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Issue 60: December 2002

Euroweb 2002 Conference.

December 17th and 18th at St Anne's College Oxford, the UK and Ireland Office of W3C hosted the Euroweb 2002 conference, that was attended by 110 delegates to address the theme of the relationship between the semantic web, web services and the Grid as potential information infrastructures of the future, and how to move developments made in these for e-science through to e-business. The proceedings are available on line as part of the BCS eWiC series.

W3C to Move European Host to ERCIM

W3C is pleased to announce its European host will change on 1 January 2003 from INRIA to the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). MIT in North America, Keio University in Asia and now ERCIM in Europe are W3C's three global partners and physical headquarters called "hosts." The move allows W3C to foster research relationships throughout Europe, while maintaining ties to INRIA, one of the ERCIM founders. Read the press release in eighteen languages and the testimonials.

W3C Thanks the Systems Team

In the past 6 months, W3C Working Groups released a record 137 publications, 36 during 2 weeks in November. Find them linked to the index of technical reports. W3C thanks our Webmaster Henri Fallon and the W3C SysWeb team for making this possible. SysWeb supports the needs of the W3C Membership, the Team and the public. Currently, they serve 680,000 Web pages and 796,000 pages of mailing list archives on machines in the USA, Japan, and France.

New Generation of the W3C Markup Validator Released

W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages, accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML, XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The announcement names contributors and has release notes.

Quality Assurance Update (QA)

The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released Operational Examples & Techniques as a W3C Note. Part of the QA Framework and developed in tandem with Operational Guidelines, the latest version is now maintained at the QA Activity until it stabilizes. The document gives examples and techniques of quality practices within W3C Working Groups.

W3C Co-Hosts XML 2002

W3C co-hosted XML 2002 held 8-13 December in Baltimore, MD, USA. Chris Lilley participated in a Town Hall panel on the W3C Technical Architecture Group on 10 December. Philippe Le Hégaret presented a W3C Update on 11 December and DOM Level 3 on 12 December. Daniel Weitzner and Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, attended.

Amaya 7.1 Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 7.1 include user interface enhancements, migration to the Raptor parser, and improved support for XML, SVG, and CSS. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.

Richard Ishida Co-Chairs Internationalization & Unicode Conference

Richard Ishida of the W3C Team has become co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. The event (renamed from "Unicode Conference" to more accurately reflect its content) is the premier technical conference worldwide for both software and Web internationalization. The W3C Internationalization Activity is pleased to be able to reaffirm in this way its longstanding and beneficial association with the event. The 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC23) is to be held on 24-26 March 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Multimodal Interaction Use Cases Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Multimodal Interaction Use Cases as a W3C Note. Airline reservations, driving directions, and name dialing from mobile terminals are analyzed. They highlight device requirements, event handling, network dependencies, and user interaction.

Multimodal Interaction Framework Note Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group released the first publication of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework as a W3C Note. The framework identifies markup languages required by components and for data flowing among components. It describes input and output modes widely used today and can be extended. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

XML Encryption, Decryption Become W3C Recommendations

On 10 December, W3C released XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature as Recommendations. The specifications have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor their widespread adoption. Encryption makes sensitive data confidential for storage or transmission.

Upcoming W3C Team Talks in October

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

On 3 December, Hugo Haas presented at Iliatech Club Day on Web Services at INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France, and Charles McCathieNevile presented at LexiPraxi (in French) at the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie in Paris, France. On 5 December, Kazuhiro Kitagawa gave a keynote at Internet World Asia in Tokyo, Japan. Several Team members attended XML 2002 in Baltimore, MD, USA held 8-13 December. On 10 December, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen participated in a panel at the CNET Building a Web Services Foundation conference in San Francisco, CA, USA. Daniel Dardailler presents at Internet: un diritto per tutti (in Italian) in Venice, Italy on 16 December. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

On 3 December, Gioacchino La Vecchia, W3C Italian Office, presented at the Sole 24 Ore Business Conference: "Garantire la sicurezza con la Firma Digitale" (Guarantee Security with Digital Signature). On 5 December, Michael Wilson, W3C United Kingdom and Ireland Office, presented IT research, standards and the future at the OxIT annual conference in Oxford, UK. On 4-5 December, Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C German and Austrian Office, gave the closing talk Die XML-Sprachfamilie - ein SGML-Anwendungsprofil fürs Web at the DIN-event "NormDOC 2002 - Technische Produktdokumentation und rechnergestützte Bearbeitung und Archivierung von Dokumenten" in Kassel, Germany.

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