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Issue 75: March 2004

W3C Recommendations

So far this year W3C has produced 20 recommendations, as illustrated in the diagram below, which is more than were produced in the four years from 1996 to 1999 in total. There are those who say that the core web technologies are established and that there is no longer a role for W3C other than correction errors and slightly modifying existing recommendations. The record so far in 2004 shows that this is not so. Most of this year's recommendations have been under development for several years and lay the foundation for the Semantic Web. Others in the Voice and Speech are lay the foundation for linking the telephone and web together to provide further variety in the forms of publication that can be delivered to your customer from the single XML source document of your information.

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The productivity so far this year is not the end of these developments. There are active working groups in many areas of the Semantic Web, Web services and in interface technologies, and several new topics under consideration for future work. These include further integration of delivery platforms to address the needs of the Automotive Industry for in-car presentation and interaction, extending XML publishing to Digital Television platforms, and advancing SMIL to meet the full multimedia needs of 3rd and 4th generation mobile phones. Within the Semantic Web, there are many issues of Ontology development and use for which best practice needs to be established before commodity development will become commonplace, but future technical developments for rule based reasoning, proof and trust are all under investigation in research projects in which W3C has a role. Web services developments are probably the most widely occupying the IT producer industry, with issues of web service integration or choreography, and the semantic indexing not only of Web Services themselves, but also their quality of service and their properties for composition.

These batch of recent publications as well as technical areas currently within the recommendation process, and those under consideration for starting it, should all encourage you to look further in the technologies in which W3C is active to consider whether your organisation should be involved in their early adoption, or even setting the requirements for them. Active W3C members are not only IT developer companies but also public sector bodies and user companies who find benefit in ensuring that the Web technologies of tomorrow will meet their needs.

Visualisation Ontology Workshop

A Visualisation Ontology Workshop will take place at e-Science Institute, 15, South College Street, Edinburgh, UK, from 7th to 8th April 2004. Among the speakers will be Dr Ivan Herman of W3C who will describe W3C recommendations for ontological description, in particular the current "state of the art", an appraisal of known strengths and weaknesses, and a look at what might happen in this area in the medium-term (2-5 years).

Trust Management Conference 2004

The Second International Conference on Trust Management will take place at St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from 29th March to 1st April 2004. The UK and Ireland Office of W3C is endorsing this conference because it addresses issues at the cutting edge of the current roadmap for web development.

21st Annual British National Conference on Databases

21st Annual British National Conference on Databases will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, from 7th - 9th July 2004. Among the invited speakers is the manager of the W3C Office in the UK and Ireland who will discuss "where is the Web going" with reference to the Semantic Web, Trust, Web Services and GRIDs.

XML Schema Languages Workshop

XML UK and the W3C Office in the UK and Ireland will organise a workshop on XML Schema Languages to be held at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire on the 24th June 2004 to be followed by a one day hands-on tutorial in June/July at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Details of speakers and registration will be presented as soon as it is available.

Amaya 8.3 Released

2004-03-08: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.3 includes new features and enhancements for tables, CSS, MathML and images and the Amaya user interface. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.

Jigsaw 2.2.4 Released

2004-02-18: Jigsaw version 2.2.4 is available for download. As this version contains a security fix, updating to 2.2.4 is highly recommended. The new version also includes a revamped HTTP client stack as well as new SSL code from Thomas Kopp. Implemented in Java, Jigsaw is W3C's open source Web server platform.

W3C Hosts 4th Annual Technical Plenary Week

2004-03-01: W3C held its Technical Plenary Week from 1-5 March in Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups had face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend the plenary mid-week where they enjoyed 3-minute lightning talks and presentations on Web architecture, mixed markup, quality assurance, new Web devices and searching the Web. W3C thanks sponsors IBM and Sun Microsystems for their generous support.

Call for Participation: SVG Open 2004, Tokyo, Japan

2004-03-08: The third annual SVG Open Conference and Exhibition will be held 7-10 September in Tokyo, Japan. Co-sponsored by W3C and hosted by Keio University, the SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. Proposals are welcome through 16 April for course outlines and abstracts for papers. Opportunities are open now for booth exhibits and conference sponsorships. The W3C SVG Working Group and W3C's Chris Lilley will participate. Read about SVG.

Web Services Architecture Working Group Notes Published

2004-02-11: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released Working Group Notes representing the culmination of their work: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios, the Glossary, and Requirements. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page.

Working Group Note: Authoring Techniques for Device Independence

2004-02-18: The Device Independence Working Group has completed work on Authoring Techniques for Device Independence. The document addresses the rapidly changing area of delivering content to diverse devices. It covers content creation, maintenance and adaptation, and user interaction with applications. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity.

CSS 2.1, CSS Print Profile and CSS3 Paged Media Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

2004-02-26: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three Candidate Recommendations for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. A snapshot of CSS usage, CSS 2.1 adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. CSS Print Profile works with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost devices. CSS3 Paged Media Module adds pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with page numbers. Comments are welcome through 25 August.

Press Highlights

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W3C Team Talks

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New W3C Members

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