W3C Public Newsletter, 2011-06-06

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Launches New Government Linked Data Working Group

   06 June 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9115

   W3C today launched the new Government Linked Data Working
   Group, whose mission is to provide standards and other
   information which help governments around the world publish
   their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic
   Web technologies; see the full charter. In addition, W3C
   renewed today the eGovernment Interest Group, a forum for
   building and strengthening the community of people who use or
   promote the use of W3C technologies to improve Government. That
   group identifies and discusses essential areas of technology
   and related policy issues; see the full eGov Interest Group
   charter and learn more about eGovernment at W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/charter
   http://www.w3.org/egov/IG/
   http://www.w3.org/egov/IG/charter-2011
   http://www.w3.org/egov/

Battery Status Event Specification Updated

   02 June 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9114

   The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "Battery Status Event Specification." This
   specification defines a new DOM event type that provides
   information about the battery status of the hosting device.
   Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-battery-status-20110602/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Three Web Performance Drafts Published: Visibility, Timing Control
for Script-Based Animations, Navigation Timin

   02 June 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9113

   The Web Performance Working Group published three drafts today:

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
     * a First Public Working Draft of Page Visibility, which
       defines a means for site developers to programmatically
       determine the current visibility state of the page in order
       to develop power and CPU efficient web applications.
     * a First Public Working Draft of Timing control for
       script-based animations, which defines an API web page
       authors can use to write script-based animations where the
       user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the
       animation. Using this API should result in more appropriate
       utilization of the CPU by the browser.
     * an update to the Candidate Recommendation for Navigation
       Timing, which defines an interface for web applications to
       access timing information related to navigation and
       elements.

   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 Draft Updated

   31 May 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9112

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3." CSS3
   Writing Modes defines CSS features to support for various
   international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin
   or Indic), right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew or Arabic),
   bidirectional (e.g., mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical
   (e.g., Asian scripts). Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-writing-modes-20110531/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

DOM Level 3 Events Published as Last Call; DOM Core Draft Updated

   31 May 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9111

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "DOM Level 3 Events." The DOM is a language-
   and platform neutral interface that allows programs and scripts
   to dynamically access and update the content and structure of
   documents. Document Object Model Events Level 3 defines a
   generic platform- and language-neutral event system which
   allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow
   through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual
   information for each event. Comments welcome through 28 June
   2011. The group also published today an updated Working Draft
   of "DOM Core." Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20110531/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-domcore-20110531/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

     * 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

     * RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/rdfa_11_distiller_and_validato
       31 May 2011 by Ivan Herman
       http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
     * Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/html5-lastcall-accessibility
       31 May 2011 by Judy Brewer
       http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/

Upcoming Talks

     * 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

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New Members

     * Motorola Mobility, Inc.

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