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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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New eGovernment Activity to Help Improve Government through Better Use
of the Web
W3C launches today a new forum for governments, citizens,
researchers, and other stakeholders to investigate how best to use
Web technology for good governance and citizen participation. "Open
Standards, and in particular Semantic Web Standards, can help lower
the cost of government, make it easier for independent agencies to
work together, and increase flexibility in the face of change," said
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C invites participation in the new
eGovernment Interest Group, which is open to the public. The group
will identify best practices and guidelines in this area, document
where current technology does not adequately address stakeholder
needs, and suggest improvements via the standards process. Read the
W3C eGovernment FAQ and press release, and learn more about the W3C
eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/faq
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/egov-pressrelease
Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats
rechartered
W3C launched a new Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group,
co-Chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) and Charles McCathieNevile (Opera
Software). This group merges the former Web APIs and Web Application
Formats Working Groups. Per the charter for the Web Applications
Working Group, the group's mission is to provide specifications that
enable improved client-side application development on the Web,
including specifications both for application programming interfaces
(APIs) for client-side development and for markup vocabularies for
describing and controlling client-side application behavior. W3C
also rechartered the Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group,
to continue to develop specifications which combine selected
existing document formats from the W3C and elsewhere, and which
specify the runtime behavior of such combined documents. Both groups
will conduct their work in public. The first order of business of
the rechartered CDF Working Group is to propose Chair candidates to
the Director; please contact Doug Schepers with proposals. Learn
more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/charter/
mailto:schepers@w3.org
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference Draft Published
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published a 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 Semantic Web. SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between different communities of practice within the library
and information sciences involved in the design and application of
knowledge organization systems. In addition, SKOS aims to provide a
bridge between these communities and the Semantic Web, by
transferring existing models of knowledge organization to the
Semantic Web technology context, and by providing a low-cost
migration path for porting existing knowledge organization systems
to RDF. See "changes" from the previous draft. Learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/#changes
Two Group Notes Published About Semantic Web and Life Sciences
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has
published two Group Notes: "A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life
Sciences" and "Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases
to RDF/OWL." The former describes a prototype of a biomedical
knowledge base that integrates 15 distinct data sources using
currently available Semantic Web technologies including RDF and OWL.
The Note outlines which resources were integrated, how the knowledge
base was constructed using free and open source triple store
technology, how it can be queried using SPARQL, and what resources
and inferences are involved in answering complex queries. While the
utility of the knowledge base is illustrated by identifying a set of
genes involved in Alzheimer's Disease, the approach described here
can be applied to any use case that integrates data from multiple
domains. The second document describe the experience of converting
SenseLab databases into OWL, an important step towards realizing the
benefits of Semantic Web in integrative neuroscience research. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-hcls-kb-20080604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-hcls-senselab-20080604/
Offline Web Applications Published as W3C Note
The HTML Working Group has published the "Offline Web Applications"
Group Note. "HTML 5" contains several features that address the
challenge of building Web applications that work while offline. This
document highlights these features (SQL, offline application caching
APIs as well as online/offline events, status, and the localStorage
API) from HTML 5 and provides brief tutorials on how these features
might be used to create Web applications that work offline. Learn
more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-offline-webapps-20080530/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Arun Ranganathan
(Mozilla Foundation). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory
Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
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Upcoming Talks
* 10 June, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Web Accessibility: People with
Disabilities and Elderly Citizens. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at
Web Sin Barreras.
* 11 June, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA: The
Future of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at
Washington, Wikipedia, and Web 3.0: What is the Future of the
Web?.
* 11 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Color for the Global Web. Molly E
Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 12 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Designing for Today's Browsers.
Molly E Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 13 June, Oxford, United Kingdom: Rita 2.0 - Effective Methods
and Messages in Online Safety Education.' . Michael Wilson
participates in a panel at 'Beyond Byron - Towards a New Culture
of Responsibility,.
* 17 June, New York, NYC, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee gives
a keynote at LinkedData Planet.
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web
of linked data.
* 18 June, Seoul, Korea: Korean Member Report & Taking Action as
AC Representative. Kangchan Lee presents at 2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사
워크샵.
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* 19 June, Nancy, France: États des lieux du Web sémantique. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Tokyo, Japan: Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including
WCAG 2.0. Judy Brewer presents at Open Seminar of Information
Accessibility.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
Korea Computer Congress 2008.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
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