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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:16:38 -0500
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W3C Weekly News 12 March - 18 March 2002 W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and All-Group Meeting 15 March 2002: W3C held its second annual Technical Plenary and Working Group Meeting on 25 February - 1 March in Cannes Mandelieu, France. More than 20 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups held face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, over 200 participants attended the all day public plenary. Minutes have been published. If your organization would like to join W3C, refer to the Membership page. http://www.w3.org/2001/07/allgroupoverview.html http://www.w3.org/2002/02/techplen-minutes.html http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining XML Key Management Working Drafts Published 18 March 2002: The XML Key Management Working Group has published three first Working Drafts. The "XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0)" specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys for use with XML Signature and XML Encryption. "XML Key Management (2.0) Requirements," in Last Call through 15 April, specifies design principles and scope. "X-BULK" allows bulk registration necessary for systems such as smart card management. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML Key Management home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xkms2-20020318/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xkms2-req-20020318 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xkms2-xbulk-20020318/ http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/ IsaViz - A Visual Authoring Tool for RDF Announced 14 March 2002: W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative announces the release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs. IsaViz has a 2.5D user interface allowing smooth zooming and navigation. IsaViz supports RDF/XML and N-Triple import and export, and SVG and PNG export. Developed by Emmanuel Pietriga of W3C and Xerox Research Centre Europe, IsaViz is based on the Xerox Visual Transformation Machine, Hewlett-Packard's Jena, Graphviz from AT&T Research, and Apache's Xerces. http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/ W3C Delivery Context Workshop Materials Published 12 March 2002: Workshop materials are available for the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 4-5 March. Participants exchanged ideas and developed a road map for the W3C Device Independence Activity work on delivery context, a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. http://www.w3.org/2002/02/DIWS/final.html Upcoming W3C Team Presentations * 20 March: Wendy Chisholm presents "Learn To Use Tools And Processes To Evaluate Web Content For Accessibility" at the CSUN "Technology and Persons With Disabilities" conference held at California State University, Northridge, CA, USA. * 20-21 March: W3C has a booth at Documation 2002 at Paris La Defense, France. * 27 March: Vincent Hardy speaks on "SVG Graphics on the Java Platform" and "Scalable Vector Graphics and the Batik Project" at JavaOne 2002 held in San Francisco, CA, USA. * 27 March: Philipp Hoschka speaks on "Applications vocales de XML" at Net 2002 in Paris, France. * 28 March: Ivan Herman presents a tutorial "2D Web Graphics: SVG" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at a Masterclass organized by the W3C Dutch Office and the Dutch chapter of ISOC. Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events. http://www.w3.org/Talks/ http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 500 Member organizations and 68 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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