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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2011-05-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20110516 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Open Web Platform Progress Drives Expanding Industry Interest 10 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9087 W3C and its partners are creating an innovative Open Web Platform for application development. The platform has captured the attention of a great many industries that see the business opportunities enabled by its richness, universality, and interoperability across diverse devices. "W3C's Open Web Platform is emerging as the platform of choice for the delivery of services and the development of rich applications across a broader set of industries, including mobile, television, publishing, and advertising," said Dr. Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. As a result, nearly forty organizations from sixteen countries have joined W3C in the past twelve months, including these leaders in media, television, entertainment, gaming, telecommunications, device manufacturers, and social media: China Unicom, Comcast, Facebook, LG Electronics, NEC Corporation, Netflix, SanDisk, Sony, and Zynga. Read the full press release and testimonials from many of the recent Members. http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/ http://www.w3.org/2011/05/membership-pr http://www.w3.org/2011/05/membership-testimonials RIF In RDF Note Published 13 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9098 The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has published a Group Note of "RIF In RDF." This document specifies a reversible mapping (or transformation) from Rule Interchange Format (RIF) XML documents to Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs. This mapping allows the contents of RIF documents to be interoperably stored and processed as RDF triples, using existing serializations and tools for RDF. When used with the standard mapping from RDF triples to RIF frames, this also provides a "reflection" or "introspection" mechanism, an interoperable way for RIF rules to operate on RIF documents. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-rif-in-rdf-20110512/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ First Draft of Points of Interest Core Published 13 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9097 The Points of Interest Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "Points of Interest Core." In general terms, a "point of interest" is a location about which information is available. A POI can be as simple as a set of coordinates and an identifier, or more complex such as a three dimensional model of a building with names in various languages, information about open and closed hours, and a civic address. POI data has many uses including augmented reality browsers, location-based social networking games, geocaching, mapping, and navigation systems. This document describes a generic data model and one normative format. This format is based on XML and is likely insufficient to cover all POI use cases, therefore, it is expected that the data model will be mapped to other formats, such as JSON, GML, RDF, GeoRSS, or HTML. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-poi-core-20110512/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Call for Review: Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0 is a Proposed Recommendation 12 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9096 The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0." This document describes CCXML, or the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language. CCXML is designed to provide telephony call control support for dialog systems, such as VoiceXML. Comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/Voice/Group/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ccxml-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Last Call: Five SPARQL 1.1 Drafts 12 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9095 The SPARQL Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the following SPARQL 1.1 documents: http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page * SPARQL 1.1 Query adds support for aggregates, subqueries, projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query language. * SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. * SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a SPARQL endpoint. * SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol describes the use of the HTTP protocol for managing named RDF graphs on an HTTP server. * SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes defines conditions under which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF. SPARQL is a set of specfications related to querying a web of linked data. Review comments welcome through 29 July. Learn more about the Semantic Web and Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) 12 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9094 The SVG Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition)," a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The document has been republished as a Last Call Working Draft primarily for the community to validate changes made as a result of the previous Last Call. Comments are welcome through 02 June. Learn more about the Graphics Activity. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-SVG11-20110512/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/ Updated CSS Snapshots for 2010, 2007 12 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9093 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published updates to two Group Notes: "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2010" and "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007" . These documents collect into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of the indicated year. The primary audience is CSS implementors, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-css-2010-20110512/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-css-beijing-20110512/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Announces Workshop to Bring Local Focus to the Multilingual Web 12 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9091 [] W3C announces the A Local Focus for the Multilingual Web, to take place 21 - 22 September 2011 in Limerick, Ireland, co-located with the 16th Annual LRC Conference. Workshop participants will discuss currently available best practices and standards that help content creators, localizers, language technology developers, browser makers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. The Workshop also provides opportunities for networking that bring together the various communities involved in enabling the multilingual Web. This is the third of four Workshops being planned by W3C over two years as part of the MultilingualWeb European Project and is hosted by the University of Limerick. Participation is free and open to anyone. However, space is limited and participants are advised to register as soon as possible. People wishing to speak should submit an outline of their proposed talk with their registration form. The deadline for speaker proposals is 15 July. For more information, see the call for participation. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization Activity. http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/pisa-workshop/pisa-cfp http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/limer ick-cfp http://www.localisation.ie/resources/conferences/2011/index.htm http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/limer ick-cfp http://www.w3.org/International/ W3C Publishes First Draft of RDF Interfaces 10 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9088 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "RDF Interfaces" specification. The goal of the RDF Interfaces specification is to provide a common development environment for Web Applications that utilize structured data and RDF. It provides interfaces for creating and managing RDF Triples, Graphs, and Parsers. It also provides the basic building blocks for the upcoming RDF API and the recently published "RDFa API." While RDF support is a priority, support for Microdata and Microformats are also provided through extensible-by-design interfaces for parsers and Graph storage. Since this is a First Public Working Draft, the document is expected to change over the coming months. We welcome feedback from the community of Web Application developers on the group's public list. For more information about the Semantic Web, please see the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdf-interfaces-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-api/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ Call for Review: Ink Markup Language (InkML) Proposed Recommendation Published 10 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9086 The Multimodal Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Ink Markup Language (InkML)." This document describes the syntax and semantics for the Ink Markup Language, which serves as the data format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. The markup allows for the input and processing of handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages in applications. It provides a common format for the exchange of ink data between components such as handwriting and gesture recognizers, signature verifiers, and other ink-aware modules. Comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about Multimodal Interaction. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-InkML-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity Last Call: Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 10 May 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9085 The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the "Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema," and updated Working Drafts of "Developer Guide for Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0," " HTTP Vocabulary in RDF 1.0," "Representing Content in RDF 1.0," and "Pointer Methods in RDF 1.0." EARL is a machine-readable format for expressing test results, such as results from web accessibility evaluation tools. Read the invitation to review the EARL 1.0 Last Call Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-EARL10-Schema-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-EARL10-Guide-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-HTTP-in-RDF10-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-Content-in-RDF10-20110510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-Pointers-in-RDF10-20110510/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011AprJun/0017 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2011-05-24 (24 MAY) – 2011-05-25 (25 MAY) Identity in the Browser http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/ Mountain View, CA, USA Hosted by Mozilla Foundation The Web is now critical infrastructure and, as such, requires mechanisms that foster trust. For critical enterprise activity, effective government engagement, and sensitive social information accessed over the Web, a higher level of identity assurance, privacy protection, and security is required, and client-side technologies like browsers have an important role to play. There is a pressing need for trustworthy, widely-applicable digital identity management. W3C is therefore organizing a Workshop on Identity in the Browser. Participants will investigate strategies to facilitate the development and deployment of improved identity authentication and authorization technologies across the Web. Also included in the workshop will be explorations into the operational, policy, and legal issues that must be addressed by the solutions. * 2011-06-03 ( 3 JUN) – 2011-06-05 ( 5 JUN) Federated Social Web Europe http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/ Berlin, Germany Hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Social networking has transformed the Web. However, most Social Web applications today limit relationships to those with accounts in the same system. As with many other communications tools (telephone, email, Web) people will ultimately prefer Social Web applications without such barriers, where anyone can communicate seamlessly with anyone else, whatever application they are using. W3C will be exploring how to achieve "One Social Web" at Federated Social Web Europe. * 2011-06-04 ( 4 JUN) – 2011-06-05 ( 5 JUN) Mobile and Web Technologies in Social and Economic Development http://public.webfoundation.org/2011/01/MW4D_WS/ Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Jointly organized by the World Wide Web Foundation and W3C The Workshop on Mobile and Web Mobile Technologies in Social and Economic Development aims to understand the challenges associated with using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver sustainable services for underprivileged populations in developing countries. * 2011-09-21 (21 SEP) – 2011-09-22 (22 SEP) A Local Focus for the Multilingual Web http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/l imerick-cfp Limerick, Ireland Co-located with the 16th LRC Conference and hosted by the University of Limerick W3C Blog * Hash URIs http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/hash_uris 12 May 2011 by Jeni Tennison * RDF Interfaces published… http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/rdf_interfaces_published 10 May 2011 by Ivan Herman http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan Upcoming Talks * 2011-05-18 (18 MAY) The semantic web and its applications by Eyal Sela Info2011 http://www.teldan.com/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1 &TMID=84&FID=720 Tel Aviv, Israel * 2011-05-25 (25 MAY) HTML5 & CSS3 in Practice http://www.webvisionsevent.com/workshops/html5--css3-in-pra ctice/ by Daniel Davis WebVIsions 2011 http://www.webvisionsevent.com/ Portland, Oregon, USA * 2011-05-25 (25 MAY) Update on international web accessibility standards and support material by Shawn Henry Evolving Standards in Accessibility http://www.bcs.org/category/15015 London, United Kingdom * 2011-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Link - Live panel features Ivan Herman 2011 Semantic Technology Conference http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/ San Francisco, CA, USA * 2011-06-06 (6 JUN) Introduction to Semantic Web http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0606-SemTech-Tut-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman 2011 Semantic Technology Conference http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/ San Francisco, CA, USA * 2011-06-07 (7 JUN) Introduction to RDFa http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0607-SemTech-RDFa-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman 2011 Semantic Technology Conference http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/ San Francisco, CA, USA * 2011-06-10 (10 JUN) HTML5: le nouveau visage du Web panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux E1 Saison 2 http://www.e1conference.com/ La Seyne sur Mer, France * 2011-06-15 (15 JUN) The semantic web and its applications by Eyal Sela Guest lecture at Bar-Ilan university Ramat-Gan, Israel W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. 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