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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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SPARQL Standard Opens Data on the Web
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium made it easier to share and
reuse data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries
with the publication of three new Semantic Web standards for
"SPARQL" (pronounced "sparkle"). SPARQL is the query language for
the Semantic Web (see Semantic Web use cases). SPARQL queries hide
the details of data management, which lowers costs and increases
robustness of data integration on the Web. "Trying to use the
Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational
database without SQL," explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.
There are already 14 implementations of the standard, which is
comprised of three W3C Recommendations: "SPARQL Query Language for
RDF," "SPARQL Protocol for RDF," and "SPARQL Query Results XML
Format." Read the press release, testimonials and learn more about
the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/impl-report-ql
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-protocol/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/
http://www.w3.org/2007/12/sparql-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/12/sparql-testimonial
W3C Invites Implementations of SMIL 3.0 (Candidate Recommendation)
The SYMM Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of
"Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)," an
XML-based language that allows authors to create interactive
multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author can describe the
temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks
with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a
screen. The Working Group is building a test suite help ensure
interoperable implementation. Learn more about W3C work on
Synchronized Multimedia
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-SMIL3-20080115/
http://www.w3.org/2007/SMIL30/testsuite/
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/
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* 23 January, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
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* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
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* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
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* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
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* 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: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki 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).
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 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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