4 September 2001: Eight W3C Team members will present at the XML Days conference series to be held from 17 September through 1 October 2001. Steven Pemberton appears in Amsterdam and Helsinki. Daniel Dardailler appears in Brussels and in Copenhagen. Bert Bos appears in Munich. Karl Dubost appears in Zurich. Oreste Signore of the W3C Italian Office appears in Milan. Philippe Le Hegaret appears in Paris. Charles McCathieNevile appears in Oslo and Stockholm, and Henry Thompson appears in Budapest.
"The Web in Public Administration"
16 August 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Quality Assurance (QA) Activity. Launched with a Working Group and Interest Group, the primary mission of the QA Activity is to improve the quality of W3C specification implementation in the field. QA will work on the quality of W3C specifications, promote the development of good validators, test tools, and harnesses for implementers, and think ahead to additional steps. Learn more in the QA Activity statement and in the announcement.
14 August 2001: As part of the Semantic Web Activity, W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C RDF Validation Service. Created and maintained by Art Barstow of the W3C Team, the validator is based on Another RDF Parser (ARP) by Jeremy Carroll. Enter a URI or RDF/XML document, and the RDF Validator will display a 3-tuple (triple) representation and a graphical visualization of the data model. Feedback on the new service is welcome at www-rdf-validator@w3.org.
5 September 2001: W3C released the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification as a Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. SVG delivers two-dimensional graphics in XML to the Web, providing accessible, dynamic, reusable, and extensible vector graphics, text, and images. Read about SVG implementations, and learn more in the press release and testimonials.
5 September 2001: W3C issued SMIL Animation as a W3C Recommendation. This subset of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL, pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Read about the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity.
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