W3C Public Newsletter 14 May 2007

W3C Opens Southern Africa Office

2007-05-14: 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 who attended the opening ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page. (Photo credit: Joshua McDill. Permalink)

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RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop

2007-05-14: W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)

W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2007

2007-05-08: We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the W3C track will cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C Activities. Read the press release. (Permalink)

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

2007-05-07: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. (Photo credit: Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)

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14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification using XML Schema 1.0.Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
15 May, Paris, France: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.Dave Raggett presents at XTech 2007.
15 May, Paris, France: XForms 1.1.Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial at XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web”.
23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web: una historia de amor?.José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en España 2007.
24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users: Practical Tips.Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web Architectures for eGovernment projects.José Manuel Alonso presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility.Shawn Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion.Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing.Stephen M. Watt presents at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
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