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2006-03-14: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents. (News archive)
2006-03-14: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2006-03-14: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (News archive)
2006-03-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2006-02-28:
W3C holds its Technical
Plenary Week from 27 February - 3 March in Cannes-Mandelieu, France
where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face
meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks
and discussions on data ownership, microformats, query languages, the
Grid, a backplane for compound documents, and formal methods. Join W3C and attend the next Technical Plenary
planned for November 2007 in the Boston, Massachusetts area, USA.
(Photo credit: Bert Bos. News archive)
2006-02-22: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS). Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)
2006-02-22: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") 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)
2006-02-21: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)
Network Inference is a leading provider of commercially available enterprise solutions based upon OWL and RDF standards. We are proud to assist the W3C activity in these areas and look forward to many more years of innovation from Semantic Web activity. (Member testimonials)
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