W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the October newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Tenth Anniversary, Workshop on Internationalizing SSML, GRDDL, InkML, Markup Validator, Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, Delivery Context Interfaces, CSS3 Paged Media, Health Care and Life Sciences Public Workshop, XSL 1.1, SPARQL Query Language for RDF. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. W3C Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary in Asia
2. Third Workshop on Internationalizing SSML: Advance Notice
3. GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web: Working Draft
4. Last Call: Ink Markup Language (InkML)
5. Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated
6. Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Call for Participation
7. Delivery Context Interfaces (DCI) Is a Candidate Recommendation
8. Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media
9. Health Care and Life Sciences Public Workshop on Semantic Web, Athens, GA USA
10. XSL 1.1 Is a Proposed Recommendation: Call for Review
11. SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Working Draft
12. About this newsletter

1. W3C Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary in Asia

2006-10-26: The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with a public celebration on 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. The program includes "Role of W3C at Keio — From Foundations to the Future," "How Japanese Industry Works with Web Standards," "How Asia Will Influence the Future Web," discussion, and an exhibition, press briefing and reception. Advance registration is required. Read the media advisory and more about W3C10 Asia. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/10/w3c10-Asia_media_advisory
http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10/

2. Third Workshop on Internationalizing SSML: Advance Notice

2006-10-25: W3C plans a third Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 13-14 January 2007, hosted by Bhrigus Software in Hyderabad, India. Attendees will discuss improvements for using SSML to render under-represented languages including Arabic, Hebrew and Hindi. A Call for Participation is expected in November. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

3. GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web: Working Draft

2006-10-24: The GRDDL Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of GRDDL. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL is ready to deploy, allowing powerful mash-ups at very low cost. Read the press release and visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-20061024/
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/grddl-pressrelease

4. Last Call: Ink Markup Language (InkML)

2006-10-23: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Ink Markup Language (InkML). Comments are welcome through 18 December. The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-InkML-20061023/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

5. Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated

2006-10-23: W3C has updated its W3C Markup Validation Service and Link Checker with bug fixes, documentation and usability improvements, and a new Validator API for developers. Along with W3C's other Web Quality Tools, the Markup Validator and Link Checker are developed as open source software with the participation of volunteers and support of a large community, and are among W3C's most popular and useful resources. (News archive)

URIs:

http://validator.w3.org/
http://validator.w3.org/checklink

6. Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Call for Participation

2006-10-20: Position papers are due 15 December for the Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing to be held 27-28 February 2007 in Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE. Participants will discuss how to facilitate the processing of business transactions and interactions with systems that pre-date the Web, and to address the need to interconnect intranet and/or extranet services using Web technologies. Read about Workshops and W3C Activities. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

7. Delivery Context Interfaces (DCI) Is a Candidate Recommendation

2006-10-19: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Delivery Context: Interfaces (DCI) Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties to Candidate Recommendation. DCI provides access to device properties including capabilities, configuration, user preferences and environmental conditions such as remaining battery life, signal strength, ambient brightness, location, and display orientation. Comments are welcome through 31 March 2007. Read about the Device Independence Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-DPF-20061019/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

8. Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media

2006-10-10: The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 Module: Paged Media, a part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3. Built on the box model, the page module adds functionality for pagination, margins, size and orientation, headers and footers, widows and orphans, image orientation and page numbering. Comments are welcome through 3 November. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-page-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

9. Health Care and Life Sciences Public Workshop on Semantic Web, Athens, GA USA

2006-10-09: The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) hold a public ISWC workshop on Semantic Web Health Care & Life Sciences on 6 November in Athens, Georgia, USA at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference. The agenda (PDF) has been announced. Aiding decision-making in clinical research and drug discovery, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. If your organization wishes to participate, use the conference registration. Read about the Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

URIs:

http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/workshop_tutorial/workshops.htm
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC/Workshop

10. XSL 1.1 Is a Proposed Recommendation: Call for Review

2006-10-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Style sheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. The change list since Candidate Recommendation is available. Comments are welcome through 3 November. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xsl11-20061006/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xsl11-20061006/#chanCRPR

11. SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Working Draft

2006-10-05: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. W3C has published the document as a Working Draft while the group evaluates the language design and the trade-offs between simplicity and user requirements. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20061004/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

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