W3C Public Newsletter, 2018-01-09

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Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile

   3 January 2018
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6758>

   W3C has published a Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context.

   <https://www.w3.org/2018/01/web-roadmaps/mobile/>

   Sponsored by Beihang University, this edition is a redesign of the Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap document, published on a quarterly basis from 2011 to 2015. It documents existing standards, highlights ongoing standardization efforts, points out topics under incubation, and discusses technical gaps that may need to be addressed in the future. For instance, the document identifies ongoing work around Progressive Web Applications that allow to create a consistent and persistent lifecycle for applications on the Web platform.

   <https://www.w3.org/2015/08/mobile-web-app-state/>

   New versions will be published on a quarterly basis, or as needed depending on progress of key technologies of the Web platform. The document is part of a set of roadmaps under development in a GitHub repository, such as the Overview of Media Technologies on the Web. These roadmaps aim to provide a short-to-mid term view of where the Web Platform is heading in different areas. We encourage the community to review them and raise comments, or suggest new ones, on the repository’s issue tracker.

   <https://github.com/w3c/web-roadmaps/>
   <https://w3c.github.io/web-roadmaps/media/>
   <https://github.com/w3c/web-roadmaps/issues/>

W3C Advisory Committee elects Technical Architecture Group

   8 January 2018
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6772>

   The W3C Advisory Committee has elected the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): David Baron (Mozilla Foundation) and Lukasz Olejnik (W3C Invited Expert). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Travis Leithead (Microsoft), Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts), Alex Russell (Google), Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), Peter Linss (W3C Invited Expert; co-Chair) –both re-appointed by the Director. Yves Lafon continues as staff contact. W3C thanks Andrew Betts (Fastly) whose term ends this month, for his contributions. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. Learn more about the TAG.

   <https://www.w3.org/2017/12/01-tag-nominations>
   <https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/>
   <https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/>

Call for Review: ODRL is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

   4 January 2018
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6751>

   The Permissions & Obligations Expression Working Group has just published a Proposed Recommendation for two documents, namely:

   <https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/>
     * ODRL Information Model 2.2 — The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a policy expression language that provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services. The ODRL Information Model describes the underlying concepts, entities, and relationships that form the foundational basis for the semantics of the ODRL policies. Policies are used to represent permitted and prohibited actions over a certain asset, as well as the obligations required to be meet by stakeholders. In addition, policies may be limited by constraints (e.g., temporal or spatial constraints) and duties (e.g. payments) may be imposed on permissions.
     * ODRL Vocabulary & Expression 2.2 — The ODRL Vocabulary and Expression describes the terms used in ODRL policies and how to encode them.

   Comments are welcome through 4 February 2018.

First Public Working Drafts: Web Publications, Packaged Web Publications, and Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications

   4 January 2018
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6756>

   The W3C Publishing Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts today.

   <https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/>
     * The Web Publications defines a collection of information that describes the structure of Web Publications such that user agents can provide user experiences well-suited to reading publications, such as sequential navigation and offline reading. This information set includes the default reading order, a list of resources, and publication-wide metadata.
     * The Packaged Web Publications defines a packaging format for combining the resources of a Web Publication [wpub] into a single portable file.
     * The Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications extends the foundational model that has been developed in the Web Annotation Model Recommendation by adding selector types applicable to collective resources and a new model component for describing positions in text and byte streams.

   The Working Group welcomes comments via the GitHub repository issues (see the respective documents’ headers for the reference of the repositories).

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

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     * 2018-03-07 ( 7 MAR) – 2018-03-08 ( 8 MAR)
       Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies
       <https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/>
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       Hosted by WU Wien
       A W3C Workshop on Linked Data and Privacy

W3C Blog

     * Publishing WG Publishes 3 FPWDs
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/01/publishing-wg-publishes-3-fpwds/>
       4 January 2018 by Tzviya Siegman
     * W3C study on Web data standardization
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/01/w3c-study-on-web-data-standardization/>
       3 January 2018 by Dave Raggett

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