Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a Proposed Recommendation
2007-07-31: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata to Proposed Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for the Web Services Addressing 1.0 mechanisms using the Web Services Policy 1.5 framework and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in WSDL. Comments are welcome through 30 August. Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. (Permalink)
Patent Advisory Group Recommends W3C Stop Work on Remote Events for XML (REX 1.0)
2007-08-03: A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the WebAPI and SVG Working Groups has published its report, which suggests that W3C stop work on Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0. W3C launched the PAG when France Telecom excluded patent claims from the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Commitment. W3C continues work on a future, differently scoped version of REX in the Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. W3C appreciates the cooperation from the patent holder, France Telecom, in helping the PAG reach their conclusion. (Permalink)
Open Mobile Web Test Suite: Call for Contributions
2007-07-30: The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group is launching an Open Mobile Web Test Suite built by the community for the community to describe support for technologies in mobile Web browsers available today. Mobile Web developers can submit test cases (as described in the submissions guidelines) illustrating authoring practices. Submissions will contribute to a better understanding of the current limitations of user agents, which helps pave the way to better mobile Web browsers tomorrow. Read the Call for Contributions and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Talks
- 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Writing an XSLT optimizer in XSLTMichael Kay presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Representation of overlapping structuresMichael Sperberg-McQueen presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Advanced approaches to XML document validationJirka Kosek, Petr Nalevka present at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Localization of schema languagesCharacterizing XQuery implementations: Categories and key featuresLiam Quin presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Streaming validation of schemata: The lazy typing disciplinePaolo Marinelli, Fabio Vitali present at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Localization of schema languagesFelix Sasaki presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 9 August, Montréal, Canada: Mind the Gap: Seeking holes in the markup-related standards suiteChris Lilley, James David Mason participate in a panel at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 9 August, Montréal, Canada: Converting into pattern-based schemas: A formal approachFabio Vitali, Antonina Dattolo present at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Declarative specification of XML document fixupHenry Thompson participates in a panel at Extreme Markup Languages.
- 31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic WebIvan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
- 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based ComputingStephen M. Watt presents at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
- 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML ConversionStephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
- 26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0Philipp Hoschka presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
- 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSSBert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
- 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standardsBert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
- 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfastBert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
- 3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panelBert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
- 18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen WebKlaus Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien.
- 19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible to People with DisabilitiesShawn Henry presents at "I Invent the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
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