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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:48:43 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2009-08-18 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090818
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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>From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge
Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the
world of knowledge organization systems - including thesauri,
classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies -
and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries,
museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social
networking applications, and other communities that manage large
collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business
glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use "Simple
Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)" to leverage the power of
linked data. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group also
published today two Group Notes with the Recommendation, updating
the "SKOS Primer" and "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements." Read the
press release and testimonials and learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-ucr-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Review: XForms 1.1 Proposed Recommendation Published
The Forms Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of
"XForms 1.1." XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is
intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as
XHTML, ODF or SVG. XForms 1.1 refines the XML processing platform
introduced by XForms 1.0 by adding several new submission
capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user interface
improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more powerful
action processing facility, including conditional, iterated and
background execution, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and
to access event context information. Comments are welcome through 22
September. Learn more about the XForms Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-xforms11-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
Last Call: Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "Widgets 1.0: APIs and Events." Widgets are full-fledged
client-side applications that are authored using Web standards.
Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news streamers,
games and weather forecasters, to complex applications that pull
data from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a user
in some interesting and useful way. The APIs and Events
specification defines a set of APIs and events for the Widgets 1.0
family of specifications. Comments are welcome through 15 September.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-apis-20090818/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) is a W3C Proposed Edited
Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the " Third Edition of
Namespaces in XML 1.0" as W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation. XML
Namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and
attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by
associating them with namespaces identified by URI references. The
Third Edition as proposed incorporates all outstanding errata. The
review period is open until 14 September 2009. Learn more about the
XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xml-names-20090806/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity
Last Call for Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of " Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy." This specification
defines the security model controlling network access from within a
widget, as well as a method for widget authors to request that the
user agent grant access to certain network resources. Comments are
welcome through 20 September 2009. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-access-20090804/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity
CSSOM View Module: Updated Working Draft
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published an
updated " Working Draft of CSSOM View Module." This specification
describes APIs that should be useful for Web application authors.
The APIs inspect and manipulate the view information of a document,
such as the position of element layout boxes, the width of the
viewport, and also an element's scroll position. Learn more about
the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-cssom-view-20090804/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Six XML Security Documents Published
The XML Security Working Group published six documents related to
XML signature and encryption. XML Signatures provide integrity,
message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for
data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the
signature or elsewhere.
* "XML Signature Best Practices." This Working Draft describes
best practices related to improving security and mitigating
attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use
of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use
namespaces, for example.
* "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1." This Working
Draft updates the signature specification.
* "XML Signature Transform Simplification: Requirements and
Design." This Working Draft outlines a proposed simplification
of the XML Signature Transform mechanism, intended to enhance
security, performance, streamability and to ease adoption.
* "W3C XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1." This
Working Draft updates the encryption specification.
* "XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers." This First Public
Working Draft augments XML Encryption Version 1.1 by defining
algorithms, XML types and elements necessary to enable use of
generic hybrid ciphers in XML Security applications.
* "XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference." This Group Note
collects the various known URIs for encryption algorithms (at
the time of its publication) and indicates which specifications
define them.
Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-bestpractices-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-simplify-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlenc-core1-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20090730/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Daniel Weitzner Named to Run US Government Internet Policy Unit
Daniel Weitzner has been named Associate Administrator for the
Office of Policy Analysis and Development at the US National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Danny will
have a leading role in fulfilling the NTIA's mandate to provide the
President advice on telecommunications and information policy
issues.
Danny will thus be leaving the W3C staff, which he joined in 1998 as
the Technology and Society Domain Lead. During these 11 years, Danny
has contributed significantly to advances in many areas where policy
meets technology, including privacy, security, intellectual
property, and trust. As Chair of the Patent Policy Working Group,
Danny led the effort that culminated in W3C's Royalty-Free Patent
Policy, now a cornerstone of W3C's value proposition to the Web
community.
Before joining the W3C, Danny was co-founder and Deputy Director of
the Center for Democracy and Technology and was Deputy Policy
Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Danny is also
Director of the the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group with
Tim Berners- Lee and a founding director of the Web Science Research
Initiative and holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist
at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
While W3C regrets that Danny will be stepping down from W3C, it is
encouraging that US policy may well be shaped by someone who has
demonstrated a commitment to open standards as a tool for improving
society. Danny, good luck!
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/staffbios.htm
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/
Past home page news...
http://www.w3.org/News/
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Ecosystem for investors, upcoming workshop by Dave Raggett
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/08/ecosystem_for_investors_upcomi.html
* TAG Status Report: July, 2009 by Noah Mendelsohn
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/tag_status_report_july_2009.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
* 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond. Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
* 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
* 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older
People. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE
conference.
* 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits
Older Users. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British
Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
* 15 September, Durban, South Africa: M-government: anytime,
anywhere connected citizen. Vagner Diniz presents at GovTech
2009.
* 16 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Mobile web
development: why so many platforms? How to make a choice? .
François Daoust, Nick Allot (OMTP) present at WIPJAM@OSiM.
* 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
present at Techshare 2009.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser Standardization.
Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Web and
Applications 2009.
* 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
* 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
Chicago.
* 4 November, San Francisco, USA: Apps in the Cloud. Philipp
Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit ‘09.
* 11 November, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
presents at 5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
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http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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