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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary Week
As part of its efforts to broaden participation opportunities
in W3C, W3C announces today its first Developer Gathering, to
be held 5 November, 2009 during the W3C Technical Plenary Week
(TPAC) in Santa Clara, California. Registration is open to the
public; W3C is seeking in particular developers and designers
who may not participate regularly in W3C groups. Arun
Ranganathan (Mozilla), Fantasai, Philippe Le Hégaret, and
others will speak on a variety of hot topics with a goal of
feeding back comments to the groups developing the relevant
technology standards. Learn more about the Developer Gathering.
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/DevMeeting
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&tax=0&amount=
75¤cy_code=USD&no_shipping=1&business=mtg-reg-receipt@w3.
org&item_name=TPAC_DEV&return=http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/De
vMeeting.html&lc=us
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/DevMeeting
WebSimpleDB API First Draft Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "WebSimpleDB API." User agents need to
store large numbers of objects locally in order to satisfy
off-line data requirements of Web applications. Whereas the
"Web Storage" specification is useful for storing pairs of keys
and their corresponding values, it does not provide in-order
retrieval of keys, efficient searching over values, or storage
of duplicate values for a key. The new WebSimpleDB API
specification provides a concrete API to perform advanced
key-value data management that is at the heart of most
sophisticated query processors. It does so by using
transactional databases to store keys and their corresponding
values. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-WebSimpleDB-20090929/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Invites Implementations of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 -
Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)
The Timed Text Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format
1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)," used to
represent timed text media for the purpose of interchange among
authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is
intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing
information. The specification provides a standardized
representation of a particular subset of textual information
with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are
associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose
of interchange and potential presentation. Learn more about the
Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Last Call: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0
The Math Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0." MathML
is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and
capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on
the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality
for text. Comments are welcome through 11 November. Learn more
about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-MathML3-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/Math/
Five Web Services Drafts Updated
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published
updates to five Working Drafts: "Web Services Enumeration
(WS-Enumeration)," "Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing),"
"Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT)," "Web Services
Transfer (WS-Transfer)," and "Web Services Metadata Exchange
(WS-MetadataExchange)." The first describes a general
SOAP-based protocol for enumerating a sequence of XML elements
that is suitable for traversing logs, message queues, or other
linear information models. The second describes a protocol that
allows Web services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for
event notification. The third defines extensions to WS-Transfer
that deal primarily with fragment-based access to resources to
satisfy the common requirements of WS-ResourceFramework and
WS-Management. The fourth describes a general SOAP-based
protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based
resources. The fifth defines how metadata associated with a Web
service endpoint can be represented as resources, how metadata
can be embedded in endpoint references, and how metadata could
be retrieved from a Web service endpoint. Learn more about the
Web Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
W3C Organizes Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Access
Control Application Scenarios on 17-18 November 2009 in
Luxembourg. This Workshop is intended to explore evolving
application scenarios for access control technologies, such as
XACML. Results from a number of recent European research
projects in the grid, cloud computing, and privacy areas show
overlapping use cases for these technologies that extend beyond
classical intra-enterprise applications. The Workshop,
co-financed by the European Commission 7th framework program
via the PrimeLife project, is free of charge and open to
anyone, subject to review of their statement of interest and
space availability. Position papers are due 23 October. See the
call for participation for more information. Learn more about
the Privacy Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp.html
http://www.primelife.eu/
http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
W3C Launches Provenance Incubator Group
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Provenance
Incubator Group, whose mission is to provide a state-of-the art
understanding and develop a roadmap in the area of provenance
for Semantic Web technologies, development, and possible
standardization. The group will be chaired by Yolanda Gil. The
following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this
group: Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute, Talis Information
Limited, University of Manchester, University of Southampton,
University of Southern California Information Sciences
Institute (USC / ISI), and Vrije Universiteit. Read more about
the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of
emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is
not on the W3C standards track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
OWL 2 is a Proposed Recommendation
With more than a dozen implementations of OWL 2 reported, the
OWL Working Group has published its OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
as a Proposed Recommendation. An ontology is a structured set
of terms that a particular community uses for organizing data,
such as "title", "author", and "ISBN" for data about books. OWL
2 is a compatible extension to "OWL 1," providing "additional
features" for people using ontologies. The OWL 2 document set
contains 13 documents, of which 4 are instructional: "overview"
, "primer," "new features and rationale," and "quick
reference." The "rdf:PlainLiteral datatype," developed for
use by OWL 2 and RIF, is also a Proposed Recommendation. Learn
more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Implementations
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-new-features-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-overview-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-primer-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-new-features-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-quick-reference-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-rdf-plain-literal-20090922/
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
New W3C Group to Standardize Relational Database, RDF Mapping
W3C announces today the new RDB2RDF Working Group, whose
mission is to standardize a language for mapping relational
data and relational database schemas into RDF and OWL,
tentatively called the RDB2RDF Mapping Language, R2RML. From
the beginning of the deployment of the Semantic Web there has
been increasing interest in mapping relational data to the
Semantic Web. This is to allow relational data to be combined
with other data on the Web, to link semantics directly to
relational data and to aid in enterprise data integration. The
creation of this Working Group follows the work of a previous
W3C Incubator Group in this area. Read the RDB2RDF Working
Group Charter and learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/rdb2rdf/XGR-rdb2rdf-20090126/
http://www.w3.org/2009/08/rdb2rdf-charter
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
CSS Working Group Updates Candidate Recommendation of CSS3 Media
Queries
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Media
Queries." HTML4 and CSS2 currently support media-dependent
style sheets tailored for different media types. For example, a
document may use sans-serif fonts when displayed on a screen
and serif fonts when printed. "screen" and "print" are two
media types that have been defined. Media queries extend the
functionality of media types by allowing more precise labeling
of style sheets. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20090915/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Invites Implementations of WebCGM 2.1
The WebCGM Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "WebCGM 2.1." Computer Graphics
Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC
8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed
vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds
Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical
illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data
visualization, and similar fields. The Working Group has
adopted a public test suite for WebCGM 2.1 and has produced a
preliminary WebCGM 2.1 implementation report. Learn more about
the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-webcgm21-20090915/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/2009/WebCGM21/testsuite21.htm
l
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/2009/WebCGM21/implementation-
report.html
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite Note
Published
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working
Group has published a Group Note of "Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite." This document
presents test cases for the POWDER technology, which helps to
build a Web of trust and make it possible to discover relevant,
quality content more efficiently. The tests facilitate and
exemplify the creation of POWDER documents of varying
complexity and provide a means to assert the conformance of
software applications designed to handle POWDER documents.
Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-powder-test-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Web Storage; Web Database Drafts Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published Working Drafts
of "Web Storage" and "Web Database" (a First Public Draft). The
former defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value
pair data in Web clients. The latter defines an API for storing
data in databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20090910/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
New eGovernment Activity Focus Proposed; Guidelines for Publishing
Open Government Data Published
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announces a draft
work plan for the eGovernment Interest Group, whose mission is
to document, advocate, coordinate and communicate best
practices, solutions and approaches to improve the interface
between citizens and government through effective use of Web
standards. The draft charter, in review by the W3C community
until the end of September, focuses on two topics: Open
Government Data (OGD), and Education and Outreach. In line with
its anticipated focus on Open Government Data, the group also
announces today a first draft of "Publishing Open Government
Data," which provides step-by-step guidelines for putting
government data on the Web. Sharing data according to these
guidelines enables greater transparency; delivers more
efficient public services; and encourages greater public and
commercial use and re-use of government information. Learn more
about the W3C eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG
http://www.w3.org/2009/06/eGov/ig-charter
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-gov-data-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts Group Note Published
The Internationalization Core Working Group has published
"Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts" as a Working
Group Note. This document describes techniques for the use of
HTML markup and CSS style sheets when creating content in
languages that use right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic,
Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc. It builds on (but also goes
beyond) markup needed to supplement the Unicode bidirectional
algorithm, and also touches on how to prepare content that will
later be localized into right-to-left scripts. Learn more about
the Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/
http://www.w3.org/International/
New Draft of DOM Level 3 Events Published
The WebApps Working Group has published a new Working Draft of
"DOM Level 3 Events," a generic platform- and language-neutral
event system which allows registration of event handlers,
describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides
basic contextual information for each event. DOM3 Events
introduces an advanced text and keyboard event model, including
composition events for input-method editors and other
internationalization issues. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Candidate
Recommendation Updated
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has updated the
Candidate Recommendation of "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2
Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification." This specification
defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision. CSS 2.1 is a
style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach
style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to structured documents (e.g.,
HTML documents and XML applications). This update corrects some
errata in the previous draft. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Opens New India Office
Today the W3C India Office opened at a new Host: the Department
of Information Technology in the Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology. Swaran Lata, who is Director of the
Human Centered Computing division (TDIL), will run the new
Office with the support of deputy manager Somnath Chandra. W3C
Offices act as local points of contact for W3C work and help
ensure that W3C and its specifications reach an international
audience. W3C would like to thank the India Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology for their support in
ensuring that W3C has a strong presence in India. The previous
Office in India, hosted by C-DAC, has already closed. Learn
more about the W3C Offices program.
http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Past home page news...
http://www.w3.org/News/
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Let's Make Every Day One Web Day! by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/lets_make_every_day_one_web_da
.html
* First Ever Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary
Week by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/first_ever_developer_gathering
.html
* How do we test a Web browser? by Philippe Le Hégaret
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/how_do_we_test_a_web_browser.h
tml
http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
* Linked Government Data by Sandro Hawke
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/09/linked_government_data.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Sandro
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
* Access Control Application Scenarios, 17-18 November
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 14 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization: An
Introduction. Addison Phillips gives a tutorial at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 15 October, Potsdam, Germany: W3C and W3C Offices - an
overview. Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Launch of the W3C
Germany and Austria Office.
* 15 October, San Jose, CA, USA: BCP47: Language and Locale
Identification. Addison Phillips presents at
Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
* 21 October, London, United Kingdom: Browser
Standardization. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at
Mobile Web and Applications 2009.
* 23 October, Ede, The Netherlands: The Open Web. Steven
Pemberton gives a keynote at NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het
Open Web".
* 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.
* 30 October, Philadelphia, USA: Introduction to the Semantic
Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at Company Presentation
at Johnson & Johnson.
* 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.
* 14 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Disintermediation
through Aggregation: Making your Data your Own. Steven
Pemberton presents at Society of the Query.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: Making Websites
Accessible. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 19 November, Singapore, Singapore: The Enabling Power of an
Accessible Web. Shawn Henry presents at Digital
Accessibility Public Forum & Training Workshop.
* 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010.
Mohamed ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming
&countryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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