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Tim Berners-Lee and One Web at Mobile Internet World
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing
the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15
November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative holds a
pre-conference Developers Summit on 13 November with initiative
sponsors including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera Software,
France Telecom Group and Vodafone to discuss the "One Web" vision
and mobile standards. W3C hosts a media and analyst luncheon with
the speakers on 14 November. Read the media advisory and about the
Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://www.mobilenetx.com/media_contacts.shtml
http://www.w3.org/2007/11/mwi-boston
http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory
DIAL Part 0: Primer
The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "DIAL Part 0: Primer." This document provides an
introduction to, and the benefits of, DIAL (the Device Independent
Authoring Language). It summarizes the concept of device
independence, the scenarios in which it could be used, and the
considerations in order to achieve that goal. It then describes the
role of DIAL in ensuring the delivery of content suitable for the
user, device and inherent circumstances in which it was requested.
Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-dial-primer-20071101/
Best Practices for XML Internationalization
The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published
the Working Draft of "Best Practices for XML Internationalization."
This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML
documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following
the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
applications, as well as the author of XML content to create
material in different languages. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/its/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Notes: Device Description Ecosystem 1.0, Landscape 1.0
The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published two Group Notes: "Device Description Ecosystem 1.0" and
"Device Description Landscape 1.0." The first describes the
business models surrounding the creation, maintenance and use of
device descriptions. It identifies the main actors in the current
model, explores their motivations for participating, identifies the
costs associated with participation and the benefits that accrue to
participants. The second describes what efforts the W3C and other
organizations are doing in order to provide accurate device
descriptions, part of making it easier to author for the Mobile Web.
Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-dd-ecosystem-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-dd-landscape-20071031/
Web Security: First Draft of "Web Security Context"; Last Call of "Web
Security Experience, Indicators and Trust"
The Web Security Context Working Group has published two documents:
the First Public Working Draft of "Web Security Context: Experience,
Indicators, and Trust," which defines guidelines and requirements
for the presentation and communication of Web security context
information to end-users; ceremonies for secure data entry; and good
practices for Web Site authors. The second is a Last Call Working
Draft of "Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and
Use Cases," which helps explain what the group aims to achieve,
what technologies may be used and how technical proposals will be
evaluated. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 November. See
also the companion to the Last Call draft, "Web User Interaction:
Threat Trees," a W3C Group Note. Learn more about the Security
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsc-xit-20071101/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20071101/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-wsc-threats-20071101/
UAAG 2.0 Requirements: Working Draft
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of "User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0 Requirements," which defines planned new work on the
second generation of UAAG. UAAG provides guidance on designing Web
browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user
agents' to be accessible and to increase accessibility of Web
content for people with disabilities. UAAG is part of a series of
accessibility guidelines described in Essential Components of Web
Accessibility. Read the UAAG Overview and about WAI.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UAAG20-requirements-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/components.php
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaag.php
Three RIF Working Drafts: Basic Logic Dialect, RDF and OWL
Compatibility, and Core Design (Placeholder)
The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has published three
documents: "RIF Basic Logic Dialect," "RIF RDF and OWL
Compatibility," and "RIF Core Design - Placeholder" ; the first two
are First Public Working Drafts. Basic Logic Dialect specifies a
basic format that allows logic rules to be exchanged between
rule-based systems. Rules interchanged using the Rule Interchange
Format RIF may depend on or be used in combination with RDF data
and/or RDF Schema or OWL data models. RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility
specifies compatibility of RIF with the Semantic Web languages RDF
and RDFS; in the future the document will address OWL as well.
Finally, the Placeholder document resets expectations about the core
RIF design. The Working Group has decided that that the design
previously published as "RIF Core" is better considered as the basis
for Logic Rules, rather than all kinds of rules. In the future, a
new Core may be published, but for now, interested parties should
refer to the Basic Logic Dialect. Learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-bld-20071030
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-rdf-owl-20071030
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20071030
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published the First Public Working Draft of "Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources." The
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) facilitates the
publication of descriptions of multiple resources such as all those
available from a Web site. This document describes how sets of
resources may be defined, either for use in Description Resources or
in other contexts. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-powder-grouping-20071031/
Note: POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published the Group Note of "POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements"
. This document sets out the use cases and requirements that have
motivated the development of the Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER). The use cases address social and commercial
needs to provide information about groups of Web resources, such as
those available from a Web site, to aid the annotation and/or
personalization of content for end users in varying delivery
contexts. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-powder-use-cases-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
Incubator Group Reports: Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial
Ontologies
The Geospatial Incubator Group published theirs reports on
Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies. The first document
define a basic ontology and OWL vocabulary for representation of
geospatial properties for Web resources. The second gives an
overview and description of geospatial foundation ontologies to
represent geospatial concepts and properties on the Web. Use cases
for this work are described in the charter of the XG. Both
publications are part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C
Members can innovate and experiment.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-20071023/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-ont-20071023/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/charter#cases
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
XML Schema Patterns for Databinding: Working Drafts
The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group published
updated Working Drafts of "Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
Version 1.0" and " Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
Version 1.0." The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of
commonly used data structures independent of any particular
programming language, database or modelling environment. Contribute
to the test suite, and read the interoperability report and about
Web services.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20071031/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/testsuite/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/snapshots/report-20071030/all.
html
W3C Opens Brazil Office
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Brazil Office,
hosted by the NIC.br (Brazilian Network Information Center)
institute, in São Paulo, Brazil. Vagner Diniz is Office Manager. W3C
looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking
community through this Office, its first in South America. The IT
landscape in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C such
as mobile Web, Web applications and video on the Web. Read the press
release and visit the Offices home page.
http://www.w3.org/2007/10/braziloffice-pr
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium today released "XForms 1.0 Third
Edition" as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor
feedback, brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with
second edition errata and reflects clarifications already
implemented in XForms processors. XForms separates presentation and
content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to the
server, and offers device independence. Visit the forms home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.h
tml
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
Past home page news...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
* W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 14 November, Boston, MA, USA: Escaping the Walled Garden:
Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at http://www.mobilenetx.com.
* 15 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: A Declarative Approach
to Services. Steven Pemberton presents at Service Oriented
Computing Platform Seminar.
* 16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
* 19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption. Ivan Herman
presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
* 22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?. Ivan
Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
* 28 November, Beijing, China: Emerging Technologies. Steve Bratt
presents at Open Standards International Conference 2007.
* 28 November, Beijing, China: The World Wide Web Needs World Wide
Standards. Steve Bratt presents at Open Standards International
Conference 2007.
* 29 November, Gijón, Spain: Estándares Abiertos al rescate. José
Manuel Alonso presents at Taller de Interoperabilidad e
Intercambio de Datos, Tecnimap 2007.
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