Tech all over the world: April 2009

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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-27

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Last Call: OWL 2

The OWL Working Group has published new Working Drafts for OWL 2, a
language for building Semantic Web ontologies. An ontology is a set
of terms that a particular community finds useful for organizing
data (e.g., for data about a book, useful terms include "title" and
"author"). OWL 2 (a compatible extension of "OWL 1" ) consists of 13
documents (7 technical, 4 instructional, and 2 group Notes). For
descriptions and links to all the documents, see the " OWL 2
Documentation Roadmap." This is a "Last Call" for the technical
materials and is an opportunity for the community to confirm that
these documents satisfy requirements for an ontology language. This
is a second Last Call for six of the documents, but because the
changes since the first Last Call are limited in scope, the review
period lasts only 21 days. For an introduction to OWL 2, see the
four instructional documents: an "overview," "primer," "list of
new features," and "quick reference." Learn more about the
Semantic Web.

http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090421/#Documentation_R
oadmap
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Changes_Since_December_2008
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-primer-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-new-features-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-quick-reference-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

HTML 5, Differences from HTML 4 Drafts Published

The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of "HTML 5."
HTML 5 adds to the language of the Web: features to help Web
application authors, new elements based on research into prevailing
authoring practices, and clear conformance criteria for user agents
in an effort to improve interoperability. This particular draft
specifies how authors can embed SVG in non-XML text/html content,
and how browsers and other UAs should handle such embedded SVG
content. See also the news about moving some parts of HTML 5 to
individual drafts. The " full list of changes" since the previous
draft are listed in the updated companion document "HTML 5
differences from HTML 4." Learn more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item60
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-diff-20090423/#changes-2009-02-12
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-diff-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Four Web Application API Drafts Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published four First Public
Working Drafts of specifications for APIs that enhance the open Web
platform as a runtime environment for full-featured applications:
* " Web Storage" provides APIs for persistent client-side data
storage by Web applications.
* "Web Workers" defines an API for enabling thread-like operations
(using message-passing) in Web applications, so that certain
application tasks can be run in parallel.
* " Web Sockets API" provides an API for full-duplex communication
between a Web application and a remote host.
* " Server-Sent Events" defines an API for opening an HTTP
connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the
form of DOM events.

The Web Storage, Web Sockets API, and Server-Sent Events
specifications were previously published as parts of the "HTML 5"
specification, but will now each become Recommendation-track
deliverables within the Web Applications Working Group. Learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-workers-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-websockets-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-eventsource-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity.html

Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events." Widgets are full-fledged
client-side applications that are authored using Web standards.
Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news streamers,
games and weather forecasters, to complex applications that pull
data from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a user
in some interesting and useful way The APIs and Events specification
defines a set of APIs and events for the Widgets 1.0 family of
specifications. The specification allows application writers to
access widget configuration information, monitor changes in the
widget display, determine locale information, monitor updates to the
widget, and more. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Invites Implementations of Media Queries

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
implementation of the Candidate Recommendation 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 presentations to be tailored more precisely to device
characteristics. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

CSS 2.1 Candidate Recommendation Updated

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group updated the Candidate
Recommendation of "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS
2.1) Specification." CSS 2.1 is a style sheet language that allows
authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to
structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications).
CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors in CSS2 (the most important being a
new definition of the height/width of absolutely positioned
elements, more influence for HTML's "style" attribute and a new
calculation of the 'clip' property), and adds a few highly requested
features which have already been widely implemented. But most of all
CSS 2.1 represents a "snapshot" of CSS usage: it consists of all CSS
features that are implemented interoperably. This draft incorporates
errata resulting from implementation experience since the previous
publication. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/
http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/CR-CSS21-20070719-errata.html
http://www.w3.org/Style/

WWW2009 Opens with Tim Berners-Lee Keynote "Twenty Years"

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, delivered the
opening keynote address at the WWW2009 Conference earlier today in
Madrid, Spain; keynote slides are available. During his talk, titled
"Twenty Years," he touched on the future as well, including topics
such as Web applications, open social networking and open linked
data. Shortly before his keynote, Berners-Lee joined Dame Wendy
Hall, Robert Caillau, Vint Cerf, Dale Dougherty and Mike Shaver on a
panel to share thoughts on the twentieth anniversary of the Web. W3C
encourages people to join the W3C track, which this year features
two "camps": the Mobile Widgets camps on 23 April and the Social Web
Camp on 24 April. Follow discussion on the #w3ctrack twitter feed.

http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee
http://www2009.org/
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0422-www2009-tbl/
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track.html
http://esw.w3.org/topic/MobileWidgetsCampW3CTrack
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SocialWebCampW3CTrack

Eight Proposed Recommendations for XSLT, XPath, XQuery Published

The XSL and XML Query Working Groups have published eight Proposed
Edited Recommendations for Second Editions of "XSL Transformations
(XSLT)," "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language," "XML Syntax for
XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)" and "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0," together
with their supporting documents, "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data
Model (XDM)," "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics," "XSLT
2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization" and "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Functions and Operators." The second editions, if approved, will
add the generate-id function from XSLT to XPath and XQuery, and will
also incorporate the outstanding errata, including a number of
clarifications that may affect implementations. Enhanced test suites
are being augmented and will be published shortly. Review welcome by
31 May 2009. Learn more about XML.

Last Call: "rdf:text Primitive Datatype"

The OWL Working Group and the Rule Interchance Format (RIF) Working
Group have jointly published a Last Call Working Draft of "rdf:text:
A Datatype for Internationalized Text." This datatype, compatible
with "XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes," is used within RIF and OWL 2 to
provide support for text in various languages and scripts
(identified by a BCP 47 tag such as "fr" for French). The document
defines the datatype, discusses its relationship to "RDF Plain
Literals" and the "XML Schema string datatype," and specifies
functions (compatible with "XPath" ) for operating on rdf:text data
values. It also discusses how to use this feature within RDF
serializations. Learn more about the Semantic Web.

http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rdf-text-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-plain-literal
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#string
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

First Draft: Usage Patterns For Client-Side URI parameters

The Technical Architecture Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Usage Patterns For Client-Side URI parameters."
The goal of this draft TAG finding is to initially collect the
various usage scenarios that are leading to innovative uses of
client-side URI parameters, along with the solutions that have been
developed by the Web community. As highly interactive applications
get built using Web parts (HTML, CSS and JavaScript component
resources) that are themselves Web addressable, there is an
increasing need for encoding interaction state as part of the URI.
The Web is beginning to discover and codify design patterns based on
fragment identifiers for many of these use cases. Learn more about
the Technical Architecture Group.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-hash-in-uri-20090415/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Past home page news...

http://www.w3.org/News/

W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Interview: Rotan Hanrahan on MobileAware Participation in W3C,
Role of Standards by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/04/interview_rotan_hanrahan_on_mo.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 3 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Unleashing Opportunities through
Accessibility. Shawn Henry presents at STC Technical
Communication Summit.
* 4 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Advancing Web Accessibility. Shawn
Henry presents at STC Technical Communication Summit.
* 7 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Web Accessibility with WCAG 2.0:
International Cooperation, Local Implementation. Shawn Henry
gives a keynote at ICTA 2009 International Conference on
Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility.
* 7 May, Oslo, Norway: WCAG 2.0 - addressing the needs of people
with disabilities and older people.. Andrew Arch presents at Do
Web Accessibility Guidelines guarantee Universal Design?.
* 9 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Improving Your Web Site with WCAG 2.0.
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at ICTA 2009 International
Conference on Information and Communication Technology &
Accessibility.
* 26 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at PhD School Course,
Netherlands Bioinformation Centre.
* 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
Summit 09.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web. Dave Raggett,
Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 20 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility: It's for Everyone and
Everything. Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009
Seattle.
* 21 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009 Seattle (discount
"Passport" registration code: S9W06).
* View upcoming talks by country
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-13

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-04-13 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090413

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Developers to Mobile Widgets, Social Web Camps During
WWW2009

W3C invites people to attend the W3C Track at WWW2009, in Madrid,
Spain on 23-24 April 2009. Part of WWW2009, the first day of the
track is a Mobile Widgets Camp and the second a Social Web Camp.
Conference participants and the local developer community are
invited to submit topics of discussion in advance, via the W3C Track
wikis. In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
and inventor of the Web, will deliver the WWW2009 opening keynote
titled "Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back". Read the press
release.

http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track
http://www2009.org/
http://esw.w3.org/topic/W3CTrack@WWW09
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3ctrack-pressrelease.html

W3C Germany and Austria Office Moves to Potsdam

After 12 years of successful work at Fraunhofer (or former GMD) the
W3C Germany and Austria Office moves from Sankt Augustin (near Bonn)
to Postdam (near Berlin). The University of Applied Sciences in
Potsdam (FHP) is the new host of the Office. A ceremonial launch is
planned for September 2009. Felix Sasaki will be the new Office
Manager at FHP.

W3C would like to thank Fraunhofer and the W3C Germany and Austria
Office staff, led by Thomas Tikwinski and Klaus Birkenbihl before
him, for their contributions to W3C and the Web during the past 12
years. Learn more about the W3C Offices, regional W3C
representatives that help promote the W3C mission.

http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/
http://www.w3c.de/
http://www.fh-potsdam.de/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

Note Published: W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web Integration
of AccessForAll 1.0

The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published the
Group Note of " W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web
Integration of AccessForAll 1.0." This document describes an
activity of integrating personalization with device context for the
delivery of content materials and interface components that are
customized to meet both individual personal needs and preferences
and delivery context. It brings together the work of separate
standards and specifications organizations and working groups,
notably W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications working group, IMS Global
Learning Consortium Accessibility Special Interest group, ISO/IEC
JTC1 SC36 Information Technology for Learning, Education and
Training: Human Diversity and Access For All working group and
associated working groups in SC36. The document should be viewed as
a roadmap for the work to be undertaken and includes description of
the basis for the work, the organizational context, the likely
technologies and a partially complete description of how the
technologies fit together. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-UWA-personalization-roadmap-20090409/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation Draft Published

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation." This document
presents the anticipated benefits of the EXI format 1.0 compared to
XML and gzipped XML. Additionally, tests for compactness include
comparison to ASN.1 PER. The points of comparison are the
requirements set by the EXI Working Group charter, based on the
results of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-exi-evaluation-20090407/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Past home page news...

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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* SemTech 2009 conference program public by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/04/semtech_2009_conference_progra.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 17 April, Washington, DC, USA: Interoperability and Web
Applications. Kevin Novak presents at eGov Washington Workshop:
Putting Open Standards to Work for Transparency, Security and
Interoperability.
* 18 April, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: The Empowering Web. Steve
Bratt gives a keynote at Knowledge Globalization Conference
2009.
* 20 April, Madrid, Spain: Web Accessibility for Older Users -
Success and Opportunities. Andrew Arch gives a keynote at
W4A2009 - International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
Accessibility.
* 23 April, Madrid, Spain: Panel on Multilingual Web Sites.
Richard Ishida participates in a panel at 18th World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2009).
* 24 April, Brussels, Belgium: Improving Society through Better
Use of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Openforum
Summit 2009.
* 3 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Unleashing Opportunities through
Accessibility. Shawn Henry presents at STC Technical
Communication Summit.
* 4 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Advancing Web Accessibility. Shawn
Henry presents at STC Technical Communication Summit.
* 7 May, Oslo, Norway: WCAG 2.0 - addressing the needs of people
with disabilities and older people.. Andrew Arch presents at Do
Web Accessibility Guidelines guarantee Universal Design?.
* 7 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Web Accessibility with WCAG 2.0:
International Cooperation, Local Implementation. Shawn Henry
gives a keynote at ICTA 2009 International Conference on
Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility.
* 9 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Improving Your Web Site with WCAG 2.0.
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at ICTA 2009 International
Conference on Information and Communication Technology &
Accessibility.
* 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
Summit 09.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web. Dave Raggett,
Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-06

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-04-06 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090406

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Maputo Workshop on Fostering Development through Mobile
Technologies

Today is the first day of the W3C Workshop on the Africa Perspective
on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social and Economic
Development, in Maputo, Mozambique. The agenda of the Workshop
focuses on the challenges of using mobile phones and Web
technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations of
developing countries. International experts, local actors,
researchers, and NGOs are participating in the meeting, hosted by
the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of
Mozambique and organized as part of the Digital World Forum project
(European Union's FP7). The W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) thanks
the Workshop sponsors for their support.

http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/agenda
http://www.digitalworldforum.eu/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

W3C Launches Social Web Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Social Web Incubator
Group. The group's mission is to understand the systems and
technologies that permit the description and identification of
people, groups, organizations, and user-generated content in
extensible and privacy-respecting ways. The group will be co-chaired
by Dan Appelquist (Vodafone), Dan Brickley (Vrije Universiteit),
Harry Halpin (W3C Fellow from the University of Edinburgh with
support from Eduserv). The following W3C Members have sponsored the
charter for this group: ASemantics, Boeing, Cisco, DERI Galway at
the National University of Ireland, Garlik, Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Institute of
Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT-NCSR), NICTA, Rochester
Institute of Technology, SUN Microsystems, Talis, Telecom Italia,
University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, University of Versailles, Vrije Universiteit,
and Vodafone. 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/socialweb/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Five POWDER Documents published; Three Last Call Drafts

The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
published five Working Drafts today. 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. The primary
change in these publications relates to the IRI canonicalization
sections of the Grouping of Resources document (sections 2.1.3 -
2.1.5). The group published these documents:
* "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"
* "Test Suite"

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-powder-dr-20090403/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-powder-grouping-20090403/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-powder-formal-20090403/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-powder-primer-20090403/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-powder-test-20090403/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

CSS Template Layout Module

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Working Draft of "CSS Template Layout Module." This specification
is part of level 3 of CSS ("CSS3") and contains features to describe
layouts at a high level, meant for tasks such as the positioning and
alignment of "widgets" in a graphical user interface or the layout
grid for a page or a window, in particular when the desired visual
order is different from the order of the elements in the source
document. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-layout-20090402/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

eGovernment Stakeholder Meeting Summary Published

The W3C's eGovernment Interest Group has published a Meeting Summary
from its 12-13 March eGovernment stakeholder meeting in Washington,
D.C. The purpose of the meeting was to obtain feedback on the First
Public Working Draft of the group's "Improving Access to Government
through Better Use of the Web," published on 1 March 2009. Featured
speakers at the meeting included Beth Noveck, US Office of Science
and Technology Policy, Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation, and Steve
Ressler, GovLoop, as well as meeting co-chairs Kevin Novak, American
Institute of Architects, John Sheridan, UK National Archives, and
W3C Team contact Jose Alonso. Key subject areas addressed by
participants were: Openness and Transparency in Government; Social
Networking; Data Interoperability and Semantic Web in Government;
and Multi-Channel Deliver and Information Access via Mobile
Platforms. The term "eGovernment" refers to the use of the Web or
other information technologies by governing bodies (local, state,
federal, multi-national) to interact with their citizenry, between
departments and divisions, and between governments themselves. Learn
more about the W3C's eGovernment Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/eGov_F2F2_report
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/F2F2
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-egov-improving-20090310/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures." This document defines a profile
of the XML Signature Syntax and Processing 1.1 specification to
allow a widget package to be digitally signed. Widget authors and
distributors can digitally sign widgets as a trust and quality
assurance mechanism. Prior to instantiation, a user agent can use
the digital signature to verify the integrity of the widget package
and perform source authentication. This document specifies
conformance requirements on both widget packages and user agents.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-digsig-20090331/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Past home page news...

http://www.w3.org/News/

W3C Questions and Answers Blog

No recent entries in the 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

* 17 April, Washington, DC, USA: Interoperability and Web
Applications. Kevin Novak presents at eGov Washington Workshop:
Putting Open Standards to Work for Transparency, Security and
Interoperability.
* 21 April, Madrid, Spain: Web Accessibility and Older Users - We
Are There!. Andrew Arch gives a keynote at W4A2009 -
International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
Accessibility.
* 23 April, Madrid, Spain: Panel on Multilingual Web Sites.
Richard Ishida participates in a panel at 18th World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2009).
* 24 April, Brussels, Belgium: Improving Society through Better
Use of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Openforum
Summit 2009.
* 7 May, Oslo, Norway: WCAG 2.0 - addressing the needs of people
with disabilities and older people.. Andrew Arch presents at Do
Web Accessibility Guidelines guarantee Universal Design?.
* 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
Summit 09.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web. Dave Raggett,
Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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* More talks...
http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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Get the BluePrint: Optimizing Solaris on Intel's New Nehalem Processors

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Unleash the Performance and Efficiency of Intel's New Processors
Optimizing the Solaris OS on Intel Xeon 5500 Systems
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Dear Kiran E,

For the last two years, Sun and Intel engineers have been working
together to ensure the Solaris platform takes full advantage of the
just-released Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (aka Nehalem).

It won't take you nearly that long. Just download our new Sun
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