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- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:31:15 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2012-04-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120409
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Expands Presence at WWW 2012 to Increase Community Engagement
27 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9401
[] W3C invites developers, business, government, media,
analysts, and all who attend the 2012 World Wide Web Conference
to participate in the expanding W3C Track and learn how the
Open Web Platform is transforming industry and society. W3C's
activities at the conference this year, from 16-20 April at the
Lyon Convention Center in France, include:
http://www.www2012.org/
http://www2012.org/
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/w3c-track
* Tim Berners-Lee Keynote (and participation in Workshops and
a Panel)
* W3C Tutorial Track (NEW!), four half-day presentations on
CSS3 in Style, Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web, Developing
Mobile Web Applications, Open Data in Practice
* W3C Track: Camp-style half-day interactive discussions with
W3C experts and Web users on Web Security and Privacy, and
HTML5 Games
A number of W3C staff will be on hand to discuss HTML5, CSS,
and other technologies of the Open Web Platform. Attendees can
also learn about W3C online training and participation in W3C
Community Groups, and meet representatives of the new W3C
France Office. The France Office and Inria will have a booth
(number 54) in the exhibition area at the Lyon Convention
Center. Read the full press release for details and see you in
Lyon.
http://www.w3.org/People/
http://www.w3devcampus.com
http://www.w3.org/community/
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/france-pr
http://www.w3.org/2012/03/www2012.html.en
Mobile Accessibility - Online Symposium - Call for Papers
05 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9413
The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an
online symposium to explore mobile accessibility challenges,
existing resources, and areas for future research and
development. The Call for Papers is open until 7 May 2012.
Learn more about the Symposium on Mobile Accessibility and the
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012AprJun/0013
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Two XML Schema Specifications are Recommendations
05 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9412
The XML Schema Working Group has published "W3C XML Schema
Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures" and "Part 2:
Datatypes" as W3C Recommendations. The W3C XML Schema
Recommendation specifies an XML language for describing the
structure and constraining the content of XML documents. It
provides both structures and data types, as well as facilities
for people and specifications to define their own structures
and data types, whether for validation, data binding,
documentation or other purposes. Learn more about the XML
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-1-20120405/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-2-20120405/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity
Four Drafts Published by the Government Linked Data Working Group
05 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9411
The Government Linked Data Working Group has published four
First Public Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
* Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT). DCAT is an RDF vocabulary
designed to facilitate interoperability between data
catalogs published on the Web. This document defines the
schema and provides examples for its use.
* The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary. There are many situations
where it would be useful to be able to publish
multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in
such a way that it can be linked to related data sets and
concepts. The Data Cube vocabulary provides a means to do
this using the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework)
standard. The model underpinning the Data Cube vocabulary
is compatible with the cube model that underlies SDMX
(Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange), an ISO standard
for exchanging and sharing statistical data and metadata
among organizations. The Data Cube vocabulary is a core
foundation which supports extension vocabularies to enable
publication of other aspects of statistical data flows.
* Terms for describing people. This document defines a set of
terms for describing people. It defines how to describe
people's characteristics such as names or addresses and how
to relate people to other things, for example to
organizations or projects. For each term, guidance on the
usage within a running example is provided. This document
also defines mappings to widely used vocabularies to enable
interoperability.
* An organization ontology. This document describes a core
ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting
linked-data publishing of organizational information across
a number of domains. It is designed to allow
domain-specific extensions to add classification of
organzations and roles, as well as extensions to support
neighbouring information such as organizational activities.
Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
DOM4 Draft Published
05 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9410
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "DOM4." DOM4 defines the event and document model the
Web platform uses. The DOM is a language- and platform neutral
interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically
access and update the content and structure of documents. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-dom-20120405/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Launches Web Cryptography Working Group
04 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9409
W3C launched today a new Web Cryptography Working Group, whose
mission is to define an API that lets developers implement
secure application protocols on the level of Web applications,
including message confidentiality and authentication services,
by exposing trusted cryptographic primitives from the browser.
Web application developers will no longer have to create their
own or use untrusted third-party libraries for cryptographic
primitives. This will improve security on the Web. Some of the
chartered use cases for this API include:
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/
http://www.w3.org/2011/11/webcryptography-charter
* The ability to select credentials and sign statements can
be necessary to perform high-value transactions such as
those involved in finance, corporate security, and
identity-related claims about personal data.
* The provisioning and use of keys within Web applications
can be used for scenarios such as increasing the security
of user authentication and determining whether a particular
device is authenticated for particular services.
* The ability to check source integrity before executing
Javascript code previously stored in local storage.
Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity
Last Call: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
03 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9408
The Web Application Security Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing." This
document, produced jointly with the Web Applications Working
Group, defines a mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin
requests. Specifications that enable an API to make
cross-origin requests to resources can use the algorithms
defined by this specification. If such an API is used on
http://example.org resources, a resource on
http://hello-world.example can opt in using the mechanism
described by this specification (e.g., specifying
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.org as response
header), which would allow that resource to be fetched
cross-origin from http://example.org. Comments are welcome
through 1 May 2012. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-cors-20120403/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Three drafts published by the CSS Working Group
03 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9407
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
three Working Drafts today.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* CSS Transforms.CSS transforms allows elements styled with
CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or
three-dimensional space. This specification is the
convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and
SVG transforms specifications.
* CSS Animations. This CSS module describes a way for authors
to animate the values of CSS properties over time, using
keyframes. The behavior of these keyframe animations can be
controlled by specifying their duration, number of repeats,
and repeating behavior.
* CSS Transitions.CSS Transitions allows property changes in
CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Note: Requirements for Japanese Text Layout Updated
03 April 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9406
Participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force (with input from
four W3C Working Groups, CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG
and XSL Working Groups) published a second version of a Group
Note: "Requirements of Japanese Text Layout." This document
describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized
with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is
mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051,
however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X
4051. This second version of the document contains a
significant amount of additional information related to hanmen
design, such as handling headings, placement of illustrations
and tables, handling of notes and reference marks, etc. A
"Japanese version" is also available. Learn more about W3C's
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-jlreq-20120403/ja/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Ten HTML5 Drafts Updated
29 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9404
The HTML Working Group has published ten updated working
drafts:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* the HTML5 specification
* HTML5: Edition for Web Authors
* HTML5 differences from HTML4
* HTML+RDFa 1.1
* HTML Microdata
* HTML Canvas 2D Context
* HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
* Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents
* HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide
* HTML: The Markup Language
There is a "comprehensive list of the changes made to the HTML5
spec" since publication of the previous HTML Working Draft (May
2011). Most of the changes are fine-tuning refinements rather
than major new additions, in keeping with the progress of the
specification toward greater stability, and transitioning
toward an upcoming Candidate Recommendation draft.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-diff-20120329/#changes-2011-
05-25
Learn more about HTML.
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss
SMIL Timesheets 1.0 Note Published
29 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9403
The SYMM Working Group has published a Group Note of "SMIL
Timesheets 1.0." This document defines an XML timing language
that makes SMIL 3.0 element and attribute timing control
available to a wide range of other XML languages. This language
allows SMIL timing to be integrated into a wide variety of
a-temporal languages, even when several such languages are
combined in a compound document. Because of its similarity with
external style and positioning descriptions in the Cascading
Style Sheet (CSS) language, this functionality has been termed
SMIL Timesheets. Learn more about the W3C Synchronized
Multimedia Activity.
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Group/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-timesheets-20120328/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)
Draft Published
27 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9400
The First Public Working Draft of "Website Accessibility
Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)" was published
today by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
(WCAG WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT
WG), through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task
Force ( Eval TF ). WCAG-EM provides an approach for evaluating
how websites - including web applications and websites for
mobile devices - conform to WCAG 2.0. Learn more about WCAG-EM
Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology Draft
Published and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2011/eval/eval-tf
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0296
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Three drafts published by the XML Query Working Group
27 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9399
The XML Query Working Group has published three Working Drafts
today.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
* XQuery Update Facility 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases, a
First Public Working Draft that specifies goals,
requirements and use cases for the XQuery Update Facility
3.0.
* XQuery 3.0 Use Cases which specifies usage scenarios for
XML Query (XQuery) 3.0.
* XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases,
this First Public Working Draft, jointly developed by the
W3C XML Query Working Group and the W3C XSL Working Group,
specifies requirements and use cases for Full-Text Search
for use in XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0.
Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN)
Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data
journalism
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
Brussels, Belgium
Hosted by the European Commission
For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data,
fostering a culture in which public administrations make
their data available, ideally in machine-processable
formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with
enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of
the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European
Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of
the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what
is all the 'new' government open data being used for?
W3C Blog
* On the W3C Agenda: Headlights 2012
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/on_the_w3c_agenda_headlights_2
2 April 2012 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
* First European Members to join the new W3C Startup Program:
Joshfire, Data2Type, Temesis, SC IQ Tech Labs.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/first_european_members_joined
2 April 2012 by Bernard Gidon
https://www.w3.org/Team/Bgidon/
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-19 - 2012-03-25
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-30
27 March 2012 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-04-16 (16 APR)
Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Open Data in Practice
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Developing Mobile Web Applications
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-19 (19 APR)
WAI-ACT: Web Accessibility Now
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
World Wide Web Conference 2012
http://www.www2012.org/
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-19 (19 APR)
W3C Roadmap to the Open Web Platform
by Daniel Hladky
Russian Internet Forum 2012
Moscow, Russia
* 2012-05-10 (10 MAY)
HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile,
connected devices – current and future version
keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Future Internet Assembly 2012
http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly
/aalborg-may-2012
Aalborg, Denmark
* 2012-05-11 (11 MAY)
Network/Device API Panel
panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Mobilism 2012
http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 2012-05-15 (15 MAY)
Upgrade Your Website to HTML5
http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07
-Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx
by Rajesh Lal
Visual Studio Live
http://vslive.com/home.aspx
Brooklyn, New York, USA
* 2012-05-30 (30 MAY)
Roadmaps for the open mobile web
panel features Jiri Kupiainen
Open Mobile Summit
http://www.openmobilesummit.com/
London, United Kingdom
* 2012-06-05 (5 JUN)
Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C
by Ivan Herman
The 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm
San Francisco, USA
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