W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-05-24

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Launches Library Linked Data Incubator Group

   21 May 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8803

   W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Library Linked
   Data Incubator Group, whose mission is to help increase global
   interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing
   together people involved in Semantic Web activities - focusing
   on Linked Data - in the library community and beyond, building
   on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks
   for the future. The following W3C Members have sponsored the
   charter for this group: Helsinki University of Technology, DERI
   Galway, Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM),
   Library of Congress, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIMOS,
   OCLC, Talis, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and Vrije
   Universiteit Amsterdam. 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 but in many cases serves as a starting point
   for a future Working Group.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/charter
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

W3C Welcomes Comments on First Draft of XML Processor Profiles

   18 May 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8802

   The XML Processing Model Working Group has published the First
   Public Working Draft of "XML processor profiles." This
   specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of
   which fully determines a data model for any given XML document.
   It is intended as a resource for other specifications, which
   can by a single normative reference establish precisely what
   input processing they require. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xml-proc-profiles-20100518/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call for Drafts Related to XML Security: Encryption, SIgnature,
Generic Hybrid Ciphers

   17 May 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8801

   The XML Security Working Group has published three Last Call
   Working Drafts: "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version
   1.1," "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1," and
   "XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers." The group also
   published a Working Draft of "XML Security Algorithm
   Cross-Reference." XML Encryption specifies a process for
   encrypting data and representing the result in XML. 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. The third document augments XML Encryption by
   defining algorithms, XML types and elements necessary to enable
   use of generic hybrid ciphers in XML Security applications. The
   final document summarizes XML Security algorithm URI
   identifiers and the specifications associated with them. Last
   Call comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about the
   Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20100513/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core1-20100513/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20100513/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20100513/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

State Chart XML (SCXML) Draft Published

   17 May 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8800

   The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft
   of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
   Abstraction." SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state
   machine language that can be used in many ways. It can be used
   as a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's
   encapsulated speech modules. It can also be used as a voice
   application metalanguage, where in addition to VoiceXML 3.0
   functionality, it may also control database access and business
   logic modules. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-scxml-20100513/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

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

Workshops

     * 2010-06-15 (15 JUN) – 2010-06-16 (16 JUN)
       Augmented Reality on the Web
       http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-om
       web.htm
       Barcelona, Spain
       Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own
       right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As
       mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the
       workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and
       the Web. The objective of this Workshop is to provide a
       single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss
       the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the
       mobile platform, and what role standardization should play
       for Open Augmented Reality.
     * 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
       W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
       http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
       Somerset, NJ, USA
       Openstream
       The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
       of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
       more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
       use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
       be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
       Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
       which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
       support for language capabilities that are unsupported
       today.
     * 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
       RDF Next Steps
       http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
       Palo Alto, CA
       Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
       (NCBO), at Stanford University
       The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
       community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
       should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
       help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
       new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
       version of RDF.
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/
     * 2010-07-12 (12 JUL) – 2010-07-13 (13 JUL)
       W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs
       http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
       London, England
       Hosted by Vodafone
       As the Web advances toward becoming an application
       development platform that addresses needs previously met by
       native applications, work proceeds on APIs to access
       information that was previously not available to Web
       developers. The broad availability of possibly sensitive
       data collected through location sensors and other
       facilities in a Web browser is just one example of the
       broad new privacy challenges that the Web faces today.
       Earlier approaches to address privacy issues for the Web,
       especially through policy languages, have not seen broad
       implementation in current-generation Web browsers.
       This workshop serves to investigate strategies toward
       better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and
       lead to benefits in the near term.

W3C Blog

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

Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
       Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
       Organization
       by Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany
     * 2010-05-25 (25 MAY)
       Les standards ouverts du Web et les logiciels libres
       associés
       http://www.w3c.org.ma/Talks/Tanger2010/openStandards
       by Najib Tounsi
       INTERNATIONAL FREE-LIBRE SOFTWARE DAYS, towards an
       ecological computing
       http://jlazaar.free.fr/lacolombe/Affiche-Workshoplacolombe.
       pdf
       TANGIER , Morocco
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       Transforming eGov Accessibility
       by Judy Brewer
       Gov 2.0 Expo
       http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010/
       Washington, DC, USA
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       Semantically-Enabled Standard development
       by Laurent Lefort
       Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
       Ideas
       http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
       Canberra, Australia
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
       panel features Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany
     * 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
       Building An HTML5 Video Player with SVG Controls
       by Philippe Le Hégaret
       The Bocoup Loft
       http://bocoup.eventwax.com/building-an-html5-video-player-w
       ith-svg-controls
       Cambridge, MA, USA
     * 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
       Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
       by Richard Ishida
       Localization World
       http://www.localizationworld.com/
       Berlin, Germany
     * 2010-06-10 (10 JUN)
       SVG: Today and Tomorrow
       by Doug Schepers
       @media 2010
       http://atmedia.webdirections.org/
       London, United Kingdom
     * 2010-06-14 (14 JUN)
       The next generation platform for the Web
       keynote by Jeffrey Jaffe
       GarageGeeks hosting W3C
       http://www.w3c.org.il/article/CEO_meetup
       Holon, Israel
     * 2010-06-22 (22 JUN)
       Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
       http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0622-SemTech-IH/
       by Ivan Herman
       2010 Semantic Technology Conference
       http://www.semantic-conference.com/
       San Francisco, CA, USA
     * 2010-07-16 (16 JUL)
       Usable Web Accessibility
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       ICCHP International Conference on Computers Helping People
       with Special Needs
       http://www.icchp.org/
       Vienna, Austria

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