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- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:19:46 -0400
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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RIF Standard Supports Data Integration, Enterprise Agility
22 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8839
Today W3C published a new standard for building rule systems on
the Web. Declarative rules allow integration and transformation
of data from multiple sources in a distributed, transparent and
scalable manner. The new standard, called Rule Interchange
Format (RIF), was developed with participation from the
Business Rules, Logic Programming, and Semantic Web communities
to provide interoperability and portability between many
different systems using declarative technologies. For more
information, see the RIF FAQ.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_FAQ
The six new standards are:
* RIF Core Dialect, which provides a standard, base level of
functionality for interchange
* RIF Basic Logic Dialect and RIF Production Rule Dialect
provided extended functionality matching two common classes
of rule engines
* RIF Framework for Logic Dialects describes how to extend
RIF for use with a large class of systems
* RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 borrows heavily from XQuery
and XPath for a set of basic operations
* and RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies how RIF works
with RDF data and OWL ontologies.
Along with these standards, W3C today published five related
documents: "RIF Overview," "RIF Test Cases," "OWL 2 RL in
RIF," "RIF Combination with XML data," and "RIF In RDF." The
RIF Working Group is also preparing a primer and a revision of
its outdated "Use Cases and Requirements." Learn more about
the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-rif-overview-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-test-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-rif-owl-rl-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-xml-data-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rif-in-rdf-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_Working_Group
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-ucr-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
HTML Progresses with Eight Drafts; Two New
25 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8843
The HTML Working Group published eight documents:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* Updated Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification, the
accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from
HTML4, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The
Markup Language.
* Updated Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1
and HTML Microdata, which define mechanisms for embedding
machine-readable data in HTML documents, and the
specification HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines a 2D
immediate-mode graphics API for use with the HTML5 <canvas>
element.
* New! HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text
alternatives, a First Public Working Draft which is
intended to help authors provide useful text alternatives
for images in HTML documents.
* New! Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents, a
First Public Working Draft which is intended to help
authors produce XHTML documents that are also compatible
with non-XML HTML syntax and parsing rules.
Learn more about HTML5.
http://www.w3.org/html/
Last Call: Media Fragments URI 1.0
24 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8842
The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Media Fragments URI 1.0." This document
describes the Media Fragments 1.0 specification. It specifies
the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains
how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax
is based on the specification of particular field-value pairs
that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to
restrict a media resource to a certain fragment. Comments are
welcome through 27 August. Learn more about the Video in the
Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-frags-20100624/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Call for Review: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines
Proposed Recommendation Published
22 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8840
The Web Security Context Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation 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 user agents as
well as recommendations on conveying error situations in
security protocols. Comments are welcome through 20 July. Learn
more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-wsc-ui-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
W3C Invites Implementations of Digital Signatures for Widgets;
'view-mode' Media Feature
22 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8838
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
two Candidate Recommendations: "Digital Signatures for Widgets"
and "The 'view-mode' Media Feature." The first 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; follow the implementation report. The second
specification defines a media feature to match the different
visual presentation modes that can be applied to web
applications and thereby apply different styling based on these
different modes using CSS Media Queries; follow the
implementation report. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-widgets-digsig-20100624/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-view-mode-20100624/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/imp-report/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-vmmf/imp-report/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition)
22 June 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8837
The SVG Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition)." This
specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1, a modularized language for
describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics in XML. This specification incorporates SVG 1.1
errata. Comments are welcome through 13 July. Learn more about
the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-SVG11-20100622/
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/REC-SVG11-20030114-errata
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 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.
* 2010-09-02 ( 2 SEP) – 2010-09-03 ( 3 SEP)
Web on TV
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/web-on-tv/
Tokyo, Japan
With the support of the Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications
The demand for access to applications, video, and other
network services continues to grow. The Web platform itself
continues its expansion to support mobile devices,
television, home appliances, in-car systems, and more
consumer electronics. To meet the growing demand, the Web
platform of the future will require smarter integration of
non-PC devices with Web technology so that both hardware
and software vendors can provide richer Web applications on
various devices at lower costs.
W3C Blog
* Point of Interest Working Group
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/point_of_interest_working_grou
24 June 2010 by Phil Archer
* W3C Cheatsheet on Android Market
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/w3c_cheatsheet_on_android_mark
22 June 2010 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-06-28 (28 JUN)
introduction to 'Mobile Web Application Best Practices'
http://www.slideshare.net/ISOCIL/mobile-web-best-practices-
momo-eyal-sela-hebrew
by Eyal Sela
MoMoTLV - Mobile Web Technology Workshop with W3C
http://www.w3c.org.il/article/about_1
Tel-Aviv, Israel
* 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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