2005-03-17: The W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration in Europe will be held 3 June in Sophia-Antipolis, France, before the 6-7 June Advisory Committee meeting in Mandelieu. Information about the program, speakers, press events, and other logistics will be available in April. Please reserve 3 June on your calendars. If you are interested in being involved in W3C10 Europe planning, please contact Marie-Claire Forgue or Ian Jacobs.
Daniel Appelquist from Vodafone UK will be presenting a talk at W3C 10 Europe.
Agency Republic, the digital advertising agency voted Marketing's 'Digital Agency of the Year', has signed a strategic partnership with Segala M Test for independent accreditation support to ensure projects for their client O2 UK comply with web accessibility standards.
"We create and deliver powerful digital marketing ideas that transform businesses, build brands and generate commercial results," explains Adam Johnston, Technical Director of Agency Republic. "As part of this process, we take full responsibility and ownership for technical and accessibility standards. Segala provide an independent seal of approval for web accessibility for O2 UK websites."
RuleML, the leading provider of standards for rules technologies on the Web and in distributed platforms, and DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), the leading European effort in Semantic Web Services that spearheads the Web Services Modeling Ontology (WSMO) working group, just announced the formation of a collaborative effort on integrating their platforms to enhance support for rules and services technologies. This collaboration explores the deployment and extension of the RuleML family of languages to integrate with the WSMO platform, focusing on rules and services interoperability on top of RuleML and WSML, WSMO's Language component. Anticipated benefits of this integration include that WSMO will take advantage of the modular flexibility and tools available in RuleML, and RuleML will be able to support the WSMO services modeling requirements.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, will host the RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. The conference is co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Community) is an ontology for describing and linking discussion forums and threaded posts in online community sites. The first version of this ontology has been created by the Semantic Web cluster at DERI Galway, and can be used to create metadata from community discussion systems such as blogs and forums. SIOC metadata producers are also being created for some popular discussion systems.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway presented a highly successful tutorial at the Oasis Symposium on the Future of XML Vocabularies. The tutorial was entitled "The Web Services Modeling Ontology"
2005-03-23: Position papers are due 20 May for the W3C Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences to be held 21-22 June in Redwood Shores, California, USA. Schema authors and users, developers and vendors of schema-aware code generators, middleware, validators, and the W3C XML Schema Working Group will gather to discuss user experience with XML Schema 1.0. The workshop goal is to arrive at plan of action for XML Schema 1.0 interoperability, errata and clarification. Read about W3C workshops and visit the XML home page.
2005-04-12: The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue runs from 11-13 May at the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) in Chiba, Japan. W3C Members and Team present three days of content on W3C technologies and achievements. Conference attendees are also invited to Developers Day presentations on 14 May. Read the press release.
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