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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-12-07

2009-12-07T15:20:25Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-12-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20091207

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Invites Implementation of Widget Packaging and Configuration

01 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8665

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation of "Widget Packaging and
Configuration." This specification standardizes a packaging
format for software known as widgets. Widgets are client-side
applications that are authored using Web standards, but whose
content can also be embedded into Web documents. The packaging
format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The
configuration document is an XML vocabulary that declares
metadata and configuration parameters for a widget. The steps
for processing a widget package describe the expected behavior
and means of error handling for runtimes while processing the
packaging format, configuration document, and other relevant
files. The group plans to track implementations in an
implementation report. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-20091201/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/imp-report/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

03 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8667

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0." The
primary goal of this document is to bring the advantages of
Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice
response applications. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language
for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized
speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony,
mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation
of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and
digitized video. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1

03 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8666

The XML Schema Working Group has published Last Call Working
Draft of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1:
Structures" and "Part 2: Datatypes." The former specifies the
XML Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for
describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML
documents, including those which exploit the XML Namespace
facility. The schema language, which is itself represented in
an XML vocabulary and uses namespaces, substantially
reconstructs and considerably extends the capabilities found in
XML document type definitions (DTDs). The second publication
defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML
Schemas as well as other XML specifications. Comments are
welcome through 31 December. Learn more about the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-1-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-2-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

CSS 2D Transforms, Transitions Modules Updated

01 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8664

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
Working Drafts of "CSS 2D Transforms Module Level 3" and "CSS
Transitions Module Level 3." CSS 2D Transforms allows elements
rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space. CSS
Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur
smoothly over a specified duration. Learn more about the Style
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-transitions-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture) Working
Draft Published

01 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8663

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an
updated Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and
Interfaces (MMI Architecture)," which defines 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. The document as a whole has changed
significantly and the group welcomes review. The main changes
from the previous draft are (1) clarifying the relationship to
EMMA, (2) simplifying the architecture constituents, (3) adding
a description on HTTP transport of lifecycle events and (4)
adding an example of handwriting recognition modality
component. A "diff-marked version" of this document is
available. Learn more about the W3C Multimodal Interaction
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity

Patent Advisory Group Launched for Widgets 1.0: Access Requests
Policy

01 December 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8662

In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosure related
to the "Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy" specification; see
the PAG charter. The WebApps Working Group develops this
specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the
event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is
not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing
requirements. Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/p72
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-access/
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion

More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

W3C Blog

* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/

Upcoming Talks

* 8 JAN 2010
The ten euro computer: a contemplation on values
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/01-08-steven-ten-euro-computer
by Steven Pemberton
Freelance Factory
http://freelancefactory.ning.com/events/the-10-euro-compute
r
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 28 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Promotion and Advocacy: Approaches and
Resources
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA
* 29 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Standards and Guidelines Update 2010
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA

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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-11-30

2009-11-30T15:35:43Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-11-30 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20091130

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Launches HTML5 Japanese Interest Group

29 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8661

W3C has launched the HTML5 Japanese Interest Group whose
mission is to facilitate focused discussion in Japanese of the
HTML5 specification and of specifications closely related to
HTML5, to gather comments and questions in Japanese about those
specifications, to collect information about specific use cases
in Japan for technologies defined in those specifications, and
to report the results of its activities as a group back to the
HTML Working Group and others in the community. Learn more in
the charter, join the Interest Group, and learn more about the
W3C HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/ig/jp/
http://www.w3.org/2009/095-ig-jp-charter
http://www.w3.org/ig/jp/#join
http://www.w3.org/

More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

W3C Blog

* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/

Upcoming Talks

* 1 DEC 2009
Hacia una Nube de Datos Públicos Enlazados
http://www.slideshare.net/cticod/hacia-una-nube-de-datos-pb
licos-enlazados
by José Manuel Alonso
Fotical 2009
http://www.fotical2009.es/
Gijón, Spain
* 2 DEC 2009
Low-cost technologies to bridge the Digital Divide
by Philipp Hoschka
ASEM Workshop “Building an Inclusive Information Society”
http://www.asem-klworkshop.eu/
Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia
* 3 DEC 2009
¿Por qué los servicios electrónicos se usan tan poco? cómo
hacer frente a la cruda realidad
http://www.slideshare.net/cticod/por-qu-los-servicios-elect
rnicos-se-usan-tan-poco-cmo-hacer-frente-a-la-cruda-realida
d
keynote by José Manuel Alonso
3a Jornada de Administración Digital
http://www.caib.es/govern/sac/fitxa.do?lang=es&codi=456325&
coduo=185
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
* 8 JAN 2010
The ten euro computer: a contemplation on values
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/01-08-steven-ten-euro-computer
by Steven Pemberton
Freelance Factory
http://freelancefactory.ning.com/events/the-10-euro-compute
r
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 28 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Promotion and Advocacy: Approaches and
Resources
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA
* 29 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Standards and Guidelines Update 2010
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA

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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-11-23

2009-11-23T15:56:27Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-11-23 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20091123

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Last Call: XMLHttpRequest

19 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8660

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "XMLHttpRequest." The XMLHttpRequest
specification defines an API that provides scripted client
functionality for transferring data between a client and a
server. It is the ECMAScript HTTP API. Comments are welcome
through 16 December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20091119/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

First Draft of File API Published

17 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8658

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "File API." This specification
provides an API for representing file objects in web
applications, as well as programmatically selecting them and
accessing their data. This API is designed to be used in
conjunction with other APIs and elements on the web platform,
notably: XMLHttpRequest (e.g. with an overloaded send() method
for File objects), postMessage, DataTransfer (part of the drag
and drop API defined in [HTML5,]) and Web Workers.
Additionally, it should be possible to programmatically obtain
a list of files from the input element [HTML5] when it is in
the File Upload state. These kinds of behaviors are defined in
the appropriate affiliated specifications. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-FileAPI-20091117/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: The widget Interface

17 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8657

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: The widget Interface." This
specification defines an application programming interface
(API) for widgets that provides, amongst other things,
functionality for accessing a widget's metadata and
persistently storing data. Comments are welcome through 08
December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20091117/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Last Call: XML Entity definitions for Characters

17 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8656

The Math Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "XML Entity definitions for Characters." It is difficult to
write science fluently if scientific characters are not
available for use. It is difficult to read science if
corresponding glyphs are not available for presentation. In the
majority of cases it is preferable to store characters directly
as Unicode character data or as XML numeric character
references. However, in some environments it is more convenient
to use the ASCII input mechanism provided by XML entity
references. Many entity names are in common use, and this
specification aims to provide standard mappings to Unicode for
each of these names. It introduces no names that have not
already been used in earlier specifications. Comments are
welcome through 08 December. Learn more about the Math
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xml-entity-names-20091117/
http://www.w3.org/Math/

First Draft of Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap Published

17 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8655

The Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group has
published a Group Note of "Mobile Web for Social Development
Roadmap." This document describes some of the current
challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile
phones. It suggests the most promising directions for lowering
barriers to developing, deploying and accessing services on
mobile phones and thereby creating an enabling environment for
more social-oriented services to appear. Learn more about the
Mobile Web Initiative Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mw4d-roadmap-20091117/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

W3C Blog

* Default Prefix Declaration
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/default_prefix_declaration
18 November 2009 by Henry S. Thompson

Upcoming Talks

* 23 NOV 2009
Olle Olsson
Future Internet Assembly Conference
http://www.fi-stockholm.eu/
Stockholm, Sweden
* 25 NOV 2009
Construyendo la Web del mañana: Movilidad, Semántica,
nuevas tecnologías
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife/
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-estandaresULL-MA
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 25 NOV 2009
Browser War 2009
by Daniel Glazman
Browser War 2009
http://www-sop.inria.fr/actu/actu_seminaire_actuel_fr.
Sophia-Antipolis, France
* 25 NOV 2009
Introducción W3C y Estándares Web
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-introduccionULL-
MA
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 27 NOV 2009
Reaching Your Audience with an Accessible CMS
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
DrupalCamp Vienna
http://www.drupalcamp.at/
Vienna, Austria

W3C Membership

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About W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international
consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and
the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read
about W3C.

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Re: W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-11-16

2009-11-16T15:51:35Z

On 16 Nov 2009, at 4:24 PM, W3C Newsletter wrote:

> Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
>
> The 2009-11-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
> http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20091116
>
> A simplified plain text version is available below.

Whoops, due to a small bug, now fixed, the newsletter appears twice in
this week's plain-text version.

Best,

_ Ian
--
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Tel: +1 718 260 9447

W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-11-16

2009-11-16T14:24:48Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-11-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20091116

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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World Wide Web Foundation Launches Operations and First Projects

15 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8654

Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh,
Egypt, Tim Berners-Lee announced today that World Wide Web
Foundation is open for business. World Wide Web Foundation was
created with W3C's support in September 2008, and focuses on
advancing the Web as a medium that empowers people to make
positive social and economic change. Web Foundation's first two
projects will help people to better leverage the Web to support
agriculture in near-desert environments in Africa, and
empowering youth in inner-city centers by teaching them how to
create Web content. Such projects are consistent with W3C's own
work to ensure that One Web is available to all, including work
on mobile Web for social development, accessibility, and
internationalization. W3C looks forward to collaborating with
World Wide Web Foundation to further lower barriers to access
and to promote the development of free and open Web standards.

http://igf09.eg/homeeng
http://www.webfoundation.org
http://www.w3.org/News/2008#entry-6786
http://www.webfoundation.org/projects/greening-africa/
http://www-dev.webfoundation.org/projects/empower-youth/
http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/International/

More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

* 17 NOV 2009
Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp
Luxembourg (City)
W3C and Primelife Project
This workshop brings together worldwide research and user
communities to explore evolving application scenarios for
access control technologies, such as XACML. Results form a
number of recent European research projects in the grid,
cloud computing, and privacy areas show overlapping use
cases for these technologies that extend beyond classical
intra-enterprise applications. At this workshop, we will
explore commonalities between different application
scenarios, and standardization needs (at W3C and elsewhere)
above and beyond the technology substrate that exists
today.

W3C Blog

* W3C community bridges unicorns and werewolves #tpac09
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/broadening_the_w3c_community
13 November 2009 by Coralie Mercier
http://my.opera.com/koalie/

Upcoming Talks

* 17 NOV 2009
W3C y estándares en el éxito de la Web
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1117-estandaresUCA-MA
by Martín Álvarez
Semana de la Ciencia en la Escuela Superior de Ingeniería
http://www.uca.es/centro/1C11/noticias/esi09scyt
Cádiz, Spain
* 19 NOV 2009
The Enabling Power of an Accessible Web
by Shawn Henry
Digital Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop
http://www.iacentre.org.sg/digitalAccessibility/
Singapore, Singapore
* 19 NOV 2009
Open Standaarden
http://www.w3.org/2009/talks/11-19-steven-openstandaarden/
by Steven Pemberton
Mastercourse Open Standaarden
http://digitaalbestuur.nl/db-academie/programma-mastercours
e-open-standaarden
Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands
* 19 NOV 2009
Making Websites Accessible
by Shawn Henry
Digital Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop
http://www.iacentre.org.sg/digitalAccessibility/
Singapore, Singapore
* 21 NOV 2009
Transparency and Participation: Changing the Equation
http://www.slideshare.net/cticod/releasing-the-peoples-data
panel features José Manuel Alonso
Personal Democracy Forum Europe
http://personaldemocracy.com/personal-democracy-forum-europ
e
Barcelona, Spain
* 23 NOV 2009
Olle Olsson
Future Internet Assembly Conference
http://www.fi-stockholm.eu/
Stockholm, Sweden
* 25 NOV 2009
Introducción W3C y Estándares Web
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-introduccionULL-
MA
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 25 NOV 2009
Construyendo la Web del mañana: Movilidad, Semántica,
nuevas tecnologías
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife/
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-estandaresULL-MA
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 27 NOV 2009
Reaching Your Audience with an Accessible CMS
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
DrupalCamp Vienna
http://www.drupalcamp.at/
Vienna, Austria

W3C Membership

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World Wide Web Foundation Launches Operations and First Projects

15 November 2009 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8654

Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh,
Egypt, Tim Berners-Lee announced today that World Wide Web
Foundation is open for business. World Wide Web Foundation was
created with W3C's support in September 2008, and focuses on
advancing the Web as a medium that empowers people to make
positive social and economic change. Web Foundation's first two
projects will help people to better leverage the Web to support
agriculture in near-desert environments in Africa, and
empowering youth in inner-city centers by teaching them how to
create Web content. Such projects are consistent with W3C's own
work to ensure that One Web is available to all, including work
on mobile Web for social development, accessibility, and
internationalization. W3C looks forward to collaborating with
World Wide Web Foundation to further lower barriers to access
and to promote the development of free and open Web standards.

http://igf09.eg/homeeng
http://www.webfoundation.org
http://www.w3.org/News/2008#entry-6786
http://www.webfoundation.org/projects/greening-africa/
http://www-dev.webfoundation.org/projects/empower-youth/
http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/International/

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Workshops

* 17 NOV 2009
Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp
Luxembourg (City)
W3C and Primelife Project
This workshop brings together worldwide research and user
communities to explore evolving application scenarios for
access control technologies, such as XACML. Results form a
number of recent European research projects in the grid,
cloud computing, and privacy areas show overlapping use
cases for these technologies that extend beyond classical
intra-enterprise applications. At this workshop, we will
explore commonalities between different application
scenarios, and standardization needs (at W3C and elsewhere)
above and beyond the technology substrate that exists
today.

W3C Blog

* W3C community bridges unicorns and werewolves #tpac09
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/broadening_the_w3c_community
13 November 2009 by Coralie Mercier
http://my.opera.com/koalie/

Upcoming Talks

* 17 NOV 2009
W3C y estándares en el éxito de la Web
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1117-estandaresUCA-MA
by Martín Álvarez
Semana de la Ciencia en la Escuela Superior de Ingeniería
http://www.uca.es/centro/1C11/noticias/esi09scyt
Cádiz, Spain
* 19 NOV 2009
The Enabling Power of an Accessible Web
by Shawn Henry
Digital Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop
http://www.iacentre.org.sg/digitalAccessibility/
Singapore, Singapore
* 19 NOV 2009
Open Standaarden
http://www.w3.org/2009/talks/11-19-steven-openstandaarden/
by Steven Pemberton
Mastercourse Open Standaarden
http://digitaalbestuur.nl/db-academie/programma-mastercours
e-open-standaarden
Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands
* 19 NOV 2009
Making Websites Accessible
by Shawn Henry
Digital Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop
http://www.iacentre.org.sg/digitalAccessibility/
Singapore, Singapore
* 21 NOV 2009
Transparency and Participation: Changing the Equation
http://www.slideshare.net/cticod/releasing-the-peoples-data
panel features José Manuel Alonso
Personal Democracy Forum Europe
http://personaldemocracy.com/personal-democracy-forum-europ
e
Barcelona, Spain
* 23 NOV 2009
Olle Olsson
Future Internet Assembly Conference
http://www.fi-stockholm.eu/
Stockholm, Sweden
* 25 NOV 2009
Introducción W3C y Estándares Web
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-introduccionULL-
MA
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 25 NOV 2009
Construyendo la Web del mañana: Movilidad, Semántica,
nuevas tecnologías
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2009/Talleres/Tenerife/
by Martín Álvarez
Taller sobre Estándares Web W3C - Tenerife
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2009/1125-estandaresULL-MA
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
* 27 NOV 2009
Reaching Your Audience with an Accessible CMS
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
DrupalCamp Vienna
http://www.drupalcamp.at/
Vienna, Austria

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W3C Invites Implementation of Six Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
Candidate Recommendations

The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published
six Candidate Recommendations. Together, they allow systems
using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies
to interoperate with each other and with Semantic Web
technologies.

Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal semantics
for storing and transmitting rules:
* The "RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD)" is designed for the
kinds of rules used in modern Business Rule Management
systems.
* The "RIF Basic Logic Dialect (BLD)" is a foundation for
Logic Programming, classical logic, and related formalisms.
* The "RIF Core Dialect" is the common subset of PRD and BLD,
useful when having a ubiquitous platform is paramount.

The other drafts:
* "RIF Datatypes and Builtins (DTB)" specifies the datatypes
and standard operations (modeled on "XPath Functions" )
available in all RIF dialects
* "RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility" specifies how RIF works
with RDF, RDFS, OWL 1, and OWL 2.
* "RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD)" provides a
mechanism for specifying extended dialects, beyond BLD,
when more expressive power is required.

The group has also published a new version of "RIF Test Cases"
, and three new First Public Working Drafts: "RIF Overview,"
"RIF Combination with XML data" and "OWL 2 RL in RIF."

The Working Group asks all developers to send implementation
reports, and other comments, to public-rif-comments@... by
29 October 2009. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-prd/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-bld/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-dtb/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-rdf-owl/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-fld
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rif-test-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rif-overview-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rif-xml-data-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rif-owl-rl-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/How_to_Submit_an_Implementati
on_Report
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

Government, Business And Academia Experts To Discuss Financial Data
On The Web at W3C-XBRL Workshop

W3C and XBRL International, Inc. are co-sponsoring a Workshop
on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web today and
tomorrow, hosted at the offices of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Arlington, Virginia (USA). The
main goal of the Workshop is to identify opportunities and
challenges for improving access to financial data on the Web.
Participants will discuss how Extensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL) and related XML data standards can best be
utilized, and how using XBRL to provide financial data via the
Web relates to broader opportunities for Semantic Web
technologies. More than 15 speakers and 100 participants will
discuss topics such as interoperability and harmonization of
standard data formats and the impact of the increased
transparency on the economy and society as a whole. For more
information, see the Program Agenda and Media Advisory. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/cfp
http://www.fdic.gov/
http://www.xbrl.org/faq.aspx#15
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/program.html
http://www.w3.org/2009/09/xbrl-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

SVG Color 1.2 Language, Primer First Drafts Published

The SVG Working Group has published First Public Working Drafts
of "SVG Color 1.2, Part 2: Language" and "SVG Color 1.2, Part
1: Primer." The former defines features of the Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) Language that are specifically for color-managed
environments, including document interchange, publishing, and
high-quality display. SVG Color extends the control of color,
relative to SVG Tiny 1.2, in three ways. Firstly by adding an
additional color space for interpolation and compositing; this
means that colors are no longer constrained to the sRGB gamut.
Secondly by extending the syntax for Paint, thus allowing
colors to be specified as calibrated (ICC and named) and
uncalibrated ('device') color. Thirdly, it mandates the color
management of embedded images. The Primer explains the
technical background and gives guidelines on how to use the SVG
Color specification with SVG 1.2 Tiny and SVG 1.2 Full modules.
Learn more about the Graphics Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColor12-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColorPrimer12-20091001/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

XSL-FO 2.0 First Draft Published

The XSL-FO subgroup of the XSL Working Group has published a
First Public Working Draft of "Design Notes for Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0," which contains initial and
early work on XSL-FO 2.0. XSL-FO defines an XML vocabulary for
formatting and layout of XML documents; use XSLT to transform
documents into XSL-FO for on-screen or paper formatting, for
example into PDF. Public comments are requested, both from
users and implementors of XSL 1.x and from people who have been
waiting for new features before using XSL-FO. Lean more about
XML.

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

WebSimpleDB API First Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "WebSimpleDB API." User agents need to
store large numbers of objects locally in order to satisfy
off-line data requirements of Web applications. Whereas the
"Web Storage" specification is useful for storing pairs of keys
and their corresponding values, it does not provide in-order
retrieval of keys, efficient searching over values, or storage
of duplicate values for a key. The new WebSimpleDB API
specification provides a concrete API to perform advanced
key-value data management that is at the heart of most
sophisticated query processors. It does so by using
transactional databases to store keys and their corresponding
values. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-WebSimpleDB-20090929/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
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Upcoming Meetings

* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* Access Control Application Scenarios, 17-18 November
* More About Workshops...
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Upcoming Talks

* 14 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization: An
Introduction. Addison Phillips gives a tutorial at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 15 October, Potsdam, Germany: W3C and W3C Offices - an
overview. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Launch of the W3C
Germany and Austria Office.
* 15 October, San Jose, CA, USA: BCP47: Language and Locale
Identification. Addison Phillips presents at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser
Standardization. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at
Mobile Web and Applications 2009.
* 23 October, Ede, The Netherlands: The Open Web. Steven
Pemberton gives a keynote at NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het
Open Web".
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn
Henry presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Philadelphia, USA: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Company Presentation
at Johnson & Johnson.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards
and Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA
2009 Chicago.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp
Hoschka presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop
2009.
* 14 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Disintermediation
through Aggregation: Making your Data your Own. Steven
Pemberton presents at Society of the Query.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: Making Websites
Accessible. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: The Enabling Power of an
Accessible Web. Shawn Henry presents at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010.
Mohamed ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
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Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary Week

As part of its efforts to broaden participation opportunities
in W3C, W3C announces today its first Developer Gathering, to
be held 5 November, 2009 during the W3C Technical Plenary Week
(TPAC) in Santa Clara, California. Registration is open to the
public; W3C is seeking in particular developers and designers
who may not participate regularly in W3C groups. Arun
Ranganathan (Mozilla), Fantasai, Philippe Le Hégaret, and
others will speak on a variety of hot topics with a goal of
feeding back comments to the groups developing the relevant
technology standards. Learn more about the Developer Gathering.

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http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/DevMeeting

WebSimpleDB API First Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "WebSimpleDB API." User agents need to
store large numbers of objects locally in order to satisfy
off-line data requirements of Web applications. Whereas the
"Web Storage" specification is useful for storing pairs of keys
and their corresponding values, it does not provide in-order
retrieval of keys, efficient searching over values, or storage
of duplicate values for a key. The new WebSimpleDB API
specification provides a concrete API to perform advanced
key-value data management that is at the heart of most
sophisticated query processors. It does so by using
transactional databases to store keys and their corresponding
values. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-WebSimpleDB-20090929/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Invites Implementations of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 -
Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)

The Timed Text Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format
1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)," used to
represent timed text media for the purpose of interchange among
authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is
intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing
information. The specification provides a standardized
representation of a particular subset of textual information
with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are
associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose
of interchange and potential presentation. Learn more about the
Video in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

Last Call: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0

The Math Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0." MathML
is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and
capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on
the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality
for text. Comments are welcome through 11 November. Learn more
about the Math Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-MathML3-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/Math/

Five Web Services Drafts Updated

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published
updates to five Working Drafts: "Web Services Enumeration
(WS-Enumeration)," "Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing),"
"Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT)," "Web Services
Transfer (WS-Transfer)," and "Web Services Metadata Exchange
(WS-MetadataExchange)." The first describes a general
SOAP-based protocol for enumerating a sequence of XML elements
that is suitable for traversing logs, message queues, or other
linear information models. The second describes a protocol that
allows Web services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for
event notification. The third defines extensions to WS-Transfer
that deal primarily with fragment-based access to resources to
satisfy the common requirements of WS-ResourceFramework and
WS-Management. The fourth describes a general SOAP-based
protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based
resources. The fifth defines how metadata associated with a Web
service endpoint can be represented as resources, how metadata
can be embedded in endpoint references, and how metadata could
be retrieved from a Web service endpoint. Learn more about the
Web Services Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Organizes Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios

W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Access
Control Application Scenarios on 17-18 November 2009 in
Luxembourg. This Workshop is intended to explore evolving
application scenarios for access control technologies, such as
XACML. Results from a number of recent European research
projects in the grid, cloud computing, and privacy areas show
overlapping use cases for these technologies that extend beyond
classical intra-enterprise applications. The Workshop,
co-financed by the European Commission 7th framework program
via the PrimeLife project, is free of charge and open to
anyone, subject to review of their statement of interest and
space availability. Position papers are due 23 October. See the
call for participation for more information. Learn more about
the Privacy Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp.html
http://www.primelife.eu/
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/

W3C Launches Provenance Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Provenance
Incubator Group, whose mission is to provide a state-of-the art
understanding and develop a roadmap in the area of provenance
for Semantic Web technologies, development, and possible
standardization. The group will be chaired by Yolanda Gil. The
following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this
group: Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute, Talis Information
Limited, University of Manchester, University of Southampton,
University of Southern California Information Sciences
Institute (USC / ISI), and Vrije Universiteit. 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/prov/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

OWL 2 is a Proposed Recommendation

With more than a dozen implementations of OWL 2 reported, the
OWL Working Group has published its OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
as a Proposed Recommendation. An ontology is a structured set
of terms that a particular community uses for organizing data,
such as "title", "author", and "ISBN" for data about books. OWL
2 is a compatible extension to "OWL 1," providing "additional
features" for people using ontologies. The OWL 2 document set
contains 13 documents, of which 4 are instructional: "overview"
, "primer," "new features and rationale," and "quick
reference." The "rdf:PlainLiteral datatype," developed for
use by OWL 2 and RIF, is also a Proposed Recommendation. Learn
more about the Semantic Web.

http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Implementations
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-new-features-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-overview-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-primer-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-new-features-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-quick-reference-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-rdf-plain-literal-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

New W3C Group to Standardize Relational Database, RDF Mapping

W3C announces today the new RDB2RDF Working Group, whose
mission is to standardize a language for mapping relational
data and relational database schemas into RDF and OWL,
tentatively called the RDB2RDF Mapping Language, R2RML. From
the beginning of the deployment of the Semantic Web there has
been increasing interest in mapping relational data to the
Semantic Web. This is to allow relational data to be combined
with other data on the Web, to link semantics directly to
relational data and to aid in enterprise data integration. The
creation of this Working Group follows the work of a previous
W3C Incubator Group in this area. Read the RDB2RDF Working
Group Charter and learn more about the Semantic Web.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/rdb2rdf/XGR-rdb2rdf-20090126/
http://www.w3.org/2009/08/rdb2rdf-charter
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

CSS Working Group Updates Candidate Recommendation of CSS3 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 more precise labeling
of style sheets. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20090915/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

W3C Invites Implementations of WebCGM 2.1

The WebCGM Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation 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. The Working Group has
adopted a public test suite for WebCGM 2.1 and has produced a
preliminary WebCGM 2.1 implementation report. Learn more about
the Graphics Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-webcgm21-20090915/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/2009/WebCGM21/testsuite21.htm
l
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/2009/WebCGM21/implementation-
report.html
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite Note
Published

The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working
Group has published a Group Note of "Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite." This document
presents test cases for the POWDER technology, which helps to
build a Web of trust and make it possible to discover relevant,
quality content more efficiently. The tests facilitate and
exemplify the creation of POWDER documents of varying
complexity and provide a means to assert the conformance of
software applications designed to handle POWDER documents.
Learn more about the Semantic Web.

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-powder-test-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Web Storage; Web Database Drafts Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published Working Drafts
of "Web Storage" and "Web Database" (a First Public Draft). The
former defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value
pair data in Web clients. The latter defines an API for storing
data in databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

New eGovernment Activity Focus Proposed; Guidelines for Publishing
Open Government Data Published

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announces a draft
work plan for the eGovernment Interest Group, whose mission is
to document, advocate, coordinate and communicate best
practices, solutions and approaches to improve the interface
between citizens and government through effective use of Web
standards. The draft charter, in review by the W3C community
until the end of September, focuses on two topics: Open
Government Data (OGD), and Education and Outreach. In line with
its anticipated focus on Open Government Data, the group also
announces today a first draft of "Publishing Open Government
Data," which provides step-by-step guidelines for putting
government data on the Web. Sharing data according to these
guidelines enables greater transparency; delivers more
efficient public services; and encourages greater public and
commercial use and re-use of government information. Learn more
about the W3C eGovernment Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/eGov/ig-charter
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-gov-data-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts Group Note Published

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published
"Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts" as a Working
Group Note. This document describes techniques for the use of
HTML markup and CSS style sheets when creating content in
languages that use right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic,
Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc. It builds on (but also goes
beyond) markup needed to supplement the Unicode bidirectional
algorithm, and also touches on how to prepare content that will
later be localized into right-to-left scripts. Learn more about
the Internationalization Activity.

http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/
http://www.w3.org/International/

New Draft of DOM Level 3 Events Published

The WebApps Working Group has published a new Working Draft of
"DOM Level 3 Events," a generic platform- and language-neutral
event system which allows registration of event handlers,
describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides
basic contextual information for each event. DOM3 Events
introduces an advanced text and keyboard event model, including
composition events for input-method editors and other
internationalization issues. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Candidate
Recommendation Updated

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has updated the
Candidate Recommendation of "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2
Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification." This specification
defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision. 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). This update corrects some
errata in the previous draft. Learn more about the Style
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

W3C Opens New India Office

Today the W3C India Office opened at a new Host: the Department
of Information Technology in the Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology. Swaran Lata, who is Director of the
Human Centered Computing division (TDIL), will run the new
Office with the support of deputy manager Somnath Chandra. W3C
Offices act as local points of contact for W3C work and help
ensure that W3C and its specifications reach an international
audience. W3C would like to thank the India Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology for their support in
ensuring that W3C has a strong presence in India. The previous
Office in India, hosted by C-DAC, has already closed. Learn
more about the W3C Offices program.

http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Let's Make Every Day One Web Day! by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/lets_make_every_day_one_web_da
.html
* First Ever Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary
Week by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/first_ever_developer_gathering
.html
* How do we test a Web browser? by Philippe Le Hégaret
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/how_do_we_test_a_web_browser.h
tml
http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
* Linked Government Data by Sandro Hawke
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/linked_government_data.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Sandro
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* Access Control Application Scenarios, 17-18 November
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 14 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization: An
Introduction. Addison Phillips gives a tutorial at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 15 October, Potsdam, Germany: W3C and W3C Offices - an
overview. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Launch of the W3C
Germany and Austria Office.
* 15 October, San Jose, CA, USA: BCP47: Language and Locale
Identification. Addison Phillips presents at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser
Standardization. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at
Mobile Web and Applications 2009.
* 23 October, Ede, The Netherlands: The Open Web. Steven
Pemberton gives a keynote at NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het
Open Web".
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn
Henry presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards
and Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA
2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Philadelphia, USA: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Company Presentation
at Johnson & Johnson.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp
Hoschka presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop
2009.
* 14 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Disintermediation
through Aggregation: Making your Data your Own. Steven
Pemberton presents at Society of the Query.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: Making Websites
Accessible. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: The Enabling Power of an
Accessible Web. Shawn Henry presents at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010.
Mohamed ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming
&countryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-09-07

2009-09-07T12:47:40Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-09-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090907

A simplified plain text version is available below.

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A Sprinkle of POWDER Fosters Trust on the Web

Today W3C takes steps toward building a Web of trust, and making it
possible to discover relevant, quality content more efficiently.
When content providers use POWDER, the Protocol for Web Description
Resources, they help people with tasks such as seeking sound medical
advice, looking for trustworthy retailers, or searching for content
available under a particular license (for instance, a Creative
Commons license). The POWDER Working Group published three W3C
Recommendations today: "Grouping of Resources," "Formal Semantics"
, and "Description Resources." For more information about POWDER,
including a "POWDER Primer" and a range of tools, see the group home
page. Read the press release and learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-powder-grouping-20090901/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-powder-formal-20090901/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-powder-dr-20090901/
http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-primer/
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/2009/09/powder-pr.html
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

W3C Opens New India Office

Today the W3C India Office opened at a new Host: the Department of
Information Technology in the Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology. Swaran Lata, who is Director of the Human
Centered Computing division (TDIL), will run the new Office with the
support of deputy manager Somnath Chandra. W3C Offices act as local
points of contact for W3C work and help ensure that W3C and its
specifications reach an international audience. W3C would like to
thank the India Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology for their support in ensuring that W3C has a strong
presence in India. The previous Office in India, hosted by C-DAC,
has already closed. Learn more about the W3C Offices program.

http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0 Note Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Group
Note of "W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0." mobileOK is designed to improve
the Web experience for users of mobile devices by rewarding content
providers that adhere to good practice when delivering content to
them. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mobileOK-20090825/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices (Sep to Nov 2009)

W3C announces today the next edition of its successful online course
to introduce Web developers and designers to its Mobile Web Best
Practices. The next session runs from 7 September to 9 November
2009. W3C received very positive reviews from participants who
attended the previous session, including:
* "Every web developer should at least know the basics of mobile
web development. So this is the course to take."
* "The best starting point possible!"
* "[The] tutor and student forum to discuss ideas or problems
throughout the course was invaluable."

W3C invites you to join the next session, where you will:
* learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile
platform
* learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content for
mobile
* discover the relevant W3C resources for mobile Web design

Participants have access to lectures and assignments that provide
hands-on practical experience of using W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices. Participants will work with both W3C experts on this
topic (the instructors) and peers who can share experiences about
the real-world challenges of mobile Web design. More information is
available about the course material (including a free sample),
registration fee, and intended audience. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2009/07/MobiWeb105/
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102/
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/MobiWeb105/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
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Upcoming Talks

* 15 September, Durban, South Africa: M-government: anytime,
anywhere connected citizen. Vagner Diniz presents at GovTech
2009.
* 16 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Mobile web
development: why so many platforms? How to make a choice? .
François Daoust, Nick Allot (OMTP) present at WIPJAM@OSiM.
* 16 September, Iraklion, Greece: W3C in a Changing World. Klaus
Birkenbihl presents at 10th anniversary of the W3C Greece
Office.
* 16 September, Iraklion, Greece: W3C World Offices: The First 10
Years and the Future. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at 10th
anniversary of the W3C Greece Office.
* 16 September, London, United Kingdom: Web Applications Enabled.
Michael Cooper, Shadi Abou-Zahra, various speakers to be
confirmed give a tutorial at Techshare 2009.
* 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
present at Techshare 2009.
* 25 September, London, United Kingdom: Take it easy with W3C
standards and tools for mobile. François Daoust presents at Over
the Air.
* 29 September, Saint-Malo, France: The W3C mobileOK Checker.
François Daoust presents at 2009 NEM Summit.
* 15 October, Potsdam, Germany: W3C and W3C Offices - an overview.
Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Launch of the W3C Germany and
Austria Office.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser Standardization.
Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Web and
Applications 2009.
* 23 October, Ede, The Netherlands: The Open Web. Steven Pemberton
gives a keynote at NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het Open Web".
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009.
* 14 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Disintermediation
through Aggregation: Making your Data your Own. Steven Pemberton
presents at Society of the Query.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-08-31

2009-08-31T15:59:25Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-08-31 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090831

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W3C Announces Two New Co-Chairs for the HTML Working Group

Tim Berners-Lee announced today that two people will join Sam Ruby
(IBM) in co-Chairing the HTML Working Group: Paul Cotton (Microsoft)
and Maciej Stachowiak (Apple). Chris Wilson has stepped down as
co-Chair and indicated that he will be changing his focus to
programmability in the web platform. As Berners-Lee wrote about this
transition, "The work of this group is tremendously important to the
Web. I am pleased that all three co-Chairs have taken on the
responsibility for working closely with the editor and group to make
HTML 5 a success." More information about the new Chairs is
available in Berners-Lee's announcement. Learn more about the HTML
Working Group.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public/2009Aug/1293
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public/2009Aug/1290
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public/2009Aug/1293
http://www.w3.org/html/wg

Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices (Sep to Nov 2009)

W3C announces today the next edition of its successful online course
to introduce Web developers and designers to its Mobile Web Best
Practices. The next session runs from 7 September to 9 November
2009. W3C received very positive reviews from participants who
attended the previous session, including:
* "Every web developer should at least know the basics of mobile
web development. So this is the course to take."
* "The best starting point possible!"
* "[The] tutor and student forum to discuss ideas or problems
throughout the course was invaluable."

W3C invites you to join the next session, where you will:
* learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile
platform
* learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content for
mobile
* discover the relevant W3C resources for mobile Web design

Participants have access to lectures and assignments that provide
hands-on practical experience of using W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices. Participants will work with both W3C experts on this
topic (the instructors) and peers who can share experiences about
the real-world challenges of mobile Web design. More information is
available about the course material (including a free sample),
registration fee, and intended audience. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2009/07/MobiWeb105/
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102/
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/MobiWeb105/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

SSML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation Updated

The Voice Browser Working Group has updated the Candidate
Recommendation of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version
1.1." SSML is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language
for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other
applications. Although the Working Group has not formally identified
any features as being at-risk, as a result of the previous
publication, the Working Group now understands that some features
may not receive adequate implementation experience. This draft
identifies them in the "status section" and asks for feedback. A few
editorial errors in the "previous draft" and the Implementation
Report Plan document were also fixed. A list of "changes from the
previous draft" is available. Learn more about the Voice Browser
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-speech-synthesis11-20090827/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-speech-synthesis11-20090827/#status
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-speech-synthesis11-20081107/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/2009/ssml11-irp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-speech-synthesis11-20090827/#AppG
http://www.w3.org/Voice/Activity

HTML 5 Drafts Published

The HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of "HTML 5" and
"HTML 5 differences from HTML 4." In HTML 5, new features are
introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are
introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices,
and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance
criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
"HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" describes the differences between
HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides some of the rationale for the
changes. Learn more about HTML.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090825/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-diff-20090825/
http://www.w3.org/html/

SVG Open 2009 Schedule Available; Early-Bird Registration Ends 31
August

SVG Open 2009, the 7th International Conference on Scalable Vector
Graphics, will be held 2-4 October, hosted by Google in Mountain
View, California, with workshops hosted by IBM, on 5 October. The
theme is "SVG Coming of Age", reflecting increased industry support
and interest by Web designers and developers. The schedule and
confirmed keynote speakers are now available. Over 70 presentations
will be delivered by SVG experts from around the globe, on topics
including script libraries, authoring tools, mobiles, Web mapping
and geo-location services, and much more. Chris Lilley, Doug
Schepers, and the W3C SVG Working Group will be participating. Learn
more about W3C's SVG Activity.

http://www.svgopen.org/2009/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
https://www.svgopen.org/2009/registration.php?section=workshops
http://www.svgopen.org/2009/registration.php?section=conference_sche
dule
http://www.svgopen.org/2009/keynotes.shtml
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0." This document
specifies VoiceXML 3.0, a modular XML language for creating
interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech,
recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed
initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a
variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized
video. A list of "changes from the previous draft" is available.
Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090825/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090825/#Changes
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

XMLHttpRequest Drafts Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published updates to Working
Drafts of "XMLHttpRequest" and "XMLHttpRequest Level 2." The
XMLHttpRequest specification is part of the Web application
technology stack, enabling Ajax-style development. XMLHttpRequest
defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for
transferring data between a client and a server. XMLHttpRequest
Level 2 offers additional features, such as cross-origin requests,
progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending
and receiving. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20090820/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-XMLHttpRequest2-20090820/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Relaunches Multimodal Interaction Working Group

W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal
Interaction Working Group to develop technology that enables users
to use their preferred modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah
Dahl (Invited Expert) chairs the group which is chartered to develop
open standards to adapt to device, user and environmental
conditions, and to allow multiple modes of Web interaction including
GUI, speech, vision, pen, gestures, haptic interfaces, sensor data,
etc. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read
about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/mmi-charter.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34607/join
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Call for Review: XForms 1.1 Proposed Recommendation Published

The Forms Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of
"XForms 1.1." XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is
intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as
XHTML, ODF or SVG. XForms 1.1 refines the XML processing platform
introduced by XForms 1.0 by adding several new submission
capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user interface
improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more powerful
action processing facility, including conditional, iterated and
background execution, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and
to access event context information. Comments are welcome through 22
September. Learn more about the XForms Activity.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-xforms11-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call 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. Comments are welcome through 15 September.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

>From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge

Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the
world of knowledge organization systems - including thesauri,
classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies -
and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries,
museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social
networking applications, and other communities that manage large
collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business
glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use "Simple
Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)" to leverage the power of
linked data. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group also
published today two Group Notes with the Recommendation, updating
the "SKOS Primer" and "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements." Read the
press release and testimonials and learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-ucr-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
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Upcoming Talks

* 1 September, Florence, Italy: A Roadmap for Making the Web an
Inclusive Environment. Judy Brewer gives a keynote at AAATE 2009
Conference.
* 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older
People. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE
conference.
* 2 September, Hangzhou, China: Introduction to the World Wide Web
Consortium. Ivan Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
* 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits
Older Users. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British
Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
* 15 September, Durban, South Africa: M-government: anytime,
anywhere connected citizen. Vagner Diniz presents at GovTech
2009.
* 16 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Mobile web
development: why so many platforms? How to make a choice? .
François Daoust, Nick Allot (OMTP) present at WIPJAM@OSiM.
* 16 September, London, United Kingdom: Web Applications Enabled.
Michael Cooper, Shadi Abou-Zahra, various speakers to be
confirmed give a tutorial at Techshare 2009.
* 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
present at Techshare 2009.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser Standardization.
Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Web and
Applications 2009.
* 23 October, Ede, The Netherlands: The Open Web. Steven Pemberton
gives a keynote at NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het Open Web".
* 23 October, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Disintermediation
through Aggregation: Making your Data your Own. Steven Pemberton
presents at Society of the Query.
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-08-18

2009-08-19T05:48:43Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-08-18 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090818

A simplified plain text version is available below.

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>From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge

Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the
world of knowledge organization systems - including thesauri,
classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies -
and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries,
museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social
networking applications, and other communities that manage large
collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business
glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use "Simple
Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)" to leverage the power of
linked data. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group also
published today two Group Notes with the Recommendation, updating
the "SKOS Primer" and "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements." Read the
press release and testimonials and learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-ucr-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Call for Review: XForms 1.1 Proposed Recommendation Published

The Forms Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of
"XForms 1.1." XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is
intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as
XHTML, ODF or SVG. XForms 1.1 refines the XML processing platform
introduced by XForms 1.0 by adding several new submission
capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user interface
improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more powerful
action processing facility, including conditional, iterated and
background execution, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and
to access event context information. Comments are welcome through 22
September. Learn more about the XForms Activity.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-xforms11-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call 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. Comments are welcome through 15 September.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) is a W3C Proposed Edited
Recommendation

The XML Core Working Group has published the " Third Edition of
Namespaces in XML 1.0" as W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation. XML
Namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and
attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by
associating them with namespaces identified by URI references. The
Third Edition as proposed incorporates all outstanding errata. The
review period is open until 14 September 2009. Learn more about the
XML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xml-names-20090806/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity

Last Call for Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of " Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy." This specification
defines the security model controlling network access from within a
widget, as well as a method for widget authors to request that the
user agent grant access to certain network resources. Comments are
welcome through 20 September 2009. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-access-20090804/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity

CSSOM View Module: Updated Working Draft

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published an
updated " Working Draft of CSSOM View Module." This specification
describes APIs that should be useful for Web application authors.
The APIs inspect and manipulate the view information of a document,
such as the position of element layout boxes, the width of the
viewport, and also an element's scroll position. Learn more about
the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-cssom-view-20090804/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

Six XML Security Documents Published

The XML Security Working Group published six documents related to
XML signature and encryption. XML Signatures provide integrity,
message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for
data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the
signature or elsewhere.
* "XML Signature Best Practices." This Working Draft describes
best practices related to improving security and mitigating
attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use
of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use
namespaces, for example.
* "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1." This Working
Draft updates the signature specification.
* "XML Signature Transform Simplification: Requirements and
Design." This Working Draft outlines a proposed simplification
of the XML Signature Transform mechanism, intended to enhance
security, performance, streamability and to ease adoption.
* "W3C XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1." This
Working Draft updates the encryption specification.
* "XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers." This First Public
Working Draft augments XML Encryption Version 1.1 by defining
algorithms, XML types and elements necessary to enable use of
generic hybrid ciphers in XML Security applications.
* "XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference." This Group Note
collects the various known URIs for encryption algorithms (at
the time of its publication) and indicates which specifications
define them.

Learn more about the Security Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-bestpractices-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-simplify-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlenc-core1-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/Security/

Daniel Weitzner Named to Run US Government Internet Policy Unit

Daniel Weitzner has been named Associate Administrator for the
Office of Policy Analysis and Development at the US National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Danny will
have a leading role in fulfilling the NTIA's mandate to provide the
President advice on telecommunications and information policy
issues.

Danny will thus be leaving the W3C staff, which he joined in 1998 as
the Technology and Society Domain Lead. During these 11 years, Danny
has contributed significantly to advances in many areas where policy
meets technology, including privacy, security, intellectual
property, and trust. As Chair of the Patent Policy Working Group,
Danny led the effort that culminated in W3C's Royalty-Free Patent
Policy, now a cornerstone of W3C's value proposition to the Web
community.

Before joining the W3C, Danny was co-founder and Deputy Director of
the Center for Democracy and Technology and was Deputy Policy
Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Danny is also
Director of the the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group with
Tim Berners- Lee and a founding director of the Web Science Research
Initiative and holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist
at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

While W3C regrets that Danny will be stepping down from W3C, it is
encouraging that US policy may well be shaped by someone who has
demonstrated a commitment to open standards as a tool for improving
society. Danny, good luck!

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/staffbios.htm
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Ecosystem for investors, upcoming workshop by Dave Raggett
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/08/ecosystem_for_investors_upcomi.html
* TAG Status Report: July, 2009 by Noah Mendelsohn
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/tag_status_report_july_2009.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

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* More About Workshops...
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Upcoming Talks

* 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
* 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond. Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older
People. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE
conference.
* 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits
Older Users. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British
Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
* 15 September, Durban, South Africa: M-government: anytime,
anywhere connected citizen. Vagner Diniz presents at GovTech
2009.
* 16 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Mobile web
development: why so many platforms? How to make a choice? .
François Daoust, Nick Allot (OMTP) present at WIPJAM@OSiM.
* 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
present at Techshare 2009.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser Standardization.
Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Web and
Applications 2009.
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-07-27

2009-07-27T13:56:27Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-07-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090727

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W3C Invites Implementations of Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Widgets 1.0: Packaging and
Configuration." This specification standardizes a packaging format
for software known as widgets. Widgets are client-side applications
that are authored using Web standards, but whose content can also be
embedded into Web documents. The specification relies on PKWare's
Zip specification as the archive format, XML as a configuration
document format, and a series of steps that runtimes follow when
processing and verifying various aspects of a package. The packaging
format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The Working
Group plans to develop a test suite during the Candidate
Recommendation phase. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-20090723/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/tests/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published
an updated Working Draft of the "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
(UAAG) 2.0." UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other
"user agents" should support accessibility for people with
disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Read the
invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-UAAG20-20090723/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JulSep/0016
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Flexible Box Layout Module First Draft Published

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "Flexible Box Layout Module." The
draft describes a CSS box model optimized for interface design. It
provides an additional layout system alongside the ones already in
CSS. This model is based on the box model in the XUL user-interface
language. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

CSS Image Values Module Level 3 First Draft Published

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "CSS Image Values Module Level 3."
This CSS Image Values module defines the syntax for image values in
CSS. Image values can be a single URI to an image, a list of URIs
denoting a series of fallbacks, sprites (image slices), or
gradients. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-images-20090723/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Interview: David Ezell on NACS Participation in W3C by Ian
Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/interview_david_ezell_on_nacs.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* More About Workshops...
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Upcoming Talks

* 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the
Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming:
buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces. Liam Quin
presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools
with no angle bracket at all!. Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at
Balisage.
* 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond. Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
* 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older
People. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE
conference.
* 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits
Older Users. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British
Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
* 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
present at Techshare 2009.
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-07-20

2009-07-20T14:50:19Z

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http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090720

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W3C Organizes Workshop on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web

W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Improving Access
to Financial Data on the Web on 5-6 October 2009 in Arlington,
Virginia (USA). Workshop participants will discuss how to achieve
greater transparency and more efficient reporting and analysis of
business and financial data for companies and governments. The
Workshop is jointly organized by W3C and XBRL International, with
hosting support from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC). The extensible business reporting language (XBRL), is being
widely adopted all around the world, and is set to become the
standard way of recording, storing and transmitting business
financial information. While effort on XBRL so far has gone into
developing the standards and taxonomies of reporting concepts,
comparatively little effort has been spent on how to exploit the
expected flood of data. The goal of the Workshop is to identify
opportunities, use cases, and challenges for interactive access to
financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the
broader opportunities for using Semantic Web technologies. The
Workshop is free of charge and open to anyone, subject to review of
their statement of interest and space availability. Statements of
interest (position papers) are due 21 August. See the call for
participation for more information. Learn more about the Semantic
Web.

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/cfp.html
http://www.xbrl.org/
http://www.fdic.gov/
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/cfp
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Best Practices for Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts Draft
Published

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published the
Working Draft of "Best Practices for Authoring HTML: Handling
Right-to-left Scripts." This document provides advice for the use
of HTML markup and CSS style sheets to create pages for languages
that use right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian,
Thaana, Urdu, etc. It explains how to create content in
right-to-left scripts that builds on but goes beyond the Unicode
bidirectional algorithm, as well as how to prepare content for
localization into right-to-left scripts. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.

http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-i18n-html-tech-bidi-20090714/
http://www.w3.org/International/

XML Signature Correction Addresses Security Issue

The XML Security Working Group has published a proposed correction
to the "XML Signature" specification. The correction addresses a
specification-level security issue that can lead to an
authentication bypass (CVE-2009-0217). It will be incorporated into
an upcoming Working Draft for the "XML Signature 1.1" specification.
For information about affected implementations, see CERT
Vulnerability Note 466161. For more information about the issue, see
the W3C Q&A blog. Learn more about W3C's Security Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/xmldsigcore-errata.html#e03
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0217
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466161
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/hmac_truncation_in_xml_signatu.html
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* HMAC truncation in XML Signature: When Alice didn't look. by
Thomas Roessler
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/hmac_truncation_in_xml_signatu.html
http://log.does-not-exist.info/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 20 July, Boston, USA: Web Accessibility, Universal Design, and
Standardization. Judy Brewer participates in a panel at
Accessing the Future: A global collaborative exploration for
accessibility in the next decade.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the
Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming:
buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces. Liam Quin
presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools
with no angle bracket at all!. Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at
Balisage.
* 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
* 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond. Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-07-13

2009-07-13T15:26:06Z

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http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090713

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XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Full Text Facility Test Suite Published

The XSL and XML Query Working Groups have published version 1.0 of
the XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Full Text Facility Test Suite, and are
requesting that people with implementations report results. The Full
Text Facility provides a standard way of searching by word or phrase
across multilingual documents or data represented using the XPath
and XQuery Data Model. As a result of preliminary implementation
experience, and to reflect comments received, the "Candidate
Recommendation for the Full Text Facility" has also been
republished: the new version incorporates editorial changes but also
clarifies some ambiguities that had been reported. The Working
Groups hope to move the document to Proposed Recommendation once
more test results have been submitted. The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups also published today an update of "XQuery and XPath Full Text
1.0 Use Cases." Learn more about the XML Activity.

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2007/xpath-full-text-10-test-suite/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xpath-full-text-10-20090709/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20090709/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity

Relationship Between Mobile Web (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility
(WCAG) Note Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education
and Outreach Working Group have published "Relationship between
Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG)" as a W3C Working Group Note. The groups encourage
people to start by reading Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web:
Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and
for Mobile Devices, which shows how design goals for accessibility
and mobile access overlap. A third document, Shared Web Experiences:
Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities,
provides examples of barriers that people (without disabilities)
face when interacting with Web content via mobile devices, and
similar barriers for people with disabilities using desktop
computers. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) and the
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mwbp-wcag-20090709/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Last Call: Geolocation API Specification

The Geolocation Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "Geolocation API Specification." The Geolocation API
defines a high-level interface to location information associated
only with the device hosting the implementation, such as latitude
and longitude. Common sources of location information include Global
Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals
such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and
GSM/CDMA cell IDs, as well as user input. Comments are welcome
through 10 August. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-geolocation-API-20090707/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog

No recent entries in the Q&A Blog.

Upcoming Meetings

* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 20 July, Boston, USA: Web Accessibility, Universal Design, and
Standardization. Judy Brewer participates in a panel at
Accessing the Future: A global collaborative exploration for
accessibility in the next decade.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the
Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming:
buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools
with no angle bracket at all!. Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at
Balisage.
* 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces. Liam Quin
presents at Balisage.
* 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-07-06

2009-07-06T07:09:36Z

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The 2009-07-06 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090706

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XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to
Increase Resources on HTML 5

Today the Director announces that when the XHTML 2 Working Group
charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will
not be renewed. By doing so, and by increasing resources in the HTML
Working Group, W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of "HTML 5" and
clarify W3C's position regarding the future of HTML. A FAQ answers
questions about the future of deliverables of the XHTML 2 Working
Group, and the status of various discussions related to HTML. Learn
more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/03/XHTML2-WG-charter
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/xhtml-faq.html
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Live Training Sessions On Mobile Web Design Rescheduled

Originally scheduled for July, W3C has rescheduled a Live Training
Sessions On Mobile Web Design for 13 October 2009. Students will
attend a full day of lectures and hands on sessions about the "W3C
Mobile Web Best Practices" standard, and more generally on mobile
Web design. Read the full announcement, register, and learn more
about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb103/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/live_mobile_training.html
http://www.3gwebtrain.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=14
http://www.w3.org/Mobile

Last Call for Six Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Drafts

The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published six
Last Call Working Drafts. Together, they allow systems using a
variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies to
interoperate with each other and with other Semantic Web
technologies. Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal
semantics for storing and transmitting rules:
* The "RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD)" is designed for the
kinds of rules used in modern Business Rule Management systems.
* The "RIF Basic Logic Dialect (BLD)" is a foundation for Logic
Programming, classical logic, and related formalisms.
* The "RIF Core Dialect" is the common subset of PRD and BLD,
useful when having a ubiquitous platform is paramount.

The other drafts:
* "RIF Datatypes and Builtins (DTB)" specifies the datatypes and
standard operations (modeled on "XPath Functions" ) available in
all RIF dialects
* "RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility" specifies how RIF works with
RDF, RDFS, OWL 1, and OWL 2.
* "RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD)" provides a mechanism
for specifying extended dialects, beyond BLD, when more
expressive power is required.

The Working Group requests comments be sent to
public-rif-comments@... by 31 July 2009. Learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-prd/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-bld/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-dtb/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-rdf-owl/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-fld
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

W3C Launches Device APIs and Policy Working Group

W3C launched a new Device APIs and Policy Working Group, co-Chaired
by Robin Berjon (Vodafone) and Frederick Hirsch (Nokia). The group's
mission is to create client-side APIs that enable the development of
Web Applications and Web Widgets that interact with devices services
such as Calendar, Contacts, and Camera. Additionally, the group will
produce a framework for the expression of security policies that
govern access to security-critical APIs (such as the APIs listed
previously). Per its charter, this group will conduct its work in
public. Learn more about the Device APIs and Policy Working Group.

http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/DeviceAPICharter
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/

Summary of Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 Available

W3C has published a summary and full minutes of the Workshop on
Speaker biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0, that took place in Menlo Park,
California on 5-6 March. Participants from 15 organizations focused
discussion on Speaker Identification and Verification (SIV)
functionality within VoiceXML 3.0, and identifying and prioritizing
directions for the functionality. The major "takeaways" from the
Workshop were confirmation that SIV fits into the VoiceXML space and
creation of the "Menlo Park Model", a SIV available VoiceXML
architecture. The Working Group will continue to discuss how to
include the requirements expressed at the Workshop into VoiceXML 3.0
and improve the specification. Learn more about the Voice Browser
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/summary.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/summary.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/minutes.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/MenloParkModel-v003.png
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

First Draft of SPARQL New Features and Rationale

The SPARQL Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "SPARQL New Features and Rationale." This document
provides an overview of the main new features of SPARQL and their
rationale. This is an update to SPARQL adding several new features
that have been agreed by the SPARQL WG. These language features were
determined based on real applications and user and tool-developer
experience. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql-features-20090702/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Last Call: CSS3 module: Multi-column layout

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "CSS3 module: Multi-column layout." This
module describes multi-column layout in CSS. It builds on the CSS3
Box model module and adds functionality to flow the content of an
element into multiple columns. Comments are welcome through 01
October. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-multicol-20090630/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

Two SML Notes: XLink Reference Scheme, EPR-Based Reference Schemes

The Service Modeling Language Working Group has published two
Working Group Notes: "The SML XLink Reference Scheme" and "Framework
for SML EPR-Based Reference Schemes." The Service Modeling Language
specification extends the Extensible Mark-up Language and XML Schema
with a mechanism for incorporating into XML documents references to
other documents or document fragments. The first note addresses the
construction of an SML reference scheme based on the XML Linking
Language. The second addresses the construction of SML reference
schemes for document or document fragment references that employ
WS-Addressing endpoint references (EPRs). Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-sml-xlink-ref-scheme-20090630/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-sml-epr-ref-scheme-20090630/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Steve Bratt to Assume Full-Time Role as Web Foundation CEO

As of 30 June, Steven R. Bratt will step down from his role as W3C
CEO in order to pursue full-time the role of CEO of the World Wide
Web Foundation. The Web Foundation was announced in September 2008
with a mission to advance the Web, connect humanity, and empower
people. Steve has been part-time CEO of the Web Foundation since
then.

While W3C COO and then CEO, Steve was responsible for W3C's
worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management of
Member relations, the W3C Process, the staff, strategic planning,
budget, legal matters, external liaisons and major events. His
purposeful and thoughtful leadership at W3C was informed by previous
experiences in research, industry, and government, where he served
on scientific and arms control delegations among others.

While W3C seeks to fill the open position, Ralph Swick assumes
Steve's leadership responsibilities. Thomas Roessler steps up in the
interim to take on the role of Technology and Society Domain Lead.

The mission of the Web Foundation complements that of W3C, and the
two organizations will continue to coordinate their efforts to make
the Web useful and available to all. W3C looks forward to Steve's
successful leadership of the Web Foundation.

http://webfoundation.org/
http://www.w3.org/News/2009/News/2008#item157
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Recruitment/

First Authorized Translation of WCAG 2.0 Published

W3C announces the French Authorized Translation of Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Règles pour l'accessibilité des
contenus Web (WCAG) 2.0 . It is the first of several planned WCAG
2.0 Translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and other languages.
Translations are listed on the WCAG 2.0 Translations page and
announced via the WAI Interest Group mailing list and WAI RSS feed.
Learn more about translating W3C documents, Policy for Authorized
W3C Translations, WCAG 2.0, and the Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI).

http://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG20-fr
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations
http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/#mailinglist
http://www.w3.org/WAI/highlights/rssfeed.rss
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/
http://www.w3.org/2005/02/TranslationPolicy
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Invites Implementations of Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures."
Widgets are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored
using Web standards and packaged for distribution. This document
defines a profile of the XML Signature Syntax and Processing 1.1
specification to allow a widget package to be digitally signed,
helping to ensure continuity of authorship and distributorship.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-digsig-20090625/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Workshop on Using Ink in Multimodal Applications Canceled

The Workshop on Using Ink in Multimodal Applications, which was
planned for 10-11 July 2009 in Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada), has
been canceled. The goal of the Workshop was to help the Multimodal
Interaction Working Group integrate handwriting modality components
(Ink Modality Components) into the "MMI Architecture" and clarify
what should be added to the Multimodal specifications to enable
applications to adapt to various modality combinations including
Ink. The group is planning to meet face-to-face during W3C's TPAC
2009, and will continue to discuss possible extensions for InkML and
how to integrate the specification into the architecture. Read about
the "Ink Markup Language (InkML)" and W3C's Multimodal Interaction
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Five Web Services Drafts Updated

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published updates to
five Working Drafts: "Web Services Enumeration (WS-Enumeration),"
"Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing)," "Web Services Resource
Transfer (WS-RT)," "Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer)," and "Web
Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)." The first
describes a general SOAP-based protocol for enumerating a sequence
of XML elements that is suitable for traversing logs, message
queues, or other linear information models. The second describes a
protocol that allows Web services to subscribe to or accept
subscriptions for event notification. The third defines extensions
to WS-Transfer that deal primarily with fragment-based access to
resources to satisfy the common requirements of WS-ResourceFramework
and WS-Management. The fourth describes a general SOAP-based
protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based
resources. The fifth defines how metadata associated with a Web
service endpoint can be represented as resources, how metadata can
be embedded in endpoint references, and how metadata could be
retrieved from a Web service endpoint. Learn more about the Web
Services Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090317
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090317
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Note Published: W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Group
Note of "W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0." W3C's mobileOK is designed to
improve the Web experience for users of mobile devices by rewarding
content providers that adhere to good practice when delivering
content to them. This document describes the mobileOK scheme, which
allows content providers to promote their content as being suitable
for use on very basic mobile devices. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mobileOK-20090625/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
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Congreso Internet, Derecho y Política.
* 10 July, Kyoto, Japan: Web技術の現状と将来. Masao Isshiki presents at
オープンソースカンファレンス 2009 Kansai.
* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 20 July, Boston, USA: Web Accessibility, Universal Design, and
Standardization. Judy Brewer participates in a panel at
Accessing the Future: A global collaborative exploration for
accessibility in the next decade.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the
Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas. Doug
Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
* 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming:
buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
* 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools
with no angle bracket at all!. Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at
Balisage.
* 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces. Liam Quin
presents at Balisage.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-06-23

2009-06-23T12:32:53Z

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W3C Launches Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Open Web Education
Alliance Incubator Group, whose mission is to help enhance and
standardize the architecture of the World Wide Web by facilitating
the highest quality standards and best practice based education for
future generations of Web professionals. The goal of this Incubator
Group is to bring together interested individuals, companies, and
organizations with a strong interest in the field of educating Web
professionals, to explore the needs and issues around the topic of
Web development education. The group will be chaired by John
Allsopp. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for
this group: Adobe Systems Inc.; Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd; and Opera
Software. 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/owea/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/owea/charter-20090617
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

First Drafts of Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy; URI Scheme

The Web Applications Working Group has published two First Public
Working Drafts: "Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy" and "Widgets
1.0: URI Scheme." The former defines the security model controlling
network access from within a widget, as well as a method for widget
authors to request that the user agent grant access to certain
network resources. The latter defines a "widget:" URI scheme to help
identify resources within a widget package. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-access-20090618/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-uri-20090618/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

First Draft Published for Ontology for Media Resource 1.0

The Media Annotations Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Ontology for Media Resource 1.0." This
specification defines an ontology for cross-community data
integration of information related to media resources, with a
particular focus on media resources on the Web. The ontology is
supposed to foster interoperability and counter the current
proliferation of video metadata formats by providing full or partial
translation and mapping towards existing formats. Learn more about
the Video in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mediaont-10-20090618/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

CSS Fonts Module Level 3 Draft Published

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Working Draft of "CSS Fonts Module Level 3." This CSS3 module
describes how font properties are specified and how font resources
are loaded dynamically. This draft consolidates material previously
divided between the CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. Learn
more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-fonts-20090618/
http://www.w3.org/Style/

Last Call: Delivery Context Ontology

The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "Delivery Context Ontology." A "Delivery
Context" is a source of information that can help create
context-aware applications, thus providing a compelling user
experience. The Delivery Context Ontology specification provides a
formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which
devices interact with the Web or other services. The Delivery
Context includes the characteristics of the Device, the software
used to access the service and the Network providing the connection
among others. Comments are welcome through 07 July. Learn more about
the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-dcontology-20090616/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Updated Drafts of SVG Parameters 1.0

The SVG Working Group has published two Working Drafts: "SVG
Parameters 1.0, Part 1: Primer" and "SVG Parameters 1.0, Part 2:
Language." The SVG Parameters specification is an SVG 2.0 Module to
provide a declarative way to incorporate parameter values into SVG
content. Often, users may wish to create a single resource, and
reuse it several times with specified variations, and this
specification provides a means to do so without the use of scripts.
The Primer suggests how to use the SVG Parameters specification with
SVG 1.2. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGParamPrimer-20090616/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGParam-20090616/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
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* 23 June, Paris, France: How can we exploit XBRL and Semantic Web
technologies to realize the opportunities?. Dave Raggett
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* 30 June, Dagstuhl, Germany: W3C's Current (SW) Activities. Ivan
Herman presents at Dagstuhl Perspective Workshop: Semantic Web
Reflections and Future Directions.
* 30 June, Berlin, Germany: Wie implementiert man einen Standard?
Eine Anleitung für Praktiker. Felix Sasaki presents at Tutorial
organized by the Berlin University of the Arts.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 2 July, Brisbane, Australia: W3C: a Use Case for Web
Technologies. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at NICTA, Queensland
Research Laboratory.
* 7 July, Barcelona, Spain: Acceso a la Información Pública y
Redes Sociales. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at V
Congreso Internet, Derecho y Política.
* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
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* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-06-15

2009-06-15T20:36:42Z

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W3C Invites Implementation of OWL 2

The OWL Working Group invites implementation of its OWL 2 Web
Ontology Language. OWL 2 is a compatible extension to " OWL 1,"
providing " additional features" for people using ontologies. An
ontology is a structured set of terms that a particular community
uses for organizing data, such as "title", "author", and "ISBN" for
data about books. The OWL 2 document set contains 9 technical
specifications and 4 instructional documents. The
Recommendation-track specifications are now Candidate
Recommendations, indicating that the Working Group and the W3C
Director believe this is a good time for systems to begin adopting
OWL 2 features on an experimental basis. The group maintains a list
of implementations and encourages new information about
implementations and other feedback to be sent to it comments
address. The 4 instructional documents, which provide an
introduction to OWL 2, are now at Last Call: " overview," "primer"
, " new features and rationale," and " quick reference." Finally,
a new datatype used within both OWL and RIF, called
"rdf:PlainLiteral" (formerly called rdf:text) is also a Candidate
Recommendation. 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-new-features-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Implementations
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-primer-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-new-features-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-quick-reference-20090611/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-rdf-plain-literal/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

W3C Celebrates Semantic Web Progress at SemTech 2009

W3C technical staff and more than 30 W3C Member organizations will
present at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) this week in
San Jose, California. Sessions led by W3C staff and Member
organizations highlight the accelerating rate of adoption and
deployment of Semantic Web technologies in the past year. "We have
gathered a growing number of Semantic Web use cases and case studies
in the past 12 months," said Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead
for W3C and one of the presenters. "What thrills me is the diversity
of application areas for the Semantic Web, including more software,
services and tools, as well as successful deployment in business and
industry." Read the full press release and learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/SemTech-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Call for Review: SKOS Reference Proposed Recommendation

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Proposed
Recommendation of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Reference." SKOS provides a common data model for sharing and
linking knowledge organization systems via the Web. SKOS is a
vocabulary for expressing the basic structure and content of concept
schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading
schemes, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other similar types of
controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description
Framework ( "RDF" ), SKOS allows concepts to be composed and
published on the World Wide Web, linked with data on the Web and
integrated into other concept schemes. Along with this publication
of the SKOS Reference Proposed Recommendation the Working Group has
published an updated "SKOS Primer Working Draft." Comments are
welcome through 15 July. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-skos-reference-20090615/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090615/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Call for Prior Art Related to US Patent 5,764,992

This is a public call for prior art. On 5 March 2009, pursuant to
its rights under W3C's Patent Policy, Apple, Inc. disclosed US
patent 5,764,992 and claimed that it applies to the "Widgets 1.0:
Updates specification." Apple excluded all claims from the W3C
Royalty-Free License commitment of the W3C Patent Policy given by
Participants of the Web Applications Working Group. In accordance
with the exception procedures of the Patent Policy, W3C launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to determine possible solutions. The PAG
has advised W3C to issue this call for prior art. The PAG seeks
information about software update systems available before June 1995
that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of updates in
Widgets. People who wish to provide feedback should refer to the
call for prior art for more information.

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag/cfpa.html
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/p66
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-updates-20081007/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter#L381
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag/cfpa.html

W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery Update Facility 1.0

The XML Query Working Group has published a minor update to the
Candidate Recommendation of "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." This
document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query
language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions
that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. This draft reflects " changes"
made in response to comments received so far during the Candidate
Recommendation period. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xquery-update-10-20090609/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xquery-update-10-20090609/#id-revision-
log
http://www.w3.org/XML/

UK Government Moves to Put Data on the Web

Today the Office of the Prime Minister in the UK announced that Tim
Berners-Lee will "help drive opening of access to Government data on
the web over the coming months." The announcement is an important
step in helping to fulfill the vision for a Web of Linked Open Data
built on W3C's open Semantic Web standards, espoused by Berners-Lee
in his TED 2009 talk. "Government data — the people's data — is an
important component to the larger Linked Open Data movement," said
Berners-Lee. "I look forward to working with multiple government
agencies and local enthusiasts to help early adopters bring their
data to the bigger picture." In April, Berners-Lee engaged similarly
with the US government offering to help them join the "rapidly
growing Linked Open Data cloud, to which US recovery data will be a
welcome addition." W3C's own eGovernment Interest Group has also
been actively building an international network of support to work
with governments on issues of transparency, accountability, and
efficiency through open data. Learn more about W3C's eGovernment and
Semantic Web Activities.

http://twitter.com/DowningStreet/status/2102188386
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.h
tml
http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/linked-open-data
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Note: Requirements for Japanese Text Layout

Participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force (from four W3C Groups
(CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups)
published a Group Note 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. A
"Japanese version" is also available. Learn more about W3C's
Internationalization Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
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/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/ja/
http://www.w3.org/International/

Call for Review: POWDER Suite is a Proposed Recommendation

The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published three Proposed Recommendations: "Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources,"
"Description Resources," and "Formal Semantics." The Protocol for
Web Description Resources (POWDER) suite facilitates the publication
of descriptions of multiple resources such as all those available
from a Web site (see "POWDER use cases" ). The first of these three
documents 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. The second
details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs),
which encapsulate POWDER metadata. The third describes the formal
semantics of the formalism. Comments are welcome through 05 July.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-grouping-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-dr-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-powder-formal-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-use-cases/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Invites Implementations of SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0

The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0."
The work described in this and related documents is aimed at a set
of standards for the transport of SOAP messages over JMS [Java
Message Service]. The main purpose is to ensure interoperability
between the implementations of different Web services vendors. It
should also enable customers to implement their own Web services for
part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with
vendor provided Web services. The main audience will be implementers
of Web services stacks; in particular people who wish to extend a
Web services stack with an implementation of SOAP/JMS. This document
specifies how SOAP should bind to a messaging system that supports
the Java Message Service (JMS). Learn more about the Web Services
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-soapjms-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Registration Open: Live Training Sessions On Mobile Web Design

Today, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative opens registration for its
first ever live training day. Training will take place Thursday, 2
July 2009, in Cambridge, UK. Students will attend a full day of
lectures and hands on sessions on the "W3C Mobile Web Best
Practices" standard, and more generally on mobile Web design. This
training event is part of the MobiWeb 2.0 project supported by the
European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). Read the
full announcement and learn more about the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative.

http://www.3gwebtrain.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=14
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/
http://www.w3.org/2008/MobiWeb20/
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/live_mobile_training.html
http://www.w3.org/Mobile

Drafts of MathML 3.0 and MathML for CSS Profile Published

The Math Working Group has published Working Drafts of "Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0" and "A MathML for CSS profile"
. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation
and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the
World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for
text. This document describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits
formatting with Cascading Style Sheets. Learn more about the Math
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-MathML3-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mathml-for-css-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/Math/

Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0
Draft Published

The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object
1.0." This document specifies use cases and requirements as an
input for the development of the "Ontology for Media Object 1.0" and
the "API for Media Object 1.0". The ontology will be a simple
ontology to support cross-community data integration of information
related to media objects on the Web. The API will provide read
access and potentially write access to media objects, relying on the
definitions from the ontology. Learn more about the Video in the Web
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

Last Call: WebCGM 2.1

The WebCGM Working Group has published a 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 02 July. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Last Call: Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format
Exchange Profile (DFXP)

The Timed Text Working Group has published a third Last Call Draft
of "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format
Exchange Profile (DFXP)." Timed text is textual information that is
intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information.
The timed text authoring format is a content type that represents
timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring
systems. See " changes in this draft." Comments are welcome through
30 June 2009. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20090602/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20090602/#change-history-cr1
-to-lc3
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working
Draft of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0."
VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive
media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken
and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and
recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including
digitized audio, and digitized video. The primary goal of this
version 3.0 is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and
content delivery to interactive voice response applications. See the
"diff-marked version" showing changes made since the "19 December
2008 draft." Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090602/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20090602/diff.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-voicexml30-20081219/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board

The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (IBM),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Ora Lassila (Nokia),
Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software), Takeshi Natsuno (Keio
University), and Arun Ranganathan (Mozilla). Steve Zilles continues
as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
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Upcoming Talks

* 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.
* 18 June, Gijón, Spain: La reutilización de información del
sector público y la Web: Open Government Data. José Manuel
Alonso presents at Jornada #admin20 en Internet Meeting Point.
* 30 June, Berlin, Germany: Wie implementiert man einen Standard?
Eine Anleitung für Praktiker. Felix Sasaki presents at Tutorial
organized by the Berlin University of the Arts.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 2 July, Brisbane, Australia: W3C: a Use Case for Web
Technologies. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at NICTA, Queensland
Research Laboratory.
* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-06-01

2009-06-01T21:08:42Z

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W3C Opens Senegal Office

W3C announces today the launch of the W3C Senegal Office, hosted by
the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), attached to the UCAD
(Université Cheikh Anta Diop), in Dakar, Senegal. Ibrahima Ngom
(ESP) and Alex Corenthin (ISOC Senegal) will jointly manage this new
W3C Office. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the
French-speaking community, especially neighboring countries in West
Africa. The opening ceremony will take place 27 May. Read the press
release and learn more about the W3C Offices, which assist W3C with
promotion efforts in local languages, help broaden W3C’s
geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C
Activities.

http://www.w3c.sn/
http://www.w3c.sn/
http://www.esp.sn/
http://www.ucad.sn/
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/sn-launch.html
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/senegal-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

Candidate Recommendation Updated: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published an updated
Candidate Recommendation of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This
specification describes the syntax and semantics of a language for
describing operations to be performed on XML documents. The status
section of the document summarizes the list of changes since the
Candidate Recommendation was first published. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xproc-20090528/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration." This
document standardizes a packaging format for a class of software
application known as a widget. Widgets are full-fledged client-side
applications that are authored using Web standards and packaged for
distribution. They are typically downloaded and installed on a
client machine or device where they run as stand-alone applications,
but they can also be embedded into Web pages and run in a Web
browser. Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, 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. Comments are welcome
through 19 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-20090528/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working
Draft Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education
and Outreach Working Group have published an updated Working Draft
of "Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)." This draft is complete
and is provided as a last opportunity for public review and comment
before publication as a W3C Working Group Note. See the announcement
email.

The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content
Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for
People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how
design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third
document, Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device
Users and People with Disabilities, provides examples of barriers
that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web
content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with
disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mwbp-wcag-20090526/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009AprJun/0127
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* HTML5 isn't a standard yet by Philippe Le Hégaret
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/_watching_the_google_io.html
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Upcoming Talks

* 4 June, Rabat, Morocco: Content for All: Web Accessibility
Guidelines. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at International
Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services.
* 6 June, Danbury, CT, USA: Digital Media for All . Jeanne
Spellman presents at Connecticut Film Festival.
* 9 June, Premantura, Croatia: International Standards for Web
Accessibility. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Pristupačnost ili
informacijske barijere?.
* 11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content
Adaptation by Third-party Proxies. François Daoust presents at
ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
* 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.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
* 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).
* 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-05-25

2009-05-25T16:42:11Z

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Report Evokes Promise of Mobile to Foster Social Development; Need for
Cooperation

Today W3C publishes the report from the April 2009 Workshop on the
Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development.
Participants discussed how numerous services available 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,
governments, and the 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 the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the
Government of Mozambique, with the generous support of Gold Sponsors
UNDP, the Web Foundation, Nokia, and Bharti Telesoft; and Silver
Sponsors Opera Software, UNESCO, Microsoft Research, and MIT Legatum
Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. This work is part of
the Digital World Forum project (European Union's FP7). Learn more
about the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group and
the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/exec_summary.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
http://www.digitalworldforum.eu
http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4d
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices

W3C announces today an extended and improved version of its online
course to introduce Web developers and designers to its Mobile Web
Best Practices. The course runs from 1 June to 31 July 2009.
Participants will:
* learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile
platform
* learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content for
mobile
* discover the relevant W3C resources for mobile Web design

Participants will have access to lectures and assignments that
provide hands-on practical experience of using W3C's Mobile Web Best
Practices. Participants will work with both W3C experts on this
topic (the instructors) and peers who can share experiences about
the real-world challenges of mobile Web design. More information is
available about the course material (including a free sample),
registration fee, and intended audience. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102/
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Updated Working
Draft

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has
published an updated Working Draft of "Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0" in preparation for the Last Call Working
Draft. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers
produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. ATAG also defines how to make
authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use
them. Read the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft and
about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ATAG20-200901@@/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009AprJun/0122
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Rescinds Four Proposed Edited Recommendations for XHTML Documents

In response to comments about potential unresolved issues on four
Proposed Edited Recommendations published earlier this month, W3C
has rescinded the drafts and closed the review period. The rescinded
drafts are:
* "XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition"
* "XHTML™ Basic 1.1 - Second Edition"
* "XHTML-Print - Second Edition"
* "XHTML™ 1.0"

The W3C Process indicates that Proposed Edited Recommendations must
formally address all issues raised about the documents since the
previous Recommendations. Open issues against the XHTML documents
were not cited during the process of deciding to advance the
documents. The XHTML2 Working Group may request publication of the
four Proposed Edited Recommendations later on, based on proper
review of outstanding issues. The decision to rescind these
specifications has no bearing on existing Recommendations for these
technologies.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml11-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml-basic-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml-print-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml1-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#cfr-edited
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
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* Language semantics and operational meaning by Larry Masinter
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/language_semantics_and_operati.html
http://larry.masinter.net
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http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

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Upcoming Talks

* 26 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at PhD School Course,
Netherlands Bioinformation Centre.
* 26 May, Rabat, Morocco: Les Activités Actuelles du W3C et le
Rôle de ses Membres.. Najib Tounsi participates in a panel at
Gouvernance de l’Internet : défis et enjeux pour le Maroc.
* 26 May, Rabat, Morocco: Improving Society through Better Use of
Web Standards . Daniel Dardailler presents at "Gouvernance de
l’Internet: défis et enjeux pour le Maroc.
* 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
Summit 09.
* 11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content
Adaptation by Third-party Proxies. François Daoust presents at
ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
* 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.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 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).
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-05-18

2009-05-18T15:30:09Z

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Service Modeling Standards Extend Reach of XML Family

Today W3C announces new standards that make it possible to use XML
tools to improve the quality of increasingly sophisticated systems
and services built from the XML family of standards. Now developers
can validate sets of XML documents, either in place, using "Service
Modeling Language 1.1 (SML)," or as a package, using "SML
Interchange Format 1.1 (SML-IF)." Read the press release and
testimonials, and learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-sml-20090512/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-sml-if-20090512/
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/sml-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2009/04/sml-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C to Participate in SVG Open 2009

W3C will again this year sponsor SVG Open 2009, the 7th
international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, hosted by
Google in Mountain View, California on 2-4 October 2009. SVG Open
provides an opportunity for designers, developers and implementers
to share ideas, experiences, products and strategies. Members of the
W3C SVG Working Group will be attending and presenting at the
conference, which will include a Working Group panel session on
future SVG developments. A day of workshops will also be scheduled
adjacent to the main conference. The conference organizers have
indicated that proposals for presentation abstracts and course
outlines are welcome through 15 May. Learn more about the W3C
Graphics Activity.

http://www.svgopen.org/2009/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
https://www.svgopen.org/2009/participate.shtml
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Draft Published of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution
Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)

The Timed Text Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Timed
Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange
Profile (DFXP)." Timed text is textual information that is
intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information.
The timed text authoring format is a content type that represents
timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring
systems. The Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) provides a
standardized representation of a particular subset of textual
information with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are
associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose of
interchange and potential presentation. Learn more about the Video
in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20090511/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web Note
Published

The eGovernment Interest Group has published a Group Note of
"Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web."
This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the
variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their
efforts to apply 21st century capabilities to eGovernment
initiatives. It provides examples of existing, applicable open Web
standards. Where government needs in the development of eGovernment
services are not currently met by existing standards, those gaps are
noted. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-egov-improving-20090512/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

Guidelines for Writing Device Independent Tests Note Published

The Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group has published a
Group Note of "Guidelines for writing device independent tests." As
support for Web technologies grows, it is important that tests
writers develop test suites that will work as well as possible
across devices. This document offers guidance in the form of simple
guidelines to follow to create device-independent tests. Learn more
about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-di-testing-20090512/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Four XHTML Documents Published as Proposed Edited Recommendations

The XHTML2 Working Group has published four Proposed Edited
Recommendations:
* "XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition," which serve
as the basis for future extended XHTML 'family' document types
* "XHTML™ Basic 1.1 - Second Edition," includes the minimal set
of modules required to be an XHTML host language document type,
and in addition it includes images, forms, basic tables, and
object support.
* "XHTML-Print - Second Edition," designed for mobile printers
and in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to
install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in
the formatting of the output is acceptable.
* "XHTML™ 1.0"

These updates incorporate known errata; each document links to a
list of changes. The review period is open until 4 June. Learn more
about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml11-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml-basic-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml-print-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xhtml1-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

State Chart XML (SCXML) Working Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working
Draft of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for
Control Abstraction." SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state
machine language that may be used in a number of ways, including as
a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated
speech modules, or as a multimodal control language in the
MultiModal Interaction framework. The main differences from the
previous draft are (1) a revision of the send and invoke elements
and (2) the introduction of Event I/O processors to support them.
Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-scxml-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Mobile Web Application Best Practices Draft Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Mobile Web Application Best Practices." This document
specifies Best Practices for the development and delivery of Web
applications on mobile devices. The recommendations expand upon
statements made in the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (BP1),
especially those that relate to the exploitation of device
capabilities and awareness of the delivery context. Learn more about
the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mwabp-20090507/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Notes Published: Basic, Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
Version 1.0

The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has published
two Group Notes: "Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version
1.0" and " Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0"
. Schema patterns describe the ways people use XML for common data
structures in programming languages. The data structures described
are intended to be independent of any particular programming
language, database or modelling environment. Learn more about the
Web Services Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xmlschema-patterns-20090505/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20090505/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Invites Implementations of W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD)
1.1

The XML Schema Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendation of XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1. The
specification consists of "Part 1: Structures" and "Part 2:
Datatypes." XSD provides tools for describing the structure of XML
content and constraining the contents of XML documents. Part 2
provides tools for defining datatypes (dates, times, numbers,
strings, etc.) to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML
specifications. Information about " changes to structures" and
"changes to datatypes" since XML Schema 1.0 is available. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-1-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-2-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-1-20090430/#changes
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-2-20090430/#changes
http://www.w3.org/XML/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
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* W3C is micro-blogging by Coralie Mercier
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/w3c_is_micro-blogging.html
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http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/data_interchange_problems_come.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
* Once more into Versioning -- this time with HTML by Larry
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http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/once_more_into_versioning_--_t.html
http://larry.masinter.net
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Upcoming Meetings

* Using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal
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Upcoming Talks

* 19 May, Hobart, Australia: Introduction and Applications of
Semantic Web. Ivan Herman presents at Presentation series "The
future of web standards, HTML5, XHTML and semantic
technologies".
* 19 May, Hobart, Australia: HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from history
about how to drive the future of the Web. Michael(tm) Smith
presents at Presentation series "The future of web standards,
HTML5, XHTML and semantic technologies".
* 20 May, Melbourne, Australia: Introduction and Applications of
Semantic Web. Ivan Herman presents at Presentation series "The
future of web standards, HTML5, XHTML and semantic
technologies".
* 20 May, Melbourne, Australia: HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from
history about how to drive the future of the Web. Michael(tm)
Smith presents at Presentation series "The future of web
standards, HTML5, XHTML and semantic technologies".
* 26 May, Rabat, Morocco: Les Activités Actuelles du W3C et le
Rôle de ses Membres.. Najib Tounsi participates in a panel at
Gouvernance de l’Internet : défis et enjeux pour le Maroc.
* 26 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at PhD School Course,
Netherlands Bioinformation Centre.
* 26 May, Rabat, Morocco: Improving Society through Better Use of
Web Standards . Daniel Dardailler presents at "Gouvernance de
l’Internet: défis et enjeux pour le Maroc.
* 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
Summit 09.
* 11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content
Adaptation by Third-party Proxies. François Daoust presents at
ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
* 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.
* 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
* 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).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-05-04

2009-05-04T15:19:42Z

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W3C Invites Implementations of W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD)
1.1

The XML Schema Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendation of XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1. The
specification consists of "Part 1: Structures" and Part 2:
Datatypes. XSD provides tools for describing the structure of XML
content and constraining the contents of XML documents. Part 2
provides tools for defining datatypes (dates, times, numbers,
strings, etc.) to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML
specifications. Information about "changes to structures" and
"changes to datatypes" since XML Schema 1.0 is available. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-1-20090430/
TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-2-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-1-20090430/#changes
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xmlschema11-2-20090430/#changes
http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C Organizes Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications

W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on using Ink in
Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal Architecture and
Interfaces on 10-11 July 2009 in Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada),
hosted by the University of Western Ontario. The goal of the
Workshop is to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
integrate handwriting modality components (Ink Modality Components)
into the "MMI Architecture" and clarify what should be added to the
Multimodal specifications to enable applications to adapt to various
modality combinations including Ink. Attendees will discuss
requirements for changes, extensions and additions to Ink standards
especially in Multimodal Applications developed based on the W3C's
MMI Architecture as a means of making InkML more useful in current
and emerging markets. Position papers are due 1 June 2009. Read
about the "Ink Markup Language (InkML)" and W3C's Multimodal
Interaction Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Three First Drafts of SVG Modules Published

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group published three
first public drafts today. SVG is a language for describing vector
graphics, but it is typically rendered to a display or some form of
print medium. The first new publication, "SVG Compositing," adds
support for raster and vector objects to be combined to produce eye
catching effects via advanced alpha compositing, masks, and clipping
paths. The other specifications are for SVG Referenced Parameter
Variables: "Part 1: Primer" and "Part 2: Language." The Referenced
Parameter Variables specification provides a declarative way to
incorporate parameter values into SVG content. Often, users may wish
to create a single resource, and reuse it several times with
specified variations, and this specification provides a means to do
so without the use of script. Learn more about the Graphics
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGCompositing-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGParamPrimer-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGParam-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures; Widgets Requirements
Updated

The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
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
mechanism to ensure continuity of authorship and distributorship. A
user agent can use the digital signature to verify the integrity of
the widget package and to confirm the signing key(s). Comments are
welcome through 01 June. The Working Group also published an updated
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Requirements." Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-digsig-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-reqs-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

First Draft of Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments

The Media Fragments Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments."
The aim of this specification is to enhance the Web infrastructure
for supporting the addressing and retrieval of subparts of
time-based Web resources. Example uses are the sharing of such
fragment URIs with friends via email, the automated creation of such
fragment URIs in a search engine interface, or the annotation of
media fragments with RDF. This specification will help make video a
first-class citizen of the World Wide Web. In addition to describing
use cases for the Media Fragments 1.0 specification, this document
discusses syntax and processing of media fragment URIs, and offers
survey of technologies that address multimedia fragments. Learn more
about the Video in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-frags-reqs-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

XML Signature Properties Draft Published

The XML Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of "XML
Signature Properties." This document outlines proposed standard XML
Signature Properties syntax and processing rules and an associated
namespace for these properties. The intent is these can be composed
with any version of XML Signature using the XML SignatureProperties
element. Learn more about the Security Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-properties-20090430/
http://www.w3.org/Security/

Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema: Working Draft
Published

The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) today
published an updated Working Draft of "Evaluation and Report
Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema." This document provides the formal
schema of EARL 1.0, a vocabulary to express test results. EARL is a
format to exchange, combine, and analyze results from different
evaluation tools. Read the invitation to review EARL 1.0 Schema and
learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-EARL10-Schema-20090428/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009AprJun/0082
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Once more into Versioning -- this time with HTML by Larry
Masinter
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/once_more_into_versioning_--_t.html
http://larry.masinter.net
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* Using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces, 10-11 July
* More About Workshops...
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* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks

* 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.
* 11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content
Adaptation by Third-party Proxies. François Daoust presents at
ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents 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).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-27

2009-04-27T15:17:59Z

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The 2009-04-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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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.

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt20-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xquery-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xqueryx-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath20-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath-datamodel-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xquery-semantics-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt-xquery-serialization-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath-functions-20090421/
http://www.w3.org/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).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-13

2009-04-13T15:37:11Z

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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/
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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 ...
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* More About Workshops...
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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
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-06

2009-04-06T15:43:47Z

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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/
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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.
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-03-30

2009-03-30T15:21:32Z

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W3C Welcomes Feedback on Redesigned Web Site

W3C invites public feedback on a beta release of a W3C site
redesign. The new site features a harmonized design, simplified
information architecture, new style for technical reports, and new
content, including calendars and aggregated blogs. W3C welcomes
feedback on the usability of the site, links to useful information,
contributions of content to new pages, and bug fixes. Take a
10-minute screencast tour of the site, learn more about the
redesign, and find out how you can help.

http://dotsub.com/view/41e149bd-8b98-4103-a9f8-c96787497211
http://beta.w3.org/
http://dotsub.com/view/41e149bd-8b98-4103-a9f8-c96787497211
http://beta.w3.org/Help/about-redesign
http://beta.w3.org/Help/about-redesign#howtohelp

Patent Advisory Group Launched for "Widgets 1.0: Updates"

In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent
Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosure related to the
"Widgets 1.0: Updates" specification; see the PAG charter. The
WebApps Working Group develops this specification. W3C launches a
PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that
may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free
licensing requirements. Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/p66
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-updates/
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception

OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview

The OWL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." This document,
part 1 of 13 in the OWL 2 document set, serves as an introduction to
OWL 2 and the various other OWL 2 documents. It describes the
various syntaxes for OWL 2, the different kinds of semantics, the
defined profiles (sub-languages), and the differences between OWL 1
and OWL 2. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090327/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Exploring Richer Web Content Authoring with CSS and SVG: Five First
Public Drafts

The CSS and SVG Working Groups delivered today five new
specifications for public review, aimed at enabling more compelling
content creation with open Web technologies. The five drafts are:
"SVG Transforms 1.0, Part 2: Language," "CSS 2D Transforms Module
Level 3," "CSS 3D Transforms Module Level 3," "CSS Animations
Module Level 3," and "CSS Transitions Module Level 3." SVG
Transforms allows two-dimensional objects to be transformed using
three-dimensional transformations. CSS 2D Transforms allows elements
rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space. CSS 3D
Transforms extends CSS Transforms to allow elements rendered by CSS
to be transformed in three-dimensional space. CSS Animations allow
an author to modify CSS property values over time. CSS Transitions
allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a
specified duration. The groups are working closely together to make
implementing and authoring these features easy and consistent across
Web languages. Learn more about the Style Activity and Graphics
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVG-Transforms-20090320/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20090320/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-3d-transforms-20090320/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-animations-20090320/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-transitions-20090320/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft
of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing." This document defines a
mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin requests.
Specifications that want to enable cross-origin requests 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 (e.g., specifying Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
http://example.org as response header), which would allow that
resource to be fetched cross-origin from http://example.org. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-cors-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Invites Implementations of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization
System) Reference; Primer Also Published

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation 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. SKOS—Simple
Knowledge Organization System—provides a model for expressing the
basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri,
classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies,
folksonomies, and other similar types of controlled vocabulary. As
an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), SKOS
allows concepts to be composed and published on the World Wide Web,
linked with data on the Web and integrated into other concept
schemes. The Working Group also published today a Working Draft of
"SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer." Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Five First Public Drafts of Web Services Specifications

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published five First
Public Working Drafts: "Web Services Enumeration (WS-Enumeration),"
"Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing)," "Web Services Resource
Transfer (WS-RT)," "Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer)," and "Web
Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)." The first
describes a general SOAP-based protocol for enumerating a sequence
of XML elements that is suitable for traversing logs, message
queues, or other linear information models. The second describes a
protocol that allows Web services to subscribe to or accept
subscriptions for event notification. The third defines extensions
to WS-Transfer that deal primarily with fragment-based access to
resources to satisfy the common requirements of WS-ResourceFramework
and WS-Management. The fourth describes a general SOAP-based
protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based
resources. The fifth defines how metadata associated with a Web
service endpoint can be represented as resources, how metadata can
be embedded in endpoint references, and how metadata could be
retrieved from a Web service endpoint. Learn more about the Web
Services Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090317
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090317
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* A rough view of the future by Philippe Le Hégaret
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http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
* News from the Video Media Annotations front by Coralie Mercier
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/03/news_from_the_video_media_anno.html
http://my.opera.com/koalie/
* beta.w3.org by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/03/betaw3org.html
* Food, agriculture, and SKOS by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/03/food_agriculture_and_skos.html
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Upcoming Talks

* 31 March, Paris, France: Improving Society through Better Use of
Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Technical
Regulation of the Internet.
* 1 April, Maputo, Mozambique: A Web that Empowers All People.
Steve Bratt gives a keynote at Africa Perspective on the Role of
Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development.
* 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, Lisbon, Portugal: Improving Society through Better Use
of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler participates in a panel at
ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum.
* 23 April, Madrid, Spain: Panel on Multilingual Web Sites.
Richard Ishida participates in a panel at 18th World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2009).
* 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
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-03-16

2009-03-16T14:24:08Z

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The 2009-03-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090316

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Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web: First
Public Draft

The eGovernment Interest Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Improving Access to Government through Better Use
of the Web." 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.
Recognizing that governments throughout the World need assistance
and guidance in achieving the promises of electronic government
through technology and the Web, this document seeks to define and
call forth, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges
faced by governments. The use cases, documentation, and explanation
are focused on the available or needed technical standards but
additionally provide context to note and describe the additional
challenges and issues which exist before success can be realized.
This document has been published in time for W3C's eGovernment
stakeholder meeting in Washington, D.C.. Learn more about the
eGovernment Activity.

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

Video of Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk Available

In February, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee spoke at TED 2009 about
the Semantic Web and linked data (see slides). The video of his TED
talk is now available.

http://conferences.ted.com/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.h
tml

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published
an updated Working Draft of the "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
(UAAG) 2.0." UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other
"user agents" should support accessibility for people with
disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Read the
invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-UAAG20-20080312/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JanMar/0057
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Pointer Methods in RDF: First Draft Published

The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group today published
"Pointer Methods in RDF" as a First Public Working Draft. This
document provides a framework for representing pointers to identify
locations in content or portions of content, using Resource
Description Framework (RDF). This document is part of Evaluation and
Report Language (EARL) and can be used to extend the "EARL 1.0
Schema." Read the invitation to review Pointer Methods in RDF and
learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/TR/Pointers-in-RDF
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/earl
http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JanMar/0053
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Last Call: Selectors Level 3

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Last Call Working Draft of "Selectors Level 3." Selectors are
patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one
of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in an XML
document. Selectors have been optimized for use with HTML and XML,
and are designed to be usable in performance-critical code. Comments
are welcome through 07 April. Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-selectors-20090310/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
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Upcoming Talks

* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 24 March, Vienna, Austria: Moving the Web with Standards.
François Daoust presents at Mobile Internet 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 31 March, Paris, France: Improving Society through Better Use of
Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Technical
Regulation of the Internet.
* 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, Lisbon, Portugal: Improving Society through Better Use
of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler participates in a panel at
ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents 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.
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-03-09

2009-03-09T15:52:44Z

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2009-03-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.0 Target International Deployment

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) announced Translations of
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including draft
Authorized W3C Translations. W3C's Policy for Authorized W3C
Translations provides a process for stakeholder review and
designation as an official translation. Learn more about WCAG 2.0
Translations in-progress, WCAG 2.0, and the Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations
http://www.w3.org/2005/02/TranslationPolicy
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Launches Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Semantic Sensor
Network Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members CSIRO, Wright
State University, and OGC. The group's mission is to begin the
formal process of producing ontologies that define the capabilities
of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop semantic annotations
of a key language used by services based sensor networks. 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/ssn/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
http://www.w3.org/TR/
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Upcoming Talks

* 11 March, Stockholm, Sweden: Tillgänglighet, metoder, tekniker.
Olle Olsson presents at EPiServerdagen 2009.
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 16 March, Brussels, Belgium: Open Government Data. José Manuel
Alonso presents at Public Services 2.0.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 24 March, Vienna, Austria: Moving the Web with Standards.
François Daoust presents at Mobile Internet 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 31 March, Paris, France: Improving Society through Better Use of
Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Technical
Regulation of the Internet.
* 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, Lisbon, Portugal: Improving Society through Better Use
of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler participates in a panel at
ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents 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.
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-03-03

2009-03-02T21:23:00Z

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W3C Open Meeting: Realizing Government Transparency and Openness

On 12-13 March, W3C's eGovernment Interest Group will hold a special
stakeholder meeting in Washington, DC to address a number of issues
of high interest to government policy makers, elected officials, and
managers of government information technology. Participants will
document progressive solutions for electronic government and develop
a road map for developing Web standards related to topics such as
participation and citizen engagement, open government data,
identification and authentication, and long-term data management.
The meeting is open to the public, but advance registration is
required and seating is limited. W3C thanks the American Institute
of Architects for hosting this meeting. Read the media advisory and
learn more about the W3C eGovernment Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/F2F2
http://www.aia.org/
http://www.w3.org/2009/02/eGov-mediaadvisory.html.en
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

XML Security Working Group Releases Eight Working Drafts

The XML Security Working Group has published a set of eight Working
Drafts. The "XML Signature 1.1" and "XML Encryption 1.1" First
Public Working Drafts make changes to the default sets of
cryptographic algorithms in both specifications. "XML Security Use
Cases and Requirements" and "XML Signature Transform Simplification:
Requirements and Design" are documents that we expect to help guide
the group's work on a future version of the XML Security
specifications that might make more radical changes than the 1.1
series of these specifications. The Working Group would like to
receive early feedback on these four drafts.

Additionally, the "XML Security Derived Keys" specification
introduces mark-up for key derivation, for use with both XML
Signature and XML Encryption. "XML Signature Properties" defines
commonly used signature properties. "XML Security Algorithms" is a
cross-reference for the algorithms and their identifiers used with
the XML security specifications, bringing in one place information
located in a number of documents. "XML Signature Best Practices" is
a revised Working Draft for Best Practices in using the XML
Signature specification.

http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlenc-core1-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-reqs-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-simplify-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-%20derivedkeys-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-%20properties-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-%20algorithms-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-bestpractices-20090226/

Web Forms 2.0 Draft Superseded by HTML 5

The HTML Working Group has announced that "Web Forms 2.0" has been
superseded by material published in drafts of "HTML 5." Learn more
about HTML.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg
http://www.w3.org/TR/web-forms-2/
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
http://www.w3.org/html/

Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines

The Web Security Context Working Group has published the second Last
Call Working Draft of "Web Security Context: User Interface
Guidelines." This specification deals with the trust decisions that
users must make online, and with ways to support them in making safe
and informed decisions where possible. In order to achieve that
goal, this specification includes recommendations on the
presentation of identity information by Web user agents. It also
includes recommendations for handling errors in security protocols.
This second Last Call Working Draft incorporates feedback gathered
during the first Last Call period, both from the public and from
implementers participating in the Working Group. Comments are
welcome through 19 March 2009. Learn more about the Security
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wsc-ui-20090226/
http://www.w3.org/Security/

Last Call: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA); Best
Practices and Implementation Guide Drafts Also Published

The Protocols and Formats Working Group published the Last Call
Working Draft of "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)"
. WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications
more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps
with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed
with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

The Working Group also published a First Public Working Draft of the
"WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide" that provides guidance on
how browsers and other user agents should expose WAI-ARIA features
to platform accessibility APIs. The updated Working Draft of
"WAI-ARIA Best Practices" that was published today describes how Web
content developers can develop accessible rich Web applications
using WAI-ARIA. These WAI-ARIA documents are described in the
WAI-ARIA Overview. Read details in the review announcement, and
about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-practices-20090224/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JanMar/0037
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Updated Working
Draft

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has
published an updated Working Draft of "Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0" that is synchronized with the finalized "WCAG
2.0." ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers
produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. ATAG also defines how to make
authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use
them. Read the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft and
about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ATAG20-20090217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JanMar/0033
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
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Upcoming Talks

* 6 March, Utrecht, The Netherlands: XForms and Declarative
Applications. Steven Pemberton presents at MozCamp.
* 11 March, Stockholm, Sweden: Tillgänglighet, metoder, tekniker.
Olle Olsson presents at EPiServerdagen 2009.
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 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.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents 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
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-02-16

2009-02-16T12:10:04Z

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W3C Multimodal Standard Brings Web to More People, More Ways

As part of ensuring the Web is available to all people on any
device, W3C published a new standard today to enable interactions
beyond the familiar keyboard and mouse. EMMA, the "EMMA: Extensible
MultiModal Annotation Markup Language," promotes the development of
rich Web applications that can be adapted to more input modes (such
as handwriting, natural language, and gestures) and output modes
(such as synthesized speech) at lower cost. The document, published
by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group, is part of a set of
specifications for multimodal systems, and provides details of an
XML markup language for containing and annotating the interpretation
of user input. Read the press release and testimonials, and learn
more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-emma-20090210/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/2009/02/emma-pressrelease.html.en
http://www.w3.org/2009/02/emma-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Call for Review: Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 Proposed
Recommendation

The Service Modeling Language Working Group has published the
Proposed Recommendations of "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1"
and "Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1." SML
extends the coherence-checking mechanisms of W3C XML Schema from
individual documents to collections of documents. SML-IF extends the
utility of SML by providing mechanisms for gathering together a set
of documents whose coherence is guaranteed by an SML schema, which
itself is part of the resulting package. Comments are welcome
through 12 March. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-sml-20090212/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-sml-if-20090212/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Drafts of HTML 5, Differences from HTML 4 Published

The HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of "HTML 5" and
"HTML 5 differences from HTML 4." In this version of HTML5, new
features are introduced to help Web application authors, new
elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring
practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear
conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve
interoperability. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090212/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-diff-20090212/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Incubator Group Report: RDB2RDF

The RDB2RDF Incubator Group published their final report. In the
report, the group recommends that the W3C initiate a WG to
standardize a language for mapping Relational Database schemas into
RDF and OWL. This publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a
forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is
not on the W3C standards track.

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/rdb2rdf/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/rdb2rdf/XGR-rdb2rdf-20090126/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events." This specification
defines a set of APIs and events for the Widgets 1.0 Family of
Specifications that enable baseline functionality for widgets. The
APIs and Events defined by this specification defines, amongst other
things, the means to:
* access the metadata declared in a widget's configuration
document,
* receive events related to changes in the view state of a widget,
* determine the locale under which a widget is currently running,
* be notified of events relating to the widget being updated,
* invoke a widget to open a URL on the system's default browser,
* requests the user's attention in a device independent manner,
* and check if any additional APIs requested via the configuration
document's feature element have successfully loaded.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20090205/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-* by Dan
Connolly
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/02/palm_webos_approach_to_html_ex.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
* Semantic Data Extractor by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/02/semantic_data_extractor.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Social and Economic Development, 1-2 April
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks

* 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. Lee Feigenbaum, Susie
Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on
Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
* 2 March, San Diego, USA: Frontiers in Interaction: The Power of
Multimodal Standards. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
2009.
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 29 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.
* 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-02-09

2009-02-09T19:26:48Z

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Tim Berners-Lee Speaks at TED2009

Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C, addresses TED2009 today in Long
Beach, California on the subject of Linked Data. Berners-Lee's talk
highlights the many possibilities that arise when governments,
enterprises, scientists, and others in the community choose to share
and link data on the Web using Web standards.

http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://conferences.ted.com/
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web: Workshop Report
Published

W3C published today a report from the W3C Workshop on Security for
Access to Device APIs from the Web. Workshop participants identified
a number of challenges as high-priority work items, including:
* Declaration of APIs used by web applications and widgets
* Policy description
* API patterns and concrete APIs

W3C invites follow-up discussion on the public mailing list
public-device-apis@... (public archive). Learn more about the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/report
http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Social Networking Challenges Identified by Industry Leaders in W3C
Workshop

W3C has published a report from the Workshop on the Future of Social
Networking. Observations from the fifty-five organizations that
participated (and submitted 72 position papers) include:
* By enabling users to share profiles and data across networks,
social networking sites can grow further and open possibilities
for a decentralized architecture for the Social Web.
* Contextual information, especially for mobile device users, can
significantly enrich the social networking user experience.
* Many users remain unaware of the impact of social networking on
their privacy.

The report highlights the need for an interoperable distributed
social Web framework and suggests concrete next steps for W3C. W3C
now welcomes interested parties to contribute to public discussion.
See video highlights from the Workshop, read the press release and
learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).

http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/report
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/report#Next
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-social-web-talk/
http://www.ustream.tv/oripekelman/videos
http://www.w3.org/2009/02/socialnetworks-pressrelease.html.en
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Social Networking Workshop Report by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/02/social_networking_workshop_rep.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
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* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
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Upcoming Talks

* 12 February, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs for
Development. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at II
International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
* 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. Lee Feigenbaum, Susie
Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on
Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
* 2 March, San Diego, USA: Frontiers in Interaction: The Power of
Multimodal Standards. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
2009.
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 29 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.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T19:11:32Z

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http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090202

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HTML 5 Receives Support for Authoring Materials

Dan Connolly, an active member of the HTML community for many years,
has received support from Adobe to work on HTML 5 materials for
authors. The HTML Working Group Chairs have requested additional
resources to ensure that HTML 5 meets the needs of authors and
browser developers alike. As a provider of Web development and
authoring tools, W3C Member Adobe is not only participating in the
Working Group, they have also provided financial support for the
open standards process. Learn more about HTML.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/html/

Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1

The XML Schema Working Group has published the Last Call Working
Drafts of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1:
Structures" and "Part 2: Datatypes." This former specifies the XML
Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing
the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents,
including those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The schema
language, which is itself represented in an XML vocabulary and uses
namespaces, substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the
capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs). The
latter defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML
Schemas as well as other XML specifications. The datatype language,
which is itself represented in XML, provides a superset of the
capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs) for
specifying datatypes on elements and attributes. Comments are
welcome through 20 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-1-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-2-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: WebCGM 2.1

The WebCGM Working Group has published the 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 March. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

XML Base (Second Edition) Is a W3C Recommendation

The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of
"XML Base (Second Edition)." This document describes a mechanism
for providing base URI services to XLink, but as a modular
specification so that other XML applications benefiting from
additional control over relative URIs but not built upon XLink can
also make use of it. The syntax consists of a single XML attribute
named xml:base. The functionality is similar to the base element in
HTML. This document is part of W3C's ongoing work to maintain the
core XML technologies. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xmlbase-20090128/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Note: XHTML Media Types - Second Edition

The XHTML2 Working Group has published the Group Note of "XHTML
Media Types - Second Edition." Many people want to use XHTML to
author their Web pages, but are confused about the best ways to
deliver those pages in such a way that they will be processed
correctly by various user agents. This Note contains suggestions
about how to format XHTML to ensure it is maximally portable, and
how to deliver XHTML to various user agents - even those that do not
yet support XHTML natively. This document is intended to be used by
document authors who want to use XHTML today, but want to be
confident that their XHTML content is going to work in the greatest
number of environments. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20090116/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Valid sites work better(?) by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/01/valid_sites_work_better.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* JavaScript required for basic textual info? TRY AGAIN by Dan
Connolly
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/01/javascript_required_for_basic.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Social and Economic Development, 1-2 April
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 4 February, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 6 February, Paris, France: World Wide Web 2010. Steve Bratt
gives a keynote at Netexplorateur Forum 2009.
* 12 February, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs for
Development. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at II
International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
* 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. Lee Feigenbaum, Susie
Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on
Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui is at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 29 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.
* 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.
* View upcoming talks by country
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-01-26

2009-01-26T14:43:55Z

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The 2009-01-26 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090126

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W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants

The W3C Advisory Committee has elected John Kemp (Nokia), Larry
Masinter (Adobe), and T.V. Raman (Google) to the W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Ashok
Malhotra (Oracle), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM, appointed), Jonathan Rees
(Science Commons, appointed), and Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh).
The Director is expected to appoint one individual as well. The
mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web
architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when
necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture
brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology
architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter.html#Mission

Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0

The Media Annotations Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API
for Media Object 1.0." This document specifies use cases and
requirements as an input for the development of the "Ontology for
Media Object 1.0" and the "API for Media Object 1.0". The ontology
will be a simple ontology to support cross-community data
integration of information related to media objects on the Web. The
API will provide read access and potentially write access to media
objects, relying on the definitions from the ontology. Learn more
about the Video in the Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090119/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

W3C Invites Implementations of CURIE Syntax 1.0

The XHTML2 Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendation of "CURIE Syntax 1.0." This document defines a
generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing URIs. This syntax is
intended to be used as a common element by language designers. The
intended audience for this document is Language designers, not the
users of those Languages. Track implementations in an ongoing
implementation report and learn more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-curie-20090116/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/curie-impl-report.html
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Future of Social Networking Workshop Begins

Today began a 2-day Workshop on the Future of Social Networking,
organized by W3C to explore the landscape of social networking
technologies. Participants submitted 72 position papers on a wide
range of topics regarding the growth and future of social
networking, including, but not limited to, the mobile context. The
meeting is hosted in Barcelona, Spain by Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya and ReadyPeople. Many thanks to the hosts and to Silver
Sponsors Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, Flock, and Peperoni for their
support.

http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/sponsorship
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* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
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* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks

* 29 January, Orlando, USA: Update on Accessibility Guidelines for
Browsers, Media Players, Cell phones, PDAs and Other User
Agents. Jeanne Spellman presents at Assistive Technology
Industry Association Conference 2009.
* 30 January, Orlando, USA: Web Accessibility Update 2009: WCAG
2.0, WAI-ARIA, Section 508. Shawn Henry presents at Assistive
Technology Industry Association .
* 31 January, Orlando, USA: Accessible Social Networking and Web
2.0 Content. Jeanne Spellman presents at Assistive Technology
Industry Association.
* 2 February, Denver, Colorado, USA: (TBD). Dan Connolly gives a
keynote at Web Directions North.
* 4 February, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 6 February, Paris, France: World Wide Web 2010. Steve Bratt
gives a keynote at Netexplorateur Forum 2009.
* 12 February, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs for
Development. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at II
International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
* 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. Lee Feigenbaum, Susie
Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on
Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui is at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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