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 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.
2004-04-15: W3C is pleased to announce that the Finnish Technology Award Foundation board has unanimously presented its first Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award is given in one of four disciplines for "outstanding technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic development."
2004-04-01: W3C is pleased to announce the first standalone release of the W3C Link Checker. Started by Hugo Haas in 1999, the project is now managed by Ville Skytta and the W3C Quality Assurance (QA) Activity. Documentation and source code are available. Comments are welcome on the www-validator@w3.org mailing list (archive). Read about W3C's free software and visit the QA home page.
2004-04-16: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.4 includes a Mac OS X package and bug fixes for CSS, (X)HTML, annotation and the Amaya user interface. 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.
2004-04-07: W3C released two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications as Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and script authors manipulate the content, structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document contents. Read the press release and visit the DOM home page.
2004-04-14: W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has provided an initial response to the Web Access Report released 14 April 2004 by the UK Disabilities Rights Commission. The DRC Report explores the state of Web site accessibility and usability in the UK, and in some sections makes recommendations regarding work done by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Learn more about Web accessibility
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