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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2010-10-04 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20101004 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Launches Points of Interest Working Group 04 October 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8915 W3C has launched a Points of Interest Working Group, whose mission is to develop technical specifications for the representation of "Points of Interest" information on the Web. For the purposes of this Working Group, a "Point of Interest" is defined simply as an entity at a physical location about which information is available. For example, the Taj Mahal in India is a point of interest, located at 27.174799° N, 78.042111°E (in the WGS84 geodetic system). Additional information could be associated with it, such as: it was completed around 1653, has a particular shape, and that it is open to visitors during specific hours. Points of Interest information is used in a wide variety of applications such as: augmented reality ("AR"), mapping and navigation systems, geocaching, etc. This group will primarily focus on POI use within AR applications but will strive to ensure reusability across applications. The group will also explore how the AR industry could best use, influence and contribute to Web standards. More information is available in the Working Group Charter. W3C launches this group as the result of discussion at the W3C Workshop on Augmented Reality on the Web. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/ http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/charter/ http://www.w3.org/2010/06/w3car/report http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Multilingual Web Workshop Program Published 03 October 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8914 The MultilingualWeb Project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the W3C, is looking at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the multilingual Web. The project will raise visibility of what's available and identify gaps via a series of four events, over two years. The first Workshop takes place in Madrid, Spain on 26-27 October 2010. It is free and open to the public. A first view of the workshop program has just been published. Speakers represent a wide range of organizations and interests, including: BBC, DFKI, European Commission, Facebook, Google, Loquendo, LRC, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, SAP, W3C, WHO, and the World Wide Web Foundation. Session titles include: Developers, Creators, Localizers, Machines, and Users. The Workshop should provide useful cross-domain networking opportunities. Learn more about participation and registration in the Call for Participation and learn more about Internationalization at W3C. http://www.multilingualweb.eu/ http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/program http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n W3C UK and Ireland Office Moves to Nominet 01 October 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8913 After 13 years of successful work at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the W3C UK and Ireland Office has a new home at Nominet. Nominet runs the one of the world’s largest Internet registries, the registry for .uk domain names, with over eight million domain names. Phil Kingsland, Director of Marketing and Communications at Nominet, will be the new Office manager. He said, "We believe the work W3C does promoting web accessibility standards, and developing other standards that help web users to trust in the reputation of the Internet is well aligned with Nominet’s public purpose remit and vision, which is to be a leading force in making the Internet a trusted space, which everyone can be part of and has a positive impact on people’s lives." The Office plans a ceremonial launch later this year. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ http://www.nominet.org.uk/ http://blog.nominet.org.uk/insight/2010/09/w3c-web-standards-an d-nominet/ W3C would like to thank STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the W3C UK and Ireland Office staff, led by Michel D Wilson and his predecessors Stuart Robinson and Bob Hopgood, for their contributions to W3C and the Web. Learn more about the W3C Offices, regional W3C representatives that help promote the W3C mission. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Web on TV: Towards Smarter Integration of Web and Broadcasting 29 September 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8910 The explosion of the mobile device market demonstrates how consumers have come to expect and rely on access to the network from anywhere, at any time. Increasingly, people expect similar access to the Web from consumer electronics such as televisions. W3C has begun to organize a series of workshops to discuss this convergence with television industry and other producers of consumer electronics. The first workshop in the series took place in Japan on 2-3 September. There, 150 participants from various industries discussed key use cases and important requirements for smarter integration of Web, broadcasting and consumer electronics technologies. A summary of the workshop is now available. http://www.w3.org/2010/09/web-on-tv/ http://www.w3.org/2010/09/web-on-tv/summary One recommendation from the participants was for W3C to create "Web and TV" Interest Group. A draft charter is now available; W3C invites public comment on public-web-and-tv@w3.org. The proposed scope for the group is: http://www.w3.org/2010/09/webTVIGcharter * Minimum clarification about the conceptual relationship between Web and TV, especially the architectural relationship between the services on Web and the TV services; * Identification of important requirements for the Web to function effectively with TV services on TV devices and TV-like devices; * Identification of important requirements for TV to function effectively on various devices with services on the Web; * Review and discussion of deliverables under development by other W3C groups, which touch on the use of the Web and TV; * Exploration of barriers to the Web and TV services working on TV devices and TV-like devices, and potential solutions; * Provide a forum for the exchange information about Web and TV activities around the world. Learn more about a Web of devices. http://www.w3.org/standards/webofdevices/ Two Media Capture Drafts Updated 28 September 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8909 The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published two Working Drafts: "HTML Media Capture" and "The Media Capture API." The first defines HTML form enhancements that provide access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device. Providing streaming access to these capabilities is outside of the scope of this specification. The second defines an API that provides access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-media-capture-20100928/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-capture-api-20100928/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Widget Updates Draft Published 28 September 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8908 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines a process and a document format to allow a user agent to update an installed widget package with a different version of a widget package. A widget cannot update itself; instead, a widget relies on the user agent to manage the update process. A user agent can perform an update over HTTP and from non-HTTP sources (e.g., directly from a device's memory card or hard disk). Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-updates-20100928/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Launches Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group 27 September 2010 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8905 W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group, whose mission is to define an object memory format, which allows for modeling of events or other information about individual physical artifacts - ideally over their lifetime - and which is explicitly designed to support data storage of those logs on so-called smart labels attached to the physical artifact. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), SAP AG, Siemens AG. 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/omm/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/omm/charter http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2010-10-04 ( 4 OCT) – 2010-10-05 ( 5 OCT) Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/ Cambridge, MA, USA This workshop will explore solutions to privacy based on controlling data usage and on data handling. We also solicit contributions on techniques for `sticky policies' that ensure that policies constantly move along with the related data. * 2010-10-05 ( 5 OCT) – 2010-10-06 ( 6 OCT) Workshop on Emotion Markup Language http://www.w3.org/2010/10/emotionml/cfp Paris, France Hosted by Telecom ParisTech * 2010-10-26 (26 OCT) – 2010-10-27 (27 OCT) The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp Madrid, Spain Hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication in all walks of life. As the share of English web pages decreases and that of other languages increases, it is vitally important to ensure the multilingual success of the World Wide Web. The MultilingualWeb project is looking at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the Web multilingually. The project aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards and identify gaps. The core vehicle for this is a series of four events which are planned for the coming two years. As the first of the four events, this workshop will introduce and review currently available best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. * 2010-12-08 ( 8 DEC) – 2010-12-09 ( 9 DEC) How can Technology help to improve Privacy on the Internet? http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/ Cambridge, MA, USA Jointly organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Society (ISOC), MIT, and W3C Who we are (e.g. our thoughts, dreams, feelings, DNA sequence), what we own (such as financial property), what we have experienced and how we behave (audio/visual/olfactory transcripts), and how we can be reached (location, endpoint identifiers) are among the most personal pieces of information about us. More and more of this information is being digitized and made available electronically. The question for us therefore is: How can we ensure that architectures and technologies for the Internet, including the World Wide Web, are developed in a way that respects users’ privacy? W3C Blog * Introducing the Web Font Awards http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/10/introducing_the_web_font_award 4 October 2010 by Vladimir Levantovsky * Privacy Dashboard - Find out what you are sharing http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/10/privacy_dashboard 4 October 2010 by Dave Raggett * Lessons from Harvard's Kennedy School on Technology and Governance 2.0 http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/09/karen_myers_w3c_development_of 27 September 2010 by Karen Myers Upcoming Talks * 2010-10-04 (4 OCT) Apps vs Web Apps panel features Matt Womer Mobile Monday, Silicon Valley http://www.mobilemonday.net/09/2010/apps-vs-web-apps San Francisco, CA, USA * 2010-10-05 (5 OCT) Changing the Mobile Landscape: From Apps to AR, Standards at W3C by Matt Womer CTIA: Mobile Web and Apps World Forum http://www.mobilewebandappsevent.com/index.php?option=com_c ontent&view=article&id=67&Itemid=2 San Francisco, USA * 2010-10-06 (6 OCT) Mobile and Accessible by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux International ÆGIS Conference http://www.aegis-project.eu/ Sevilla, Spain * 2010-10-07 (7 OCT) HTML5 & CSS3 - nytt lyft för webben http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20101007/ by Olle Olsson DFS Seminarium http://natverk.dfs.se/node/20243 Linköping, Sweden * 2010-10-07 (7 OCT) LITA's „Top Tech Trends“ panel features Felix Sasaki DGI-Konferenz http://www.dgi-konferenz.de/ Frankfurt a. Main, Germany, Germany * 2010-10-07 (7 OCT) How does the Semantic Web Work? http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1007-Frankfurt-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman 1. DGI-Konferenz, 62. DGI Jahrestagung: Semantic Web & Linked Data http://www.dgi-konferenz.de/index Frankfurt, Germany * 2010-10-13 (13 OCT) Das mehrsprachige Web by Felix Sasaki WebTech Conference http://webtechcon.de/ Mainz, Germany * 2010-10-14 (14 OCT) Towards Video on the Web with HTML5 by François Daoust NEM Summit http://nem-summit.eu Barcelona, Spain * 2010-10-14 (14 OCT) HTML5 et le web de demain Paris Web 2010 http://www.paris-web.fr/2010/ Paris, France * 2010-10-15 (15 OCT) How does the Semantic Web Work? http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1015-SaoPaulo-SemCafe-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Café Semântico http://www.w3c.br/cafecombrowser/ São Paulo, Brazil * 2010-10-18 (18 OCT) An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode by Richard Ishida Internationalization & Unicode Conference http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Santa Clara, USA * 2010-10-20 (20 OCT) IRIs Beyond the Napkin: A Survey of Internationalized Resource Identifier Issues and Implementation Internationalization & Unicode Conference 34 http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc34/ Santa Clara, CA, USA * 2010-10-20 (20 OCT) Bringing Together Usability and Accessibility by Shawn Henry Web Design World http://webdesignworld.com/ Las Vegas, NV, USA * 2010-10-20 (20 OCT) Extending Bidi Support on the Web Internationalization & Unicode Conference http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Santa Clara, USA * 2010-10-20 (20 OCT) A year on the Semantic Web @ W3C (with more details on RDFa) http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1020-Rio-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Pontifícia Universidade Católica (Pontifical Catholic University) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 2010-10-20 (20 OCT) Accessibility Today: The Latest Standards and Guidelines by Shawn Henry Web Design World http://webdesignworld.com/ Las Vegas, NV, USA * 2010-10-27 (27 OCT) Mobile Web Best Practices - lessons learned since 2008 by Phil Archer MyMobileBristol http://mymobilebristol.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/2010/07/13/introduci ng-the-mymobilebristol-project/ Bristol, United Kingdom * 2010-11-03 (3 NOV) Technologies for the upcoming web: Standards for the next web platform http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20101103/ by Olle Olsson J. 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