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Issue 73: January 2004

Kofi Annan, Tim Berners-Lee Greet the World Summit Event for Schools

10 December 2003: Students and educators participating in the World Summit on the Information Society are laying the foundation for a global infrastructure of school networks and a culture of peace. On 10 December in cooperation with the CERN SIS-Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee sent an email to summit participants at 800 schools in 80 countries using the NeXT computer that was used to invent the World Wide Web. The U.N. Cyberschoolbus and the European Schoolnet (photos) co-organized the World Summit Event for Schools.

W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee to Be Knighted by Queen Elizabeth

2003-12-31: Buckingham Palace today announced that Queen Elizabeth II will make Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). UK Honours are available to all who give service in the United Kingdom. Mr. Berners-Lee, a British citizen, is being knighted in recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet through the invention of the World Wide Web. Please read the press release.

Amaya 8.2+ Snapshot Released

2004-01-15: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2+ includes bug fixes and new features for dates, tables, shortcuts and transformations. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.

WASP asks W3C

The WASP asks a question to W3C on a regular basis and QA answers, giving an overview of the topic. Questions since the last Newsletter are Should one prefer XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 when you develop a Web site and What are the benefits of XHTML modularization? . People are welcome to debate these topics on the public-evangelist mailing list.

CC/PP Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 Is a W3C Recommendation

2004-01-15: The World Wide Web Consortium released Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. CC/PP 1.0 is a system for expressing device capabilities and user preferences using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). CC/PP guides the adaptation of content, making it easier to deliver Web content to devices. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the Device Independence home page.

SMIL Activity Proposal Development

2004-01-15: The W3C Team welcomes your input and your early involvement in drafting an Activity Proposal for new work on the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). For more information please write to Thierry Michel at symm@w3.org with any questions you may have.

Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Published

2004-01-21: The Web Ontology Working Group has released Parsing OWL in RDF/XML as a Working Group Note. The OWL language is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. This document describes a strategy for OWL-RDF parsers. Read about the Semantic Web.

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