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Issue 80: August 2004

W3C@10: W3C's 10th Anniversary Celebration

2004-07-28: W3C is pleased to announce that W3C@10, the celebration of our 10th anniversary, will be held 1 December 2004 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, MA, USA. The centerpiece of W3C@10 will be an invitation-only symposium that will examine the historic growth, the bright future and impacts of the Web, as well as W3C's central role in this revolution. The event is held the day before the November Advisory Committee Meeting. Further details and formal invitations will be forthcoming in the September time frame. Please reserve 1 December for W3C@10.

W3C and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Establish Formal Relationship

2004-07-29: W3C and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling their cooperation on mobile Web specifications. "Together, W3C and OMA are well positioned to lead development toward technological compatibility and the ease of repurposing Web content, known as single Web authoring," said Philipp Hoschka (W3C). In widespread use, W3C Recommendations for the mobile industry include XHTML Basic markup, SMIL multimedia and SVG graphics. Read the press release and more about Device Independence.

Call for Participation: Public Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2004-07-28: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences to be held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Attendees will discuss how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL and the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) help to manage modern life sciences research, enable disease understanding and accelerate the development of therapies. For more about W3C workshops and the Semantic Web.

SVG Open 2004: Tokyo, Japan 7-10 September

2004-08-05: SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The conference schedule has courses and presentations and location and accommodation. Registration opens 31 August. A joint event, UPIMap is colocated on 7-9 September. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development experiences, products, workflows and strategies. The conference language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG.

Quality Assurance Update (QA)

2004-07-23: A new version of the W3C Link Checker implements support for the robots exclusion protocol and includes sleep time. The free online service and standalone tool helps Web authors find broken links and solve authentication issues. The W3C Markup Validator received a bugfix update. Visit the QA home page.

Internationalization Articles Published

2004-07-30: The GEO Task Force of the W3C Internationalization Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Articles in July: FAQ: Why should I use the language attribute in Web pages?, FAQ: Should I declare the language of my XHTML document using a language attribute, the Content-Language HTTP header, or a meta element?, FAQ: How do I use .htaccess directives on an Apache server to serve files with a specific encoding? For more items, visit the Internationalization home page.

Press Highlights

Browse W3C in the Press. A selection of articles since the last Newsletter:

W3C Team Talks

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

27 August
Philipp Hoschka presents Towards Multimodal Web Interaction at the IFIP World Computer Congress 2004 (WCC) Topical Day on Multimodal Interaction in Toulouse, France.
31 August
Ivan Herman presents Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web at Ontologier i arbete ("Ontology in practice") in Kista, Sweden. The event is sponsored by the W3C Office in Sweden and Metamatrix AB.
7 - 10 September
26th Internationalization and Unicode Conference in San Jose, CA, USA, co-sponsored by W3C. The following W3C Internationalization Activity participants present. More information is in the conference Program.
  • 7 September
    • Richard Ishida, co-Chair of the Conference Board and Team Contact for the W3C Internationalization Working Group, presents a tutorial An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode.
  • 8 September
    • Andrea Vine, W3C Internationalization Working Group, presents Creating a Software Internationalization Requirements Taxonomy.
    • Richard Ishida presents a tutorial Associating Character Encoding and Language Information with HTML, XHTML and CSS Files.
    • Richard Ishida presents a tutorial Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages.
14 September
Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair, presents W3C Activities in Multimodal Standards at SpeechTEK in New York, NY, USA.
29 September
Matt May presents the tutorial Content and Interface Accessibility for your CMS at OSCOM 4 (Fourth International Open Source Content Management Conference with Apache Track) at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland.
12-13 October 2004, Dublin Ireland.

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Workshop CFP details: http://www.w3.org/2004/06/DI-MCA-WS/cfp.html

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