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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Takes Steps to Make Video "First-Class" Web Citizen
Web-based video is exploding, for advertising, enterprise
collaboration, entertainment, product reviews, and other
applications. As prices drop for consumer electronics, amateur and
professionals alike are creating increasingly high quality videos.
Social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media. W3C
today launched a new Video in the Web Activity to make video a
"first-class citizen" of the Web. The initial scope of work,
determined as a result of a successful W3C Workshop on Video will be
conducted by three groups:
* Media Annotations, which will provide an ontology designed to
facilitate cross-community data integration of information
related to media objects in the Web, such as video, audio and
images.
* Media Fragments, which will address temporary and spatial links
(i.e., into a particular moment of a multimedia track, or
location in two visual dimensions) using Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs).
* Timed Text, which will work on a standard for online captioning.
W3C continues to investigate the important topics of audio and video
codecs on the Web. Learn more about the new Video in the Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/report.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0 Is a Proposed
Recommendation
The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Proposed
Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version
1.0." PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation
information for use in "speech recognition" and "speech synthesis,"
for use in tuning applications, e.g., for proper names that have
irregular pronunciations. Changes from the previous Working Draft
can be found in "Appendix D" of the specification. Comments are
welcome through 18 September. Learn more about the Voice Browser
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-pronunciation-lexicon-20080818/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-pronunciation-lexicon-20080818/#AppD
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Five POWDER Documents published; three Last Call Drafts
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published five Working Drafts. The purpose of the Protocol for
Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for
individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources
through the publication of machine-readable metadata.
* "Description Resources" (Last Call); which details the creation
and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate
metadata
* "Grouping of Resources" (Last Call); which describes how sets of
IRIs can be defined such that descriptions or other data can be
applied to the resources obtained by dereferencing IRIs that are
elements of the set.
* "Formal Semantics" (Last Call); which describes how the
relatively simple operational format of a POWDER document can be
transformed for processing by Semantic Web tools
* "Primer" (First Public Draft)
* "Test Suite" (First Public Draft)
Last Call comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-dr-20080815/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-grouping-20080815/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-formal-20080815/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-primer-20080815/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-test-20080815/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Last Call: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
The XML Processing Model Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This
specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML
Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be
performed on XML documents. A pipeline consists of steps. Like
pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their inputs and
produce zero or more XML documents as their outputs. Comments are
welcome through 26 September. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xproc-20080814/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Invites Implementations of Element Traversal Specification
(Candidate Recommendation)
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Element Traversal Specification." This
specification defines the ElementTraversal interface, intended to
provide a more convenient alternative to existing Document Object
Model (DOM) navigation interfaces, with a low implementation
footprint. It does so by allowing script navigation of the elements
of a DOM tree, excluding all other nodes in the DOM, such as text
nodes. It also provides an attribute to expose the number of child
elements of an element. See the disposition of Last Call Comments
and learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-ElementTraversal-20080813/
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/42538/ElementTraversal
/doc/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* The Digital Stakhanovite by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/the-digital-stakhanovite.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
Gas, 9-10 December
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 22 August, Ghent, Belgium: Detailed introduction into RDF and
the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 4th Search &
Find Workshop.
* 1 September, Liverpool, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility and
the Older Population. Andrew Arch presents at HCI and the Older
Population 2008.
* 2 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: From pages to
applications: Mobile Web Best Practices. François Daoust
presents at Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08).
* 16 September, Yahoo!'s Mission College Campus, Santa Clara,
California, USA: Introduction to the Protocol for Web
Description Resources. Phil Archer, Matt Womer are at POWDER:
More of what you want, when you want it.
* 23 September, London, United Kingdom: Standardisation vs.
Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction
the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at Mobile Web Europe 2008.
* 23 September, York, United Kingdom: How web accessibility
guidelines apply to design for the ageing population. Andrew
Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Accessible Design in the
Digital World.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 13 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0
World. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 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.
* 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany: RDFa—Bridging the Web of
Documents and the Web of Data. Michael Hausenblas, Ivan Herman,
Ben Adida give a tutorial at 7th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2008).
* 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile
Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.
Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design:
cultivating diversity.
* 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards
Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA
Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
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http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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