Issue 98: February 2006
W3C Launches Incubator
Activity
2006-02-08: W3C announces the launch of
its Incubator Activity, a new initiative
to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. "With the
Incubator Activity, W3C Members and Invited Experts can now combine Web
technology discovery with the outstanding technical resources of W3C
and see what develops," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Executive Officer.
The first Incubator Group (XG) to be launched addresses the issue of
content labels.
Read the press release.
W3C Highlights Mobile Web at 3GSM
World Congress
2006-01-31: Mobile industry leaders have
reached a preliminary agreement on best practices for mobile Web
content. Written to improve user experience, the Last Call Working
Draft of Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0 describes how to produce Web content and Web sites
intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Please send
review comments before 17 February 2006. Read the press release and about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Visit the W3C booth at 3GSM 13-16 February in Barcelona,
Spain.
W3C to Hold Workshop on the Ubiquitous
Web
2006-01-24: W3C holds the Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web
on 9-10 March in Tokyo, Japan. The Ubiquitous Web "takes advantage of
the diversity of networked devices," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon).
Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C make choices for
standardization to realize the vision of distributed applications that
adapt to users' needs, device capabilities and environmental
conditions. Position papers are due 10 February. Read the press release and about W3C Workshops.
W3C Seminar on Using Web
Services
2006-01-19: As part of the European IST
Programme's WS2 project, the seminar Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to
Semantics will be held in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C Members
Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff will
demonstrate the use of Web services technologies in real world
scenarios.
The seminar is free and open to the public.
New Pubrules, Checker, Transitions
Documents
2006-01-31: As announced to the Chairs and
Advisory Committee, the grace period for the new Technical Report Publication Policy ("pubrules")
is 1 March 2006. If you should have any questions, please contact Ian Jacobs
at w3t-comm@w3.org.
Candidate Recommendation: Semantic
Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0
2006-01-13: W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Semantic Interpretation
for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 language to Candidate
Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based
annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech
recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in
the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as
serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20
February. Read the Voice Browser home page.
W3C Member News
Nothing this month
If you are a W3C member and would like to send news please email us at W3C
Press Highlights
Browse W3C in the Press. A selection of articles since the last Newsletter:
- "W3C
breeds Incubator Activity," PC Pro, 10 February
- "
W3C launches web tech incubator program," Computer Business
Review, 9 February
- "
WSDL 2.0: Web services' lightning rod standard,"
SearchWebServices.com, 8 February
- "W3C
Internationalisation leader visits Australia," iTWire,
8 February
- "
W3C advances XHTML-Print as Web standard," PC Pro, 3
February
- "The Power of
No," XML.com, 1 February
- "W3C
announces best practices for mobile web," 31 January,
31 January
- "W3C
Names CEO," eWEEK, 24 January
W3C Team Talks
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- 6 March: W3C Seminar: "Using
Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics", hosted by
W3C/ERCIM, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France
- 9-10 March: W3C
Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web, hosted by W3C/Keio University,
Tokyo, Japan
- 15-16 March: W3C
Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication,
hosted by Citigroup, New York, NY, USA
- 21-22 May: W3C Advisory Committee meeting, hosted by W3C/ERCIM,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (tentative dates)
- 22-26 May: WWW2006 conference,
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- 11-13 September: HTML WG Meeting,
hosted by HTML Writers Guild, Venice, Italy
- 29-30 November: W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (with a celebration
of the 10th anniversary of W3C's Host in Asia), hosted by W3C/Keio,
Tokyo, Japan
- 6 March: Richard Ishida gives a
tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems &
Unicode" at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference
29" on Monday, 6 March 2006, in San Francisco, USA.
- 18 March: Ivan Herman gives a talk
on behalf of the Hungarian Office
entitled "
Szemantikus halo: egyrovid bevezetes
(Semantic Web: a Short Introduction)"
at the "
Magyarorszagi Web Konferencia
(Web Conference Hungary)"
on Saturday, 18 March 2006, in Budapest, Hungary.
- 20 March: Shawn Henry gives a
tutorial entitled "Exploring Web Accessibility: A Hands-On
Introduction" at the "CSUN (21st Annual
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference)"
on Monday, 20 March 2006, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- 6 April: Molly E.
Holzschlag gives a keynote entitled "HTML and CSS does not
Accessibility Make" at the "Knowbility Access U" on Thursday, 6
April 2006, in San Francisco, California, USA.
- 13 May: Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Web
Standards Project (WaSP): Open Meeting" and participates at a
panel entitled "WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job
Done" at the South by Southwest (SXSW) , on Saturday, 13
May 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA.
- 15 May: Molly E.
Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "CSS for the
Institutional Web" at the "Los
Alamos National Laboratories Web Design Conference" on Monday, 15
May 2006, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
- 22 May: Rhys
Lewis gives a keynote entitled "The Meaning of 'Life':
Capturing Intent from Web Authors" at the "W4A2006 - Building the Mobile Web:
Rediscovering Accessibility?" on Monday, 22 May 2006, in Edinburgh,
UK.
- 13, 15 June: Shawn
Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Evaluating for
Accessibility, Usability Testing in Diverse Situations" on
Tuesday, 13 June 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Redesigning
www.w3.org/WAI: A Tale of Two Sites" on Thursday, 15 June 2006
at the
UPA 2006 , Broomfield, Colorado, USA.
Please welcome:
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A-SIT, Vienna, Austria
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Brainstage Research, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Citigroup, New York, NY,
USA
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MIND Center for
Interdisciplinary Informatics, Charlestown, MA, USA
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SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE TECNOLOGIA
S.A., Madrid, Spain
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Tecnalia, Rome, Italy