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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe Named W3C CEO
08 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8738
[] W3C today named Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe its new Chief Executive
Officer. "Web technologies continue to be the vehicle for every
industry to incorporate the rapid pace of change into their way
of doing business," said Dr. Jaffe. "I'm excited to join W3C at
this time of increased innovation, since W3C is the place where
the industry comes together to set standards for the Web in an
open and collaborative fashion." As W3C CEO, Dr. Jaffe will
work with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, Membership, and the
public to evolve and communicate W3C's organizational vision.
The CEO is responsible for W3C's global operations, for
maintaining the interests of all of the W3C’s stakeholders, and
for sustaining a culture of cooperation and transparency, so
that W3C continues to be the leading forum for the technical
development and stewardship of the Web. Read the CEO Blog and
learn more in the press release.
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/w3c_ceo_blog_first_posting_mar
http://www.w3.org/2010/03/ceo-pr
W3C Launches Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group
11 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8747
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Decisions and
Decision-Making Incubator Group, whose mission is to determine
the requirements, use cases, and a representation of decisions
and decision-making in a collaborative and networked
environment suitable for leading to a potential standard for
decision exchange, shared situational awareness, and
measurement of the speed, effectiveness, and human factors of
decision-making.. The following W3C Members have sponsored the
charter for this group: DISA, MITRE, and CNR. 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 but in many cases serves as a
starting point for a future Working Group.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Updated; New
Implementation Guide Published
11 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8746
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has
published an updated Working Draft of the "User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0." UAAG defines how
browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support
accessibility for people with disabilities and work with
assistive technologies. This draft adds requirements in seven
new areas, including support for speech input, video playback
controls and a new section on conformance. It introduces a new
supporting document, "Implementing UAAG 2.0" as a First Public
Working Draft. Read the invitation to review the UAAG 2.0
Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-UAAG20-20100311/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20100311/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2010JanMar/0078
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Community Invited to Discuss Conversational Applications at Workshop
11 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8745
W3C announced today a Workshop on Conversational Applications -
Use Cases and Requirements for New Models of Human Language to
Support Mobile Conversational Systems, 18-19 June 2010 in
Somerset, New Jersey (USA), Hosted by Openstream. There is
currently an increasing need for new capabilities of the human
language model to support sophisticated conversational
applications. The goal of the Workshop is to understand the
limitations of the current W3C language model in order to
develop a more comprehensive one. Participants will collect and
analyze use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately
will improve support for language capabilities that are
unsupported today. Position papers are due 2 April. Please see
the Call for Participation for more information.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
WebCGM 2.1 is a W3C Recommendation
09 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8743
The WebCGM Working Group has published a W3C 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. WebCGM aims to balance graphical expressive power on
the one hand, and simplicity and implementability on the other.
A small but powerful set of standardized metadata elements
supports the functionalities of hyperlinking and document
navigation, picture structuring and layering, and enabling
search and query of WebCGM picture content. WebCGM 2.1 refines
and completes the features found in WebCGM 2.0. Learn more
about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-webcgm21-20100301/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Call for Review: XProc - An XML Pipeline Language Proposed
Recommendation
09 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8742
The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This
specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An
XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to
be performed on XML documents. Pipelines are made up of simple
steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and
constructs similar to conditionals, iteration, and exception
handlers which control which steps are executed. The group has
produced an implementation report Comments are welcome through
15 April. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-xproc-20100309/
http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2010/02/ir
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines
09 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8741
The Web Security Context Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "Web Security Context: User Interface
Guidelines." This specification deals with the trust decisions
that users must make online, and with ways to support them in
making safe and informed decisions where possible. This
document specifies user interactions with a goal toward making
security usable, based on known best practice in this area.
Comments are welcome through 31 March. Learn more about the
Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-wsc-ui-20100309/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, API for Media Resource 1.0 Drafts
Published
09 March 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8740
The Media Annotations Working Group has published Working
Drafts of "Ontology for Media Resource 1.0" and "API for Media
Resource 1.0." The former document defines the Ontology for
Media Resource 1.0, a core vocabulary to describe media
resources on the Web. It is defined based on a core set of
properties which covers basic metadata to describe media
resources. Further it defines syntactic and semantic level
mappings between elements from existing formats. The ontology
is supposed to foster the interoperability among various kinds
of metadata formats currently used to describe media resources
on the Web. The latter defines a client-side API to access
metadata information related to media resources on the Web.
Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-10-20100309/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-api-1.0-20100309
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
W3C Blog
* Venue details for the RDF Next Steps workshop published
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/venue_details_for_the_rdf_next
9 March 2010 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* W3C CEO blog – First posting – March 8, 2010
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/w3c_ceo_blog_first_posting_mar
8 March 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-03-15 (15 MAR)
Aplicaciones Web: orden en el caos
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2010/0315-aplicacionesCPR-
MA
by Martín Álvarez
Asesoría Formación Profesional Específica CPR Oviedo
http://web.educastur.princast.es/cpr/oviedo/web/index.php?o
ption=com_actividades&task=actividad&id_actividad=207
Oviedo, Spain
* 2010-03-22 (22 MAR)
The semantic web and some Python based applications
http://www.slideshare.net/ISOCIL/semntic-web-intro-eyal-sel
a
by Eyal Sela
PyWeb-IL 13th Meeting
http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il/web/pyweb-il-13th-m
eeting
Tel-Aviv, Israel
* 2010-03-24 (24 MAR)
Presenting Mobile Web Application Best Practices
The second meetup of the Israeli W3C developers forum
(W3CDF) - Mobile applications and websites development
http://www.w3c.org.il/article/meetup_2_mobile_web
Ramat Gan, Israel
* 2010-03-24 (24 MAR)
Social Networking Tips and Tools for Accessing the
Inaccessible
panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra
CSUN Conference
http://www.csunconference.org/
San Diego, USA
* 2010-03-25 (25 MAR)
Building an Accessible Web Browser: W3C User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines
Annual International Technology and Persons with
Disabilities Conference
http://csunconference.org
San Diego, CA, USA
* 2010-03-25 (25 MAR)
Web Accessibility Before and After Demo (BAD)
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
CSUN Conference
http://www.csunconference.org/
San Diego, USA
* 2010-04-07 (7 APR)
Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
by Eyal Sela
Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
http://www.w3c.org.il/article/mobile_application_review
Petach Tikva, Israel
* 2010-04-08 (8 APR)
The future from now... on the internet
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/04-08-steven-future/
by Steven Pemberton
Solar Initiative Lecture Series
http://www.solar.nl/
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 2010-04-19 (19 APR)
Unleashing Opportunities through Accessibility
keynote by Shawn Henry
2010 UIC Digital Accessibility Expo
http://uicweb.net/dae2010
Chicago, IL, USA
* 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
Distributed Multimodality in the Multimodal Architecture
by Deborah Dahl
Mobile Voice Conference
http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
* 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
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