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Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants: from September to November 2005.

© W3C: Ivan Herman

The Semantic Web Interest Group has published RDF Calendar - an application of the Resource Description Framework to iCalendar Data as an Interest Group Note. The Note is a report on the state of the art for integrating calendar data with other Semantic Web data used in social networking, syndicated content, and multimedia.

© W3C: Dan Connolly, Libby Miller

W3C announces the advancement of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 28 October. SMIL puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics, and new mobile profiles.

© W3C: Dick Bulterman, Jack Jansen, CWI, Nabil Layaïda, Thierry Michel, Sjoerd Mullender, Daniel Zucker

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems. Part of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification describes markup for describing user input together with annotations such as confidence scores, timestamps and input medium.

© W3C: Wu Chou, Deborah A. Dahl, Gerry McCobb, Dave Raggett

The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released several Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The goal of this release is to permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments.

© W3C: Liam Quin

The Compound Document Formats Working Group released the second Working Draft of Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles. The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the desktop and high-capability handhelds.

© W3C: Timur Mehrvarz, Daniel Appelquist

The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Comments are welcome through 14 October.

© W3C: Kendall Grant Clark

The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy. Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference.

© W3C: Addison Phillips, Mary Trumble

The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published Test Metadata as a Working Group Note. Developed on the W3C QA wiki, this set of metadata elements can be used to track and filter tests, to identify what is tested, to construct a test harness and to format test results. Dublin Core is reused where appropriate.

© W3C: Patrick Curran, Karl Dubost

W3C holds the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Position papers are due 23 September.

© W3C: Jim Larson, Kazauyuki Ashimura, Max Froumentin