The 2007-05-29 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20070529
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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Is a Proposed
Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 to Proposed Recommendation
in three parts: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part
2: Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 20 June. WSDL models and
describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. WSDL
"Additional MEPs," "RDF Mapping" and "SOAP 1.1 Binding" are updated
Working Drafts. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-primer-20070523/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-20070523/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070523/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-additional-meps-20070523/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070523/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070523/
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a second
Last Call Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." Comments
are welcome through 22 June. These tests provide the basis for
making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon
W3C's "Mobile Web Best Practices." Read about the Mobile Web
Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070525/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
Secure Browsing: Working Draft
The Web Security Context Working Group released an updated Working
Draft of "Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and
Use Cases." The group's work is to enable a secure and usable
interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web.
This draft evaluates the use of today's security features and
elaborates on the scope of the group's technical work. Read about
the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20070525/
Note: POWDER Use Cases and Requirements
The POWDER Working Group has released the first publication of
"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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-powder-use-cases-20070525/
Workshop on Mobile Ajax: Call for Participation
Position papers are due 15 August for the Workshop on Mobile Ajax
co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance to be held 28
September in the San Francisco Bay area, USA. Attendees will explore
use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web
browsers. Topics might include user experience, application
development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether
needs exist for standardization and best practices. The Workshop is
free and open to all but position papers are required. Read about
the Mobile Web Initiative and about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/mobile-ajax/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Past home page 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
* W3C/OpenAjax Alliance Workshop on Mobile Ajax, 28 September -
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 31 May, Roma, Italy: Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità.
Oreste Signore presents at Web senza barriere. Il passato, il
presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità.
* 5 June, London, United Kingdom: What's New, WCAG 2.0, and
Current Issues. Shawn Henry presents at Web Accessibility
Update.
* 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
* 12 June, Austin, Texas, USA: New Guidelines and Standards for
Web Accessibility" and "Including Accessibility throughout the
Design Process. Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007
Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
* 12 June, Bristol, United Kingdom: W3C Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity - reaching out into the physical world of
sensors and effectors. Dave Raggett presents at HP Laboratories.
* 13 June, Austin, Texas, USA: SIG: What's New in Standards for
Usability and Accessibility?. Shawn Henry participates in a
panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for
Usability).
* 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
* 31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on
Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
* 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, 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20070521
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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C and WSRI Workshop to Explore Transparency in eGovernment
Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop on eGovernment and the
Web will be held 18-19 June in Washington, D.C., USA, at the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences. Attendees, invited speakers and
panelists will discuss how the Web works for citizens and
governments and how it can best achieve their goals. Co-sponsored by
W3C and the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), the Workshop is
free and open to all but registration is required. The deadline was
extended to 22 May for position papers which are strongly
encouraged. Read the press release, the report of the first W3C
eGovernment symposium, and about Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/eGov-policy-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/eGov-policy#registration
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, Requirements, Use
Cases
The XSL Working Group and XML Query Working Group have published
three Last Call Working Drafts: "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text
1.0," "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Requirements," and
"XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Use Cases." Full-Text 1.0
technology extends "XQuery 1.0" and "XPath 2.0" with full-text
search capabilities. Comments are welcome through 2007-06-22. Learn
more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-20070518/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-requirements-2007051
8/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20070518/
XML Protocol Working Group Renewed
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the XML Protocol Working
Group. Chris Ferris (IBM) chairs the group which is chartered to to
maintain and develop as needed the "SOAP Version 1.2," "XML-binary
Optimized Packaging" (XOP), "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism" (MTOM) W3C Recommendations. W3C Members may use this form
to join the Working Group. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/XML-Protocol-Charter.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-mtom/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32157/join
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Working Drafts
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released updated Working Drafts of "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0," "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG
2.0." See the call for review for additional information. The group
also published an updated WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference, a customizable
list of WCAG 2.0 requirements and techniques. Following WCAG makes
Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including
people with disabilities and older users, using many different
devices including assistive technologies. Comments are welcome
through 28 June. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20070517/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007AprJun/0038
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: Working Draft
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements."
Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or
subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information
structuring and access. These use cases and fundamental or secondary
requirements will be used to guide the design of SKOS (Simple
Knowledge Organisation System), a model for representing such
vocabularies. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-skos-ucr-20070516/
Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a third Last
Call Working Draft of "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" to
prepare the specification for consideration as a Candidate
Recommendation. Used to indicate support for the "Web Services
Addressing 1.0 mechanisms" using the "Web Services Policy 1.5
framework" and defining how to express WS-Addressing properties in
the "Web Services Description Language" (WSDL), this new version
refines the Web Services Policy assertions. Comments are welcome
through 8 June. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/
http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Published
W3C is pleased to announce the publication of "Unicode in XML and
other Markup Languages" as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C
Note. Major changes since the "previous version" encompass the
alignment with Unicode 5.0 and the discussion of "white space
handling." The guidelines are published jointly by the Unicode
Technical Committee and the W3C Internationalization Core Working
Group. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/#White
http://www.w3.org/International/
Health Care, Life Sciences and the Semantic Web: Publication
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
(HCLSIG) has reached a significant milestone with their publication
of the article "Advancing Translational Research with the Semantic
Web." This joint work of the Interest Group was published in BMC
Bioinformatics, a peer-reviewed open access journal that plays a
central role in the bioinformatics community. The authors illustrate
the value of Semantic Web technologies to neuroscience researchers
and biomedicine and report on several projects by members of the
Interest Group. Read about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S2
RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26
October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop
attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for
expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is
expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
W3C Opens Southern Africa Office
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa
Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria,
South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler
and Stephane Boyera are among those who attended the opening
ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page.
http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Past home page 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
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 17 May, Paris, France: Formalising the Proximate Semantics of
XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL. Henry Thompson presents
at XTech 2007.
* 23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web:
una historia de amor?. José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en
España 2007.
* 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
* 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
* 31 May, Roma, Italy: Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità.
Oreste Signore presents at Web senza barriere. Il passato, il
presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità.
* 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.
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR).
* 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).
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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New Members
* FLWOR Foundation [United States]
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http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20070514
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Southern Africa Office
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa
Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria,
South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler
and Stephane Boyera are among those who attended the opening
ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page.
http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26
October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop
attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for
expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is
expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2007
We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held in Banff, Alberta,
Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the W3C track
will cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C
Activities. Read the press release.
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/w3c-track.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
http://www.w3.org/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease.html
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in
Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate
in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C
Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and
join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with
Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
Past home page 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
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification
using XML Schema 1.0. Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial
at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
* 15 May, Paris, France: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
Dave Raggett presents at XTech 2007.
* 15 May, Paris, France: XForms 1.1. Steven Pemberton gives a
tutorial at XTech 2007: "The Ubiquitous Web".
* 23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web:
una historia de amor?. José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en
España 2007.
* 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
* 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
* 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.
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR).
* 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).
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
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New Members
* ANCOSO Business Technologies AG [Switzerland]
* Marden Edwards Limited [United Kingdom]
* SBsquared Limited [United Kingdom]
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