W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-03-11

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Workshop Report on the Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform

   04 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9743

   [] W3C today published the report of the workshop eBooks: Great
   Expectations for Web Standards, hosted by O'Reilly TOC on 11-12
   February, 2013, in New York, USA, and sponsored by Pearson.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/rapportebook

   W3C seeks to support the wide adoption of Web technologies in
   digital publishing contexts. Consequently, there is a need for
   the Web and Publishing communities to reinforce cooperation
   around well defined technical issues. This Workshop was a first
   step, bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to share
   their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to ensure that
   emerging global technology standards meet the needs of the
   Digital Publishing industry. The Workshop has identified a
   number of technical issues where the W3C could and should work
   together in the coming years.

   The Workshop participants began discussions to prioritize lists
   of topics such as presentation, layout, fonts, or
   accessibility. As a next step, the W3C staff will work with
   stakeholders, such as IDPF and BISG, in the digital publishing
   ecosystem to identify opportunities for work related to
   publishing standards that can be launched at W3C.

   http://idpf.org/
   http://www.bisg.org/

WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices Draft with Updated Guidance

   07 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9751

   The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) has published an
   updated Working Draft of "WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices" :
   An author's guide to understanding and implementing Accessible
   Rich Internet Applications. It provides detailed advice and
   examples to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible
   using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. It is primarily
   for web application developers, and is also useful for user
   agent and assistive technology developers. Please send comments
   by 5 April 2013. Learn more from the call for review e-mail and
   read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013JanMar/0136
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Metadata for the Multilingual Web - Usage Scenarios and
Implementations Draft Published

   07 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9750

   The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published the First
   Public Working Draft of "Metadata for the Multilingual Web -
   Usage Scenarios and Implementations." This document introduces
   a variety of usage scenarios and applications for the
   "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0," ranging from simple
   machine translation or human translation quality check to
   training for machine translation systems or automatic text
   analysis. Many of the underlying implementations will be
   showcased in the upcoming W3C MultilingualWeb Workshop 12-13
   March in Rome. Learn more about the Internationalization
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mlw-metadata-us-impl-20130307/
   http://w3.org/TR/its20/
   http://www.multilingualweb.eu/rome-showcase
   http://www.w3.org/International/

Linked Data Platform 1.0 Draft Published

   07 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9749

   The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "Linked Data Platform 1.0." This document
   specifies a set of best practices and simple approach for a
   read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to
   web resources that describe their state using the RDF data
   model. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-20130307/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Contacts Manager API Draft Published

   07 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9748

   The System Applications Working Group has published the First
   Public Working Draft of "Contacts Manager API." This
   specification defines a System Level API which offers a simple
   interface to manage user's contacts stored in the system's
   address book. A typical use case of the Contacts API is the
   implementation of an application to manage said address book.
   Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-contacts-manager-api-20130307/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

W3C Workshop Report on Do Not Track and Beyond

   04 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9744

   W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not
   Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We
   welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and
   regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the
   Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as
   related and future standards initiatives.

   https://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/report
   https://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws

   The Workshop reaffirmed the foundational assumption of a
   co-operative approach between the different stakeholders and
   identified a number of widely-shared views. We encourage those
   interested in ongoing work in this area to refer to the
   Tracking Protection Working Group, the Privacy Interest Group
   and the Customer Experience Digital Data Community Group.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
   http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
   http://www.w3.org/community/custexpdata/

   W3C thanks the participants and appreciates the support of the
   UC Berkeley TRUST Science and Technology Center for hosting and
   of Yahoo! for sponsoring the event. Learn more about the W3C
   Privacy Activity.

   http://www.truststc.org
   http://www.yahoo.com
   http://www.w3.org/Privacy/

Report: Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications
on Mobile

   04 March 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9745

   [] W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web
   Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies
   developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications,
   particularly in the mobile context.

   http://www.w3.org/2013/02/mobile-web-app-state/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/

   A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the
   document highlights changes since November 2012, including the
   advancement of HTML5 to Candidate Recommendation. This edition
   integrates and highlights technologies identified in the Core
   Mobile Web Platform 2012, a report published by the Core Mobile
   Web Community Group. In addition, key topics now link to
   related materials on WebPlatform Docs or in a W3DevCampus
   on-line training course. The report covers key standards track
   events as well as upcoming work.

   http://webinos.org/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/12/html5-cr.html.en
   http://coremob.github.com/coremob-2012/FR-coremob-20130131.html
   #specifications-which-address-the-derived-requirements
   http://www.w3.org/community/coremob/
   http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/
   http://www.w3devcampus.com/

   Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

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

Workshops

     * 2013-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2013-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Making the Multilingual Web Work
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/rome-workshop/ro
       me-cfp
       Rome, Italy
       Hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
       United Nations (FAO).
       The MultilingualWeb community develops and promotes best
       practices and standards related to all aspects of creating,
       localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of
       language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best
       practices and standards for dealing with language on the
       Internet and on identifying and resolving gaps that keep
       the Internet from living up to its global potential.
     * 2013-04-23 (23 APR) – 2013-04-24 (24 APR)
       Open Data on the Web
       http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/
       London, England
       Hosted by Google

W3C Blog

     * Smart cities and the Web of Things at the Media Web
       Symposium
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/03/smart_cities_and_the_web_of_th
       11 March 2013 by Dave Raggett
     * Good News about VP8 Licensing
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/03/good_news_about_vp8_licensing
       11 March 2013 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
     * Adding alpha channels or chroma keys to JPEG images
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/03/adding_alpha_channels_or_chrom
       9 March 2013 by Dave Raggett

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-03-14 (14 MAR)
       The Copyright Conundrum
       SxSW Music
       http://sxsw.com/
       Austin, Texas, USA
     * 2013-03-18 (18 MAR)
       Community Collaboration through W3C WAI: Working Together
       on Web Accessibility
       by Shawn Henry
       European e-Accessibility Forum
       http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
       78_index_en
       Paris, France
     * 2013-04-02 (2 APR)
       HTML5/Css3 - Uma introdução
       http://www.slideshare.net/Yasodara
       by Yasodara Córdova
       SENAC Road Show 2013
       http://www3.sp.senac.br/hotsites/wordpress/index.php/2013/0
       2/15/road-show-ti-2013/
       Sorocaba, Brazil

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