The 2008-06-24 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080624
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
(Candidate Recommendation); Primer Updated
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and XHTML2 Working Group
have published a Candidate Recommendation of "RDFa in XHTML: Syntax
and Processing." Web documents contain significant amounts of
structured data, which is largely unavailable to tools and
applications. When publishers can express this data more completely,
and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality
becomes available, letting users transfer structured data between
applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to
improve the user experience. RDFa is a specification for attributes
to be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express
structured data. See the groups' RDFa implementation report. The
Working Groups also updated the companion document "RDFa Primer."
Learn more about the Semantic Web and the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-rdfa-syntax-20080620/
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/implementation-report/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20080620/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 (Structures,
Datatypes)
The XML Schema Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts
of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures"
and " Part 2: Datatypes." The former specifies the XML Schema
Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing the
structure and constraining the contents of XML documents, including
those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The latter defines
facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well
as other XML specifications. Comments are welcome through 12
September. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema11-1-20080620/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema11-2-20080620/
Last Call: Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1
The Voice Browser Working Group has released the Last Call Working
Draft of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1."
SSML provides a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the
generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. SSML
1.1 improves on W3C's "SSML 1.0 Recommendation" by adding support
for more conventions and practices of the world's languages
including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern languages.
Comments are welcome through 20 July. See the "list of changes" in
this draft and learn more about W3C's Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-speech-synthesis11-20080620/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-speech-synthesis11-20080620/#AppG
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Old School Netiquette… still good! by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/netiquette-w3c-mailing-list.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Update of the RDFa distiller by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/update_of_the_rdfa_distiller.html
* How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/contribute-w3c-work.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Interview: David Baron on Firefox 3 and W3C Standards by Ian
Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/interview_david_baron_on_firef.html
* Lithuania is first by Philippe Le Hégaret
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/lithuania_is_first.html
http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
* About the Love - w3.org Redesign by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/about_the_love_w3org_redesign.html
* Optimizing your Web server by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/optimize-http-web-server.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
Korea Computer Congress 2008.
* 11 July, Linz, Austria: Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web.
Michael Cooper gives a keynote at ICCHP 2008 11th International
Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
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The 2008-06-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080616
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
-----------------------------------
Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats
rechartered
W3C launched a new Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group,
co-Chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) and Charles McCathieNevile (Opera
Software). This group merges the former Web APIs and Web Application
Formats Working Groups. Per the charter for the Web Applications
Working Group, the group's mission is to provide specifications that
enable improved client-side application development on the Web,
including specifications both for application programming interfaces
(APIs) for client-side development and for markup vocabularies for
describing and controlling client-side application behavior. W3C
also rechartered the Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group,
to continue to develop specifications which combine selected
existing document formats from the W3C and elsewhere, and which
specify the runtime behavior of such combined documents. Both groups
will conduct their work in public. The first order of business of
the rechartered CDF Working Group is to propose Chair candidates to
the Director; please contact Doug Schepers with proposals. Learn
more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/charter/
mailto:schepers@w3.org
XHTML 1.1 Basic; Modularization Are Proposed Recommendations
The XHTML2 Working Group published two Proposed Recommendations
today: "XHTML Modularization 1.1" and "XHTML Basic 1.1." The former
provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature
needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms. This
specification is intended for use by language designers as they
construct new XHTML Family Markup Languages. This second version of
this specification includes several minor updates to provide
clarifications and address errors found in the first version. It
also provides an implementation using XML Schemas. This version of
XHTML Basic, which uses the Modularization approach, has been
brought into alignment with the widely deployed XHTML Mobile Profile
from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). XHTML Basic 1.1 will thus make
it easier to author Web pages that work on millions of mobile
handsets. Comments on these specifications are welcome through 15
July. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xhtml-modularization-20080611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xhtml-basic-20080611/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition) Is a W3C
Recommendation
The XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group has
published the W3C Recommendation of "XML Signature Syntax and
Processing (Second Edition)." This document specifies XML syntax
and processing rules for creating and representing digital
signatures; the "list of changes" from the First Edition is
available. The Working Group also published a Group Note "Test Cases
for C14N 1.1 and XMLDSig Interoperability," which specifies test
cases for Canonical XML 1.1 and XML Signature Syntax and Processing,
Second Edition. Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-20080610/explain
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xmldsig2ed-tests-20080610/
Three HTML 5 Related Drafts Published
The HTML Working Group has published three documents: "HTML 5,"
"HTML 5 differences from HTML 4," and the first public draft of
"HTML 5 Publication Notes." HTML 5 introduces features for Web
application authors, new elements based on research into prevailing
authoring practices, and clear conformance criteria for user agents
in an effort to improve interoperability. See the "diff-marked
version" showing changes made since the 22 January 2008 draft. Learn
more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-html5-pubnotes-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/diff/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." This document
defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C
mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on "W3C Mobile Web Best
Practices." Content which passes the tests has taken some steps to
provide a functional user experience for users of basic mobile
devices whose capabilities at least match those of the Default
Delivery Context. Comments are welcome through 30 June. Learn more
about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference Draft Published
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference."
This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System
(SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge
organization systems via the Semantic Web. SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between different communities of practice within the library
and information sciences involved in the design and application of
knowledge organization systems. In addition, SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between these communities and the Semantic Web, by
transferring existing models of knowledge organization to the
Semantic Web technology context, and by providing a low-cost
migration path for porting existing knowledge organization systems
to RDF. See "changes" from the previous draft. Learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/#changes
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* love is in the air by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/w3c-love-in-air.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* HTML 5 Publications by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/html5-publications.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Standards Fun by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/standards-fun.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/logvalidator-check-your-site.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 16 June, Seoul, Korea: W3C - Web Open Standards, ICT skills.
Daniel Dardailler presents at OECD Internet Future forum.
* 17 June, New York, NYC, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee gives
a keynote at LinkedData Planet.
* 18 June, Seoul, Korea: Korean Member Report & Taking Action as
AC Representative. Kangchan Lee presents at 2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사
워크샵.
* 19 June, Nancy, France: États des lieux du Web sémantique. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Tokyo, Japan: Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including
WCAG 2.0. Judy Brewer presents at Open Seminar of Information
Accessibility.
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* 20 June, Paris, France: W3C - Web Open Standards. Daniel
Dardailler presents at EGENI.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
Korea Computer Congress 2008.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
* View upcoming talks by country
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The 2008-06-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080609
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
-----------------------------------
New eGovernment Activity to Help Improve Government through Better Use
of the Web
W3C launches today a new forum for governments, citizens,
researchers, and other stakeholders to investigate how best to use
Web technology for good governance and citizen participation. "Open
Standards, and in particular Semantic Web Standards, can help lower
the cost of government, make it easier for independent agencies to
work together, and increase flexibility in the face of change," said
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C invites participation in the new
eGovernment Interest Group, which is open to the public. The group
will identify best practices and guidelines in this area, document
where current technology does not adequately address stakeholder
needs, and suggest improvements via the standards process. Read the
W3C eGovernment FAQ and press release, and learn more about the W3C
eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/faq
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/egov-pressrelease
Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats
rechartered
W3C launched a new Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group,
co-Chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) and Charles McCathieNevile (Opera
Software). This group merges the former Web APIs and Web Application
Formats Working Groups. Per the charter for the Web Applications
Working Group, the group's mission is to provide specifications that
enable improved client-side application development on the Web,
including specifications both for application programming interfaces
(APIs) for client-side development and for markup vocabularies for
describing and controlling client-side application behavior. W3C
also rechartered the Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group,
to continue to develop specifications which combine selected
existing document formats from the W3C and elsewhere, and which
specify the runtime behavior of such combined documents. Both groups
will conduct their work in public. The first order of business of
the rechartered CDF Working Group is to propose Chair candidates to
the Director; please contact Doug Schepers with proposals. Learn
more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/charter/
mailto:schepers@w3.org
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference Draft Published
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference."
This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System
(SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge
organization systems via the Semantic Web. SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between different communities of practice within the library
and information sciences involved in the design and application of
knowledge organization systems. In addition, SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between these communities and the Semantic Web, by
transferring existing models of knowledge organization to the
Semantic Web technology context, and by providing a low-cost
migration path for porting existing knowledge organization systems
to RDF. See "changes" from the previous draft. Learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/#changes
Two Group Notes Published About Semantic Web and Life Sciences
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has
published two Group Notes: "A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life
Sciences" and "Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases
to RDF/OWL." The former describes a prototype of a biomedical
knowledge base that integrates 15 distinct data sources using
currently available Semantic Web technologies including RDF and OWL.
The Note outlines which resources were integrated, how the knowledge
base was constructed using free and open source triple store
technology, how it can be queried using SPARQL, and what resources
and inferences are involved in answering complex queries. While the
utility of the knowledge base is illustrated by identifying a set of
genes involved in Alzheimer's Disease, the approach described here
can be applied to any use case that integrates data from multiple
domains. The second document describe the experience of converting
SenseLab databases into OWL, an important step towards realizing the
benefits of Semantic Web in integrative neuroscience research. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-hcls-kb-20080604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-hcls-senselab-20080604/
Offline Web Applications Published as W3C Note
The HTML Working Group has published the "Offline Web Applications"
Group Note. "HTML 5" contains several features that address the
challenge of building Web applications that work while offline. This
document highlights these features (SQL, offline application caching
APIs as well as online/offline events, status, and the localStorage
API) from HTML 5 and provides brief tutorials on how these features
might be used to create Web applications that work offline. Learn
more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-offline-webapps-20080530/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Arun Ranganathan
(Mozilla Foundation). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory
Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
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Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks
* 10 June, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Web Accessibility: People with
Disabilities and Elderly Citizens. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at
Web Sin Barreras.
* 11 June, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA: The
Future of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at
Washington, Wikipedia, and Web 3.0: What is the Future of the
Web?.
* 11 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Color for the Global Web. Molly E
Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 12 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Designing for Today's Browsers.
Molly E Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 13 June, Oxford, United Kingdom: Rita 2.0 - Effective Methods
and Messages in Online Safety Education.' . Michael Wilson
participates in a panel at 'Beyond Byron - Towards a New Culture
of Responsibility,.
* 17 June, New York, NYC, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee gives
a keynote at LinkedData Planet.
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web
of linked data.
* 18 June, Seoul, Korea: Korean Member Report & Taking Action as
AC Representative. Kangchan Lee presents at 2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사
워크샵.
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* 19 June, Nancy, France: États des lieux du Web sémantique. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Tokyo, Japan: Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including
WCAG 2.0. Judy Brewer presents at Open Seminar of Information
Accessibility.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
Korea Computer Congress 2008.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
-----------------------------------
W3C Launches Group to Help Bridge the Digital Divide
As part of the growing set of W3C initiatives related to social
development, W3C invites participation in the new Mobile Web for
Development (MW4D) interest Group, chartered to explore the
potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide.
"We need to solve important challenges, such as lack of standards in
end-user devices, network constraints, service cost, issues of
literacy, and an understanding of the real information needs of
rural communities," said Ken Banks, kiwanja.net, who Chairs the
group. "To do so requires an multidisciplinary approach, a step we
take through the creation of this new group." Read more in the press
release. This launch is part of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI),
which aims to identify and resolve challenges and issues of
accessing the Web when on the move. This work takes place under the
auspices of the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme
(FP7), part of the Digital World Forum project.
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/mw4dig-pressrelease
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
http://digitalworld.ercim.org/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Arun Ranganathan
(Mozilla Foundation). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory
Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
Last Call: XHTML Access Module
The XHTML 2 Working Group has published the Last Call 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. Comments are welcome
through 16 June. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xhtml-access-20080526/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Semantic Desktop in KDE 4.0 on Linux by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/semantic_desktop_in_kde_40_on.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development, 2-3 June
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 2 June, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at W3C
Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development.
* 2 June, Västerås, Sweden: Framtidssäkra eFörvaltningen. Olle
Olsson participates in a panel at Offentliga Rummet 2008.
* 4 June, Brussels, Belgium: International Perspective. Judy
Brewer participates in a panel at Open conference on the Results
from Phase I of Standards Mandate 376: Public Procurement of
Accessible ICT in Europe.
* 4 June, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at W3C Brazil
Office Public Launch.
* 4 June, Sao Paolo, Brazil: W3C - Web Open Standards. Daniel
Dardailler presents at W3C Brazil Office Launch event .
* 10 June, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Web Accessibility: People with
Disabilities and Elderly Citizens. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at
Web Sin Barreras.
* 11 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Color for the Global Web. Molly E
Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 12 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Designing for Today's Browsers.
Molly E Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web
of linked data.
* 19 June, Nancy, France: États des lieux du Web sémantique. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Tokyo, Japan: Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including
WCAG 2.0. Judy Brewer presents at Open Seminar of Information
Accessibility.
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
* View upcoming talks by country
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