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Issue 96: December 2005

15th Anniversary of the Web

The first Web server at CERN went online on Christmas Day, 1990. When asked why, Tim Berners-Lee said 'I wasn't thinking historically, but I had already been working on it for some time and it just seemed appropriate'. The first web server in the UK, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, did not go online until 1992, by the end of which year there were 50 servers worldwide.

W3C itself was founded in Dec 1994 at MIT, the European host for W3C was introduced in 1995 and celibrated its 10th anniversary this year, while the UK Office for W3C was the first office, opened in 1997. Today W3C has over 400 members who can contribute to the development of W3C recommendations for technologies to use on the World Wide Web.

W3C Hosts Feed Validation Service

2005-11-21: W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on 'feedvalidator', and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Learn more in the announcement.

Toward a More Secure Web: Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication Workshop

2005-11-30: As announced during the Advisory Committee meeting, W3C will send a Call for Participation in a Workshop titled "Toward a More Secure Web: Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication" to be held 15-16 March in New York, NY, USA. The Workshop, organized by the Technology and Society Domain, will be chaired by Daniel Schutzer (Citigroup), and Thomas Roessler (W3C). If you should have any questions about the Workshop, please contact Thomas.

W3C Web Services Addressing Interoperability Event: Vancouver, 17-18 January

2005-12-08: The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group will hold an Interoperability Event on 17-18 January in Vancouver, BC Canada. Participants will test the Web Services Addressing family of W3C specifications. The group invites interested parties who have implemented Web Services Addressing 1.0: Core, SOAP Binding and/or WSDL Binding. For details and to register, please see the announcement. Visit the Web services home page.

W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing

2005-12-06: Following the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), W3C announces new work to extend SSML to Asian and other languages and to add speaker verification. Speaker verification is "the best biometric for securing telephone transactions and communications," said Ken Rehor (Vocalocity) Chairman of the VoiceXML Forum and participant in the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. Read the press release, join W3C and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page.

Standards for Multimodal Dialogue Context: Edinburgh, 12 December

2005-12-07: Standards for Multimodal Dialogue Context was held 12 December at the Human Communication Research Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Organized by the TALK and AMI IST research projects with support from W3C, the workshop studied interoperability needs for dialog context formats and dialog annotations. Dave Raggett and Henry Thompson of W3C presented.

W3C Group Links Semantic Web With Medical Industry

2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners HealthCare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. Read the press release and visit the Semantic Web home page.

W3C Member News

DERI Announces New Distributed Identity Management System (D-FOAF) under BSD License

The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and the Gdansk University of Technology have built and deployed a new Distributed Identity Management system.

D-FOAF is a distributed authentication and trust infrastructure without a centralized authority. It is based on FOAFRealm which provides the means to manage identity, define access control lists, and share resources with friends.

Users are able to control their profile information, as it can be accessed in the open FOAF format. They can also sign in automatically across the P2P HyperCuP network of D-FOAF enabled systems.

D-FOAF has been successfully deployed with the digital library project JeromeDL. See press release.

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