The 2008-12-01 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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SMIL 3.0 Advances Standard for Synchronized Multimedia
Today W3C announced a new standard to make it easier to author
interactive multimedia presentations. "Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)" allows video, audio, images, text,
and hypertext links to be combined into interactive presentations,
with fine-grain control of layout and timing. "The importance of
SMIL 3.0 is that it contains a set of user-requested features that
provide exciting new functionality, while retaining all the
advantages of a declarative (that is, without scripting) approach to
building a multimedia presentation," said Dick Bulterman, chair of
the Synchronized Multimedia Working Group, which published the
specification. Read the full press release, testimonials, and learn
more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/cover.html
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/smil3-pressrelease.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/smil-testimonial.html
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Group/
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fifth Edition Is a W3C
Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)." This fifth
edition of the widely deployed standard XML incorporates corrections
to errata found in previous versions. In particular, one correction
relaxes the restrictions on element and attribute names, thereby
providing in XML 1.0 the major end user benefit currently achievable
only by using XML 1.1. As a consequence, many possible documents
that were not well-formed according to previous editions of this
specification are now well-formed, and previously invalid documents
using the newly-allowed name characters in, for example, ID
attributes, are now valid. XML has been designed for ease of
implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-4e-errata
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Invites Implementations of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
The XML Processing Model Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This
specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a
language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents.
A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or
more XML documents as their inputs and produce zero or more XML
documents as their outputs. The inputs of a step come from the web,
from the pipeline document, from the inputs to the pipeline itself,
or from the outputs of other steps in the pipeline. Learn more about
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-xproc-20081126/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Invites Implementations of Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1
and Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1
The Service Modeling Language Working Group invites implementation
of the Candidate Recommendations of "Service Modeling Language,
Version 1.1" and "Service Modeling Language Interchange Format
Version 1.1." The former defines the Service Modeling Language,
Version 1.1 (SML) used to model complex services and systems,
including their structure, constraints, policies, and best
practices. The latter defines the interchange format for SML 1.1
models. This format identifies the model being interchanged,
distinguishes between model definition documents and model instance
documents, and defines the binding of rule documents with other
documents in the interchange model. Learn more about the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-sml-20081125/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-sml-if-20081125/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Incubator Group Report: Elements of an EmotionML 1.0
The Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group published their final
report. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and
multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human
factors, including emotions. The report provides elements for an
Emotion Markup Language striking a balance between scientific
well-foundedness and practical applicability. The language is
conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three
different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic
recognition of emotion-related states from user behaviour; and (3)
generation of emotion-related system behaviour. This publication is
part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can
innovate and experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards
track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml-20081120/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component
Designators
The XML Schema Working Group has published the Last Call Working
Draft of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component
Designators." XML Schema: Component Designators defines a scheme
for identifying XML Schema components as specified by XML Schema
Part 1: Structures and XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. Comments are
welcome through 19 January. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema-ref-20081117/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Workshop in Mozambique Continues W3C Focus on Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Development
W3C announced a Workshop on Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile
Technologies in Fostering Social and Economic Development, April 1-2
2009, in Maputo, Mozambique. Participants will explore ways to
fulfill the potential of mobile phones as a platform for deploying
development-oriented ICT services towards the poorest segments of
populations in developing countries, with an emphasis on the African
context. The Workshop is open to the public; learn how to
participate. You may also become a Workshop Sponsor to help support
the participation of those with expertise who might not otherwise be
able to attend due to travel or other costs. The Workshop is hosted
by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of
Mozambique and is organized as part of the Digital World Forum
project (European Union's FP7). Read the press release and learn
more about W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/#Participation
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/sponsors.html
http://www.digitalworldforum.eu/
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/mw4dafrica-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Interview: Dan Appelquist on Vodafone, Mobile Web, and W3C
Standards by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/_as_part_of_a.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
Gas, 9-10 December
* W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web,
10-11 December
* W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January
2009
* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
2009
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Social and Economic Development, 1-2 April 2009
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 3 December, United Nations, New York City, USA: Perspectives
from Policy Makers, Civil Society Organizations representing
persons with disabilities, Industry and Standard Organizations.
Judy Brewer participates in a panel at Seminar on Implementing
the Digitial Accessibility Agenda of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
* 4 December, Llandudno, United Kingdom: Making the Web
International. Richard Ishida presents at bloc.
* 4 December, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile
Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.
Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design:
cultivating diversity.
* 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards
Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA
Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
* 8 December, Boston, MA, USA: Web Accessibility for Everyone and
Everything. Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World - Boston
2008.
* 9 December, Boston, MA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World - Boston 2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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* More talks...
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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