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- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:35:38 -0400
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Launches Work to Simplify Creation of Content in World's
Languages
07 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9377
[] Today W3C announced new work to make it easier for people to
create Web content in the world's languages. The lack of
standards for exchanging information about translations is
estimated to cost the industry as much as 20% more in
translation costs, amounting to billions of dollars. In
addition, barriers to distributing content in more than one
language mean lost business. Multinational companies often need
to translate Web content into dozens of languages
simultaneously, and public bodies from Europe and India
typically must communicate with citizens in many languages. As
the Web becomes more diverse linguistically, translation
demands will continue to grow.
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
The MultilingualWeb–LT (Language Technology) Working Group will
develop standard ways to support the (automatic and manual)
translation and adaptation of Web content to local needs, from
its creation to its delivery to end users. Read the press
release and learn more about the W3C Internationalization
Activity. The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group receives funding
from the European Commission (project name LT-Web) through the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
https://www.w3.org/2012/02/mlw-lt
http://www.w3.org/International/
W3C Workshop - Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment,
data journalism
09 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9381
W3C announces today a Workshop on Using Open Data: policy
modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. 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 to ask a simple
question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used
for? The Workshop takes place 19-20 June in Brussels, Belgium
at the European Commission Headquarters. W3C Membership is not
required to participate, but participation is limited to 80
people and participants must submit position papers. Workshop
participants will focus on uses of open data, not its
publication. In particular, the intention is that participants
will highlight uses of data for tools that aid policy modeling,
that empower citizens, and that can be usefully visualized for
data journalism. For more information, see the Workshop home
page.
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
Last Call: CSS Values and Units Module Level 3
08 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9379
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Values and Units Module Level
3." This CSS3 module describes the common values and units
that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing
them in CSS property definitions. Comments are welcome through
29 March. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-values-20120308/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Two Notes Published by the HTML Data Task Force
08 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9378
The HTML Data Task Force, Semantic Web Interest Group has
published two Notes today:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
* The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers
of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats,
microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin Core,
microformat vocabularies, etc.) to choose from, it provides
guidance on deciding what to choose in a way that meets the
publisher's or consumer's needs.
* The Microdata to RDF describes processing rules that may be
used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing micro
data.
Both documents are Interest Group Notes, meaning that no
further work is planned on the documents themselves, although
future Working Groups may use these as input documents for
further Recommendation Work.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
MediaStream Capture Scenarios Draft Published
06 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9376
The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communications
Working Group have published a First Public Working Draft of
"MediaStream Capture Scenarios." This document collates the
scenarios that are target use cases for the Media Capture API
that enables access to media input capabilities for Web
applications using Javascript. Learn more about the Ubiquitous
Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-capture-scenarios-20120306/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
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/
* 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
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-02-06 - 2012-03-11
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-28
12 March 2012 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
* Microdata to RDF Distiller
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/microdata_to_rdf_distiller
8 March 2012 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
Upcoming Talks
* 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
* 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal
inputs
Mobile Voice Conference 2012
http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-03-15 (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
* 2012-03-22 (22 MAR)
The Mobile Web - what I've learned from my 'Students'
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0322_phila_openMIC/
panel features Phil Archer
openMIC #13
http://open-mic.org.uk/
Bath, United Kingdom
* 2012-03-26 (26 MAR)
What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance?
panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra
European Accessibility Forum
http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
76_index_en
Paris, France
* 2012-03-26 (26 MAR)
Managing Website Accessibility Conformance
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
European Accessibility Forum
http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
76_index_en
Paris, France
* 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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