3c.it/talks/2010/csb2010-swdl/
by Oreste Signore
Cultura Senza Barriere 2010
http://www.culturasenzabarriere.org/
Padova, Italy
* 2010-02-18 (18 FEB)
WCAG 2.0 e normativa italiana
http://www.w3c.it/talks/2010/csb2010-wcag/
by Oreste Signore
Cultura Senza Barriere 2010
http://www.culturasenzabarriere.org/
Padova, Italy
* 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
XML Prague 2010
Mohamed ZERGAOUI
XML Prague 2010
http://xmlprague.cz
Prague, Czech Republic
* 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
How to avoid suffering from markup: A project report about
the virtue of hiding XML
by Felix Sasaki
XML Prague 2010
http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index
Prague, Czech Republic
* 2010-03-25 (25 MAR)
Building an Accessible Web Browser: W3C User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines
Annual International Technology and Persons with
Disabilities Conference
http://csunconference.org
San Diego, CA, USA
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