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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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New W3C Working Group Brings Location Information to the Web
The number of location-aware Web devices has increased dramatically
as of late: built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and
mobile phone tower triangulation services have made mobile phones
location-aware, Wifi triangulation services brings location
information to Wifi enabled devices, GPS receivers now have Web
connectivity. Location, location, location!
Thus far there has been no standard method for these devices to make
their location available to Web applications, and so in response to
requests from the community W3C has created the new Geolocation
Working Group, which is chartered to develop a standardized
interface to provide location information to Web applications and
thus enable an exciting new class applications. This new group is
part of W3C's Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Call for Review: Device Description Repository Simple API Proposed
Recommendation
The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Proposed Recommendation of "Device Description
Repository Simple API." Web content delivered to mobile devices
usually benefits from being tailored to take into account a range of
factors such as screen size, markup language support and image
format support. Such information is stored in "Device Description
Repositories" (DDRs). This document describes a simple API for
access to DDRs, in order to ease and promote the development of Web
content that adapts to its Delivery Context. Comments are welcome
through 31 October. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-DDR-Simple-API-20080917/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Requirements
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Requirements." A Widget is an
interactive single purpose application for displaying and/or
updating local data or data on the Web, packaged in a way to allow a
single download and installation on a user's machine or mobile
device. Typical examples of widgets include clocks, CPU gauges,
sticky notes, battery-life indicators, games, and widgets that make
use of Web services, like weather forecasters, news readers, e-mail
checkers, photo albums and currency converters. This document lists
the design goals and requirements that specifications would need to
address in order to standardize various aspects of widgets. Comments
are welcome through 13 October. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-reqs-20080915/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the Last
Call Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0."
EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously
optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources.
The EXI format uses a hybrid approach drawn from the information and
formal language theories, plus practical techniques verified by
measurements, for entropy encoding XML information. Using a
relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact
implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces
efficient encodings of XML event streams. Comments are welcome
through 07 November. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080919/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: WebCGM 2.1
The WebCGM Working Group has published the First Public Last Call
Working Draft of "WebCGM 2.1." Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is
an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange
of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile
of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications
in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical
data visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in
1999, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM
utilization in Web document applications. It therefore represents a
significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and
implementers of the ISO CGM standard. Comments are welcome through
01 November. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Alexa Global Top 500 against HTML 5 validation by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/top-500-html5-validity.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* ParisWeb 2008 - registration is open by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/parisweb-2008.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* World Wide Web Foundation Launched by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/world-wide-web-foundation.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/
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http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 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, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 24 September, Berlin, Germany: Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C-Tag.
* 26 September, Corfu, Greece: Improving Access to Government
through Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a
keynote at 2nd International Conference on Methodologies,
Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government.
* 30 September, São Paulo, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C Brazil meeting.
* 2 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic
Web. Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at Rio Info 2008.
* 2 October, London, United Kingdom: Working Across Borders. José
Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at OASIS Open Standards
Forum.
* 6 October, Nice, France: Les applications et services de
l'Internet mobile. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at
Internet of Things Internet of the Future.
* 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).
* 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamais.
Daniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
* 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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The 2008-09-15 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080915
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Tim Berners-Lee Announces Creation of New Foundation to Bring the Web
to All People
Before a gathering of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in
Washington, D.C. (USA), Tim Berners-Lee announced today the creation
of the World Wide Web Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is:
* to advance One Web that is free and open,
* to expand the Web's capability and robustness,
* and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet.
Following Berners-Lee's speech, Alberto Ibargüen, Knight
Foundation's president and CEO, announced a $5 million seed grant in
support of the mission. Learn more about the World Wide Web
Foundation at www.webfoundation.org, which also includes a FAQ and
video and photos from the event.
http://www.knightfoundation.org/
http://www.webfoundation.org/
http://www.webfoundation.org/donations/knight2008/tbl-speech
http://www.webfoundation.org/about/
http://www.webfoundation.org/faq/
http://www.webfoundation.org/donations/knight2008/
Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification
The SVG Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of
"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification." This
specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) Tiny, Version 1.2, a language for describing
two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Its
goal is to provide the ability to create a whole range of graphical
content, from static images to animations to interactive Web
applications. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a profile of SVG intended for
implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to
desktop and laptop computers. Comments are welcome through 13
October. Learn more about the W3C Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-SVGMobile12-20080915/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Access Control for Cross-Site Requests Draft Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Access Control for Cross-Site Requests." Other specifications that
wish to enable cross-siterequests in an API they define can use the
algorithms defined by this specification. If such an API is used on
http://example.org resources, a resource on
http://hello-world.example can opt in using the mechanism described
by this specification. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-access-control-20080912/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Service Modeling Language (1.1) and Interchange Format
The Service Modeling Language Working Group has published the Last
Call Working Drafts of "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1" and
"Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1." The
former specification defines the Service Modeling Language, Version
1.1 (SML) used to model complex services and systems, including
their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. The
latter defines the interchange format for SML 1.1. This format
identifies the model being interchanged, distinguishes between model
definition documents and model instance documents, and defines the
binding of rule documents with other documents in the interchange
model. Comments are welcome through 03 October. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-20080912/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-sml-if-20080912/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 Draft Published
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3." CSS
is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents
(such as HTML and XML). This draft contains the features of CSS
level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. It includes and extends
the functionality of CSS level 2. The main extensions compared to
level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple
backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with shadows.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-background-20080910/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators Draft
Published
The XML Schema Working Group has published a Working Draft of "W3C
XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators." This
document defines a system for designating XML Schema components.
Schema components are the building blocks that comprise the abstract
data model of the schema. They are specified by XML Schema Part 1:
Structures and XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. The XSD specification
divides the problem of constructing schema component designators
into two parts: defining a designator for an assembled schema, and
defining a designator for a particular schema component or schema
components, understood relative to a designated schema. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema-ref-20080910/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Representing Content in RDF and HTTP Vocabulary in RDF Drafts Published
The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group today published
"Representing Content in RDF" as a First Public Working Draft. This
document provides a vocabulary to represent content in RDF, and is
flexible for any type of content available on the Web or in local
storage media. The Working Group also published an an updated
Working Draft of "HTTP Vocabulary in RDF," which defines terms to
allow HTTP headers that have been exchanged between a client and a
server to be recorded in RDF. These documents can be used to extend
the "Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema," an RDF
vocabulary to record test results such as those generated by Web
accessibility evaluation tools. They are part of the EARL
Specification. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-RDF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/earl.php
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Learn about SMIL 3.0 and test it! by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/learn-test-smil30.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* How To Insert A Video From Youtube by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/howto-insert-youtube-video.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
* 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.
* 17 September, Sophia-Antipolis, France: Mobile Web: Trust starts
with a few Best Practices. François Daoust presents at Smart
Mobility 2008.
* 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, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
* 24 September, Berlin, Germany: Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C-Tag.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 26 September, Corfu, Greece: Improving Access to Government
through Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a
keynote at 2nd International Conference on Methodologies,
Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government.
* 30 September, São Paulo, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C Brazil meeting.
* 2 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic
Web. Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at Rio Info 2008.
* 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).
* 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamais.
Daniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
* 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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The 2008-09-08 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080908
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Call for Review: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Proposed
Recommendation
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and XHTML2 Working Group
have published the Proposed Recommendation of "RDFa in XHTML: Syntax
and Processing." The modern Web is made up of an enormous number of
documents that have been created using HTML. These documents contain
significant amounts of structured data, which is largely unavailable
to tools and applications. When publishers can express this data
more completely, 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. RDFa is a specification
for attributes to express structured data in any markup language.
The groups have also published an implementation report as part of
the Candidate Recommendation phase. Comments are welcome through 03
October. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-rdfa-syntax-20080904/
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/implementation-report/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Representing Content in RDF and HTTP Vocabulary in RDF Drafts Published
The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group today published
"Representing Content in RDF" as a First Public Working Draft. This
document provides a vocabulary to represent content in RDF, and is
flexible for any type of content available on the Web or in local
storage media. The Working Group also published an an updated
Working Draft of "HTTP Vocabulary in RDF," which defines terms to
allow HTTP headers that have been exchanged between a client and a
server to be recorded in RDF. These documents can be used to extend
the "Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema," an RDF
vocabulary to record test results such as those generated by Web
accessibility evaluation tools. They are part of the EARL
Specification. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-RDF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/earl.php
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts First Public Draft
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts."
EXI defines a new representation for the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Information Set. The introduction of such a format may cause
disruption in systems that have so far been able to assume XML as
the only representation of XML Information Set data. This document
reviews areas where the introduction of EXI may disrupt or otherwise
have an impact on existing XML technologies, XML processors, and
applications. It also describes EXI design features and steps that
may be taken by implementors to reduce or eliminate disruption and
impacts. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-impacts-20080903/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* How To Insert A Video From Youtube by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/howto-insert-youtube-video.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Powdering logos (again) by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/powdering_logos_again.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Caching XML data at install time by Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/caching_xml_data_at_install_ti.html
* Build Your Own Browser by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/build-your-own-browser.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* SVG, comics and E-books by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/svg-comics-ebook.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
* 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.
* 17 September, Sophia-Antipolis, France: Mobile Web: Trust starts
with a few Best Practices. François Daoust presents at Smart
Mobility 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.
* 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.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 24 September, Berlin, Germany: Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C-Tag.
* 24 September, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
* 30 September, São Paulo, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C Brazil meeting.
* 2 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic
Web. Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at Rio Info 2008.
* 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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The 2008-09-01 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080901
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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The Power of Tests: New Licenses Promote Collaboration
W3C announced today its new Licenses for W3C Test Suites. Two
licenses promote two goals:
1. A 3-clause BSD License is designed to enable developers to use
test cases easily, and promote software development and
bugtracking.
2. A W3C Test Suite License is designed to enable a W3C Working
Group to create a branded, "Authoritative W3C Test Suite" to
reflect the group consensus process, and to promote
interoperability and stability of performance claims.
W3C appreciates the support of those who suggested these changes,
who provided use cases, and who patiently reviewed drafts.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license.html
Last Call: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference; Primer
Updated
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Last
Call 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 Web. The SKOS data model provides a
standard, low-cost migration path for porting existing knowledge
organization systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a light
weight, intuitive language for developing and sharing new knowledge
organization systems. It may be used on its own, or in combination
with formal knowledge representation languages such as the Web
Ontology language (OWL). Comments are welcome through 03 October.
The group has also published an update of the companion "SKOS
Primer." Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080829/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Web IDL Draft Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft
of "Web IDL." This specification defines a syntactic subset of OMG
IDL version 3.0 for use by specifications that define interfaces.
Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the
behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be
specified more readily. A number of extensions are given to the IDL
to support common functionality that previously must have been
written in prose. In addition, precise language bindings for
ECMAScript 3rd Edition and Java are given. Learn more about the Rich
Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WebIDL-20080829/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Note Published
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Group
Note 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). It is
intended for the creators and maintainers of vocabularies in RDFS
and OWL (vocabulary and ontology are used interchangeably in the
context of this specification). It provides step-by-step
instructions for publishing vocabularies on the Web, giving example
configurations designed to cover the most common cases. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-swbp-vocab-pub-20080828/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* SVG, comics and E-books by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/svg-comics-ebook.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Make your Data Web Friendly by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/make-web-friendly-data-rdfa.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* HTML 5, a new step by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/html5-validator-beta.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5 by
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/the_details_of_data_in_documen.html
* Give me a break! CSS WG meeting by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/css-wg-give-me-a-break.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Web Directions East 2008 by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/web-directions-east-2008.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
* 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).
* 4 September, Erlangen, Germany: Senioren im Web:
Barrierefreiheit für Ältere Menschen. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents
at Webkongress 2008.
* 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.
* 24 September, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
* 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
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