W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-04-09

   W3C Public Newsletter

9 April 2007

Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a W3C
Recommendation

   The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Semantic
   Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0" as a W3C
   Recommendation. Part of a powerful trend towards Web access via
   interactive voice response, SISR tags are used to extract meaning
   from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of
   tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS)
   for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Visit the
   Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-semantic-interpretation-20070405/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Last Call: EMMA

   The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "EMMA." The Extensible MultiModal Annotation
   language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management
   systems. Part of the "W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework," the
   specification describes markup for describing user input together
   with annotations such as confidence scores, timestamps and input
   medium. Comments are welcome through 30 April. Learn more about the
   Multimodal Interaction Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-emma-20070409/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-framework/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Note: GRDDL Use Cases: Extracting RDF Data From XML Documents

   The GRDDL Working Group has published "GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of
   extracting RDF data from XML documents" as a Working Group Note.
   With important applications such as connecting microformats to the
   Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of
   Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from
   suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such XSLT
   transformations. Learn more about the Semantic Web

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-grddl-scenarios-20070406/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group Recommends that CCXML Advance

   A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the Voice Browser Working Group
   has concluded in a public report that the Working Group should
   continue to advance the "CCXML" specification along the W3C
   Recommendation Track. The conclusion follows an assertion from
   Nortel that the company does not believe that US patent number
   6,701,366 includes any essential claims, as defined of the W3C
   Patent Policy. Nortel excluded the claims of that patent from its
   Royalty-Free licensing commitment when it joined the Voice Browser
   Working Group in June 2005. W3C appreciates communications from
   Nortel that helped the PAG reach their conclusion. Learn more about
   the Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/03/voice-pag-report
   http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirement
   s
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft

   The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft
   of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." Used to control and organize
   the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions,
   inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of
   specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML
   that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the
   Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070405/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C Sets New Standard for Internationalized Web Content

   The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Internationalization
   Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. Creators of XML
   content can use the ITS set of elements and attributes to prepare
   schemas and documents for localization and to internationalize them
   for a global audience. "Working with document formats
   internationally becomes much easier, whether you are creating a new
   schema or working with an established one," said Richard Ishida
   (W3C). Implementations provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG,
   can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook,
   and OpenDocument. Read the press release and visit
   Internationalization home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/04/its-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/International/
   Past home page news...

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

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on 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 

     * 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.
     * 1 May, McLean, VA, USA: Improving Access to Government through
       Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at SOA for
       eGovernment 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.
     * 9 May, Banff, Canada: W3C booth. Marie-Claire Forgue is at The
       16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).
     * 10 May, Banff, Canada: Usability Design and Testing for
       Security. Rachna Dhamija presents at W3C Track, The 16th
       International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).
     * 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/

   Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 16th International
   World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada:

9 May

     * Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead, by Michael Smith, Daniel
       Appelquist
     * CSS, 10 Years After, by Bert Bos
     * Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0, by Michael Cooper
     * WICD and Ubiquitous Web Applications, by Dave Raggett
     * Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results, by Shadi
       Abou-Zahra
     * Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, by Charles
       McCathieNevile
     * Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need
       your Participation, by Rhys Lewis
     * Next steps for HTML Forms, by Dave Raggett
     * HTML Reloaded, by Chris Lilley
     * Mobile Web Applications, by Kevin Kelly
     * Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories, by Michael Smith
     * Enriching the Web Application Model?, by Arun Ranganathan
     * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), by Dave
       Raggett
     * The Future of the Web Page, by Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett
     * Widgets and Web Applications, by Art Barstow
     * Towards a mobileOK Web, by Daniel Appelquist

10 May

     * Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and
       RDFa, by Harry Halpin, Fabien Gandon
     * Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open
       Source Projects, by Mike Beltzner
     * Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language
       2.0?, by Philippe Le Hégaret
     * Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards
       Work, by Mary Ellen Zurko
     * Semantic Annotations for WSDL, by Jacek Kopecky
     * Web Services Policy Language, by Charlton Barreto
     * Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A
       HCLS IG Demo, by Susie Stephens, Alan Ruttenberg
     * Rule Interchange Format Work Report, by Sandro Hawke
     * Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing
       Workshop, by Philippe Le Hégaret

11 May

     * Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges, by Jerry
       Carter
     * Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers, by Mary Holstege
     * How to Author Multimodal Web Applications, by Kazuyuki Ashimura
     * Efficient XML Interchange, by Mike Cokus
     * XML Application Components and Controllers, by Rafah Hosn
     * State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web
       Applications, by Rafah Hosn
     * xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming Language, by
       Mark Birbeck
     * XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language, by Sharon Adler, Liam Quin
     * The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane, by John Boyer

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