New Working Group to Refine Web Services Resource Access Specifications
2008-11-07: W3C today launched the Web Services Resource Access Working Group with a mission to produce W3C Recommendations for a set of Web Services specifications by refining the WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Eventing Member Submissions. The group will address existing issues in those specifications, and review implementation experience and interoperability feedback from implementers and considering composition with other Web services standards. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink)
W3C Invites Implementations of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)
2008-11-07: The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. The essential role of the markup language is to provide authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-capable platforms. See the implementation report plan and learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. (Permalink)
Note: Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification
2008-11-07: The
XML Core Working Group has
published the Group Note of Legacy extended
IRIs for XML resource identification. For
historic reasons, some formats have allowed
variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted
in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and
W3C XML Schema anyURIs
. This document
provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended
IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy
reference. These variants have to be used with
care; they require further processing before being
fully interchangeable as IRIs. New protocols and
formats should not use Legacy Extended IRIs. Learn
more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
Upcoming Meetings
- W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January 2009
- W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas, 9-10 December
- W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web, 10-11 December
- W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March 2009
Upcoming Talks
- 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamaisDaniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
- 18 November, Sophia Antipolis, France: The W3C Multimodal ArchitectureIngmar Kliche presents at ETSI Workshop on Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices .
- 20 November, Budapest, Hungary: tbaAndrew Arch presents at Info-kommunikációs Akadálymentességi Műhelykonferencia 2008.
- 27 November, Milano, Italy: Il Web compie 20 anni. Dovè il Semantic Web?Oreste Signore presents at The 13th KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FORUM.
- 28 November, Berlin, Germany: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through better use of the WebJosé Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at E-Government-Standards Kongress.
- 4 December, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open SourceOlle Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
- 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile Web Usability and Accessibility for People with DisabilitiesShawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
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