W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-06-07

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First Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Federation Extensions Published; Five
SPARQL 1.1 Drafts Updated

   01 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8809

   The SPARQL Working Group has published a First Public Working
   Draft of "SPARQL 1.1 Federation Extensions," which defines
   extensions to the SPARQL Query Language to support distributed
   SPARQL query execution. The group also published 5 updates,
   listed below. The group seeks feedback, particularly on open
   issues identified in each document. Learn more about the
   Semantic Web.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-federated-query-20100601/
   http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/track/issues/open
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
     * SPARQL 1.1 Query adds support for aggregates, subqueries,
       projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query
       language.
     * SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF
       graphs.
     * SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and
       discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a
       SPARQL endpoint.
     * SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs
       describes the use of the HTTP protocol for managing named
       RDF graphs on an HTTP server.
     * SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes defines conditions under
       which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes
       such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF.

   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

     * Interviews with SVG Implementers
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/interviews_with_svg_implemente
       4 June 2010 by Doug Schepers
       http://schepers.cc/
     * SVG Contest
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/svg_contest
       3 June 2010 by Doug Schepers
       http://schepers.cc/
     * XHTML Modularization: a markup language designer's toolkit
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/xhtml_modularization_a_markup
       3 June 2010 by Steven Pemberton
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven

Upcoming Talks

     * 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
     * 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
       El valor social de la reutilización
       panel features José Manuel Alonso
       PSI Meeting “Realising the Value of Public Sector
       Information”
       http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psimeeting2010
       Madrid, Spain
     * 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)
       Using the Web to improve government services
       by Jeffrey Jaffe
       The Israeli government's CTO forum
       Tzuba, Israel
     * 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
     * 2010-06-17 (17 JUN)
       A year on the Semantic Web @ W3C
       by Ivan Herman
       Seattle Semantic Web Meetup
       http://www.meetup.com/Semantically-Webbed-Seattle-Meetup-Gr
       oup/calendar/13579849/
       Seattle, USA
     * 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
     * 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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