A new revision of the "Think globally, Act locally" article, (part of the QA Library), including contributions from QA Interest Group participant Tristan Nitot, was released for review by the QA Interest Group. This new version includes detailed experience on building and managing local Web standards groups and projects.
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28 July 2003: Position papers are due 11 August for the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. 60 attendees will study methods to compress XML documents to save bandwidth and parsing time. The workshop goal is to determine whether a W3C Working Group might be chartered to produce an interoperable, accessible, internationalized binary transmission format. Visit the XML home page.
6 August 2003: The XML Core Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of xml:id Requirements. Applicable to all classes of XML processors, the requirements describe a mechanism to identify an XML element by an explicit identifier (ID) independent of DTD and XML schema validation. Comments are invited. Visit the XML home page.
8 August 2003: Registration is open for the 24th Internationalization & Unicode Conference to be held 3-5 September in Atlanta, GA, USA. Come and meet W3C Team members Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida, and Chris Lilley who are presenting. The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software and Web internationalization, and includes a full day track devoted to evolving Web technologies. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity.
11 August 2003: W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative announces a new release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs. Version 2.0 supports GSS, an RDF-based stylesheet language. Other new features include datatype support, enhanced navigation, better handling of namespace prefix bindings, and an import/export plug-in interface. Learn more about IsaViz.
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