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- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:02:17 -0400
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W3C Weekly News 2 October - 11 October 2003 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ RDF Last Call Working Drafts Published The RDF Core Working Group has released the second Last Call of six Working Drafts. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Comments are welcome through 7 November. Also updated is the Working Group Note "LBase," a framework for specifying the meaning of Semantic Web languages. * RDF Primer http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-primer-20031010/ * RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-concepts-20031010/ * RDF Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20031010/ * RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20031010/ * RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-schema-20031010/ * RDF Test Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-testcases-20031010/ Read about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Last Call Published The HTML Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema" with changes for use in non-XHTML contexts. Comments are welcome through 14 November. The document provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20031003/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for Internationalization Published The Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of "Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0." Written for Web content authors, the document provides techniques for developing internationalized HTML and XHTML supported by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-i18n-html-tech-20031009/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the "Architecture of the World Wide Web." Drafted for discussion at the TAG's face-to-face meeting, the document explains Web protocols in three dimensions: identification and resources, interaction, and representation and formats. Comments are welcome. Visit the TAG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031001/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ Working Group Note: SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization The XML Protocol Working Group has completed work on "SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization" and published it as a Working Group Note. The document defines an algorithm to render equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Visit the Web Services home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-soap12-n11n-20031008/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ W3C Talks in October (continued) * Henry S. Thompson gave a keynote at The XML Day in Paris, France on 7 October. * Rigo Wenning presents at the OECD Global Forum on Information Systems and Network Security in Oslo, Norway on 14 October. * Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at la Fete de la Science in Sophia Antipolis, France on 18 October. * Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) in Sanibel Island, FL, USA on 23 October. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 374 Member organizations and 69 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) 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. 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