W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-02-27

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2012-02-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
  http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120227

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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White House Supports Do Not Track Technology from W3C

   23 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9372

   Today the White House announces a Consumer Privacy Bill of
   Rights and support for W3C's Do Not Track technology. The
   announcement includes: "In response to calls from the
   Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), leading
   Internet companies and online advertising networks are
   committing to use Do Not Track technology from the World Wide
   Web Consortium in most major web browsers to make it easier for
   users to control online tracking."

   http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/we-can-t-
   wait-obama-administration-unveils-blueprint-privacy-bill-rights
   http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/fact-shee
   t-plan-protect-privacy-internet-age-adopting-consumer-privacy-b

   W3C is building consensus around global Web technology that
   will allow users to express a preference regarding being
   tracked online, and what is necessary to comply with the user's
   preference. W3C welcomes support from the US Government for the
   steps that industry and civil society are taking within W3C to
   give users meaningful privacy choices and options for consent.

   “Personal privacy on the Web is one of the most important
   policy and technical issues of the decade,” said Dr. Jeff
   Jaffe, W3C CEO. “Standards for online consumer privacy should
   be developed in a global forum, led by industry, with
   multistakeholder participation. W3C is well-positioned as the
   forum to address complex online privacy issues.”

   Read the full W3C press release and learn more about W3C's
   Privacy Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/02/dnt.html.en
   http://www.w3.org/Privacy/

Demos with W3C at Mobile World Congress 2012

   24 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9374

   [] W3C invites media, analysts, and other attendees of Mobile
   World Congress (MWC) 2012 to meet with W3C and learn how the
   Open Web Platform is transforming industry. From 27 February
   through 1 March W3C will showcase demonstrations at its booth
   in Hall 2, Stand 2A31. Demonstrations include:

   http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/
   http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
     * Webinos: Wallet in my Phone, The Vehicle API, Zap and
       Shake, Air Hockey
     * AT&T: HTML5
     * Opera Software: The Latest on Standards Support in Opera
       Mobile and Opera’s Mobile Debugging Tools
     * RIM/BlackBerry: PlayBook/QNX platform
     * SK Telecom: CanvasGL: The Fastest GPU-Accelerated WebKit
     * And more!

   In time for the event, W3C has updated Standards for Web
   Applications on Mobile: February 2012 current state and
   roadmap, which summarizes the various technologies developed in
   W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how
   they apply more specifically to the mobile context.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/02/mobile-web-app-state/

   Learn more about the demo schedule and W3C @ MWC 2012.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/

W3C Invites Implementations of R2RML and A Direct Mapping of
Relational Data to RDF

   23 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9370

   The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Candidate
   Recommendation documents that help to bring 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.
   Implementations are invited. Test Cases are available at:
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/test-cases/. Directions on
   how to submit implementation reports and test case results are
   at:
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Implementatio
   n_Reports. Comments and implementation experience reports are
   welcome through 30 April 2012. Learn more about the Semantic
   Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-r2rml-20120223/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdb-direct-mapping-20120223/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/test-cases/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Implementatio
   n_Reports
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Clipboard API and events Draft Published

   23 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9371

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Clipboard API and events." This specification
   defines the common clipboard operations of cutting, copying and
   pasting, in such a way that they are exposed to Web
   Applications and can be adapted to provide advanced
   functionalities. Its goal is to provide for compatibility where
   possible with existing implementations. Learn more about the
   Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-clipboard-apis-20120223/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All is updated

   21 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9369

   The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach
   Working Group (EOWG) has updated How to Make Presentations
   Accessible to All . This WAI resource helps you make
   presentations, meetings, training, conferences, etc. accessible
   to all of your potential audience, including people with
   disabilities and others. It covers planning, preparing slides,
   considerations during your presentation, providing accessible
   material, and other topics for conference organizers and
   presenters. Learn more in the blog post Make Your Presentations
   Accessible to All updated - share the news and visit the WAI
   home page.

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible
   http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Last Call: Timing control for script-based animations

   21 February 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9368

   The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "Timing control for script-based animations."
   This document defines an API web page authors can use to write
   script-based animations where the user agent is in control of
   limiting the update rate of the animation. The user agent is in
   a better position to determine the ideal animation rate based
   on whether the page is currently in a foreground or background
   tab, what the current load on the CPU is, and so on. Using this
   API should therefore result in more appropriate utilization of
   the CPU by the browser. Comments are welcome through 20 March.
   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-animation-timing-20120221/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

   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

     * Learn how to Write Great Web Applications for Mobile!
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/learn_how_to_write_great_web_a
       24 February 2012 by Marie-Claire Forgue
       http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
     * Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share
       the news
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible
       20 February 2012 by Shawn Henry
       http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB)
       Building the Business Case in your Organization
       by Shawn Henry
       AccessU at CSUN
       http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
       EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal
       inputs
       Mobile Voice Conference 2012
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA
     * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms,
       standards, and tools
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice 2012
       http://mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA
     * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR)
       What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity?
       http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk
       keynote by Ivan Herman
       The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works
       hop
       Luxembourg, Luxembourg
     * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR)
       Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop
       http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk
       by Ivan Herman
       Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
       Dagstuhl, Germany
     * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR)
       Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile
       by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures
       pratiques
       http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/
       Paris, 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

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