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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Launches Media Analysis Management Interface Incubator Group
13 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8975
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Media Analysis
Management Interface Incubator Group, whose mission is to
discuss the requirements and determine the feasibility of the
"Media Analysis Management Interface." That interfaces consists
of the data model and exchange protocol for the analysis data
of various media, such as video images, RFID sensor data, and
so on. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for
this group: NEC Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp. (NTT), and Fujitsu Limited. 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/mami/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mami/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Contacts API Draft Updated
09 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8974
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Contacts API." This specification defines
the concept of a user's unified address book - where address
book data may be sourced from a plurality of sources - both
online and locally. This specification then defines the
interfaces on which third party applications can access a
user's unified address book, with explicit user permission and
filtering. The focus of this data sharing is on making the user
aware of the data that they will share and putting them at the
center of the data sharing process; free to select both the
extent to which they share their address book information and
the ability to restrict which pieces of information related to
which contact gets shared. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-contacts-api-20101209/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Introduction to SVG online course: Early Bird Registration Open for
January 2011 Session!
08 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8973
Registration is now open for the next session of W3C's online
training course: Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics). Professor David Dailey of Slippery Rock University,
Pennsylvania, will lead the course, as he has led previous
sessions. The course is six weeks long, starting in January
2011. During the first four weeks (the "core" of the session),
participants learn how to create SVG documents, to use basic
elements to create effective graphics quickly and easily, add
border effects, linear and radial gradients, re-use components,
and rescale, rotate and translate images. During the (optional)
final two weeks of the course participants learn how to: add
animation, use scripting to transform and manipulate images,
and create interactive graphics. The last two weeks will most
benefit those with some background in scripting. The only
pre-requisite for the course is to have some familiarity with
HTML/XML and the ability to edit source code directly.
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/intro_svg_course_description.php
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/
The early bird rate of €124 is available until Thursday, 23
December. After that, the rate is €165. Full details of the
course (audience, content, timing, weekly commitment) are
available in the Introduction to SVG: Course Description. Learn
more about Scalable Vector Graphics.
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/intro_svg_course_description.php
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Three CSS publications: Last call for CSS 2.1, First Drafts of
Snapshot 2010 and Writing Modes Level 3
07 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8971
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2
Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification." 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). CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors
in CSS2 and adds a few highly requested features which have
already been widely implemented. But most of all CSS 2.1
represents a "snapshot" of CSS usage: it consists of all CSS
features that are implemented interoperably at the date of
publication. Last Call comments are welcome through 7 January
2011. The Working Group allso published two other first public
Working Drafts. "CSS Snapshot 2010" collects together into one
definition all the specs that together form the current state
of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). "CSS Writing Modes Module
Level 3" specifies the text layout model in CSS and the
properties that control it. It covers bidirectional and
vertical text. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-CSS2-20101207/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-2010-20101202/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css3-writing-modes-20101202/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Privacy and Data Usage Control Workshop Results Announced
06 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8970
W3C publishes today a report from the October Workshop on
Privacy and data usage control. As the report indicates, there
is an obvious tension on the Web between policy imperatives and
economic imperatives (namely: advertising fueled by personal
data). Participants discussed requirements on the one hand that
users have simple interfaces for managing privacy preferences,
and on the other that applications support sophisticated
context-specific and rich interactions for b2b scenarios. The
report includes information about approaches based on notice
and consent (focusing on data collection) versus approaches
based on accountability (focusing on data use, not collection).
Reconciling this tension will require further discussion across
different communities. See the report for more information on
joining the conversation. Learn more about Web Privacy at W3C,
including W3C's next workshop: How can Technology help to
improve Privacy on the Internet?, 8-9 December at MIT.
http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/report
http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/Overview
http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/report
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/
Incubator Group Report: A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware
Social Web
06 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8969
The W3C Social Web Incubator Group has published their final
report. The mission of the Incubator Group was to understand
the systems and technologies that permit the description and
identification of people, groups, organizations, and
user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting
ways. The report describes a framework for understanding the
Social Web and many relevant standards (from both within and
outside the W3C), and concludes by proposing a strategy for
making the Social Web a "first-class citizen" of the Web. The
report recommends that the W3C should offer resources to start
a Federated Social Web Incubator Group, and that the W3C host a
workshop to investigate identity in the browser with existing
communities in order to determine how digital identity fits
into the One Web platform. 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/socialweb/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2011-02-08 ( 8 FEB) – 2011-02-09 ( 9 FEB)
W3C Web and TV Workshop
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The IT industry is building the future Web platform at W3C.
HTML5, CSS, SVG, and other open global standards for Web
technology are starting to be deployed in browsers, and the
Web community is enthusiastic about host of new features
such as location-based services. W3C is organizing this
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producers of consumer electronics into the discussion.
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to
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W3C Blog
* New RDF Working Group, RDF/JSON, RDF API…
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/12/new_rdf_working_group_rdfjson
8 December 2010 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
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W3C: An Open Platform for Web Standardisation
http://www.w3.org/2010/12/dd-w3c
by Daniel Dardailler
Future of the Internet, Standardization Workshop
http://standardization-ghent.fi-week.eu/
Ghent, Belgium
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État des travaux en cours au W3C et perspectives
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0117-Paris-IH/
keynote by Ivan Herman
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Paris, France
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