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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Social Business Jam: Three-day Online Global Event
28 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9217
[] W3C announces today its first ever 3-day virtual event, the
W3C Social Business Jam, 8-10 November. Participation is free
and open to all. Participation in this Jam is intended for
individuals and professionals working in businesses or the
social business space. If you are passionate about leveraging
social capabilities to improve business results or if you want
to discuss your ideas on how social technologies offer business
value beyond traditional social media approaches, then this Jam
is the right place for you. The meeting should produce a better
understanding of how businesses are using social technologies
and the challenges they face integrating the technologies into
their existing environments. We expect the conversation on
social business to continue after the Jam in W3C Community or
Business Groups. Learn more about the W3C Social Business Jam.
http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/
http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/
http://www.w3.org/community/
http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/
Open Task Forces to Discuss Web Schemas, Data Formats
30 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9221
Structured data on the Web gained additional momentum with the
June 2011 announcement from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! of
schema.org, which "provides a collection of schemas ... that
webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by
major search providers." The launch raised two topics in
particular that will now be the focus of new task forces within
W3C's Semantic Web Interest Group; schema.org will participate
in these discussions:
http://schema.org/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
* Web Schemas Task Force, to be chaired by R.V. Guha
(Google). This task force will focus on collaboration
around vocabularies.
* HTML Data Task Force, to be chaired by Jeni Tennison. This
task force will focus on the relationship between RDFa,
microdata, and other approaches to structured data on the
Web, including how people can combine data sources or
translate from one syntax to another.
Anyone may participate in these task forces; for more
information see the Semantic Web Interest Group home page.
Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Two New CSS Recommendations: Namespaces Module and Selectors Level 3;
First Draft of Selectors Level 4
29 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9219
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published two
W3C Recommendations today: "CSS Namespaces Module" and
"Selectors Level 3." The first defines the syntax for using
namespaces in CSS. The second defines the patterns that style
sheet designers may use to match parts of a document; see the
"list of changes from CSS2 selectors." The Working Group also
published the First Draft of "Selectors Level 4," which
introduces powerful new selectors. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-namespace-20110929/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/#changesF
romCSS2
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-selectors4-20110929/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Last Call: The WebSocket API
29 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9218
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "The WebSocket API." To enable Web
applications to maintain bidirectional communications with
server-side processes, this specification introduces the
WebSocket interface. Comments are welcome through 21 October.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-websockets-20110929/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Call for Review of Seven Web Services Proposed Recommendations
27 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9216
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group has published
Proposed Recommendations of seven Web Services specifications:
"Enumeration (WS-Enumeration)," "Event Descriptions
(WS-EventDescriptions)," "Eventing (WS-Eventing)," "Fragment
(WS-Fragment)," "Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange),"
"SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions)," and "Transfer
(WS-Transfer)." Comments welcome through 4 November 2011.
Learn more about the Web Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-enumeration-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-event-descriptions-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-eventing-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-fragment-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-metadata-exchange-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-soap-assertions-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-transfer-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) 2.0 Updated
27 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9215
The XML Print and Page Layout Working Group has published an
updated Working Draft of "Extensible Stylesheet Language
(XSL-FO) Version 2.0." XSL-FO is a powerful template-based
language for formatting XML documents. This is the first draft
that includes the existing specification as well as new work,
although some new features from the previous draft are not yet
included. Learn more about XML.
http://www.w3.org/XML/XPPL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xslfo20-20110927/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Widget Packaging and XML Configuration a Recommendation; three other
Web Apps specifications published
27 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9214
The Web Applications Working Group published a W3C
Recommendation today of "Widget Packaging and XML
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 HTML and then packaged for
distribution.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-widgets-20110927/
The Working Group also published today:
* a Working Draft of Widget URI scheme, which defines the
widget URI scheme and rules for dereferencing a widget URI,
which can be used to address resources inside a package.
* a Note of Requirement For Standardizing Widgets, which
lists the design goals and requirements that specifications
would need to address in order to standardize various
aspects of widgets.
* a Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL, which can be used to
describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in
web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of
features that allow the behavior of common script objects
in the web platform to be specified more readily. Last call
comments welcome through 18 October 2011.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
New Online Course: HTML5 Audio and Video
27 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9213
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new W3C online
course: HTML5 Audio and Video. Taught by Mark Boas, one of the
HTML5 doctors, the course will last 5 weeks, from 17 October to
20 November 2011. Through this course students will learn how
to use HTML5 media in Web pages and applications. The full
price of the course is €225 but we have a limited number of
seats available at the early bird rate of €145, available until
7 October 2011. Register today!
http://openmediaweb.eu/2011/09/27/html5-audio-video-course/
http://html5doctor.com/author/markb/
http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=7
W3C Organizes Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Patterns
26 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9212
Linked Data technology offers huge potential for enterprise
applications such as the integration and the management of data
within and across enterprises. The distributed nature of Linked
Data enables loose-coupling for data sharing within and between
organizations. With Linked Data, enterprises have a unique
opportunity to cooperate in their use of shared data without
the costs of extensive coordination. W3C is organizing a
Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Patterns: Data-driven
Applications on the Web for participants to discuss
requirements, share solutions, and develop a healthy and
scalable Linked Enterprise Data infrastructure. The Workshop
takes place 6-7 December in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anyone
may participate; W3C membership is not required. All
participants are required to submit a position paper by 25
October. Learn more about the Workshop and the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/#paper
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
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/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
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.
* 2011-11-08 ( 8 NOV) – 2011-11-10 (10 NOV)
W3C Social Business Jam
http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/
Online
Supported by IBM
Join the Jam! Participation is free and open to all.
Participation in this Jam is intended for individuals and
professionals working in businesses or the social business
space. If you are passionate about leveraging social
capabilities to improve business results or if you want to
discuss your ideas on how social technologies offer
business value beyond traditional social media approaches,
then this Jam is the right place for you. The meeting
should produce a better understanding of how businesses are
using social technologies and the challenges they face
integrating the technologies into their existing
environments.
* 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.
* 2011-12-06 ( 6 DEC) – 2011-12-07 ( 7 DEC)
Linked Enterprise Data Patterns: Data-driven Applications
on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
Cambridge, MA, USA
Hosted by W3C/MIT
Linked Data technology also offers a huge potential for
enterprise applications, e.g., for the integration and the
management of data within and across enterprises. The
distributed nature of Linked Data enables loose-coupling
for data sharing within and between organizations. With
Linked Data, enterprises have a unique opportunity to
cooperate in their use of shared data without the costs of
extensive coordination. Sharing a common data model (RDF)
allows us to establish design patterns for providing
dereferencable resource identifiers, migrating and cloning
data as business needs and data authorities evolve. These
will address issues such as data distribution, query
federation, access control, encryption and signature, legal
problems around the access of datasets and business models
in using open or closed linked data. Please join the W3C
Linked Data community at this workshop to air requirements,
share solutions and develop a healthy and scalable Linked
Enterprise Data infrastructure.
W3C Blog
* Impressions on the Schema.org Workshop
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/09/impressions_on_the_schemaorg_w
30 September 2011 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-10-06 (6 OCT)
El W3C y la Plataforma Web Abierta
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2011/1006-plataformaWebAbi
erta-MA/
by Martín Álvarez
Workshop on HTML5
Zaragoza, 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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