W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the January newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on W3C Seminar, XKMS Activity, XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes, Web Authentication, SISR, Mobile Web Best Practices, TAG Participants, Face to Face Meet, Semantic Web Conference 2006, WSDL. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. W3C Seminar on Using Web Services
2. XKMS Activity Completes Work and Closes
3. Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes
4. Web Authentication Position Papers Due 25 January
5. Candidate Recommendation: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0
6. Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices
7. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
8. W3C Offices Meet Face to Face in Amsterdam
9. Keio Hosts Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Tokyo
10.Candidate Recommendations: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
11.About this newsletter

1. W3C Seminar on Using Web Services

2006-01-19: As part of the European IST Programme's WS2 project, the seminar Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics will be held in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff will demonstrate the use of Web services technologies in real world scenarios. Please register. The seminar is free and open to the public. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2004/WS2/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html

2. XKMS Activity Completes Work and Closes

2006-01-17: W3C is pleased to announce that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its companion Bindings and Requirements as well as the Working Group Notes Using XKMS with PGP and A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS. With XKMS, users can share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries. Please join us in thanking all participants and Chairs Stephen Farrell (Invited Expert) and Shivaram Mysore (Microsoft) for their contributions. Read about Technology and Society at W3C. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-20050628/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-pgp-20051219/

3. Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes

2006-01-17: The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060116/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

4. Web Authentication Position Papers Due 25 January

2006-01-17: Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and more about Technology and Society. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/
http://www.w3.org/TandS/

5. Candidate Recommendation: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0

2006-01-13: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 language to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20 February. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-semantic-interpretation-20060111/
http://www.w3.org/Voice

6. Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices

2006-01-13: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is designed to improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 17 February. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

7. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants

2006-01-13: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected T.V. Raman (Google) and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) and co-Chairs Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Vincent Quint (INRIA). In 2004, the TAG published the W3C Recommendation Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. Visit the TAG home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

8. W3C Offices Meet Face to Face in Amsterdam

2006-01-13: W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 10-11 January in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Office representatives from five continents and members of the W3C Communication Team have gathered at CWI, the hosting institution of the W3C Benelux Office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Issues related to W3C Membership, Office events, outreach, and plans for the future of the W3C Office program for 2006 and beyond were discussed," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.cwi.nl
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

9. Keio Hosts Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Tokyo

2006-01-13: The Semantic Web Conference 2006 will be held at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan on 27 January 2006, organized by INTAP. Keio University holds an exhibition booth, Nobuo Saito gives a welcome message, and Tatsuya Hagino presents "Past and Future of the Semantic Web" and moderates a panel discussion on "Semantic Web, the Past, Today and Tomorrow." (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.intap.or.jp/INTAP/whatsnew/17-20060127_swc/index_e.html
http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item6

10. Candidate Recommendations: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

2006-01-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 specifications to Candidate Recommendations: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments are welcome through 15 March. SOAP 1.1 Binding is an updated Working Draft. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060106/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

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