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Issue 79: July 2004

Tim Berners-Lee's expectations for the Semantic Web

Recently, Tim Berners-Lee made a presentation on The History and Future of the World Wide Web at the Millennium Technology Conference at the Dipoli Congress Centre, Espoo, Finland in which he included the diagram below to capture his view of the likely adoption of various Semantic Web Technologies as a series of waves representing different years.

Semantic Web

Semantic Web
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W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

2004-07-16: Queen Elizabeth II has dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) during an Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London on 16 July. UK Honours are available to all who give service to the United Kingdom. Sir Timothy, a British citizen who lives in the United States and is Director of W3C, was knighted in recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet through his invention of the World Wide Web.

Call for Participation: Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services

2004-07-01: Position papers are due 27 August for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for describing Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future work. Read more about workshops and Web services at W3C.

Call for Participation: Public Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation

2004-07-08: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the adaption of Web content to fit user needs and device characteristics, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read more about Interaction at W3C.

Upcoming Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services

2004-05-27: W3C is planning to hold a workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services. The event is being organized by the W3C Architecture Domain and will be hosted at the Oracle Conference Center at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores in California on October 12-13, 2004. A Call for Participation will be issued shortly.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

2004-07-15: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity.

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