W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-12-16

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Performance Timeline and User Timing are W3C Recommendations

   12 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3509

   The Web Performance Working Group has published two
   Recommendations today.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
     * Performance Timeline, which defines an unified interface to
       store and retrieve performance metric data. This
       specification does not cover individual performance metric
       interfaces.
     * User Timing, which defines an interface to help web
       developers measure the performance of their applications by
       giving them access to high precision timestamps.

   Learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity

Registration Open for Mobile Web Apps course; Early bird rate through
25 December

   14 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3513

   The W3C Mobile Web 2: Programming Applications online course is
   back! Now open for registration and to start on 13 January
   2014, this course covers all techniques for programming
   successful mobile Web applications that can ship both online
   and in application stores. You will have access to high quality
   content material, be trained by a first-class expert, and learn
   step by step. Register before 25 December 2013 to benefit from
   the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C
   online training for Web developers.

   http://www.w3devcampus.com/writing-great-web-applications-for-m
   obile/
   http://www.w3techcourses.com/enrol/index.php?id=62
   http://www.w3techcourses.com/enrol/index.php?id=62
   http://www.w3devcampus.com/

Call for Review: Progress Events

   12 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3506

   The Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group has published
   today a Proposed Recommendation of "Progress Events." The
   specification defines an event interface that can be used for
   measuring progress; e.g. HTTP entity body transfers. This
   specification is primarily meant to be used by other
   specifications. The deadline for review and comments is 17
   January 2014. Learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-progress-events-20131212/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity

Last Call: XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0

   12 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3504

   The XSLT Working Group has published today a Last Call Working
   Draft of "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0." This
   specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT 3.0, a
   language for transforming XML documents into other XML
   documents. A transformation in the XSLT language is expressed
   in the form of a stylesheet, whose syntax is well-formed XML.
   Comments are welcome by 10 February 2014. Learn more about the
   Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xslt-30-20131212/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity

W3C Launches New Data Activity

   11 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3497

   Today W3C launched a new Data Activity to lead the Web to a new
   level of data interoperability. The Activity includes two new
   groups:

   http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
     * CSV on the Web Working Group, whose mission is to provide
       technologies whereby data dependent applications on the Web
       can provide higher interoperability when working with
       datasets using the CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or similar
       formats.
     * Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, whose mission
       is (1) to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating
       better communication between developers and publishers; (2)
       to provide guidance to publishers that will improve
       consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the
       re-use of data; (3) to foster trust in the data among
       developers, whatever technology they choose to use,
       increasing the potential for genuine innovation.

   The Data Activity subsumes and expands upon the work done in
   the Semantic Web and eGovernment Activities. W3C will continue
   to complete and enhance the Semantic Web in the light of
   growing real-world experience and demands.

   Learn more about the Data Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2013/data/

W3C Names Two New Leads for work on Technology and Society;
Information and Knowledge

   11 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3482

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   W3C is pleased to announce new leadership for the following
   activities:

     * Wendy Seltzer will be the Technology and Society Domain
       Lead, focused on Privacy, Security, and potential work
       around Social Web and Digital Marketing. Wendy will also
       continue her legal and policy work.
     * Ralph Swick will be the Information and Knowledge Domain
       Lead, focused on data, semantic web technologies, digital
       publishing, and XML. Ralph will also continue as W3C’s
       Chief Operating Officer.

   Read about W3C’s Activities, and Management Team.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management

Last Call: DOM Parsing and Serialization

   10 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3480

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "DOM Parsing and Serialization." This
   specification defines various APIs for programmatic access to
   HTML and generic XML parsers by web applications for use in
   parsing and serializing DOM nodes. Comments are welcome by 7
   January 2014. Learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-DOM-Parsing-20131210/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity

Online Symposium: Accessible E-Learning

   10 December 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3478

   Registration is now open for the online symposium on Accessible
   E-Learning to be held on 16 December 2013. Researchers, tutors
   and trainers, providers of online learning, developers of
   Learning Content Management System (LCMS), users with
   disabilities, and others are invited to participate. Symposium
   participants will share e-learning experiences and research;
   discuss different approaches to address accessibility issues in
   e-learning contexts; and explore next steps to advance
   accessibility in e-learning environments, including Massive
   Open Online Courses (MOOCs). For details and registration, see
   Accessible E-Learning: Online Symposium. Learn more about the
   Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/

Workshops

     * 2014-02-28 (28 FEB) – 2014-03-01 ( 1 MAR)
       W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against
       Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
       http://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
       London, England
       The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive
       monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive
       monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for
       network manageability and security. This data is captured
       and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as
       to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network
       manageability and security but still limit data capture and
       correlation.
       The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C
       work so as to be able to improve or "strengthen" the
       Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop
       report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the
       event.
     * 2014-03-05 ( 5 MAR) – 2014-03-06 ( 6 MAR)
       Linking Geospatial Data
       http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
       London
       Co-organized by the UK Government, Ordnance Survey, the OGC
       and Google.
       Many data-driven applications have geospatial information
       at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple
       data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in
       visualizing correlations between data sets that may
       otherwise be hidden. How can geographic information best be
       integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover
       that different facts in different data sets relate to the
       same place, especially when 'place' can be expressed in
       different ways and at different levels of granularity? It's
       this desire to work with multiple data sets in different
       formats about different topics and link those with the
       powerful technologies used in geospatial information
       systems that is behind the linking geospatial data
       workshop.
     * 2014-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2014-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence
       https://www.w3.org/2013/10/tv-workshop/
       Munich, Germany
       Hosted by IRT
       With HTML5 well on its way to standardization in 2014, and
       a new effort on HTML 5.1 recently launched, it is time to
       have fresh look at the current state of the art in order to
       identify remaining roadblocks for the use of Web technology
       in broadcasting and the TV industry. The goal of this
       workshop is to assemble key players from TV and the Web
       industry to discuss the important questions of Web and TV
       convergence, and how standardization can help across the
       globe.
     * 2014-03-24 (24 MAR) – 2014-03-25 (25 MAR)
       Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?
       http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
       Paris, France
       Hosted by the W3C France Office
       This workshop seeks to make it easier to monetize open Web
       applications, as an effective alternative to proprietary
       native app ecosystems. In essence, we would like to improve
       the end user experience and give users greater freedom in
       how they pay, to reduce the burden on developers and
       merchants, and to create a level playing field for
       competing payment solutions providers large and small.

W3C Blog

     * This week at W3C: Data Activity launched, HTML 5.1
       Nightly’s Crocoduck, MDN redesigned, etc.
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/12/this-week-at-w3c-data-activi
       ty-launched-html-5-1-nightlys-crocoduck-mdn-redesigned-etc/
       13 December 2013 by Coralie Mercier
       http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-12-18 (18 DEC)
       Introducción al Grupo de Herramientas de Evaluación y
       Reparación de la Iniciativa de Accesibilidad Web (ERT WG)
       by Yod Samuel Martín García
       Día W3C en España: Apps en la Plataforma Web Abierta
       http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2013/DiaW3C/
       Madrid, Spain

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