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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Launches Points of Interest Working Group
04 October 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8915
W3C has launched a Points of Interest Working Group, whose
mission is to develop technical specifications for the
representation of "Points of Interest" information on the Web.
For the purposes of this Working Group, a "Point of Interest"
is defined simply as an entity at a physical location about
which information is available. For example, the Taj Mahal in
India is a point of interest, located at 27.174799° N,
78.042111°E (in the WGS84 geodetic system). Additional
information could be associated with it, such as: it was
completed around 1653, has a particular shape, and that it is
open to visitors during specific hours. Points of Interest
information is used in a wide variety of applications such as:
augmented reality ("AR"), mapping and navigation systems,
geocaching, etc. This group will primarily focus on POI use
within AR applications but will strive to ensure reusability
across applications. The group will also explore how the AR
industry could best use, influence and contribute to Web
standards. More information is available in the Working Group
Charter. W3C launches this group as the result of discussion at
the W3C Workshop on Augmented Reality on the Web. Learn more
about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/
http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/charter/
http://www.w3.org/2010/06/w3car/report
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Multilingual Web Workshop Program Published
03 October 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8914
The MultilingualWeb Project, funded by the European Commission
and coordinated by the W3C, is looking at best practices and
standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and
deploying the multilingual Web. The project will raise
visibility of what's available and identify gaps via a series
of four events, over two years. The first Workshop takes place
in Madrid, Spain on 26-27 October 2010. It is free and open to
the public. A first view of the workshop program has just been
published. Speakers represent a wide range of organizations and
interests, including: BBC, DFKI, European Commission, Facebook,
Google, Loquendo, LRC, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, SAP, W3C,
WHO, and the World Wide Web Foundation. Session titles include:
Developers, Creators, Localizers, Machines, and Users. The
Workshop should provide useful cross-domain networking
opportunities. Learn more about participation and registration
in the Call for Participation and learn more about
Internationalization at W3C.
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/program
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n
W3C UK and Ireland Office Moves to Nominet
01 October 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8913
After 13 years of successful work at STFC Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, the W3C UK and Ireland Office has a new home at
Nominet. Nominet runs the one of the world’s largest Internet
registries, the registry for .uk domain names, with over eight
million domain names. Phil Kingsland, Director of Marketing and
Communications at Nominet, will be the new Office manager. He
said, "We believe the work W3C does promoting web accessibility
standards, and developing other standards that help web users
to trust in the reputation of the Internet is well aligned with
Nominet’s public purpose remit and vision, which is to be a
leading force in making the Internet a trusted space, which
everyone can be part of and has a positive impact on people’s
lives." The Office plans a ceremonial launch later this year.
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/
http://www.nominet.org.uk/
http://blog.nominet.org.uk/insight/2010/09/w3c-web-standards-an
d-nominet/
W3C would like to thank STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and
the W3C UK and Ireland Office staff, led by Michel D Wilson and
his predecessors Stuart Robinson and Bob Hopgood, for their
contributions to W3C and the Web. Learn more about the W3C
Offices, regional W3C representatives that help promote the W3C
mission.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
Web on TV: Towards Smarter Integration of Web and Broadcasting
29 September 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8910
The explosion of the mobile device market demonstrates how
consumers have come to expect and rely on access to the network
from anywhere, at any time. Increasingly, people expect similar
access to the Web from consumer electronics such as
televisions. W3C has begun to organize a series of workshops to
discuss this convergence with television industry and other
producers of consumer electronics.
The first workshop in the series took place in Japan on 2-3
September. There, 150 participants from various industries
discussed key use cases and important requirements for smarter
integration of Web, broadcasting and consumer electronics
technologies. A summary of the workshop is now available.
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/web-on-tv/
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/web-on-tv/summary
One recommendation from the participants was for W3C to create
"Web and TV" Interest Group. A draft charter is now available;
W3C invites public comment on public-web-and-tv@w3.org. The
proposed scope for the group is:
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/webTVIGcharter
* Minimum clarification about the conceptual relationship
between Web and TV, especially the architectural
relationship between the services on Web and the TV
services;
* Identification of important requirements for the Web to
function effectively with TV services on TV devices and
TV-like devices;
* Identification of important requirements for TV to function
effectively on various devices with services on the Web;
* Review and discussion of deliverables under development by
other W3C groups, which touch on the use of the Web and TV;
* Exploration of barriers to the Web and TV services working
on TV devices and TV-like devices, and potential solutions;
* Provide a forum for the exchange information about Web and
TV activities around the world.
Learn more about a Web of devices.
http://www.w3.org/standards/webofdevices/
Two Media Capture Drafts Updated
28 September 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8909
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published two
Working Drafts: "HTML Media Capture" and "The Media Capture
API." The first defines HTML form enhancements that provide
access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of
the device. Providing streaming access to these capabilities is
outside of the scope of this specification. The second defines
an API that provides access to the audio, image and video
capture capabilities of the device. Learn more about the
Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-media-capture-20100928/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-capture-api-20100928/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Widget Updates Draft Published
28 September 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8908
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines a
process and a document format to allow a user agent to update
an installed widget package with a different version of a
widget package. A widget cannot update itself; instead, a
widget relies on the user agent to manage the update process. A
user agent can perform an update over HTTP and from non-HTTP
sources (e.g., directly from a device's memory card or hard
disk). Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-updates-20100928/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Launches Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group
27 September 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8905
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Object Memory
Modeling Incubator Group, whose mission is to define an object
memory format, which allows for modeling of events or other
information about individual physical artifacts - ideally over
their lifetime - and which is explicitly designed to support
data storage of those logs on so-called smart labels attached
to the physical artifact. The following W3C Members have
sponsored the charter for this group: German Research Center
for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), SAP AG, Siemens AG.
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/omm/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/omm/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2010-10-04 ( 4 OCT) – 2010-10-05 ( 5 OCT)
Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control
http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/
Cambridge, MA, USA
This workshop will explore solutions to privacy based on
controlling data usage and on data handling. We also
solicit contributions on techniques for `sticky policies'
that ensure that policies constantly move along with the
related data.
* 2010-10-05 ( 5 OCT) – 2010-10-06 ( 6 OCT)
Workshop on Emotion Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/2010/10/emotionml/cfp
Paris, France
Hosted by Telecom ParisTech
* 2010-10-26 (26 OCT) – 2010-10-27 (27 OCT)
The Multilingual Web - Where Are We?
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp
Madrid, Spain
Hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication
in all walks of life. As the share of English web pages
decreases and that of other languages increases, it is
vitally important to ensure the multilingual success of the
World Wide Web.
The MultilingualWeb project is looking at best practices
and standards related to all aspects of creating,
localizing and deploying the Web multilingually. The
project aims to raise the visibility of existing best
practices and standards and identify gaps. The core vehicle
for this is a series of four events which are planned for
the coming two years. As the first of the four events, this
workshop will introduce and review currently available best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
challenges of the multilingual Web.
* 2010-12-08 ( 8 DEC) – 2010-12-09 ( 9 DEC)
How can Technology help to improve Privacy on the Internet?
http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/
Cambridge, MA, USA
Jointly organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
Internet Society (ISOC), MIT, and W3C
Who we are (e.g. our thoughts, dreams, feelings, DNA
sequence), what we own (such as financial property), what
we have experienced and how we behave
(audio/visual/olfactory transcripts), and how we can be
reached (location, endpoint identifiers) are among the most
personal pieces of information about us. More and more of
this information is being digitized and made available
electronically. The question for us therefore is: How can
we ensure that architectures and technologies for the
Internet, including the World Wide Web, are developed in a
way that respects users’ privacy?
W3C Blog
* Introducing the Web Font Awards
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/10/introducing_the_web_font_award
4 October 2010 by Vladimir Levantovsky
* Privacy Dashboard - Find out what you are sharing
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/10/privacy_dashboard
4 October 2010 by Dave Raggett
* Lessons from Harvard's Kennedy School on Technology and
Governance 2.0
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/09/karen_myers_w3c_development_of
27 September 2010 by Karen Myers
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-10-04 (4 OCT)
Apps vs Web Apps
panel features Matt Womer
Mobile Monday, Silicon Valley
http://www.mobilemonday.net/09/2010/apps-vs-web-apps
San Francisco, CA, USA
* 2010-10-05 (5 OCT)
Changing the Mobile Landscape: From Apps to AR, Standards
at W3C
by Matt Womer
CTIA: Mobile Web and Apps World Forum
http://www.mobilewebandappsevent.com/index.php?option=com_c
ontent&view=article&id=67&Itemid=2
San Francisco, USA
* 2010-10-06 (6 OCT)
Mobile and Accessible
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
International ÆGIS Conference
http://www.aegis-project.eu/
Sevilla, Spain
* 2010-10-07 (7 OCT)
HTML5 & CSS3 - nytt lyft för webben
http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20101007/
by Olle Olsson
DFS Seminarium
http://natverk.dfs.se/node/20243
Linköping, Sweden
* 2010-10-07 (7 OCT)
LITA's „Top Tech Trends“
panel features Felix Sasaki
DGI-Konferenz
http://www.dgi-konferenz.de/
Frankfurt a. Main, Germany, Germany
* 2010-10-07 (7 OCT)
How does the Semantic Web Work?
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1007-Frankfurt-IH/#talk
keynote by Ivan Herman
1. DGI-Konferenz, 62. DGI Jahrestagung: Semantic Web &
Linked Data
http://www.dgi-konferenz.de/index
Frankfurt, Germany
* 2010-10-13 (13 OCT)
Das mehrsprachige Web
by Felix Sasaki
WebTech Conference
http://webtechcon.de/
Mainz, Germany
* 2010-10-14 (14 OCT)
Towards Video on the Web with HTML5
by François Daoust
NEM Summit
http://nem-summit.eu
Barcelona, Spain
* 2010-10-14 (14 OCT)
HTML5 et le web de demain
Paris Web 2010
http://www.paris-web.fr/2010/
Paris, France
* 2010-10-15 (15 OCT)
How does the Semantic Web Work?
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1015-SaoPaulo-SemCafe-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Café Semântico
http://www.w3c.br/cafecombrowser/
São Paulo, Brazil
* 2010-10-18 (18 OCT)
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
by Richard Ishida
Internationalization & Unicode Conference
http://www.unicodeconference.org/
Santa Clara, USA
* 2010-10-20 (20 OCT)
IRIs Beyond the Napkin: A Survey of Internationalized
Resource Identifier Issues and Implementation
Internationalization & Unicode Conference 34
http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc34/
Santa Clara, CA, USA
* 2010-10-20 (20 OCT)
Bringing Together Usability and Accessibility
by Shawn Henry
Web Design World
http://webdesignworld.com/
Las Vegas, NV, USA
* 2010-10-20 (20 OCT)
Extending Bidi Support on the Web
Internationalization & Unicode Conference
http://www.unicodeconference.org/
Santa Clara, USA
* 2010-10-20 (20 OCT)
A year on the Semantic Web @ W3C (with more details on
RDFa)
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1020-Rio-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Pontifícia Universidade Católica (Pontifical Catholic
University)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* 2010-10-20 (20 OCT)
Accessibility Today: The Latest Standards and Guidelines
by Shawn Henry
Web Design World
http://webdesignworld.com/
Las Vegas, NV, USA
* 2010-10-27 (27 OCT)
Mobile Web Best Practices - lessons learned since 2008
by Phil Archer
MyMobileBristol
http://mymobilebristol.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/2010/07/13/introduci
ng-the-mymobilebristol-project/
Bristol, United Kingdom
* 2010-11-03 (3 NOV)
Technologies for the upcoming web: Standards for the next
web platform
http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20101103/
by Olle Olsson
J. Boye Conference Aarhus 2010
http://www.jboye.com/conferences/aarhus10/
Aarhus, Denmark
* 2010-11-08 (8 NOV)
Combine the Web of Data and the Web of Documents
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/RDFa-Drupal-Tutorial/#talk
9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010)
http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/
Shanghai, China
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