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W3C has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C thanks MWI Founding Sponsors France Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Segala M Test, Vodafone and Volantis. Read about MWI, how to sponsor MWI and the testimonials and press release.
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W3C has held two celebrations of ten years of leading the Web to its full potential: 1 December 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and 3 June 2005 in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Mementos from the June 2005 event will be available soon. See also the mementos from December 2004.
2005-06-09: The W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services is 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by DERI and supported by EC's IST programme WS2 project. Over sixty organizations are presenting papers identifying areas of shared interest between Web services and Semantic Web communities. Topics include background technologies, registries, taxonomies, search mechanisms, ontologies for Web services, Web services choreography, and business process. Read the press release, the program and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)
2005-06-07: The report on the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. More information is available from the Workshop Web site and the press release. (News archive)
2005-06-06: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in Mandelieu, France. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. (News archive)
2005-06-05: Addressing comments from the previous Last Call, the XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group released three updated requirements documents and a Last Call Working Draft for the XQuery and XPath languages. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. XPath is used to select parts of XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML Format. The SPARQL query language offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2005-06-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)
2005-05-31: The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten
year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June
at CERAM
in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How
it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe,"
"Policies Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and
reception. Read the media advisory and more
about W3C10 Europe. (Photo credit: Bert Bos. News archive)
2005-05-27: The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations to follow. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)
2005-05-26: The Voice Browser Working
Group has released SSML
1.0 say-as attribute values as a Working Group Note. The note
provides definitions for the interpret-as,
format, and detail attributes that cover many
of the most common uses for the say-as element in the
Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)
SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) promotes the uptake of Web standards through advanced IT research and development in collaboration with national and international industry, as well as with public sector organizations. SICS is also hosting the Swedish W3C Office. (Member testimonials)
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