- From: by way of Wendy A Chisholm <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:59:17 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
W3C Weekly News
12 August - 25 August 2003
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Web Ontology Language (OWL) Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology
Language to Candidate Recommendation. OWL is used to publish and
share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search,
software agents and knowledge management. Comments are welcome.
The OWL Web Ontology Language in six parts:
* Overview
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-features-20030818/
* Guide
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-guide-20030818/
* Reference
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-ref-20030818/
* Semantics and Abstract Syntax
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-semantics-20030818/
* Test Cases
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-test-20030818/
* Use Cases and Requirements
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-webont-req-20030818/
Read the press release and FAQ and more about the Semantic Web
Activity:
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owl-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owlfaq
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Participation: Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages
Registration is open for the W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy
Languages hosted by IBM in St Leonards, Sydney, NSW, Australia on
9 September. Attendees will discuss the future of the Platform for
Privacy Preferences (P3P), APPEL and other technologies including
EPAL. The event is colocated with the 25th International Conference
of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners.
http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sydney.html
http://www.w3.org/P3P/
Five XQuery and XPath Working Drafts Published
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released
five Working Drafts. Comments on all of these documents are invited,
especially on open issues.
* XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20-20030822/
* XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-20030822/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-semantics-20030822/
* XML Query Use Cases
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-use-cases-20030822/
* XPath Requirements Version 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20req-20030822/
Visit the XML home page:
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Web Services Choreography Requirements Published
The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the first
public Working Draft of "Web Services Choreography Requirements 1.0."
Choreography defines message protocols, interfaces, sequencing, and
associated logic for transactions among Web services and their
clients.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-chor-reqs-20030812/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Device Independence Glossary of Terms Published
The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public
Working Draft of the "Glossary of Terms" used in the group's
publications. The glossary definitions are maintained with unique
identifiers, and can be linked to from documents new and old. Read
about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for
all Web access devices.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-di-gloss-20030825/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
CSS Working Group Publishes Three Working Drafts
The CSS Working Group has released three Working Drafts for the
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. "CSS3 Module: Presentation
Levels" allows slide presentations and outline views of documents.
The "CSS Print Profile" works with XHTML-Print for printing to
low-cost devices. "CSS3 Module: Syntax" describes the basic
structure, parsing rules, and linking of CSS style sheets.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-preslev-20030813/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css-print-20030813/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-syntax-20030813/
Visit the CSS home page:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
W3C System Status Available
W3C public and Member email lists were not operating for part of last
week. The W3C Communications and Systems Teams make W3C System Status
available from our home page. Similar to system status for
subscribers to Internet service providers (ISPs), this resource
covers items such as power outages at W3C hosts MIT, ERCIM and Keio;
email; and mailing list services. W3C Members also have the Member
home page.
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/system-status
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 Working Draft Published
The Internationalization Working Group has released an interim
Working Draft of "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0." The
document addresses character encoding identification, early uniform
normalization, string identity matching, string indexing, and URI
conventions, building on the Universal Character Set defined by
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Read about the Internationalization
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/
http://www.w3.org/International/
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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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