W3C Public Newsletter, 2011-09-26

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Invites Implementations of Progress Events

   26 September 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9211

   The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
   the Candidate Recommendation of "Progress Events." The
   Progress Events specification defines an event interface that
   can be used for measuring progress; e.g., HTTP entity body
   transfers. This specification is primarily meant to be used by
   other specifications. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-progress-events-20110922/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Inria to Host First W3C Office in France

   20 September 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9210

   [] To strengthen its relations with industry and research
   activities in France and Europe, W3C announces today the
   opening of a W3C Office in France, hosted by Inria (French
   National Computer Science Research Institute). To mark the
   launch, the Office is organizing a session on Open Data at the
   Open World Forum on 22 September in Paris, in cooperation with
   Inria and Paris City Hall. "Inria has a longstanding commitment
   to the development of free software and open standards," said
   Prof. Michel Cosnard, Inria Chairman and CEO. "We have
   supported W3C's mission since the inception of the Consortium
   in 1994, notably by hosting W3C's European branch". Read the
   full press release and learn more about the W3C Offices.

   http://www.inria.fr/
   http://www.inria.fr/w3c-france
   http://www.inria.fr/
   http://www.openworldforum.org/
   http://www.w3.org/2011/09/france-pr
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

Digital Ink Standard Enhances Device Integration

   20 September 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9209

   W3C announced today a new standard for the exchange of "digital
   ink" on the Web. The "Ink Markup Language (InkML)
   Recommendation" can be used to store and exchange the output of
   an electronic pen or stylus as well as handwriting, gestures,
   sketches, music, and other notations. InkML is part of W3C's
   ongoing efforts to build One Web available from any device. A
   host of new applications are now possible thanks to this open
   standard, such as: pen-based text messaging; handwritten
   annotation of documents, photos, or other media; collaborative
   white boards; archiving of hand-written notes; and more
   efficient approaches to filling out forms. Read the press
   release and testimonials and learn more about the Web of
   Devices.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-InkML-20110920/
   http://www.w3.org/2011/08/inkml-pr.html.en
   http://www.w3.org/2011/08/inkml-testimonials
   http://www.w3.org/standards/webofdevices/

Last Call: R2RML and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF

   20 September 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9208

   The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Last Call Working
   Drafts for bringing relational database information to the
   Semantic Web: "R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language" and "A
   Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF ." The former
   describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings
   from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings
   provide the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF
   data model, expressed in a structure and target vocabulary of
   the mapping author's choice. The latter document defines a
   direct mapping from relational data to RDF. Comments are
   welcome through 1 November. Learn more about the Semantic Web
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-r2rml-20110920/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdb-direct-mapping-20110920/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

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Workshops

     * 2011-10-20 (20 OCT) – 2011-10-21 (21 OCT)
       W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration
       http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/
       Bedford, MA, USA
       Hosted by MITRE
       Integration of heterogeneous data and services has always
       been a concern for creators and managers of services. With
       the emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and
       services has become even stronger as the number of
       available services has grown. Different services stacks now
       exist from Web Services to Cloud-based services.
       The goal of this Workshop is to bring together people with
       different ways of looking at the issues left unsolved by
       the existing stacks, to investigate the possible paths to
       help bridging services built using different paradigms, and
       to identify points where standardization would help
       integration of services and data.
     * 2011-11-05 ( 5 NOV)
       W3C Workshop on The Future of Off-line Web Applications
       http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
       Redwood City, CA, USA
       Hosted by Vodafone
       Off-line use of Web applications is one of the key missing
       elements from the Web platform that application developers
       require. The current fragmentation in this solution space
       is creating confusion among would-be WebApp developers and
       organizations who would otherwise invest in the Open Web
       Platform. This workshop will examine requirements that can
       be derived from the implementor and developer experiences,
       with the goal of informing future standardization efforts.
     * 2011-11-15 (15 NOV) – 2011-11-16 (16 NOV)
       W3Conf: Practical Standards for Web Professionals
       http://www.w3.org/conf/
       Seattle, Washington, USA
       Primary Event Sponsorship from Microsoft
       If you are a developer or designer wanting to hear the
       latest news on HTML5 and the open web platform, and your
       place in it, save the date for W3C's first developer
       conference.

W3C Blog

     * Proposing two new SW Interest Group Task Forces
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/09/proposing_two_new_sw_interest
       20 September 2011 by Ivan Herman
       http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan

Upcoming Talks

     * 2011-09-29 (29 SEP)
       Open Data: gana abriendo tus datos
       http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2011/0929-opendata-MA
       by Martín Álvarez
       WebCongress Bilbao
       http://www.webcongress.com/bilbao/
       Bilbao, Spain
     * 2011-10-14 (14 OCT)
       Table ronde des navigateurs
       panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Paris Web 2011
       http://www.paris-web.fr/
       Paris, France
     * 2011-10-24 (24 OCT)
       Embracing Accessibility - Go for the Carrots
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       HighEdWeb 2011 conference
       http://2011.highedweb.org/
       Austin, TX, USA
     * 2011-11-10 (10 NOV)
       Web content vs Web applications - do we want information or
       programs?
       http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20111110/
       by Olle Olsson
       J. Boye Aarhus 11
       http://aarhus11.jboye.com/
       Aarhus, Denmark

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