Mauro Nunez Named North American Business Manager

2006-10-05: W3C has named Mauro Nunez to North American Business Manager. Mauro coordinates financial matters at MIT and across the Consortium and contributes to Membership, legal, policy and other operational areas. A Fulbright Scholar, Mauro founded and ran a business in Boston, MA, USA, and served as Director of Finance at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Valparaíso, Chile. Read more about W3C and its Management team. (News archive)

SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Working Draft

2006-10-05: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a 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. W3C has published the document as a Working Draft while the group evaluates the language design and the trade-offs between simplicity and user requirements. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

GRDDL Primer and Use Cases: Working Drafts

2006-10-04: The GRDDL Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of GRDDL Primer and GRDDL Use Cases. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such XSLT transformations. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON

2006-10-04: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON as a Working Group Note. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), a lightweight data-interchange format, is used as an alternative to XML vocabulary to serialize the results of SPARQL query forms. SPARQL offers developers and end users a way to write and consume search results across a wide range of information and provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

W3C Talks in October

2006-10-04: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

• Steven Pemberton gave a keynote at EUROIA 2006 on 1 October in Berlin, Germany.
• Richard Ishida gave a keynote at Fundamentos Web 2006 on 3 October in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
• Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Warum barrierefreies Internet on 12 October in Vienna, Austria.
• Ivan Herman gives a talk organized by the IBM China Research Lab on 16 October in Beijing, China.
• Bert Bos presents at the W3C Print Symposium on 17 October in Heidelberg, Germany.
• Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at Carson Workshops: CSS for Developers on 19 October in London, UK.
• Richard Ishida gives a keynote at LRC XI on 26 October in Dublin, Ireland.

XInclude 1.0 Second Edition: Call for Review

2006-10-03: The XML Core Working Group has released a Proposed Edited Recommendation of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition. Produced as a convenience to readers, the second edition is intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 XInclude 1.0 Recommendation. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 3 November. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Last Call: Semantic Annotations for WSDL

2006-09-29: The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of Semantic Annotations for WSDL. With these attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web services. Comments are welcome through 1 November. The group also released the First Public Working Draft of the companion Usage Guide. Read about Web services. (News archive)

Versioning XML Languages Using XML Schema 1.1

2006-09-28: The XML Schema Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Guide to Versioning XML Languages using XML Schema 1.1. XML Schema 1.1 introduces new features that make it easier to define XML languages which are flexible enough to tolerate later revision in a forward-compatible way. Written for application and schema developers, the guide shows the new mechanisms and illustrates several techniques. The group invites comments on this draft which is expected to become a Working Group Note. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)