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The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport.

© W3C: Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Tony Rogers

The Device Independence Working Group has updated the Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Part of a series, the Note describes information that may be included in the delivery context, and how that information may be used and conveyed.

© W3C: Roger Gimson, Rhys Lewis, Sailesh Sathish

Following a Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English languages.

© W3C: Dr. James A. Larson, Kazuyuki Ashimura

The W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication is underway 15-16 March hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY USA. Attendees will identify and report publicly on steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users.

© W3C: Thomas Roessler

The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata.

© W3C: John M. Boyer, David Landwehr, Roland Merrick, T. V. Raman, Micah Dubinko, Leigh L. Klotz, Jr.

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL as a Working Group Note. Providing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web, the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of values, duration, and the use of numeric types.

© W3C: Jeremy J. Carroll, Jeff Z. Pan

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server.

© W3C: Alistair Miles, Thomas Baker, Ralph Swick

The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules.

© W3C: Ben Adida, Mark Birbeck

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages.

© W3C: Holger Knublauch, Daniel Oberle, Phil Tetlow, Evan Wallace

W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 27 February - 3 March in Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks and discussions on data ownership, microformats, query languages, the Grid, a backplane for compound documents, and formal methods.

© W3C: Coralie Mercier