The 2008-02-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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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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