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18 June 2007

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Tim Berners-Lee Appointed Member of the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II

Tim Berners-Lee2007-06-13: Queen Elizabeth II, Head of State of the United Kingdom, appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web, to be a member of the Order of Merit. Founded in 1902, the Order of Merit is an honor conferred by the sovereign of the United Kingdom to individuals for "exceptionally meritorious service," usually in the arts, learning, literature and sciences. Twenty four individuals plus foreign recipients may hold the honor at one time. "Awards such as this are for public service, a service which in this case has been largely carried out by the W3C. All those involved in Consortium activity should feel recognized by this acknowledgment of the importance of W3C's work," said Berners-Lee. Read the announcement, about Tim Berners-Lee and about W3C. (Photo credit: Le Fevre Communications. Permalink)

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XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft

2007-06-18: Documenting changes since Last Call, the Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object. The core component of Ajax, the XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

2007-06-18: The Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

W3C Names Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations and Offices

photo of Daniel Dardailler2007-06-18: W3C has named Daniel Dardailler to the new position of Director of International Relations and Offices. Daniel oversees W3C Offices and liaisons for international bodies such as UN organizations, the Internet Governance Forum, ISOC, ISO, and ICANN. Daniel will continue his role as Associate Chair for Europe. W3C named Klaus Birkenbihl to the new position of Offices Coordinator. Visit the Offices home page and read about International Relations and the W3C management team. (Permalink)

SPARQL Query Language for RDF Is a Candidate Recommendation

2007-06-14: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Language for RDF to Candidate Recommendation. With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), developers and end users can consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal, technical, business or scientific data, social networks, or data about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL supports extensible value testing and constrained queries, both when data is stored as RDF natively or viewed as RDF via middleware. Results can be displayed in results sets or as RDF graphs. Implementation feedback is invited through 12 August. SPARQL Query Results XML Format is a Last Call Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board

2007-06-12: The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Arun Ranganathan (AOL). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board. (Permalink)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: Working Drafts

2007-06-11: The Voice Browser Working Group released updated Working Drafts of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 and its Requirements. Version 1.1 improves on W3C's SSML 1.0 Recommendation by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's languages including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern languages. Both documents follow discussions from the three W3C Workshops on extending SSML. See the January 2007 press release and visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)

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