W3C Public Newsletter, 2016-08-29

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W3C Workshop Report: Blockchains and the Web

   26 August 2016
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5744>

   W3C published today the report of the W3C Blockchains and the Web workshop held on 29-30 June, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Participants at the workshop found many topics for possible standardization or incubation, including various aspects of identity and proof-of-existence, as well as smaller blockchain primitives that could increase interoperability across different distributed ledgers.

   <https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/report>

   Discussion will continue in the Blockchain Community Group, which will coordinate across different communities and groups to foster standardization where needed, as discussed in the related blog post, “Building Blocks of Blockchains“. This popular workshop had over one hundred attendees, and was hosted by MIT Media Lab and sponsored by NTT, Blockstream, and other W3C Members.

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/building-blocks-to-blockchains/>

First Public Working Draft: SHACL Core Abstract Syntax and Semantics

   26 August 2016
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5749>

   The RDF Data Shapes Web Working Group has published a Working Draft of "SHACL Core Abstract Syntax and Semantics." This document defines an abstract syntax for the core SHACL (SHApes Constraint Language). It is derived from the SHACL specification and is a non-normative version of the content of that specification.

   <https://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-shacl-abstract-syntax-20160825/>

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

Workshops

     * 2016-10-19 (19 OCT) – 2016-10-20 (20 OCT)
       Web & Virtual Reality Workshop
       <https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/>
       San Jose, CA, USA
       Hosted by Samsung
       The Workshop will look at the intersection of Web and Virtual Reality technologies. It aims at enabling the sharing of experiences between practitioners of the field, discuss existing gaps in the Web platform that make some Virtual Reality use cases difficult or impossible in browsers today, and explore what future standards are needed to pave the way for the Web to be one of the major VR platforms.
     * 2016-11-30 (30 NOV) – 2016-12-01 ( 1 DEC)
       Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)
       <https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sdsvoc/>
       Amsterdam
       CWI with support from the VRE4EIC project
       The workshop will cover a variety of related issues: how to manage a vocabulary in a collaborative environment, how to define an application profile for human and machine consumption, how to request data using a specific profile and, as a prime example of all this - experiences of using "DCAT" that might lead to its extension.
       <https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/>

W3C Blog

     * Building Blocks to Blockchains: a Report on the W3C Blockchains and the Web Workshop
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/building-blocks-to-blockchains/>
       26 August 2016 by Doug Schepers
       <http://schepers.cc/>

Upcoming Talks

     * 2016-09-14 (14 SEP)
       Web, meet Virtual Reality
       by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       View Source
       <https://viewsourceconf.org/berlin-2016>
       Berlin, Germany
     * 2016-09-24 (24 SEP)
       REST Interfaces to the Internet of Things
       <http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/09-24-euroia>
       EuroIA 2016
       <http://www.euroia.org>
       Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     * 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
       Petroleum retail opportunities with the web
       by Bernard Gidon
       IFSF annual conference
       <http://www.ifsf.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/ifsf_newsletter_august_2016.pdf>
       Schiphol, The Netherlands
     * 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
       XForms, the only Standard Web Framework
       <http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/11-21-nluug>
       by Steven Pemberton
       NLUUG najaarsconferentie
       <https://www.nluug.nl/events/>
       Bunnik, The Netherlands

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