W3C Public Newsletter 11 September 2007

GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web

2007-09-11: The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)

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OWL Group to Refine and Extend Web Ontology Language

2007-09-06: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the OWL Working Group. Ian Horrocks (Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group which is chartered to produce a W3C Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology Language (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles identified by users and tool implementers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about Semantic Web. (Permalink)

Web Services Addressing Working Group Completes Work and Closes

2007-09-05: W3C is pleased to announce that the Web Services Addressing Working Group has successfully completed its work: the Web Services Addressing 1.0 Core, SOAP Binding and Metadata Recommendations and a Working Group Note, SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

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

2007-09-05: The Voice Browser Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. Changes from the previous draft include the usage of XML 1.1 and IRIs, and the specification of voice selection and language speaking control. Version 1.1 improves on W3C's SSML 1.0 Recommendation by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's languages. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)

Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Structures

2007-09-04: The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures. Comments are welcome through 8 November. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Simplifications and changes in this draft are to sections on rules for checking validity, "all" groups, the PSVI, conformance, fallback for lax validation, particles and wildcards, among other revisions. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)

Note: POWDER Use Cases and Requirements

2007-09-04: The POWDER Working Group has released POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements as a Working Group Note. The document will guide the development of a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

SAWSDL Working Group Completes Work and Closes

2007-09-04: W3C is pleased to announce that the Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) and its companion Usage Guide. With SAWSDL, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing and invoking Web services. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation

2007-09-04: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Policy 1.5 as a Recommendation. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing 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. Read the press release, the testimonials and about the Web Services Policy Working Group and Web services. (Permalink)

Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation

2007-09-04: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata as a Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for Web Services Addressing 1.0 using Web Services Policy 1.5 and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in WSDL. Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. (Permalink)

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Upcoming Talks

11 September, Santiago, Chile: Los retos del gobierno electrónico.José Manuel Alonso presents at Evento de Interoperabilidad de Gobierno electrónico.
19 September, Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany: W3C und W3C World Offices.Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Deutschland und China - Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie.
19 September, London, United Kingdom: Will W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Help End Fragmentation of Standards and Enable a Coherent Web Experience?.Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Informa Mobile Web 2.0 Conference.
20 September, Québec, Canada: HTML 5 - l'édition des draveurs.Karl Dubost presents at Rencontre autour de HTML 5.
21 September, Lisbon, Portugal: The Future of the World Wide Web.José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at 4th EU Ministerial eGovernment Conference.
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing.Stephen M. Watt presents at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion.Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0.Philipp Hoschka presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS.Bert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel.Bert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
3 October, New York, New York, USA: Web Demand: How Financial Services Can Leverage Emerging Web Technologies.Steve Bratt presents at IT/Networking Trends & Technology and Solutions.
10 October, Paris, France: The increasing importance of Open Web Standards to improve eGovernment.José Manuel Alonso presents at eGovInterop '07.
17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.Ivan Herman presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference.
17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of eGovernment.José Manuel Alonso presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference.
18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web.Klaus Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien.
19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible to People with Disabilities.Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?.Ivan Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
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