- From: by way of Wendy A Chisholm <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:01:12 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
W3C Weekly News 5 November - 11 November 2002 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ 2002 XML Japan Conference and Developers Day 28-30 November in Tokyo 11 November 2002: W3C is pleased to co-sponsor 2002 XML Japan to be held 28 November (Mobile XML Day), 29 November (Web Services / Document Day), and 30 November (Developers Day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, presents on 28 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, gives the keynote on 29 November, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa serves on the Program Committee. Registration is open. Read the XML Japan program. http://www.xmljapan.org/ OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics Working Draft Published 11 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics." The draft is a high-level description of the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-semantics-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Euroweb 2002 Conference Early Registration 11 November 2002: The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, on 17-18 December. Euroweb 2002 is an international forum of research presentations on the GRID, Web services, the Semantic Web, and the future computing infrastructure. Invited speakers include Brian McBride of Hewlett-Packard on the Semantic Web, Domenico Laforenza of CNR on the Grid, and John Ibbotson of IBM on Web services. Early registration at a reduced fee ends 15 November. http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/Euroweb/ XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation 8 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce that "XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0" has become a W3C Recommendation. XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 defines a new XML Signature transform to provide a more efficient method for computing a portion of a document to be signed. The Implementation and Interop report includes two Open Source implementations. Read more about XML Signature technologies. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-filter2-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/Signature/2002/05/xmldsig-filter2-interop.html http://www.w3.org/Signature/Activity.html DOM Level 2 HTML Proposed Recommendation Published 8 November 2002: The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has published "DOM Level 2 HTML" as a W3C Proposed Recommendation. DOM Level 2 HTML is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 documents. The Call for Review closes 6 December. Read about the DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/ Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide Working Draft Published 8 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group published its first Working Draft of the "Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide." The OWL Guide demonstrates the use of OWL to formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes; define individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language. Read about the Web Ontology Working Group. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-guide-20021104/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/ Quality Assurance Working Group Updates Three Working Drafts 8 November 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has updated three Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the "Introduction, "Process and Operational Guidelines," and "Specification Guidelines." Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C technologies are well implemented. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-intro-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-ops-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-spec-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/Roadmap _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 452 Member organizations and 73 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. _________________________________________________________________________
Received on Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:49:30 UTC