W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-04-02

   W3C Public Newsletter

2 April 2007

Ubiquitous Web to Simplify Development for Networked Devices

   W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Ubiquitous Web
   Applications Activity. W3C Fellow Dave Raggett chairs the group
   which is chartered to advance the creation of distributed
   applications for network appliances. The first face-to-face meeting
   of the Ubiquitous Web Applications (UWA) Working Group will be 7-8
   June 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by MobileAware, following the
   associated W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
   Applications. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working
   Group. The UWA Working Group will take on the deliverables of the
   Device Independence Working Group which is now closed. Read about
   the Ubiquitous Web.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Recruitment/Fellows
   http://www.w3.org/2006/10/uwa-charter
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40755/join
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
   http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/

Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop

   W3C plans a Workshop Toward More Transparent Government co-sponsored
   by the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) on 18-19 June 2007 in
   Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S. National Academy of
   Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways of facilitating the
   deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites, to help shape
   ongoing research in the development of Web technology and public
   policy, in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to,
   and use of, government information. A Call for Participation is
   expected in a few weeks. See the European W3C Symposium on
   eGovernment Report for information about the previous W3C
   eGovernment event. Read about W3C Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

HTML Mail Workshop: Call for Participation

   Position papers are due 21 April for the W3C HTML Mail Workshop to
   be held 24 May in Paris, France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale
   Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris. Attendees will discuss
   authoring, rendering, interoperability and security aspects of HTML
   in email as well as non-technical topics. Read about W3C Workshops
   and about HTML.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/05/html-mail/
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
   http://www.w3.org/html/

W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Working Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal
   Interaction Working Group to enable users to use their preferred
   modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited Expert)
   chairs the group which is chartered to develop open standards to
   adapt to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow
   multiple modes of Web interaction including GUI, speech, vision,
   pen, gestures and haptic interfaces. W3C Members may use this form
   to join the Working Group. Read the about the Multimodal Interaction
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/12/mmi-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34607/join
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

W3C Launches Voice Browser Working Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser Working
   Group to enable users to speak and listen to Web applications. Jim
   Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan (HP) chair the group
   which is chartered to standardize languages for capturing and
   producing speech and for managing the dialog between users and
   computers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group.
   Read the about the Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/12/voice-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34665/join
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Rule Interchange Format Core Design: Working Draft

   The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "RIF Core Design." The document
   specifies the core design for a format that allows rules to be
   translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule
   systems. The group invites comments through 27 April. Visit the
   Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

RDFa Use Cases: Working Draft

   The XHTML2 Working Group and the Semantic Web Deployment Working
   Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of "RDFa
   Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML." RDFa expresses
   metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a
   new world of user functionality. Written for readers somewhat
   familiar with HTML, RDF and N3 notation, these scenarios consider
   publishers, tool builders and users. Read about HTML and the
   Semantic Web.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-scenarios-20070330/
   http://www.w3.org/html/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Web Services Policy 1.5: Candidate Recommendations

   The Web Services Policy Working Group has published updated
   Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5 documenting
   their progress. The Policy "Framework" model expresses the nature of
   Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
   "Attachment" defines how to associate policies, for example within
   WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. The group published
   updated Working Drafts of the "Primer," "Guidelines" and "Element
   Identifiers" as well. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome
   through 30 June. Read about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070330/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070330/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl11elementidentifiers
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

GRDDL Test Cases: Working Draft

   The GRDDL Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
   of "GRDDL Test Cases." The test cases demonstrate the expected
   behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent. With important applications such as
   connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to
   extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using
   programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mashups
   at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070328/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

   The Web Services Description Working Group released three Last Call
   Working Drafts for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
   Version 2.0: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2:
   Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 15 April on this brief Last
   Call for changes since Candidate Recommendation review. WSDL "RDF
   Mapping" and "SOAP 1.1 Binding" are updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0
   models and describes modular Web services and is used to document
   distributed systems and to automate communication between
   applications. Read about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-primer-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF

   The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a third Last Call
   Working Draft of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL
   (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to
   write and to consume search results across a wide range of
   information such as personal data, social networks and metadata
   about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides
   a means of integration over disparate sources. Comments are due by
   18 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20070326/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * HTML Mail, 24 May
     * W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
       Applications, 5-6 June
     * Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
       the Web, 18-19 June
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 
     * 3 April, Tampere, Finland: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman presents at Tampere University of Technology and the W3C
       Finnish Office.
     * 11 April, Tübingen, Germany: Markup Languages and Schema
       Languages for Linguistic, Textual, Documentary Resources.
       Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at Datenstrukturen für
       linguistische Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen (GLDV
       Frühjahrstagung).
     * 12 April, Hammamet, Tunisia: Web Accessibility - It's not Magic,
       it's Art. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at Information and
       Communication Technology and Accessibility.
     * 20 April, Durham, NC, USA: How the W3C Process got its Stripes.
       Dan Connolly presents at Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the
       Interface.
     * 23 April, Stavanger, Norway: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Semantic Days 2007.
     * 24 April, Stavanger, Norway: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman presents at Semantic Days 2007.
     * 2 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Abstraction and extraction:
       in praise of. Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at Apachecon 07.
     * 8 May, Stockholm, Sweden: Mot web 2.0, och bortom. Olle Olsson
       presents at TelekomDagarna.
     * 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
       Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
     * 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
       Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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