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- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:46:54 -0400
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W3C Weekly News
5 August - 11 August 2003
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XML Events Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XML Events" to
Proposed Recommendation. The specification defines a module used to
associate behaviors with document-level markup for XML languages, and
supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome through
2 September. Visit the HTML home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-events-20030804/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
MathML 2.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation
W3C is pleased to publish a Proposed Edited Recommendation of the
"Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition)."
MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and
content to be served, received and processed on the Web. The 2nd
edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are
welcome through 6 September. Visit the Math home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PER-MathML2-20030804/
http://www.w3.org/Math/
IsaViz 2.0 Released
W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative announces a new
release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and authoring
RDF models represented as graphs. Version 2.0 supports GSS, an
RDF-based stylesheet language. Other new features include datatype
support, enhanced navigation, better handling of namespace prefix
bindings, and an import/export plug-in interface.
http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/
http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/gss/gssmanual.html
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/
W3C Co-Sponsors 24th Internationalization & Unicode Conference
Registration is open for the 24th Internationalization & Unicode
Conference to be held 3-5 September in Atlanta, GA, USA. Come and
meet W3C Team members Martin Duerst, Richard Ishida, and Chris Lilley
who are presenting. The event is the premier technical conference
worldwide for software and Web internationalization, and includes a
full day track devoted to evolving Web technologies. Read about
Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity.
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/
http://www.unicode.org/
http://www.w3.org/International/
EMMA Working Draft Published
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the first
public Working Draft of "EMMA." The Extensible MultiModal Annotation
language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management
systems. EMMA represents user input. Speech and handwriting
recognizers, natural language engines, media interpreters, and
multimodal integration components generate EMMA markup. Feedback on
this draft is welcome.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-emma-20030811/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
Ink Markup Language Working Draft Published
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the first
public Working Draft of the "Ink Markup Language (InkML)." The InkML
data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen
or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange
handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational
languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-InkML-20030806/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
xml:id Requirements Published
The XML Core Working Group has released the first public Working
Draft of "xml:id Requirements." Applicable to all classes of XML
processors, the requirements describe a mechanism to identify an XML
element by an explicit identifier (ID) independent of DTD and XML
schema validation. Comments are invited. Visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xml-id-req-20030806/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Web Services Architecture Working Drafts Published
The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated two Working
Drafts: "Web Services Architecture" and the "Web Services Glossary."
The reference architecture identifies Web services components,
defines their relationships and establishes constraints. Changes
since the prior publication include five architectural models. Visit
the Web Services home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-arch-20030808/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-gloss-20030808/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Web Services Conference 28-29 August in Tokyo, Japan
Registration is open for the IDG Japan Web Services Conference 2003
on 28 August (Technology day) and 29 August (Business day) in Tokyo.
On 28 August, Hugo Haas, W3C Web Services Activity Lead, gives the
keynote "Web Services Infrastructure: Where Do We Stand?" and
Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, moderates a
panel on "Web Services and the Digital Home Network." W3C provides an
exhibition booth both days.
http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/wsc/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 382 Member organizations and 74
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 European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered 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/
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