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During 2004, W3C celebrated the tenth anniversary of the founding of the World Wide Web Consortium. Read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration and mementos of the day. W3C wishes to thank all sponsors for their generous support of W3C10.
2005-02-28:
W3C holds its Technical
Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in Boston, Massachusetts,
USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face
meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks
and demos on extensibility and versioning, XML, test suites, Web
applications, Web site usability and design, multimodal interaction and
voice. Learn how to join
W3C and read about W3C. (Photo: Max Froumentin. News archive)
2005-02-25: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Recent articles are An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses and Language Tags in HTML and XML. Read about W3C internationalization RSS feeds and news filters and visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)
2005-02-24: The XML Schema Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. Please see the status section of each document for changes since the First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2005-02-24: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies and updates to XML Binary Characterization Use Cases and XML Binary Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2005-02-24: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)
2005-02-17: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the second 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)
2005-02-16: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Replacing two separate CSS3 modules, the draft proposes CSS Level 3 functionality including borders consisting of images and backgrounds with multiple images. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)
2005-02-16: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the URI Activity. The new URI Interest Group, chaired by Dan Connolly (W3C) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems), is chartered through 28 February 2007. The group reviews ongoing work related to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and helps to deploy quality implementations by maintaining testing materials. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. (News archive)
Established in 1976, ETRI is a non-profit government-funded research organization in Korea. ETRI has successfully developed information technology products on the Web such as ezOWL (visual Editor of OWL), and ETRI is committed to use W3C Technologies in its developments. ETRI is also the home of the W3C Korean Office. (Member testimonials)
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