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- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:41:15 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2011-03-28 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20110328
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Workshop: Identity in the Browser
21 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9042
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, to take place
24-25 May 2011 in Mountain View, California, and hosted by the
Mozilla Foundation. 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. Anyone may participate and there is no fee to
participate. All participants are required to submit a position
paper by 22 April; see additional participation requirements.
To help with planning, brief "expressions of interest" are
appreciated as rapidly as possible. Learn more about the
Workshop on Identity in the Browser.
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/#cfp_participationRequiremen
ts
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/
W3C Issues Report on Web and Television Convergence
28 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9049
Today, W3C publishes a report from the Second Web and TV
Workshop, which took place in Berlin in February. The report
summarizes the discussion among the 77 participating
organizations and highlights some key Web and TV convergence
priorities:
http://www.w3.org/2010/11/web-and-tv/summary
http://www.w3.org/2010/11/web-and-tv/
* Adaptive streaming over HTTP
* Home networking and second-screen scenarios
* The role of metadata and relation to Semantic Web
technology
* Ensuring that convergent solutions are accessible
* Profiling and testing
* Possible extensions to HTML5 for Television
Prioritization now continues in the W3C Web and TV Interest
Group. That group will review existing work, as well as the
relationship between services on the Web and TV services. It
will identify requirements and potential solutions to ensure
that the Web will function well with TV.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/
The W3C Workshop in Berlin was made possible in part by
sponsorship from Netflix, IPTV Forum Japan, and Tomo-Digi. This
second Web and TV workshop was also organized with the support
of the OMWeb EU project.
W3C Launches Audio Working Group
25 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9048
W3C today launches the Audio Working Group, whose chartered
mission is to develop a client-side script API adding more
advanced audio capabilities than are currently offered by audio
elements. The API will support the features required by
advanced interactive applications including the ability to
process and synthesize audio streams directly in script, and
will extend the HTML5 <audio> and <video> media elements. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/charter/Overview
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity
Databases on the Semantic Web: Drafts Published for R2RML; A Direct
Mapping of Relational Data to RDF
24 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9047
The RDB2RDF Working Group has published Working Drafts of
"R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language" and "A Direct Mapping of
Relational Data to RDF," which enable people to expose
relational database data on the Semantic Web. In R2RML, people
map their relational database to RDF datasets. The Direct
Mapping is intended to provide a default behavior for R2RML.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/sw/rdb2rdf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-r2rml-20110324/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdb-direct-mapping-20110324/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 Draft Published
24 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9046
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Fonts Module Level 3." Families of fonts
typically don't contain a single face for each possible
variation of font properties. The CSS font selection mechanism
describes how to match a given set of CSS font properties to a
given font face, and how font resources are loaded dynamically.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-fonts-20110324/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Bringing Communities Together at Federated Social Web Europe
24 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9045
[] 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.
http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/
http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/
The conference, which takes place 3-5 June in Berlin, Germany,
is made possible with the help of the PrimeLife project and is
hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. It follows the 2010
Federated Social Web Summit and is designed to bring together
diverse communities interested in Social Web, identity, and
privacy. The agenda will include talks, presentation of
position papers, and opportunities for on-the-ground agenda
building. Participants are invited to submit position papers,
due 2 May. Proposals received after that date may be added to
the part of the agenda determined at the event.
http://www.primelife.eu/
http://federatedsocialweb.net/
http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/cfp
Last Call: Widget Packaging and Configuration
22 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9044
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Widget Packaging and Configuration." This
specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for
a class of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user
interface widgets (e.g., buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.),
widgets as specified in this document are full-fledged
client-side applications that are authored using technologies
such as HTML5 and then packaged for distribution. Examples
range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games
and weather forecasters, to complex applications that pull data
from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a user
in some interesting and useful way. Comments are welcome
through 01 May. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-widgets-20110322/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
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.
* 2011-05-24 (24 MAY) – 2011-05-25 (25 MAY)
W3C Workshop on 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 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
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-03-31 (31 MAR)
The power of Mobile Web Applications
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
W3C Track in WWW 2011 conference
http://www.w3.org/2011/03/w3c-track
Hyderabad, India
* 2011-04-04 (4 APR)
Multilingual Forms and Applications
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/04-04-steven-i18n
by Steven Pemberton
Content on the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/pisa-workshop
Pisa, Italy
* 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
* 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)
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
* 2011-05-25 (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
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