W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-06-14

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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First Draft of RDFa API Published

   08 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8825

   The RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working
   Draft of the "RDFa API." RDFa API provides a mechanism that
   allows Web-based applications using documents containing "RDFa"
   markup to extract and utilize structured data in a way that is
   useful to developers. The specification details how a developer
   may extract, store and query structured data contained within
   one or more RDFa-enabled documents. The design of the system is
   modular and allows multiple pluggable extraction and storage
   mechanisms supporting not only RDFa, but also Microformats,
   Microdata, and other structured data formats. For more
   information about the Semantic Web, please see the Semantic Web
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-api-20100608/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
   http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/

Comments Welcome on First Draft of Requirements and Use Cases for
XSLT 2.1

   10 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8828

   The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working
   Draft of "Requirements and Use Cases for XSLT 2.1." This
   document is a characterization of requirements and use cases
   for XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1. The relative
   priorities to be assigned to these different enhancements are
   still being decided. W3C welcomes input to the XSL Working
   Group to help in that process. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xslt-21-requirements-20100610/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0

   10 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8827

   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. MathML can be used to encode both mathematical
   notation and mathematical content. About thirty-eight of the
   MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while
   another about one hundred and seventy provide a way of
   unambiguously specifying the intended meaning of an expression.
   Comments are welcome through 01 July. Learn more about the Math
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-MathML3-20100610/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

W3C Invites Comments on First Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for
Mapping Relational Databases to RDF

   08 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8826

   The RDB2RDF Working Group has published the First Public
   Working Draft of "Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping
   Relational Databases to RDF." The need to share data with
   collaborators motivates custodians and users of relational
   databases (RDB) to expose relational data on the Web of Data.
   This document examines a set of use cases from science and
   industry, taking relational data and exposing it in patterns
   conforming to shared RDF schemata. These use cases expose a set
   of functional requirements for exposing relational data as RDF
   in the RDB2RDF Mapping Language (R2RML). Learn more about the
   Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdb2rdf-ucr-20100608/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Web Services SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions) First Draft
Published

   08 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8824

   The Web Services Resource Access Working Group has published
   the First Public Working Draft of "Web Services SOAP Assertions
   (WS-SOAPAssertions)." This specification defines two WS-Policy
   assertions that can be used to advertise the requirement to use
   a certain version of SOAP in message exchanges. Learn more
   about the Web Services Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-soap-assertions-20100608/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module Draft Published

   08 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8823

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module"
   . This module describes features often used in printed
   publications. Most of the specified functionality involves some
   sort of generated content where content from the document is
   adorned, replicated, or moved in the final presentation of the
   document. Along with two other CSS3 modules - multi-column
   layout and paged media - this module offers advanced
   functionality for presenting structured documents on paged
   media. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css3-gcpm-20100608/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Last Call: Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, API for Media Resource
1.0

   08 June 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8822

   The Media Annotations Working Group has published Last Call
   Working Drafts of "Ontology for Media Resource 1.0" and " API
   for Media Resource 1.0." The former document defines the
   Ontology for Media Resource 1.0. This ontology, or "core
   vocabulary," is meant to bridge the different descriptions of
   media resources on the Web, as opposed to media resources in
   local archives or musea. It is defined based on a core set of
   properties which covers basic metadata to describe media
   resources. The ontology is designed to foster the
   interoperability among various kinds of metadata formats
   currently used to describe media resources on the Web. The
   latter specification defines a client-side API to access
   metadata information related to media resources on the Web.
   Comments are welcome through 11 July. Learn more about the
   Video in the Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-10-20100608
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-api-1.0-20100608
   http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

   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

     * 2010-06-14 (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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