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W3C thanks platinum sponsor Nokia for generously supporting what may be the most exciting W3C meeting of 2007: the W3C Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meeting (TPAC), in Cambridge, MA, USA on 7 November. W3C groups will come together to brainstorm about some of the most challenging technical issues facing the Web and W3C. W3C group participants may attend (see the meeting page for details). Press, please contact w3t-pr@w3.org if you are interested in attending; there will be a press conference with Tim Berners-Lee and Platinum Sponsors.
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2007-09-25: The Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance will be held 28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics may include user experience, application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether needs exist for standardization and best practices. Results will be linked from the Workshop page in October. Read the media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative and W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
2007-09-25: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Results XML Format to Candidate Recommendation. The SPARQL Query Language for RDF offers developers and end users a way to write and consume search results across a wide range of information and provides a means of integration over disparate sources. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be expressed in XML. Read about the RDF Data Access Working Group and visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-25: The POWDER Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources and Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary. POWDER is a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-24: The Math Working Group published an updated Working Draft of A MathML for CSS profile. This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters. Visit the Math home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-20: The XML Processing Model Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Comments are welcome through 24 October. 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. (Permalink)
2007-09-18: The XML Protocol Working Group released a First Public and Last Call Working Draft of MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion 1.1. Comments are welcome through 15 October. Indicating endpoint support for the serialization of SOAP messages, this domain-specific policy assertion can be specified within a policy alternative and can be attached to a WSDL description. MTOM optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-09-12: The Web Application Formats Working Group has published Declarative Formats for Applications and User Interfaces as a Working Group Note. The note recommends that the Working Group stop formal work on this deliverable and includes some potential options if W3C Members choose to do related work. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
2007-09-12: The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of the CSS Grid Positioning Module for Level 3 of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. It applies the traditional grid systems used in books and newspapers to online content and complements the different approach defined in the CSS Advanced Layout Module. Grids may be explicitly authored or implied and combined with Media Queries. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-06: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the OWL Working Group. Ian Horrocks (Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group which is chartered to produce a W3C Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology Language (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles identified by users and tool implementers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-09-11: The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
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