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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
markup language (Candidate Recommendation)
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April
2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input
processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate
application specific data with information such as confidence
scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses,
and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0
The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Group Note of "Device Description Repository
Requirements 1.0." This document describes the use cases for a
Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in
order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to
realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level
requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a
discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the Mobile Web
Initiative Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/
Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)
The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released
a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of
URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform
Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at
the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. "Cool URIs for
the Semantic Web" discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the
Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these
solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are
less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January,
to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's
charter. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS
profile; XML Entity definitions
The Math Working Group has published three Working Drafts:
"Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," "A MathML for
CSS profile," and the First Public Working Draft of "XML Entity
definitions for Characters." The first defines the Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for describing
mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content,
for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML
3.0 that admits formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The
third defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode
characters. Learn more about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20071214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/
W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification
(PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft
The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version
1.0." Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008;
please see the PLS 1.0 Implementation Report Plan for more
information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation
information for use in "speech recognition" and "speech synthesis,"
for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have
irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated "Speech
Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1." Changes from the
previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value
of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be
"pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio
element. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20071212/
Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web
Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS
Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla,
Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting,
Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other industry leaders have chosen to
meet in San Jose (California) at the W3C Video on the Web Workshop
on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more
people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are
sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based
delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and
other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and
standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring,
encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success
of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the
community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation
that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute
video, and to manage digital rights; see the full agenda. W3C thanks
Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent
position papers.
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/agenda.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html
Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working
Draft
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding
WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0." 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 a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments
are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for
Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html
"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator
Group
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information
Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members
NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is
to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies
used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
forward via an emergency management systems information
interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an
initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
technologies.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
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Upcoming Meetings
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* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks
* 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
* 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
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