W3C Public Newsletter, 2014-03-31

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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CSV on the Web Use Cases and Requirements, and Model for Tabular Data
and Metadata Published

   27 March 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3758

   The CSV on the Web Working Group published two First Public
   Working Drafts today:

   http://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/
     * The CSV on the Web: Use Cases and Requirements collects use
       cases that are at the basis of the work of the Working
       Group. A large percentage of the data published on the Web
       is tabular data, commonly published as comma separated
       values (CSV) files. The Working Group aim to specify
       technologies that provide greater interoperability for data
       dependent applications on the Web when working with tabular
       datasets comprising single or multiple files using CSV, or
       similar, format. This document lists a first set of use
       cases compiled by the Working Group that are considered
       representative of how tabular data is commonly used within
       data dependent applications. The use cases observe existing
       common practice undertaken when working with tabular data,
       often illustrating shortcomings or limitations of existing
       formats or technologies. This document also provides a
       first set of requirements derived from these use cases that
       have been used to guide the specification design.
     * The Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web outlines
       a basic data model, or infoset, for tabular data and
       metadata about that tabular data. The document contains
       first drafts for various methods of locating metadata: one
       of the output the Working Group is chartered for is to
       produce a metadata vocabulary and standard method(s) to
       find such metadata. It also contains some non-normative
       information about a best practice syntax for tabular data,
       for mapping into that data model, to contribute to the
       standardisation of CSV syntax by IETF (as a possible update
       of RFC4180).

   Learn more about the Data Activity.

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

Last Call: CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1

   25 March 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3753

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Flexible Box Layout Module
   Level 1." The specification describes a CSS box model
   optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model,
   the children of a flex container can be laid out in any
   direction, and can “flex” their sizes, either growing to fill
   unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent. Both
   horizontal and vertical alignment of the children can be easily
   manipulated. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside
   vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build
   layouts in two dimensions. CSS is a language for describing the
   rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on
   screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Comments are welcome through
   22 April 2014. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-flexbox-1-20140325/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Navigation Timing 2 Draft Published

   25 March 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3751

   The Web Performance Working Group has published a Working Draft
   of "Navigation Timing 2." This specification defines a unified
   interface to store and retrieve high resolution performance
   metric data related to the navigation of a document.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-navigation-timing-2-20140325/

   The Group also updated the Candidate Recommendation of
   "Resource Timing," which defines an interface for web
   applications to access the complete timing information for
   resources in a document. The main change is that
   onresourcetimingbufferfull is now an event handler instead of a
   callback function. A diff document is available.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-resource-timing-20140325/
   diff

   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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

Last Call: Web Cryptography API

   25 March 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3755

   The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "Web Cryptography API." This JavaScript API
   performs basic cryptographic operations in web applications,
   such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and
   encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes how
   applications can generate and/or manage the keying material
   necessary to perform these operations. Comments are welcome
   through 20 May 2014. Learn more about the Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20140325/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

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

Workshops

     * 2014-04-02 ( 2 APR)
       Footnotes, comments, bookmarks, and marginalia on the Web,
       A W3C Workshop on Annotations
       http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
       San Francisco, USA
       Hosted by Hypothes.is
     * 2014-05-07 ( 7 MAY) – 2014-05-08 ( 8 MAY)
       Seventh MultilingualWeb Workshop: New Horizons for the
       Multilingual Web
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/2014-madrid-worksho
       p/2014-madrid-cfp
       Madrid, Spain
       Hosted by UPM
       As with previous MultilingualWeb events, this workshop will
       bring together speakers and participants with an interest
       in best practices and standards aimed at helping content
       creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
       challenges of the multilingual Web. This workshop will
       emphasize new technology developments that may lead to new
       opportunities for the Multilingual Web. A unique
       proposition of the workshop is that it brings together
       speakers and provides opportunities for networking across a
       wide range of communities to produce a holistic view of the
       problems faced in developing and deploying multilingual
       content and applications on the Web.
     * 2014-06-25 (25 JUN) – 2014-06-26 (26 JUN)
       Workshop on the Web of Things
       http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/
       Berlin, Germany
       Hosted by Siemens
       Participants in this workshop will examine the potential
       for open standards as a basis for services, either between
       devices, at the network edge, e.g. in home hubs, or in the
       cloud. They will discuss the use of web protocols and
       scripting languages for implementing services, the need for
       APIs for implementing drivers for specific IoT
       technologies, a shared approach to describing services as a
       basis for interoperability, and the underlying use of
       HTTP/COAP, Web Sockets, and EXI/JSON for RESTful services.

W3C Blog

     * Web @ 25, W3C @ 20 – Future Directions of the Open Web
       Platform.
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/web-25-w3c-20-future-directi
       ons-of-the-open-web-platform/
       31 March 2014 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
     * This week: Web Cryptography API, W3C role in standardizing
       the Open Web Platform, etc.
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/this-week-web-cryptography-a
       pi-w3c-role-in-standardizing-the-open-web-platform-etc/
       28 March 2014 by Coralie Mercier
       http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
     * Web @ 25, W3C @ 20 – The role of the W3C in standardizing
       the Open Web Platform
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/web-25-w3c-20-the-role-of-th
       e-w3c-in-standardizing-the-open-web-platform/
       24 March 2014 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2014-04-01 (1 APR)
       WebRTC: Communications meet Web
       keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       WebRTC Global Summit
       http://webrtc-conference.com/
       London, United Kingdom
     * 2014-04-03 (3 APR)
       Coloured glyphs in OpenType
       by Chris Lilley
       Libre Graphics Meeting
       http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/about/
       Leipzig, Germany
     * 2014-04-08 (8 APR)
       HTML5 for Auto: Already Here or Still Arriving?
       by Philipp Hoschka
       Content and Apps for Automotive Europe 2014
       http://www.telematicsupdate.com/contenteu/?utm_source=W3C&u
       tm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=2513
       Munich, Germany
     * 2014-04-09 (9 APR)
       Publishing and the Open Web Platform
       http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0409-Seoul-IH/#talk
       by Ivan Herman
       W3C Track, WWW2014 Conference
       http://www.w3.org/2014/04/w3c-track
       Seoul, Korea
     * 2014-04-11 (11 APR)
       Web and Publishing
       http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0411-Seoul-IH/
       keynote by Ivan Herman
       HTML5 CT Forum Satellite Conference
       http://html5forum.or.kr/en/event/infomation
       Seoul, Korea
     * 2014-05-14 (14 MAY)
       Open Data: Make the Most of Public Assets
       http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2013/0514-openData_WSIS-MA
       by Martín Álvarez
       WSIS Forum 2013
       http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2013/forum/
       Geneva, Switzerland

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