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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Welcomes Review of Three OWL 1.1 First Public Drafts
The OWL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of three Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.1 specifications: "Structural
Specification and Functional-Style Syntax," "Model-Theoretic
Semantics," and "Mapping to RDF Graphs." OWL is used to define
Semantic Web vocabularies. Together, these new specifications extend
the W3C "OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0" with a small but useful set
of features that have been requested by users, for which effective
reasoning algorithms are now available, and that OWL tool developers
are willing to support. The three specifications cover,
respectively, the syntax, semantics, and mapping to RDF of OWL 1.1
ontologies. Learn more about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-syntax-20080108/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-semantics-20080108/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl11-mapping-to-rdf-20080108/
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
Service Modeling Language 1.1 Drafts
The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group has published the
third Working Drafts of "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1" and
"Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1." The
former defines the SML 1.1, intended to model complex services and
systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best
practices. The latter defines the SML 1.1 interchange format,
designed to ensure accurate and convenient interchange of the
documents that make up an SML model. Learn more about the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-20080114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-if-20080114/
Last Call: SMIL Timesheets 1.0
The SYMM Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of
"SMIL Timesheets 1.0" ; this is also the First Public Working Draft.
This document defines an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0
element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of
other XML languages. This language allows SMIL timing to be
integrated into a wide variety of a-temporal languages, even when
several such languages are combined in a compound document. Because
of its similarity with external style and positioning descriptions
in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language, this functionality has
been termed SMIL Timesheets. Comments are welcome through 15
February. Learn more about W3C work on Synchronized Multimedia.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-timesheets-20080110/
XHTML Access Module; Comments Welcome
The XHTML2 Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of XHTML Access Module. This document is intended to help make
XHTML-family markup languages more effective at supporting the needs
of the accessibility community. It does so by providing a generic
mechanism for defining the relationship between document components
and well-known accessibility taxonomies. Learn more about the HTML
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/WD-xhtml-access-20080107/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
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* 23 January: eGovernment and the Web. José Manuel Alonso is at
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Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
* 28 January, Albany, NY, USA: Making the Web Accessible to All.
Shawn Henry presents at University at Albany.
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Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
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Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
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Conference.
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* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, 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, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
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2008.
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