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article,
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replaced with abbr (or
dropped where they were redundant), and a lot of presentational aspects of the original
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News
W3C Sets New Standard for Internationalized Web Content
: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 as a
W3C Recommendation. Creators of XML content can use the ITS set
of elements and attributes to prepare schemas and documents for localization and to
internationalize them for a global audience. "Working with document formats
internationally becomes much easier, whether you are creating a new schema or working
with an established one," said Richard Ishida (W3C). Implementations provided for
DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook, and OpenDocument. Read the press release and visit Internationalization home page. ( Permalink )
Ubiquitous Web to Simplify Development for Networked Devices
: Position papers are due 21 April for the W3C HTML Mail Workshop to be held 24 May in Paris,
France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.
Attendees will discuss authoring, rendering, interoperability and security aspects of
HTML in email as well as non-technical topics. Read about W3C Workshops and about HTML. (Permalink)
Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop
: W3C plans a Workshop Toward More
Transparent Government co-sponsored by the Web Science Research Initiative
(WSRI) on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways of facilitating the deployment
of Web standards across eGovernment sites, to help shape ongoing research in the
development of Web technology and public policy, in order to realize the potential of
the Web for access to, and use of, government information. A Call for Participation
is expected in a few weeks. See the European W3C Symposium on eGovernment Report
for information about the previous W3C eGovernment event. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Working Group
: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of
the Multimodal Interaction Working Group to enable users to use their preferred modes
of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited Expert) chairs the group which is
chartered to develop open standards to adapt
to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow multiple modes of Web
interaction including GUI, speech,
vision, pen, gestures and haptic interfaces. W3C
Members may use this form to join the
Working Group. Read the about the Multimodal Interaction
Activity. (Permalink)
W3C Launches Voice Browser Working Group
: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of
the Voice Browser Working Group to enable users to speak and listen to Web
applications. Jim Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan (HP) chair the group
which is chartered to standardize languages
for capturing and producing speech and for managing the dialog between users and
computers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read the about the
Voice Browser Activity. (Permalink)
Web Services Policy 1.5: Candidate Recommendations
: The Web Services Policy Working Group has
published updated Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5 documenting
their progress. The Policy Framework
model expresses the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their
interaction. Attachment defines
how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to
which they apply. The group published updated Working Drafts of the Primer, Guidelines and Element Identifiers as well. Candidate
Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
Rule Interchange Format Core Design: Working Draft
: The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working
Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RIF Core Design. The document specifies the core
design for a format that allows rules to be translated between rule languages and
thus transferred between rule systems. The group invites comments through 27 April.
Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
RDFa Use Cases: Working Draft
: The XHTML2 Working Group and the Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of
RDFa Use Cases: Scenarios for
Embedding RDF in HTML. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and
extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Written for readers somewhat
familiar with HTML, RDF and N3 notation, these scenarios consider publishers, tool
builders and users. Read about HTML and the Semantic Web. (Permalink)