W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the March newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on SSML, Ubiquitous Web, Security Workshop, XML Schema Datatypes, RDF Vocabularies, RDF/A Primer, XForms 1.0, Semantic Web Primer. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
2. Note: Delivery Context for Device Independence
3. Call for Participation: Workshop on Internationalizing SSML
4. W3C Names Ubiquitous Web and Interaction Domain Leaders
5. W3C Security Workshop, 15-16 March, New York
6. Note: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL
7. Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
8. Working Draft: RDF/A Primer
9. XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
10.Note: Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
11.About this newsletter

1. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

2006-03-21: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding to Proposed Recommendations. The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP messages. Comments are welcome through 18 April. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-core-20060321/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

2. Note: Delivery Context for Device Independence

2006-03-20: The Device Independence Working Group has updated the Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Part of a series, the Note describes information that may be included in the delivery context, and how that information may be used and conveyed. Read more about device independence. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-di-dco-20060320/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

3. Call for Participation: Workshop on Internationalizing SSML

2006-03-16: Following a successful Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English languages. Position papers are due 14 April. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

4. W3C Names Ubiquitous Web and Interaction Domain Leaders

2006-03-15: W3C is pleased to announce new management of Activities related to the Web's user interface. Philipp Hoschka leads the newly created Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes the Device Independence, Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser Activities, and continues his role as W3C Deputy Director for Europe. Chris Lilley leads the Interaction Domain which includes the Graphics, HTML, Math, Rich Web Clients, Style, Synchronized Multimedia and XForms Activities. Read about W3C's Management Team and Activities. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/
http://www.w3.org/Interaction/

5. W3C Security Workshop, 15-16 March, New York

2006-03-15: The W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication is underway 15-16 March hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY USA. Attendees will identify and report publicly on steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Read the program, over forty accepted position papers and about Technology and Society. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/program
http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/papers/

6. Note: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL

2006-03-14: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL as a Working Group Note. Providing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web, the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of values, duration, and the use of numeric types. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

7. Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies

2006-03-14: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

8. Working Draft: RDF/A Primer

2006-03-14: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/

9. XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

2006-03-14: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents. (News archive)

• XForms 1.0 Second Edition
• XForms for HTML Authors: Part 2
• XForms Quick Reference
• XHTML to XForms Converter (XSLT)
• Revised XForms Test Suite

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/
http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item41

10. Note: Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers

2006-03-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-sw-oosd-primer-20060309/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

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