The 2007-06-18 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Tim Berners-Lee Appointed Member of the Order of Merit by Queen
Elizabeth II
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.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page5543.asp
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1880.asp
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=291481&NewsAreaID
=2
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29
Enabling Read Access: Working Draft
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070618/
W3C Names Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations and
Offices
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.
http://www.w3.org/People/danield/
http://www.w3.org/People/danield/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/2001/11/StdLiaison
http://www.w3.org/People/Klaus/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/2007/IntlRel.html
http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management
SPARQL Query Language for RDF Is a Candidate Recommendation
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20070614/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070614/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board
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.
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: Working Drafts
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ssml11reqs-20070611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/ssml-pressrelease
Past home page news...
Upcoming Meetings
* 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
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