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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/
http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/
Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation
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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/
http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/
SVG Open 2007 Conference and Exhibition
SVG Open 2007, the 5th International Conference on Scalable Vector
Graphics, will be held 4-7 September at Keio University, Japan, on
the Mita Campus in Tokyo. Over 40 presentations will be delivered,
from SVG experts all over the world, tackling topics such as mobile
SVG, Web mapping, geo-location based services and much more. The
conference schedule and confirmed keynote speakers are now
available. The conference language is English; translation
facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese
communication. On-site registration will be also available at the
registration desk during the conference. Please also note that
g-Contents WORLD 2007 will be a joint event of SVG Open 2007
Conference.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.svgopen.org/schedule_en.shtml
http://www.svgopen.org/keynotes_en.shtml
http://www.g-contents.jp/2007/top.htm
Last Call: XQuery Update Facility
The XML Query Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of
the "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." Comments are welcome through 31
October. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
collections of XDM instances such as documents or databases. The
update facility provides expressions to create, modify and delete
nodes within those instances. The specification's " Requirements"
and "Use Cases" were also published as updated Working Drafts. Visit
the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-20070828/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-requirements-20070828/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-use-cases-20070828/
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Call for Participation
Position papers are due 5 October for the Workshop on W3C's
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces on 16-17 November 2007 in
Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the
support and integration of user interface components such as speech,
GUI and handwriting recognition from multiple vendors, to help the
Multimodal Interaction Working Group make the "Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces" specification more useful in current
and emerging markets. Read about multimodal interaction and about
W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema" (SAWSDL) as a Recommendation. With these
attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying,
discovering, matching, composing and invoking Web services. The
companion "Usage Guide" is a Working Group Note that shows through
examples how to associate semantic annotations with a Web service.
Read about the SAWSDL Working Group and about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-sawsdl-20070828/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-sawsdl-guide-20070828/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces
on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by W3C/Keio.
Attendees will discuss the support and integration of user interface
components such as speech, GUI and handwriting recognition from
multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
make the "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces" specification more
useful in current and emerging markets. A Call for Participation is
expected shortly. Read about multimodal interaction and about W3C
Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Past home page news...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
* W3C Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption,
25-26 September
* 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
* 4 September, Bucaramanga, Colombia: Ubiquitous Web Applications.
Dave Raggett presents at Invited talk.
* 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: 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).
* 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS. Bert Bos gives a lecture
at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
* 26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
* 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.
Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
* 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast. Bert
Bos presents at Web Directions South.
* 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.
* 3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel. Bert Bos participates in
a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
* 17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of
eGovernment. José Manuel Alonso presents at "Webelopers Day" of
the Internet NG Conference.
* 17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.
Ivan Herman 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.
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