W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the April newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Southern Africa Office, Semantic Web, Authoring Tool Accessibility, Progress Events 1.0, WWW 2007 Conference, Internationalization Best Practices, GRDDL, SISR, XML Pipeline Language. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. W3C Launches Southern Africa Office
2. Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Published
3. Authoring Tool Accessibility: Techniques Working Draft
4. Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft
5. W3C Track Announced at WWW 2007 Conference
6. Note: Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content
7. Note: GRDDL Use Cases: Extracting RDF Data From XML Documents
8. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a W3C Recommendation
9. XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft
10. About this newsletter

1. W3C Launches Southern Africa Office

2007-04-24: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler and Stephane Boyera are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 14 May. Read the press release and about the Southern Africa Office opening and W3C Offices. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3c.org.za/
http://www.meraka.org.za/

2. Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Published

2007-04-24: The SWEO Interest Group is pleased to announce the first release of the Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). These answers to questions covering Semantic Web standards and their usage are an evolving document that will continue to be updated over time. A Wiki site where the community can contribute to the further evolution of the FAQ and an RSS 1.0 feed to track changes are available. Read about the Semantic Web. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ

3. Authoring Tool Accessibility: Techniques Working Draft

2007-04-23: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a Working Draft of Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These techniques, sample strategies and resources are an aid for developers who wish to satisfy the checkpoints in Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG). ATAG helps developers design tools and authoring interfaces that are accessible to users including those with disabilities, and that produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers. Learn more about the WAI Technical Activity (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20070423/

4. Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft

2007-04-20: The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Progress Events 1.0. Five events and their interfaces are defined for use in XHR (AJAX) Web applications. When additional data is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct loading bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-progress-events-20070419/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

5. W3C Track Announced at WWW 2007 Conference

2007-04-17: The Consortium welcomes the public to meet the W3C Staff and Members, who will present recent achievements and future work plans through the W3C Track at the WWW2007 conference, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the nine sessions cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C Activities. Read the press release. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2007/05/w3c-track.html
http://www2007.org/

6. Note: Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content

2007-04-12: The Internationalization Core Working Group has published Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content as a Working Group Note. Part of a series and written for HTML content authors working with XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, and CSS, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/

7. Note: GRDDL Use Cases: Extracting RDF Data From XML Documents

2007-04-06: The GRDDL Working Group has published GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents as a Working Group Note. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such XSLT transformations. Learn more about the Semantic Web (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-grddl-scenarios-20070406/

8. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a W3C Recommendation

2007-04-05: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Part of a powerful trend towards Web access via interactive voice response, SISR tags are used to extract meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-semantic-interpretation-20070405/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

9. XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft

2007-04-05: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070405/

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