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- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:59:34 -0500
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Seven Web Services Specifications are Recommendations
13 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9295
W3C is pleased to announce the publication of seven Web
Services specifications from the Web Services Resource Access
Working Group: "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)." Together, these specifications
are designed to be composed with each other to provide a rich
set of tools for the Web Services environment. 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/
First Drafts of Three Audio API Specifications Published
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9302
The Audio Working Group has published three First Public
Working Drafts to provide an advanced audio API for the Web:
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
* the Web Audio API and MediaStream Processing API
specifications each define a different approach to process
and synthesize audio streams directly in script. These APIs
can be used for interactive applications, games, 3D
environments, musical applications, educational
applications, and for the purposes of accessibility. They
include the ability to synchronize, visualize, or enhance
sound information when used in conjunction with graphics
APIs.
* Audio Processing API introduces and compares two
client-side APIs for processing and synthesizing real-time
audio streams in the browser.
Read the blog post Sounding Out the Audio APIs for more
information about the possibilities unlocked by an audio API,
and learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/sounding_out_the_audio_apis
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity
Drafts Updated for XHTML+RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Core 1.1
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9301
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "RDFa Core 1.1," a specification for attributes to
express structured data in any markup language. The group also
published an update to "XHTML+RDFa 1.1," a Host Language for
RDFa Core 1.1. This document is intended for authors who want
to create XHTML Family documents that embed rich semantic
markup. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdfa-core-20111215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xhtml-rdfa-20111215/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation Draft Published
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9300
The Provenance Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation." Provenance
of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to
be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse
information sources, and how to give credit to its originators
when reusing it. In an open and inclusive environment such as
the Web, users find information that is often contradictory or
questionable: provenance can help those users to make trust
judgments. PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building
representations of the entities, people and activities involved
in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111215/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
CSS 2D Transforms Updated
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9299
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS 2D Transforms." CSS 2D Transforms allows
elements rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional
space. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20111215/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Invites Implementations of Touch Events version 1
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9298
The Web Events Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Touch Events version 1." The
Touch Events specification defines a set of low-level events
that represent one or more points of contact with a
touch-sensitive surface, and changes of those points with
respect to the surface and any DOM elements displayed upon it
(e.g., for touch screens) or associated with it (e.g. for
drawing tablets without displays). Learn more about the Rich
Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-touch-events-20111215/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
XPath, XQuery 3.0 Last Call Drafts Published; First Drafts of XPath
Full Text and XQuery Update
15 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9297
The XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group have
jointly published Last Call Working Drafts of "XPath 3.0" and
supporting specifications, together with a First Public Working
Draft of "Full Text 3.0" ; the XQuery Working Group has
published Last Call Working Drafts for "XQuery 3.0" and
"XQueryX 3.0," and also a First Public Working Draft for
"XQuery Update 3.0." XPath is a widely-used language for
querying and selecting from XML documents or other structure;
XQuery and XQueryX are query languages for operating on single
XML documents, document collections, relational databases and
other data sources. Learn more about XML technology.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/XML/XSLT
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-30-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-full-text-30-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xquery-30-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xqueryx-30-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xquery-update-30-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/
Registration for W3C Online Course on Mobile Web; Early Bird
Registration Through 9 January
13 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9296
W3C is pleased to announce that registration is now open for a
third edition of the most popular W3C online training course,
W3C Introduction to Mobile Web and Application Best
Practices.The 8-week course begins 30 January 2012. Developed
by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, the course familiarizes Web
designers and content producers with the Web as delivered on
mobile devices. Along with the course description, read
comments from past students and what they have achieved. An
early bird rate of €165 is available until 9 January 2012;
after that date the full price is €225. Don't miss the early
bird rate - enroll now!
http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14
http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
tices-training/
http://www.mobiwebapp.eu/
http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
tices-training/
http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14
Two Widgets Specifications Published: Widget Access Request Policy;
Widget Interface
13 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9294
The Web Applications Working Group published two Widgets
specifications today:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* A Candidate Recommendation of Widget Interface, which
defines an application programming interface (API) for
widgets that provides, among other things, functionality
for accessing a widget's metadata and persistently storing
data. W3C invites implementation of this specification; see
the ongoing implementation report.
* A Proposed Recommendation of Widget Access Request Policy,
which defines the security model controlling network access
from within a widget, as well as a method for authors to
request that the user agent grant access to certain network
resources. Comments are welcome through 17 January 2012.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
First Draft of CSS Exclusions and Shapes Module Level 3 Published
13 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9293
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
the First Public Working Draft of "CSS Exclusions and Shapes
Module Level 3." CSS exclusions define arbitrary areas around
which inline content can flow. Unlike CSS floats, which they
extend, CSS exclusions can be positioned with any CSS
positioning schemes. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-exclusions-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
First Draft Published of The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal
Semantics
13 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9292
The Provenance Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal
Semantics." The PROV Ontology (also PROV-O) encodes the PROV
Data Model [PROV-DM] in the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2).
The PROV ontology consists of a set of classes, properties, and
restrictions that can be used to represent provenance
information. The PROV ontology can also be specialized to
create new classes and properties for modeling provenance
information specific to different domain applications. The PROV
ontology supports a set of entailments based on OWL2 formal
semantics and provenance specific inference rules. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-o-20111213/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR)
The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop
/luxembourg-cfp
Luxembourg
Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of
the European Commission.
Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid,
Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring
together speakers and participants with an interest in best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further
opportunities for networking across communities that span
the various aspects involved.
http://multilingualweb.eu/
W3C Blog
* Sounding Out the Audio APIs
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/sounding_out_the_audio_apis
15 December 2011 by Doug Schepers
http://schepers.cc/
* Interview: Pearson Company on Open Web Platform and
Publishing
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/interview_pearson_company_on_o
15 December 2011 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-05 - 2011-12-11
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/open_web_platform_weekly_summa
12 December 2011 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-01-12 (12 JAN)
HTML5, connecting devices
keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Día W3C en España
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/DiaW3C/
Granada, Spain
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