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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens India Office during International Conference in New Delhi
03 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8786
[] As part of its efforts to ensure that core Web standards
meet global needs, W3C announces today the opening of a new
Office in India. The Office is hosted in New Delhi by the
Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme,
part of the India government's Department of Information
Technology. W3C and TDIL will celebrate this collaborative
effort at an opening ceremony on 6 May 2010, as part of a
conference organized by TDIL on the topic of technology,
standards and internationalization. "Increased participation
from India will strengthen W3C's international community," said
Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "I look forward to partnering with TDIL so
that we build the W3C community in India, including drawing
Membership from key industrial and academic leaders. The
upcoming conference is an important first step." Read more in
the press release and learn about the W3C Offices Program.
Photo credit: Richard Ishida
http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://www.tdil.mit.gov.in/
http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
http://www.w3.org/2010/05/india-pr
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Incubator Report: Model-Based User Interfaces
06 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8792
The Model-Based User Interfaces Incubator Group (MBUI-XG)
published their final report today. During the last year the
MBUI-XG has evaluated research on MBUIs, including end-to-end
models that extend beyond a single Web page, and has assessed
its potential as a framework for developing context-sensitive
Web applications. This report gives an overview of the main
results achieved by such an Incubator Group. W3C has also
organized a Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
Interfaces (13-14 May 2010, Rome) to identify opportunities and
challenges for new open standards in this area, particularly
concerning the semantics and syntaxes of task, abstract and
concrete user interface models. This publication is part of the
Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and
experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/model-based-ui/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/model-based-ui/XGR-mbui-201005
04/
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
XML Linking Language (XLink) 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation
06 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8791
The XML Core Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation
of "XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1." This
specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version
1.1, which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in
order to create and describe links between resources. It uses
XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar
to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as
well as more sophisticated links. "Changes from XLink 1.0"
include: xlink:type is no longer required for simple links,
IRIs are used instead of URIs, and the specification includes
non-normative sample XML Schema and RELAX NG grammars. Learn
more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xlink11-20100506/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xlink11-20100506/#changes
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Community Contributions to W3C Validator Campaign Lead to Engineer
Hire
05 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8788
W3C is pleased to announce that, thanks to community
contributions to the W3C Validator Campaign, Thomas Gambet will
spend the next year at W3C turning the Unicorn project into a
production service. The Unicorn Project aims to provide the big
picture about the quality of a Web page by gathering the
results of various tools into a single page. Both Unicorn and
the W3C's Validators are open source projects. W3C invites
developers to participate in these projects or to provide
feedback on functionality: what functionality do you want next?
what are your thoughts on the user interface? Please send
feedback to public-unicorn@w3.org. Learn more about getting
involved with Unicorn development, trying out Unicorn, and
providing translations for it.
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Donate
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Unicorn/
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/unicorn
http://qa-dev.w3.org/ unicorn
http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn/ translations
W3C offers HTML, CSS, and other validation services at no cost
to the Web developer and designer communities. W3C invites you
to make a contribution to support these services.
http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Donate
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2010-05-13 (13 MAY) – 2010-05-14 (14 MAY)
Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
Interfaces
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
Rome, Italy
Hosted by CNR/ISTI
Web application developers face increasing difficulties due
to wide variations in device capabilities, in the details
of the standards they support, the need to support
assistive technologies for accessibility, the demand for
richer user interfaces, the suites of programming languages
and libraries, and the need to contain costs and meet
challenging schedules during the development and
maintenance of applications. Research work on model-based
design of context-sensitive user interfaces has sought to
address the challenge of reducing the costs for developing
and maintaining multi-target user interfaces through a
layered architecture that separates out different concerns.
Workshop participants will collectively help to identify
opportunities and challenges for new open standards in the
area, particularly concerning the semantics and syntaxes of
task, abstract and concrete user interface models. In
addition, workshop participants will have the opportunity
to discuss the role of model-based approaches in relation
to other standards, for instance, XForms, ANSI/CEA-2018 and
MDA, and the relationship to work on standards for Web
delivery including HTML5 and browser scripting APIs.
* 2010-06-15 (15 JUN) – 2010-06-16 (16 JUN)
Augmented Reality on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-om
web.htm
Barcelona, Spain
Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own
right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As
mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the
workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and
the Web. The objective of this Workshop is to provide a
single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss
the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the
mobile platform, and what role standardization should play
for Open Augmented Reality.
* 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
Somerset, NJ, USA
Openstream
The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
support for language capabilities that are unsupported
today.
* 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
RDF Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
Palo Alto, CA
Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(NCBO), at Stanford University
The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
version of RDF.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/
* 2010-07-12 (12 JUL) – 2010-07-13 (13 JUL)
W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
London, England
Hosted by Vodafone
As the Web advances toward becoming an application
development platform that addresses needs previously met by
native applications, work proceeds on APIs to access
information that was previously not available to Web
developers. The broad availability of possibly sensitive
data collected through location sensors and other
facilities in a Web browser is just one example of the
broad new privacy challenges that the Web faces today.
Earlier approaches to address privacy issues for the Web,
especially through policy languages, have not seen broad
implementation in current-generation Web browsers.
This workshop serves to investigate strategies toward
better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and
lead to benefits in the near term.
W3C Blog
* Truly W3C Community building at WWW2010 (Part 2)
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/truly_w3c_community_building_a
_2
6 May 2010 by Marie-Claire Forgue
http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
* The expanding Web platform
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/the_expanding_web_platform
5 May 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
* Truly W3C Community building at WWW2010 (Part 1)
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/truly_w3c_community_building_a
3 May 2010 by Marie-Claire Forgue
http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Web Accessibility from the Usability and UX Perspectives
by Shawn Henry
AccessU, Usability Track
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/?content=usabilitytrac
k
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Accessibility Now
keynote by Shawn Henry
AccessU
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-19 (19 MAY)
What is W3C?
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0519-Prism-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
PRISM Forum Spring Meeting
Stockholm, Sweden
* 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
Organization
by Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-25 (25 MAY)
Les standards ouverts du Web et les logiciels libres
associés
http://www.w3c.org.ma/Talks/Tanger2010/openStandards
by Najib Tounsi
INTERNATIONAL FREE-LIBRE SOFTWARE DAYS, towards an
ecological computing
http://jlazaar.free.fr/lacolombe/Affiche-Workshoplacolombe.
pdf
TANGIER , Morocco
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Semantically-Enabled Standard development
by Laurent Lefort
Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
Ideas
http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
Canberra, Australia
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
panel features Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Transforming eGov Accessibility
by Judy Brewer
Gov 2.0 Expo
http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010/
Washington, DC, USA
* 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
by Richard Ishida
Localization World
http://www.localizationworld.com/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-06-10 (10 JUN)
SVG: Today and Tomorrow
by Doug Schepers
@media 2010
http://atmedia.webdirections.org/
London, United Kingdom
* 2010-06-22 (22 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0622-SemTech-IH/
by Ivan Herman
2010 Semantic Technology Conference
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
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