The 2008-10-20 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Community to Explore Future of Social Networking in
Workshop
Social networking is a complex, rapidly expanding, and in some
cases, disruptive sector of the information economy. For example,
user-generated content is causing changes in the traditional
content/media industry structure. In the future, community features
may well become an integral part of all digital experiences — from
information/publishing to business and entertainment. Companies
providing services for social media and social networking must
anticipate barriers to industry growth and stability. W3C believes
that now is the time for industry to gather to discuss their
experience so far, and what barriers they foresee in the near- and
medium-term. W3C therefore invites people to participate in a
Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, to analyze risks and
opportunities of the social networking industry, and to define plans
for the future. The Workshop will be held 15-16 January 2009 in
Barcelona (Spain) and is hosted by Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya and ReadyPeople. Anyone may attend, but position papers
are required and are due November 20. Instructions for workshop
registration/participation will be sent exclusively to authors of
submitted position papers. Read more about the Workshop scope and
sponsorship opportunities.
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html#papers
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html#scope
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/sponsorship
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces Fifth Working Draft Published
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated
Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI
Architecture)," which defines a loosely coupled architecture for
multimodal user interfaces. The main change in this draft is the
addition of the rules and guidelines which will allow modality
experts to describe the features, capabilities and APIs for specific
modality components in sufficient detail so that the components will
be interoperable in implementations of the Multimodal Architecture.
The architecture envisioned by the Working Group will provide a
general and flexible framework providing interoperability among
modality-specific components from different vendors - for example,
speech recognition from one vendor and handwriting recognition from
another. Learn more about W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mmi-arch-20081016/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity.html
Last Call: Media Queries
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Last Call Working Draft of "Media Queries." HTML4 and CSS2
currently support media-dependent style sheets tailored for
different media types. For example, a document may use sans-serif
fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed.
'screen' and 'print' are two media types that have been defined.
Media queries extend the functionality of media types by allowing
more precise labeling of style sheets. Comments are welcome through
21 November. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-mediaqueries-20081015/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published
Participants from four W3C Groups — CSS, Internationalization Core,
SVG and XSL Working Groups — as part of the Japanese Layout Task
Force published an update of "Requirements of Japanese Text Layout"
. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout
realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is
mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However,
it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This
draft contains most of the material which the task force intends to
publish as a Group Note in December 2008. A "Japanese version" is
also available. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/ja/
http://www.w3.org/International/
RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Is a W3C Recommendation; RDFa
Primer Updated
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working
Group published the W3C Recommendation "RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and
Processing." This specification allows publishers to express
structured data on the Web within XHTML. This allows tools to read
it, enabling a new world of user functionality, allowing users to
transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and
allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. For
those looking for an introduction to the use of RDFa and some
real-world examples, please consult the updated "RDFa Primer."
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity and the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
W3C Standard Simplifies Creation of Speech-Enabled Web Applications
W3C published today a standard that will simplify the development of
Web applications that speak and listen to users. The "Pronunciation
Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0" is the newest piece of W3C's Speech
Interface Framework for creating Web applications driven by voice
and speech. PLS can reduce the cost of developing these applications
by allowing people to share and reuse pronunciation dictionaries.
"There are 10 times as many phones in the world as connected PCs.
Phones will become the major portal to the Web," said James A.
Larson, co-Chair of the Voice Browser Working Group, which produced
the new standard. Read the press release and testimonials, and learn
more about the W3C Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-pronunciation-lexicon-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/pls-pressrelease.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/pls-testimonials
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C Organizes Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Speaker
biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 on 5-6 March 2009 in Menlo Park,
California (USA), hosted by SRI International. Attendees will
discuss directions for Speaker Identification and Verification (SIV)
standards work, and in particular, requirements for SIV and SIV
standards relevant to VoiceXML 3.0. The goal of the Workshop is to
help the Voice Browser Working Group integrate existing and
in-process standards with VoiceXML 3.0 specification and make the
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. Position
papers are due 18 December 2008. Read about "Voice Extensible Markup
Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements," Voice Browser and learn more
about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-vxml30reqs-20080808/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* W3C Chairs T-Shirt by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/w3c-chairs-tshirt.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* The network at W3C TPAC 2008 by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/w3c-tpac-network.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* W3C TPAC 2008 - starting by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/w3c-tpac-2008-starting.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Workshop on future of social networking by Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/workshop_on_future_of_social_n.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January
2009
* W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
Gas, 9-10 December
* W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web,
10-11 December
* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
2009
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 16 October, Bålsta, Sweden: Klarspråk och förståelighet på
webben - webben som utmaning och möjlighet. Olle Olsson presents
at Klarspråkskonferensen 2008.
* 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).
* 30 October, Moscow, Russia: Сделаем интернет доступным всем и
каждому. Shawn Henry presents at User eXperience 2008.
* 30 October, Potsdam, Germany: Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit von
Webressourcen: Services, Datenheterogenität und
Identifizierbarkeit. Felix Sasaki presents at University of
Applied Sciences, Potsdam.
* 31 October, Moscow, Russia: Стандарты Web Accessibility:
Фундамент для международного сотрудничества и локального
внедрения. Shawn Henry presents at User eXperience 2008.
* 5 November, Aarhus, Denmark: E-gov and the citizen -
transformation by new technology. Olle Olsson presents at
jboye08.
* 6 November, Monterrey, Mexico: Improving government through
better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at
Seminario Internacional de Usabilidad y Accesibilidad para la
Web 2008.
* 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamais.
Daniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
* 18 November, Sophia Antipolis, France: The W3C Multimodal
Architecture. Ingmar Kliche presents at ETSI Workshop on
Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices .
* 28 November, Berlin, Germany: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at
E-Government-Standards Kongress.
* 4 December, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 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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http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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