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This year, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the World Wide Web Consortium. Read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
2004-10-12: The W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services is underway 12-13 October at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. Attendees will discuss common Web services constraints and capabilities and frameworks for combining them, and their relationships to core Web services work being standardized at W3C and to other Web technologies. Read the press release and more about workshops, and visit the Web services home page. (News archive)
2004-10-12: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). This XML-based language describes peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)
2004-10-12: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2004-10-12: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2004-10-07: This year, W3C celebrates its tenth
anniversary. During a symposium for Members and invited guests in
Boston, USA on 1 December, W3C will reflect on the progress of the Web,
W3C's central role in its growth, and risks and opportunities facing
the Web during W3C's second decade. Please sign the greeting card and read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
(News archive)
2004-10-07: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Compound Document Formats Activity. The Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group, chartered through 6 October 2006, is chaired by Vincent Hardy (Sun). The group's specifications will combine selected existing document formats (such as XHTML, SVG and SMIL) with other technologies (such as CSS and DOM) and specify their runtime behavior. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Compound Document Formats home page. (News archive)
2004-10-07: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web Services Addressing Working Group. Chartered through February 2006 and chaired by Mark Nottingham (BEA), the group will build on WS-Addressing to define how message headers direct messages, to provide an XML format for exchanging endpoint references, and to define mechanisms to direct replies or faults. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)
2004-10-05: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Properties. Derived from use cases, this first draft in a series describes properties identified as desirable for any serialization of an XML data model. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
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