Welcome to the December 2007 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft) 3. W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public Working Draft) 4. "Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator Group 5. W3C Opens Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group 6. Access Control for Cross-site Requests 7. Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web 8. Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft 9. W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (Candidate Recommendation) 10. W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation) 11. W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft 12. XProc: An XML Pipeline Language 13. Minor Update to W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation 14. Summary of Workshop on Advanced Requirements for the Multimodal Framework 15. Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0 16. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS profile; XML Entity definitions 1. Events AusWeb08 5th-9th April 2008 The 14th Australasian World Wide Conference will be held at the Ballina Beach Resort, 5th-9th April 2008. We seek contributions via way of refereed papers, posters and short edited papers as well as suggestions for workshops, tutorials and special interest group sessions. AusWeb is the longest running regional Web conference in the world and seeks to provide reporting of research and projects and create discussion about all aspects of the Web development and Web applications. Conference Web site http://ausweb.scu.edu.au Call for submissions http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw08/papers/ 2. Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft) The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) Ñ more simply called "Web addresses" Ñ are at the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January, to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's charter. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw 3. W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public Working Draft) The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of " HTML Design Principles." This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the HTML Activity. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity 4. "Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator Group W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ 5. W3C Opens Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (XG). The mission of this new instance of the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups. Note that this document would not be a standards-track document until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C Recommendation. The XG is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI; Deutsche Telekom T-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read the final report of the original Emotion XG and the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39402/join http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotion/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ 6. Access Control for Cross-site Requests The Web Application Formats Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Access Control for Cross-site Requests." This document introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than GET. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071126/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 7. Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting, Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other industry leaders have chosen to meet in San Jose (California) at the W3C Video on the Web Workshop on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring, encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute video, and to manage digital rights; see the full agenda. W3C thanks Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent position papers. http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/ http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/agenda.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html 8. Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0." Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html http://www.w3.org/WAI/ 9. W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (Candidate Recommendation) The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April 2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate application specific data with information such as confidence scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses, and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/ http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi 10. W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation) The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of "XForms 1.1." XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites implementation experience of this technology from the community; see also the group's wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations. Learn more about the XForms Activity. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xforms11-20071129/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Preliminary_XForms_1.1_Implement ations http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ 11. W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0." Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008; please see the PLS 1.0 Implementation Report Plan for more information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation information for use in "speech recognition" and "speech synthesis," for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1." Changes from the previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be "pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio element. Visit the Voice Browser home page. http://www.w3.org/Voice/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/ http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/ http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20071212/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ 12. XProc: An XML Pipeline Language The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps are executed. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20071129/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 13. Minor Update to W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a minor update to the Candidate Recommendation of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." The update corrects the mobileOK User-Agent String. The document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on "W3C Mobile Web Best Practices." Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20071130/ http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 14. Summary of Workshop on Advanced Requirements for the Multimodal Framework W3C has published a summary and full minutes of the Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces , organized by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November. Participants from 17 organizations generated a list of requirements on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will review the list as a basis for improvements to the "Multimodal Framework." Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/summary.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/topics.html http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ 15. Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0 The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has published the Group Note of "Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0." This document describes the use cases for a Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 16. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS profile; XML Entity definitions The Math Working Group has published three Working Drafts: "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," "A MathML for CSS profile," and the First Public Working Draft of "XML Entity definitions for Characters." The first defines the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content, for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The third defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode characters. Learn more about the Math Activity. http://www.w3.org/Math/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071214/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20071214/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/Math/ ________________________________________________________________________ ____ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au ----------- Unsubscribe ----------- To unsubscribe send an email to w3c-news-request@w3c.org.au with the following command in the body of the email unsubscribe w3c-news your.email@address.org Replace the your.email@adddress.org with your real e-mail address. 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