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- Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:24:56 -0400
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The 2012-05-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Five Provenance Drafts Published
03 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9440
The Provenance Working Group published 5 Working Drafts today
related to the PROV data model. Provenance information can be
used for many purposes, such as understanding how data was
collected so it can be meaningfully used, determining ownership
and rights over an object, making judgments about information
to determine whether to trust it, verifying that the process
and steps used to obtain a result complies with given
requirements, and reproducing how something was generated. The
PROV model is used to represent provenance records, which
contain descriptions of the entities and activities involved in
producing and delivering or otherwise influencing a given
object.
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/
* PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model introduces the provenance
concepts found in PROV and defines PROV-DM types and
relations.
* Constraints of the Provenance Data Model introduces a
further set of concepts useful for understanding the PROV
data model and defines inferences that are allowed on
provenance statements and validity constraints that PROV
instances should follow. These inferences and constraints
are useful for readers who develop applications that
generate provenance or reason over provenance. (First
Public Working Draft)
* PROV-N: The Provenance Notation allows serializations of
PROV instances to be created in a compact manner. (First
Public Working Draft)
* PROV-O: The PROV Ontology expresses the PROV Data Model
using the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2).
* PROV Model Primer provides an intuitive introduction and
guide to the PROV specification for provenance on the Web.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Two CSS Level 3 Modules Published: Exclusions and Shapes; Regions
03 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9441
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published
Working Drafts of "CSS Exclusions and Shapes Module Level 3"
and "CSS Regions Module Level 3." Exclusions and Shapes lets
people define arbitrary areas around which inline content
content can flow. CSS Exclusions extend the notion of content
wrapping previously limited to floats. The CSS regions module
allows content to flow across multiple areas called regions.
The regions are not necessarily contiguous in the document
order. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-exclusions-20120503/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-regions-20120503/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
01 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9439
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July
2012, the nine Advisory Board participants are Ann Bassetti
(Boeing), Jim Bell (HP), Michael Champion (Microsoft), Steve
Holbrook (IBM), Qiuling Pan (Huawei), Jean-Charles Verdié
(MStar Semiconductor), Ora Lassila (Nokia), Charles
McCathieNevile (Opera), and Takeshi Natsuno (Keio University).
Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read
more about the Advisory Board.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
Call for Implementations: Web Workers; HTML5 Web Messaging
01 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9438
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
two Candidate Recommendations:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* Web Workers, which defines an API that allows Web
application authors to spawn background workers running
scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for
thread-like operation with message-passing as the
coordination mechanism.
* HTML5 Web Messaging, which defines two mechanisms for
communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Three SPARQL 1.1 Last Call Drafts Published
01 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9437
The SPARQL Working Group published three Last Call Working
Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
* SPARQL 1.1 Overview, which provides an introduction to a
set of W3C specifications that facilitate querying and
manipulating RDF graph content on the Web or in an RDF
store.
* SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol, which describes the
use of HTTP operations for the purpose of managing a
collection of RDF graphs in the REST architectural style.
* SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats, which
describes the use of CSV(comma separated values) and TSV
(tab separated values) for expressing SPARQL query results
from SELECT queries.
Comments are welcome through 01 June.
The group is further planning to shortly release a 2nd Last
Call working draft of the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language, after
which we plan to advance all Recommendation track drafts in the
next iteration to Proposed Recommendation directly. To this
end, the group is currently gathering implementation reports
and would appreciate reports from the community of
implementations of any of the SPARQL1.1 specifications. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 Draft Published
01 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9436
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3." CSS
Writing Modes Level 3 defines CSS features to support for
various international writing modes, such as left-to-right
(e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic),
bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g.
Asian scripts). Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-writing-modes-20120501/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization Draft
Published
01 May 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9435
The Internationalization Core Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0:
Normalization." This Architectural Specification provides
authors of specifications, software developers, and content
developers with a common reference on the use of normalization
of text and string identity matching on the Web. The goal of
this specification is to improve interoperable text
manipulation on the World Wide Web. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-charmod-norm-20120501/
http://www.w3.org/International/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN)
Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT
Requirements
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub
lin-cfp
Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the
European Commission
* 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) – 2012-06-15 (15 JUN)
W3C Workshop on Web-Based Signage
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp
Tokyo (Chiba), Japan
Hosted by NTT
The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the
Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create
highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad
range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of
Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two
years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority
(see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an
opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices:
very large digital displays. We invite operators of
consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms,
advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to
participate in this discussion.
* 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
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-05-09 (9 MAY)
Conclusiones Día Open Data en Euskadi
by Martín Álvarez
Congreso Internacional de Ciudadanía Digital
http://www.congresociudadaniadigital.com/en/
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
* 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
* 2012-05-24 (24 MAY)
Web & Gaming panel
panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Adobe Creative Week
http://www.adobelive.fr/journee/web-gaming/
Paris, France
* 2012-05-26 (26 MAY)
CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain
http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/
by Bert Bos
Sud Web 2012
http://sudweb.fr/2012
Toulouse, France
* 2012-05-29 (29 MAY)
W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Mobile web challenges workshop
http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda
Paris, France
* 2012-05-30 (30 MAY)
Mobile HTML5 training
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Mobile HTML5 Interop
http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop
Paris, France
* 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
* 2012-06-06 (6 JUN)
Mobile Web Apps and HTML5
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Taller sobre Web Móvil y HTML5
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/Taller/Barcelona/
Barcelona, Spain
* 2012-06-08 (8 JUN)
A short introduction to Semantic Web technologies
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0608-Oracle-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Oracle
Redwood City, CA, USA
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