The 2008-06-30 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Workshop report: Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development
Today W3C publishes a report on the June 2008 Workshop on the Role
of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development. Participants
discussed how numerous available services on mobile phones could
help people in underserved regions. Discussion underlined the need
for a concerted effort among all the stakeholders (including
practitioners, academics, regulators, and mobile industry) to build
a shared view of the future of the mobile platform as a tool to
bridge the digital divide. The Workshop was jointly organized by W3C
and NIC.br, with the generous support of UNDP and Fundacion CTIC
(Gold Sponsors), Opera Software and MobileActive.org (Silver
sponsors). This work takes place under the European Union's 7th
Research Framework Programme (FP7), part of Digital World Forum
project. Learn more about the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development
Interest Group and the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/exec_summary.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/exec_summary.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
http://digitalworld.ercim.org/
POWDER Drafts Published: Grouping of Resources; Description Resources
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published two Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
Working Drafts: "Grouping of Resources" and Description Resources.
The first document describes how to publish descriptions of multiple
resources such as all those available from a Web site. These
descriptions are always attributed to a named individual,
organization or entity that may or may not be the creator of the
described resources. The second publication provides a means for
individuals or organizations to create machine-readable
descriptions. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-grouping-20080630/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WD-powder-dr-20080630/
Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Requirements
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Requirements." This document lists the
design goals and requirements that a specification would need to
address in order to standardize various aspects of widgets. Widgets
are small client-side Web applications for displaying and updating
remote data, that are packaged in a way to allow download and
installation on a client machine, mobile phone, or mobile Internet
device. Comments are welcome through 01 August. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-reqs-20080625/
Incubator Group to Evaluate Common Web Language (CWL) in Practice
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Common Web Language
(CWL) Evaluation and Installation Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C
Members Institute of Semantic Computing (ISeC), (Japan) National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio
University, and JustSystems Corporation. The group's mission is to
examine Common Web Language in real Web environments using the pilot
model of the CWL platform. CWL is a graphic language of semantic
network with hyper node and is used to describe contents and
meta-data of web pages in three different type of form such as UNL,
CDL and RDF. The CWL platform allows people to input CWL using
natural languages and display information written in CWL in natural
languages. Using this CWL platform, the CWL will be evaluated from
multilingualism, semantic computing and semantic web points of view.
Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster
development of emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity
work is not on the "W3C standards track."
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/cwl-ei/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/cwl/XGR-cwl/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* What Benevolent Dictator? by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/what_benevolent_dictator.html
* The War of the Worlds by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/war-of-the-worlds.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Shipbuilding (or, cruel to be kind) by Michael(tm) Smith
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/shipbuilding.html
* Documenting the Web vs. reinventing it by Michael(tm) Smith
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/doc_vs_reinvent.html
* Old School Netiquette… still good! by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/06/netiquette-w3c-mailing-list.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
* 1 July, Bokwang , Korea: 차세대 웹 기술 동향. Kangchan Lee presents at
Korea Computer Congress 2008.
* 7 July, Linz, Austria: Senioren, Mobile Surfer und andere
Trends. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2008.
* 10 July, Linz, Austria: Web Accessibility for Older Users.
Andrew Arch presents at ICCHP 2008.
* 11 July, Linz, Austria: Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web.
Michael Cooper gives a keynote at ICCHP 2008 11th International
Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs.
* 11 July, Linz, Austria: Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web.
Michael Cooper gives a keynote at ICCHP 2008.
* 11 July, Linz, Austria: Web Accessibility 2.0 - Mainstreaming
Accessibility at a Global Level. Shadi Abou-Zahra participates
in a panel at ICCHP 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
Models for Virtual Goods.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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