The 2008-02-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080227
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Codecs, Metadata, and Addressing: Video on the Web Workshop Report
The report of the W3C Video on the Web Workshop is now available.
Thirty-seven organizations discussed video and audio codecs, spatial
and temporal addressing, metadata, digital rights management,
accessibility, and other topics related to ensuring the success of
video as a "first class citizen" of the Web. W3C thanks Cisco for
hosting the Workshop, which took place 12-13 December 2007
simultaneously in San Jose, California and Brussels, Belgium. Read
the forty-two position papers and Workshop minutes. W3C welcomes
feedback on the Report and the topic of video on the Web at
public-video-comments@w3.org (archive).
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/report
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/report
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/minutes#attendees
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/minutes
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-video-comments/
W3C Offices Program: Ten Years of International Outreach
Today representatives from W3C Offices, regional branches that
promote W3C and interact with participants in local languages,
celebrate ten years of the Offices program. Offices currently
represent 17 regions around the globe, helping to organize meetings,
recruit Members, translate materials, and find creative ways to
encourage international participation in W3C work. Offices staff
gather for a face-to-face meeting in Sophia-Antipolis France to
review ten years of experience and to forge improvements to the
program. At this occasion, W3C thanks the Offices staff past and
present for all of their work!
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/offices10l.jpg
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/staff.html
XMLHttpRequest Level 2: Comments Welcome on First Public Working Draft
The Web API Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "XMLHttpRequest Level 2." XMLHttpRequest Level 2 enhances
"XMLHttpRequest" with new features, such as cross-site requests,
progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending
and receiving. Learn more about the W3C Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XMLHttpRequest2-20080225/
http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
CSSOM View Module: Comments Welcome on First Public Working Draft
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "CSSOM View Module." The APIs
introduced by this specification provide authors with a way to
inspect and manipulate the view information of a document. This
includes getting the position of element layout boxes, obtaining the
width of the viewport through script, and also scrolling an element.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-cssom-view-20080222/
Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development (Call for Participation)
Position papers are due 20 April for the W3C Workshop on the Role of
Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development on 2-3 June 2008
in São Paulo, Brazil. W3C thanks Workshop hosts NIC.br (Network
Information Center), CGI.br Internet Steering Committee, and
Institute CONIP. The goal of the Workshop is to understand specific
challenges of using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver
services to underprivileged populations of Developing Countries. The
Workshop scope includes: analysis of using mobile phones in
development projects; strengths and weaknesses of SMS technology v.
mobile Web v. voice technology; the challenges of integrating
information and Communication Technologies in rural communities, and
more. Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/#Goal
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Last Call: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML 2 Working
Group have published the Last Call Working Draft of "RDFa in XHTML:
Syntax and Processing." RDFa is a specification for attributes to
be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express structured
data. When publishers can express structured data, and when tools
can read it, a new world of user functionality becomes available,
letting users transfer structured data between applications and web
sites, and allowing browsing applications to improve the user
experience. For example, a photo's creator, camera setting
information, resolution, location and topic can be published as
easily as the original photo itself, enabling structured search and
sharing. With RDFa, the rendered, hypertext data of XHTML is reused,
so that publishers don't need to repeat significant data in the
document content. The RDFa specification explains use of the RDFa
attributes with XHTML. Comments are welcome through 21 March. Learn
more about XHTML and the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rdfa-syntax-20080221/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Primer." SKOS provides a model for expressing the basic structure
and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification
schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other
types of controlled vocabulary. SKOS has been designed to provide a
low-cost migration path for porting existing organization systems to
the Semantic Web. The primer is intended to help implementors who
have a basic understanding of the Semantic Web to use the
capabilities defined in "SKOS Reference" to represent and publish
their concept schemes as SKOS data. The Primer aims to provide
introductory examples and guidance in the use of SKOS vocabulary
features. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080221/
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* W3C working across multiple languages by Felix Sasaki
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/w3c_working_across_multiple_la.html
http://www.w3.org/People/fsasaki/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development, 2-3 June
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 5 March, Seoul, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Forum Standardization
Activities. Seungyun Lee presents at Mobile Wednesday Workshop.
* 5 March, Seoul, Korea: Towards the Web of Things. Dave Raggett
presents at Mobile Wednesday Workshop.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Karl Dubost,
Ivan Herman present at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
Conference.
* 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: (not yet determined). Tim
Berners-Lee presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring
the new web of connected data.
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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The 2008-02-18 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080218
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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XML is Ten!
Ten years ago, on 10 February 1998, W3C published "Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. W3C is marking the
ten-year anniversary of XML by celebrating "XML10" and extending
thanks to the dedicated communities -- including people who have
participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML
community, and xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful
family of technologies based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation. The
success of XML is a strong indicator of how dedicated individuals,
working within the W3C Process, can engage with a larger community
to produce industry-changing results. "Today we celebrate the
success of open standards in preserving Web data from proprietary
ownership," said Jon Bosak, who led the W3C Working Group that
produced XML 1.0. Read the press release and testimonials. Send W3C
a greeting and learn more about XML at W3C.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/card/greeting-form
Last Call: CSS Namespaces Module
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Namespaces Module." The CSS
Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It
defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and
binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a
syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes
in namespace-qualified names. Comments are welcome through 7 March.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080215/
Access Control for Cross-site Requests
The Web Application Formats Working Group has published the Working
Draft of "Access Control for Cross-site Requests." Web application
technologies commonly apply same-origin restrictions to network
requests. These restrictions prevent a Web application running from
one origin from obtaining data retrieved from another origin, and
also limit the amount of unsafe HTTP requests that can be
automatically launched toward destinations that differ from the
running application's origin. This document defines a mechanism to
enable client-side cross-site requests. Learn more about the Rich
Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-access-control-20080214/
Note: Best Practices for XML Internationalization
The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published a
Group Note of "Best Practices for XML Internationalization." This
document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents
and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the best
practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
applications, as well as the author of XML content to create
material in different languages. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/its/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* SVG Valentine's day by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/svg_valentines_day.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* l10n and i18n your XML! by Felix Sasaki
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/l10n_and_i18n_your_xml.html
http://www.w3.org/People/fsasaki/
* XML 10 has been launched by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/xml_10_has_been_launched.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Authoring HTML 5 by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/authoring-html5.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.
Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On
Advanced Communication Technology.
* 20 February, Madrid, Spain: Interoperabilidad Semántica en la
Web. Martín Álvarez presents at IV Congreso Nacional de BPMS.
* 21 February, Vienna, Austria: Web Accessibility - Hochglanz und
Qualität. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at SAE Workshop.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Karl Dubost,
Ivan Herman present at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
Conference.
* 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: (not yet determined). Tim
Berners-Lee presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring
the new web of connected data.
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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The 2008-02-11 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080211
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C mobileOK Checker "Beta" Released for Mobile World Congress
W3C invites Web content authors to run the beta release of the W3C
mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of
mobile devices. This new version provides more accurate results and
a more reliable experience. Visitors of the Mobile World Congress
(in Barcelona, starting Monday, 11 February) are welcome to stop by
the W3C Mobile Web Initiative booth (in Hall 7) to learn more about
this tool for making Web sites mobile-friendly.
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MWC.html
Call for Review: Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
Proposed Edited Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Edited
Recommendation of "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth
Edition)." This revision of XML 1.0 incorporates all known errata
for XML 1.0 Fourth Edition; see the " diff-marked specification for
changes." This version of the XML 1.0 specification contains one
major change, to the definition of names, bringing one major benefit
of XML 1.1 into XML 1.0; please read the background for this change
as part of any review. Comments are welcome through 16 May. Learn
more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PER-xml-20080205/
http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-4e-errata
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PER-xml-20080205/PER-xml-20080205-review.h
tml
http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/02/xml10_5th_edition_background.html
WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: First Public Working
Drafts
The Protocols and Formats Working Group published First Public
Working Drafts of:
* " Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0"
combines the two previously-published ARIA draft specifications:
WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties.
* " WAI-ARIA Primer" provides background on accessibility issues
related to JavaScript, and introduces the technical approach
used in WAI-ARIA.
* " WAI-ARIA Best Practices" describes how Web content developers
can develop accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA.
WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more
accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with
Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. An updated "
WAI-ARIA Roadmap" was also published.
Additionally, the Education and Outreach Working Group published a
new WAI-ARIA FAQ and updated WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the Call for
Review: New WAI-ARIA Documents announcement and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-primer-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-practices-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-roadmap-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JanMar/0023
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* New resources on making Ajax and related technologies accessible
by Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/new_resources_on_making_ajax_a.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 11 February, Barcelona, Spain: . Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux, François Daoust are at The Mobile World
Congress.
* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your
Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
* 12 February, Seoul, Korea: 모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스. Seungyun Lee
presents at 제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내.
* 13 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: (not yet determined). Tim
Berners-Lee presents at Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders
in Government (ITSL) workshop.
* 18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.
Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On
Advanced Communication Technology.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Karl Dubost,
Ivan Herman present at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
Conference.
* 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: (not yet determined). Tim
Berners-Lee presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring
the new web of connected data.
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
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The 2008-02-04 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080204
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
-----------------------------------
WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: First Public Working
Drafts
The Protocols and Formats Working Group published First Public
Working Drafts of:
* "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0"
combines the two previously-published ARIA draft specifications:
WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties.
* " WAI-ARIA Primer" provides background on accessibility issues
related to JavaScript, and introduces the technical approach
used in WAI-ARIA.
* " WAI-ARIA Best Practices" describes how Web content developers
can develop accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA.
WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more
accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with
Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. An updated "
WAI-ARIA Roadmap" was also published.
Additionally, the Education and Outreach Working Group published a
new WAI-ARIA FAQ and updated WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the Call for
Review: New WAI-ARIA Documents announcement and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-primer-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-practices-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-roadmap-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JanMar/0023
Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop Report on eGovernment and
the Web
W3C has published a Workshop Report: eGovernment and the Web
Workshop: "Toward More Transparent Government". Participants
discussed ways to facilitate the deployment of Web standards across
government sites and how to shape the ongoing research agenda in the
development of Web technology and public policy in order to realize
the potential of the Web for access to and use of government
information. Held 18-19 June (press release), in Washington D.C.,
USA, the Workshop was jointly organized by W3C and WSRI . Learn more
about eGovernment at W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/summary
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/summary
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease
/
Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Working
Draft 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" ).
Each recipe introduces general principles and an example
configuration for use with an Apache HTTP server (which may be
adapted to other environments). The recipes are all designed to be
consistent with the architecture of the Web as currently specified.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20080123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1 Proposed Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation
of "Canonical XML 1.1." The specification establishes a method for
determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an
application has not changed a document, except for transformations
permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a
revision to "Canonical XML 1.0" designed to address issues related
to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when
canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to
inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path processing properly.
Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more about W3C's XML
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xml-c14n11-20080129/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* New resources on making Ajax and related technologies accessible
by Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/new_resources_on_making_ajax_a.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
* CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators
wanted! by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/css_validator_translation.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* link test suite by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/link_test_suite.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 4 February, New Delhi, India: Web Accessibility: International
Standards for Local Users. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at
Techshare India 2008.
* 5 February, Tokyo, Japan: HTML 5. Michael(tm) Smith presents at
Jagat.
* 11 February, Barcelona, Spain: . Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux, François Daoust are at The Mobile World
Congress.
* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your
Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
* 12 February, Seoul, Korea: 모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스. Seungyun Lee
presents at 제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내.
* 13 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: [No title yet]. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders in
Government (ITSL) workshop.
* 18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.
Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On
Advanced Communication Technology.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
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