World Wide Web Consortium - Web StandardsLeading the Web to Its Full Potential...Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Note Published- August 29, 2008 2008-08-29: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Group Note of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). It is intended for the creators and maintainers of vocabularies in RDFS and OWL (vocabulary and ontology are used interchangeably in the context of this specification). It provides step-by-step instructions for publishing vocabularies..http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item146 Web IDL Draft Published- August 29, 2008 2008-08-29: The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft of Web IDL. This specification defines a syntactic subset of OMG IDL version 3.0 for use by specifications that define interfaces. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. A number of extensions are given to the IDL to support common functionality that previously must have been written in prose. In addition,..http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item147 Last Call: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference; Primer Updated- August 29, 2008 2008-08-29: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Web. The SKOS data model provides a standard, low-cost migration path for porting existing knowledge organization systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a light weight, intuitive...http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item148 The Power of Tests: New Licenses Promote Collaboration- August 20, 2008 2008-08-20: W3C announced today its new Licenses for W3C Test Suites. Two licenses promote two goals:http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item145 Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation- August 18, 2008 2008-08-18: The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. 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. Changes from the previous Working Draft can be found in Appendix D of the specification. Comments are welcome through 18 September. Learn more about.http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item144 Five POWDER Documents published; three Last Call Drafts- August 18, 2008 2008-08-18: The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group has published five Working Drafts. The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata.http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item143 W3C Takes Steps to Make Video "First-Class" Web Citizen- August 15, 2008 2008-08-15: Web-based video is exploding, for advertising, enterprise collaboration, entertainment, product reviews, and other applications. As prices drop for consumer electronics, amateur and professionals alike are creating increasingly high quality videos. Social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media. W3C today launched a new Video in the Web Activity to make video a "first-class citizen" of the Web. The initial scope of work, determined as a result of a successful..http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item142 Last Call: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language- August 14, 2008 2008-08-14: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their inputs and produce zero or more XML documents as their outputs. Comments are welcome through 26 September. Learn...http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item141 |