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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2011-03-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20110307
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Web Tracking and Privacy Focus of W3C Workshop
03 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9025
Tracking (e.g., for behavioral advertising) has come to the
forefront recently as part of the overall Web privacy
conversation in the broader Web and policy community. Several
software vendors (including Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google) are
offering measures that are intended to permit users to opt out
of this tracking, or to prevent tracking by Web sites that are
known to engage in these practices. Similar technology is
deployed in a number of plugins (including NoScript, AdBlock
plus, TACO, and PrivacyChoice). As part of ongoing efforts in
the area of user privacy on the Web, W3C is organizing a
Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy, 28-29 April 2011 in
Princeton, New Jersey (USA). Topics are likely to include:
whether a do not track proposal is advisable or other means
might accomplish the same goals; benefits and challenges of
browser-bade approaches; other approaches to better user
privacy in the face of frequent online tracking. Anyone may
participate in this Workshop; a position paper is required and
space is limited. Position papers are due 25 March 2011 but
expressions of interest sooner than that are appreciated. Many
thanks to the Center for Information Technology Policy at
Princeton University for hosting the meeting. Please see the
the Call for Participation for further details.
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/#paper
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/#eoi
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/
W3C Invites Implementer Feedback on XML Security 1.1 Specifications
04 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9027
The XML Security Working Group published four Candidate
Recommendations today: "XML Signature Syntax and Processing
1.1," "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing 1.1," "XML
Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers," and "XML Signature
Properties." XML Signatures provide integrity, message
authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data
of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the
signature or elsewhere. As companion documents, the Working
Group has released new Working Drafts of "XML Security 1.1
Requirements and Design Considerations" and "XML Security RELAX
NG Schemas."
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmldsig-core1-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlenc-core1-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmldsig-properties-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xmlsec-reqs-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xmlsec-rngschema-20110303/
To address patent disclosures related to the XML Signature 1.1
and XML Encryption 1.1 specifications, W3C has chartered a
Patent Advisory Group. Learn more about W3C's Security
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/
http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity
W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for XML Signature and XML
Encryption
04 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9026
In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to disclosures related
to the "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing 1.1" and "XML
Signature Syntax and Processing 1.1" specifications; see the
PAG charter. The XML Security Working Group develops this
specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the
event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is
not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing
requirements. Public comments regarding these disclosures may
be sent to public-xmlsec-comments@w3.org (with public archive).
Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2011/02/xmlsec-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core1/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/
http://www.w3.org/2011/02/xmlsec-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-comments/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
W3C Note Published: Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID
Vocabulary
03 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9024
The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a Group Note of
"Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary."
Semantic Web and other technologies have made it easy and
beneficial to publish and share datasets. When someone wants to
select a dataset, one of the fundamental questions is, what
does it offer? There are datasets such as DBpedia that cover
quite a range of topics, whereas there are others that only
talk about a certain domain (books, places, etc.). VoID
provides a bridge between the publishers and users of datasets.
VoID addresses a variety of needs, ranging from data discovery
to cataloging and archiving of datasets. Most importantly, VoID
helps users find the right data for their tasks. Today's
publication provides advice about deployment of dataset
descriptions and discusses the discovery as well. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-void-20110303/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
W3C Launches HTML5 Chinese Interest Group
01 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9023
W3C has launched the HTML5 Chinese Interest Group, whose
mission is to facilitate focused discussion in Chinese of the
HTML5 specification and of specifications closely related to
HTML5, to gather comments and questions in Chinese about those
specifications, to collect information about specific use cases
in Chinese speaking region for technologies defined in those
specifications, and to report the results of its activities as
a group back to the HTML Working Group, as well as to other
relevant groups and to the W3C membership and community. Learn
more in the charter (available in Chinese as well), join the
Interest Group, and learn more about the W3C HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/html/ig/zh/
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/html/ig/zh/charter
http://www.w3.org/html/ig/zh/#join
http://www.w3.org/html/
Web Notifications First Draft Published
01 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9022
The Web Notification Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "Web Notifications." This
specification provides an API to generate simple notifications
to alert users outside of the web page. It does not specify
exactly how a user agent should display these notifications;
the best presentation depends on the device where the user
agent is run. When this specificiation refers to displaying
notifications on the "desktop", it generally refers to some
static display area outside the web page, but may take several
forms, including a corner of the user's display, an area within
the chrome of the user agent, or the "home" screen of a mobile
device. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/web-notifications/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-notifications-20110301/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Best practices for creating MMI Modality Components Note Published
01 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9021
The Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Working Group today published
"Best practices for creating MMI Modality Components" as a
Group Note. Multimodal access means that people may use diverse
"modalities" for interaction with the Web, including screen,
keyboard, digital ink, voice, speech output, etc. The Working
Group has defined a general and flexible framework providing
interoperability among modality-specific components from
different vendors - for example, speech recognition from one
vendor and handwriting recognition from another. The current
Note provides additional informative guidelines for authors of
MMI modality components. Its purpose is to help authors create
useful constituents that may be more easily incorporated into a
multimodal system. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-mmi-mcbp-20110301/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2011-04-04 ( 4 APR) – 2011-04-05 ( 5 APR)
Content on the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/pisa-workshop/pisa-
cfp
Pisa, Italy
Hosted jointly by the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
and Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche.
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. Following the highly successful first
event in Madrid, this second workshop will be held in Pisa,
Italy.
* 2011-04-28 (28 APR) – 2011-04-29 (29 APR)
Web Tracking and User Privacy
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/
Princeton, New Jersey
Hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at
Princeton University
Tracking (e.g., for behavioral advertising) has come to the
forefront recently as part of the overall Web privacy
conversation in the broader Web and policy community.
Several software vendors (including Microsoft, Mozilla, and
Google) are offering measures that are intended to permit
users to opt out of this tracking, or to prevent tracking
by Web sites that are known to engage in these practices.
Similar technology is deployed in a number of plugins
(including NoScript, AdBlock plus, TACO, and
PrivacyChoice). As part of ongoing efforts in the area of
user privacy on the Web, W3C is organizing a Workshop on
Web Tracking and User Privacy.
* 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 organied 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.
W3C Blog
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-02-28 - 2011-03-06
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/03/open-web-weekly-summary
7 March 2011 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
* Do Not Track at W3C
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/02/do_not_track_at_w3c
24 February 2011 by Thomas Roessler
http://log.does-not-exist.info/
* W3C Technologies for Mobile Web Applications
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/02/w3c_technologies_for_mobile_we
24 February 2011 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-03-08 (8 MAR)
The open web platform - HTML5 and open web standards
by Eyal Sela
Guest lecture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
* 2011-03-11 (11 MAR)
Think Mobile First, Then Enhance
http://www.la-grange.net/2011/03/11/think-mobile-first
by Karl Dubost
Confoo 2011
http://confoo.ca/
Montreal, Canada
* 2011-03-13 (13 MAR)
Secret Revealed: How to be Successful, with Accessibility
by Shawn Henry
SXSW interactive
http://sxsw.com/interactive
Austin, TX, USA
* 2011-03-15 (15 MAR)
Making Your UA Accessible to All
by Shawn Henry
Conference for Software User Assistance
http://www.writersua.com/conference/
Long Beach, CA, USA
* 2011-03-17 (17 MAR)
Conducting Effective Accessibility Buy-In Sessions: A Key
to Success
by Shawn Henry
CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities
Conference
http://www.csunconference.org/
San Diego, CA, USA
* 2011-03-17 (17 MAR)
Web Accessibility is About People: A Tour of New WAI
Resources
by Shawn Henry
CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities
Conference
http://www.csunconference.org/
San Diego, CA, USA
* 2011-03-17 (17 MAR)
The Web: a platform for applications on connected devices
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Future of Mobile Web Application - W3C Device API Day 2011
http://www.w3c.or.kr/DAP2011/
Seoul, Korea
* 2011-03-24 (24 MAR)
HTML5 et les nouvelles technologies du Web
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
43.117 monthly meeting
Toulon, France
* 2011-05-01 (1 MAY)
Usability, accessibility and inter-operability standards
for multimodal mobile healthcare and clinical trials
ATA 2011: American Telemedicine Association 16th Annual
Meeting and Exposition
http://www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3
773
Tampa, USA
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