W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-09-01

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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The Power of Tests: New Licenses Promote Collaboration

   W3C announced today its new Licenses for W3C Test Suites. Two
   licenses promote two goals:
    1. A 3-clause BSD License is designed to enable developers to use
       test cases easily, and promote software development and
       bugtracking.
    2. A W3C Test Suite License is designed to enable a W3C Working
       Group to create a branded, "Authoritative W3C Test Suite" to
       reflect the group consensus process, and to promote
       interoperability and stability of performance claims.

   W3C appreciates the support of those who suggested these changes,
   who provided use cases, and who patiently reviewed drafts.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license.html

Last Call: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference; Primer
Updated

   The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Last
   Call Working Draft of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
   Reference." This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization
   System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge
   organization systems via the Web. The SKOS data model provides a
   standard, low-cost migration path for porting existing knowledge
   organization systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a light
   weight, intuitive language for developing and sharing new knowledge
   organization systems. It may be used on its own, or in combination
   with formal knowledge representation languages such as the Web
   Ontology language (OWL). Comments are welcome through 03 October.
   The group has also published an update of the companion "SKOS
   Primer." Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080829/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Web IDL Draft Published

   The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft
   of "Web IDL." This specification defines a syntactic subset of OMG
   IDL version 3.0 for use by specifications that define interfaces.
   Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the
   behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be
   specified more readily. A number of extensions are given to the IDL
   to support common functionality that previously must have been
   written in prose. In addition, precise language bindings for
   ECMAScript 3rd Edition and Java are given. Learn more about the Rich
   Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WebIDL-20080829/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Note Published

   The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Group
   Note of "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies."
   This document describes best practice recipes for publishing
   vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). It is
   intended for the creators and maintainers of vocabularies in RDFS
   and OWL (vocabulary and ontology are used interchangeably in the
   context of this specification). It provides step-by-step
   instructions for publishing vocabularies on the Web, giving example
   configurations designed to cover the most common cases. Learn more
   about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-swbp-vocab-pub-20080828/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * SVG, comics and E-books by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/svg-comics-ebook.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Make your Data Web Friendly by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/make-web-friendly-data-rdfa.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * HTML 5, a new step by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/html5-validator-beta.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5 by
       Dan Connolly
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/the_details_of_data_in_documen.html
     * Give me a break! CSS WG meeting by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/css-wg-give-me-a-break.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Web Directions East 2008 by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/web-directions-east-2008.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
       Gas, 9-10 December
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 1 September, Liverpool, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility and
       the Older Population. Andrew Arch presents at HCI and the Older
       Population 2008.
     * 2 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: From pages to
       applications: Mobile Web Best Practices. François Daoust
       presents at Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08).
     * 4 September, Erlangen, Germany: Senioren im Web:
       Barrierefreiheit für Ältere Menschen. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents
       at Webkongress 2008.
     * 16 September, Yahoo!'s Mission College Campus, Santa Clara,
       California, USA: Introduction to the Protocol for Web
       Description Resources. Phil Archer, Matt Womer are at POWDER:
       More of what you want, when you want it.
     * 23 September, London, United Kingdom: Standardisation vs.
       Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction
       the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters.
       Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at Mobile Web Europe 2008.
     * 23 September, York, United Kingdom: How web accessibility
       guidelines apply to design for the ageing population. Andrew
       Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Accessible Design in the
       Digital World.
     * 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
       Conference.
     * 24 September, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
       eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
       Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
     * 13 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0
       World. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
     * 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility.
       Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
     * 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
       Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
       Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
       Models for Virtual Goods.
     * 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany: RDFa—Bridging the Web of
       Documents and the Web of Data. Michael Hausenblas, Ivan Herman,
       Ben Adida give a tutorial at 7th International Semantic Web
       Conference (ISWC2008).
     * 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile
       Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.
       Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design:
       cultivating diversity.
     * 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards
       Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA
       Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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