W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the September newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on EMMA, Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, Web Services Internationalization, Test Metadata, SSML, EARL 1.0 Schema, xml:id. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Last Call: EMMA
2. Working Draft: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles
3. Last Call: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
4. Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization
5. Working Group Note: Test Metadata
6. Position Papers Due 23 September for W3C Workshop on Internationalizing SSML
7. Working Draft: EARL 1.0 Schema
8. xml:id Is a W3C Recommendation
9.About this newsletter

1. Last Call: EMMA

2005-09-16: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems. Part of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification describes markup for describing user input together with annotations such as confidence scores, timestamps and input medium. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-emma-20050916/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

2. Working Draft: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

2005-09-15: The Compound Document Formats Working Group released the second Working Draft of Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles. The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the desktop and high-capability handhelds. Visit the Compound Document home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WICD-20050915/
http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/

3. Last Call: SPARQL Protocol for RDF

2005-09-14: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Comments are welcome through 14 October. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20050914/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

4. Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization

2005-09-14: The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy. Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-i18n-20050914/
http://www.w3.org/International/

5. Working Group Note: Test Metadata

2005-09-14: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published Test Metadata as a Working Group Note. Developed on the W3C QA wiki, this set of metadata elements can be used to track and filter tests, to identify what is tested, to construct a test harness and to format test results. Dublin Core is reused where appropriate. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-test-metadata-20050914/
http://esw.w3.org/topic/TestCaseMetadata

6. Position Papers Due 23 September for W3C Workshop on Internationalizing SSML

2005-09-12: W3C holds the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Position papers are due 23 September. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

7. Working Draft: EARL 1.0 Schema

2005-09-12: The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema. EARL is a flexible format used to exchange, combine and compare test results including bug reports, test suite evaluations and conformance claims. The test subjects might be Websites, authoring tools, user agents or other entities. The group welcomes feedback from Web developers and researchers. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-EARL10-Schema-20050909/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

8. xml:id Is a W3C Recommendation

2005-09-09: The World Wide Web Consortium today released xml:id Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification defines an attribute name, xml:id, that can always be treated as an identifier and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external resources, and without relying on an internal subset. The Recommendation is the latest deliverable of the XML Core Working Group, part of the W3C XML Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xml-id-20050909/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

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