2005-07-11: Sir Tim Berners Lee to give a keynote address to the International Semantic Web Conference 2005, Galway. Sir Tim will give a joint keynote address to the ISWC 2005 and the RuleML Conferences on Thursday afternoon 10 November 2005.
Online registration is now available for ISWC 2005 and early registration discounts are available until 1 September 2005.
2005-07-23: In conjunction with internet portal Netimperative.com, Segala pulled together an expert panel debate on web accessibility. Gathered in a private room at the Zinc and Zetter restaurant in London, the panel included Liz Faherty of Cheapflights, Andrew Gerrard of IAB, Ivan Imhoff of the Hilton Group, Katie King of 2thefore, Rupert Marsh from the DTI, Dermot O'Mahony of o2, Chris Wills of Rufus Leanard, Timur Shah of Kings College London and Dave Demeda of Corporate Edge.
Called 'Opening another door for those missing customers', the debate focused on why companies are still failing to make the web accessible for all.
"The debate was lively, thought-provoking and a broad range of issues were addressed," said Paul Walsh, CEO of Segala. "I was very pleased to hear both sides of the story being discussed at one table; executives who felt it was either too expensive or too difficult to sell internally to their business and those who saw accessibility as an integral goal that should be understood before forming an opinion."
Commenting, Editor of Netimperative, Mike Butcher, said: "Attendees discussed how feasible it is commercially to bring down the online barriers to the disabled and at the same time open up sites to whole sections of the less able population."
2005-07-09: From personal homepages to giant portals, content providers are being encouraged to add RDF metadata to their online material. The Internet Content Rating Association, ICRA, has been a long time user of the PICS system but has now moved across to RDF. The move is motivated by a desire to make content labelling a part of everyday website building so that the much hoped-for web of trust can become a reality. ICRA's focus is on child protection but the potential is much greater than any single issue.
Working with several partners, ICRA has developed an RDF-based platform that allows content providers to easily apply descriptions to any number of resources. Near future applications include machine-processable trustmarks and, possibly, the "mobileOK" trustmark being developed under the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.
Read the press release, RDF Content Labels use cases, RDF Content Labels schema description, ICRA system specification and about ICRA label generator.
2005-07-14: The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invite you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006.
The first international WWW conference was held in 1994 at CERN where the Web was born. Since then, the conference series has been the prime venue for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web.
WWW2006 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will run before and throughout the conference. A Developers track, devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers, will run in parallel throughout the conference.
2005-07-01: W3C is pleased to welcome the Founding Sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative: Afilias, Bango.net, Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software, MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia, Segala M Test, Sevenval, RuleSpace, V-Enable, Vodafone and Volantis. W3C MWI is a concerted effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of mobile devices. Read about MWI and how to sponsor MWI.
2005-07-05: Following on the XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences and Interoperability Workshop, the Team is currently working on a draft Working Group charter proposal for new work on XML Schema patterns for databinding. If you should have any questions please contact Philippe Le Hegaret, Architecture Domain Leader.
2005-06-28: W3C released the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its Bindings as a Recommendation. An open, standards-based interface for key management, XKMS makes PKI practical to implement in Web applications including Web services. With XKMS, enterprises can share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XKMS home page.
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