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Issue 83: November 2004

W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration

2004-10-13: As announced in the media advisory and on the W3C home page, W3C looks forward to the upcoming W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration for Members and invited guests in Boston, MA, USA on 1 December. Over 200 individuals have signed the public greeting card. We wish to thank all W3C10 sponsors. The deadline for registration is 15 November for what will be a memorable W3C event.

W3C Spanish Office's Standards Tour Visits Ten Cities in Spain

2004-10-27: The W3C Spanish Office brings its first W3C Standards Tour to ten universities in Spain from 3 to 26 November. The environment-friendly tour bus with disability access, video conferencing and Internet connectivity via satellite will visit Gijon, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Salamanca, A Coruna and Oviedo and make a Multimodal Web Seminar stop in Madrid. The W3C Spanish Office Prize for Web Standardization will be launched during the tour. Read the press release and visit the W3C Offices home page.

XML Schema Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

2004-10-29: The World Wide Web Consortium released XML Schema Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. The second edition is not a new version; it corrects errors found in the XML Schema first edition. A modular approach well-suited to distributed applications, XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those vocabularies. Visit the XML home page.

Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences Explores Scientific Data Networks

2004-10-26: The W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences was held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Data networks allow biology to progress from the mapping of one-dimensional DNA to understanding multi-dimensional organisms and their diseases. Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL enable the rapid creation of rich information networks and can assist in the generation of hypotheses across massive data sets. Workshop participants met to address the publication, sharing and management of data networks, and to develop use cases and prototypes. Read the press release and about W3C workshops, and visit the Semantic Web home page.

Press Highlights

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

" Web Mapping with SVG," Directions, 5 November
" W3C explores life science semantic Web," Macworld UK, 28 October
"El consorcio W3C inicia en Gijon una gira por diez campus" (in Spanish), El Comercio Digital, 28 October
"La Oficina Espanola del W3C inicia un gira por diez ciudades espanolas" (in Spanish), El Mundo, 27 October
"Le W3C fait le tour des standards Web en Espagne" (in French), NetEconomie, 27 October
" For the Blind, a Welcoming Web," Business Week, 26 October
" The Web's Father Expects a Grandchild," Business Week, 22 October
"Speech Synthesis Markup Language: An Introduction," XML.com, 20 October
"XHTML, HTML Get International Flavor," InternetNews.com, 18 October
"W3C celebrates tenth birthday," ZDNet UK, 15 October
" W3C plans tenth birthday party," Macworld UK, 14 October

W3C Team Talks

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

2-3 December: Advisory Committee Meeting, Cambridge, MA, USA
6-7 December: Voice Browser Working Group Meeting, hosted by Loquendo, Turin, Italy
7-9 December: XML Binary Characterization Working Group Meeting, hosted by Adobe, Ottawa, Canada
8-9 December: Voice Browser Working Group (Call Control subgroup) Meeting, hosted by Loquendo, Turin, Italy
9-10 December: Multimodal Interaction Working Group Meeting, hosted by Loquendo, Turin, Italy
Matt May participates in the keynote panel "Open" Document Formats, XHTML vs. HTML, XSL vs. CSS & Other Industry Debates at the Gilbane Content Management Technologies Conference in Boston, MA, USA on 30 November.
Shawn Lawton Henry gives the tutorial Web Accessibility for Designers at Designing for the 21st Century III in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 8 December.
Shawn Lawton Henry presents Web Accessibility: A Foundation for International Cooperation and Local Implementation at Designing for the 21st Century III in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 10 December.

New W3C Members

Please welcome:

Billiotek srl, Viadana, Mantova, Italia
ENLASO Corporation, Boise, Idaho, USA
Ente Publico Empresarial Red.es, Madrid, Spain
Internet Content Rating Association, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Nobscot Corporation, Kailua, HI, USA
Objective Systems, Inc., Exton, PA, USA
Siderean Software, Inc., El Segundo, CA, USA
SS8 Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
Shawn M Walters, dba Uncover the Net Web Directory, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA