The 2008-06-24 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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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
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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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