RDF Last Call Working Drafts Published

2003-10-10: The RDF Core Working Group has released the second Last Call of six Working Drafts. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Comments are welcome through 7 November. Also updated is the Working Group Note LBase, a framework for specifying the meaning of Semantic Web languages. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

• RDF Primer
• RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax
• RDF Semantics
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
• RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
• RDF Test Cases

Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for Internationalization Published

2003-10-09: The Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0. Written for Web content authors, the document provides techniques for developing internationalized HTML and XHTML supported by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

Working Group Note: SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization

2003-10-08: The XML Protocol Working Group has completed work on SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization and published it as a Working Group Note. The document defines an algorithm to render equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Last Call Published

2003-10-03: The HTML Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema with changes for use in non-XHTML contexts. Comments are welcome through 14 November. The document provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated

2003-10-01: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Drafted for discussion at the TAG's upcoming face-to-face meeting, the document explains Web protocols in three dimensions: identification and resources, interaction, and representation and formats. Comments are welcome. Visit the TAG home page. (News archive)

SVG Mobile Competition: Entries Due 3 November

2003-09-30: Design a SVG Tiny greeting card in 30k or less, and win a Nokia 3650 tri-band GSM handset. The best entries will be featured on the W3C Web site, linked to their designers' Web pages, with an interview with the winning designer. Enter as many times as you like through 3 November. The SVG Working Group will choose the winner who will be announced on 24 November. Read about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Announced at SVG Open, the SVG Mobile Competition is the first in a series of SVG competitions. (News archive)

W3C Talks in October

2003-09-30: Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

• Ivan Herman participates in a panel at iX 2003 on 1 October and presents to the IT Standards Committee on 3 October in Singapore.
• Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair, and James Larson, W3C Voice Browser Working Group co-Chair, present at SpeechTEK 2003 in New York, NY, USA on 2 October.
• Henry S. Thompson gives a keynote at The XML Day in Paris, France on 7 October.
• Rigo Wenning presents at the OECD Global Forum on Information Systems and Network Security in Oslo, Norway on 14 October.
• James Hendler, co-Chair of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, speaks about ontologies at the International Lisp Conference (ILC 2003) in New York, NY, USA on 15 October.
• Philipp Hoschka gives a talk at Berliner XML Tage 2003 in Berlin, Germany on 15 October.
• Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at la Fête de la Science in Sophia Antipolis, France on 18 October.
• Steven Pemberton participates in a panel at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands on 22 October.
• Ivan Herman presents at the Next Generation Internet Workshop at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain on 22 October.
• Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) in Sanibel Island, FL, USA on 23 October.
• James Hendler speaks at Technology Day 2003: Virtual Delivery (PDF) presented by the Special Libraries Association Maryland Chapter, in Baltimore, MD, USA on 29 October.