W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-07-30

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This is for Everyone: the Tweet Heard Around the World

   30 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9518

   [] Tim Berners-Lee, London native, inventor of the World Wide
   Web and Founder and Director of the W3C was celebrated on stage
   during the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 27
   where he live tweeted 'This is for everyone.' What better venue
   than the Olympic Games, which inspire young people and bring
   competitors together, to recognize Berners-Lee's role in
   history and his continued advocacy that the Web, built on open
   standards, remains available to everyone, everywhere.
   Congratulations to Sir Tim! Learn more about Tim Berners-Lee
   and about W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

   []

   https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/228960085672599552

Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT - First Draft Published

   27 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9517

   The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG
   WG) today published the First Public Working Draft of "Applying
   WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies
   (WCAG2ICT)." It is a draft of an informative (that is, not
   normative) W3C Working Group Note that will clarify how "Web
   Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0" can be applied to
   non-Web ICT. Please see important background information in the
   Call for Review e-mail. Comments are welcome through 7
   September 2012. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative
   (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JulSep/0100
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Call for Review: Navigation Timing Proposed Recommendation Published

   26 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9515

   The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "Navigation Timing." This specification
   defines an interface for web applications to access timing
   information related to navigation and elements. Comments are
   welcome through 28 August. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-navigation-timing-20120726/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Invites Implementations of Page Visibility, Performance Timeline,
and User Timing

   26 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9514

   The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of
   three Candidate Recommendations:

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
     * Page Visibility which defines a means for site developers
       to programmatically determine the current visibility state
       of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web
       applications.
     * Performance Timeline which defines an unified interface to
       store and retrieve performance metric data. This
       specification does not cover individual performance metric
       interfaces.
     * User Timing which defines an interface to help web
       developers measure the performance of their applications by
       giving them access to high precision timestamps.

   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and Media Type Definitions
Draft Published

   26 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9513

   The Technical Architecture Group has published the First Public
   Working Draft of "Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and
   Media Type Definitions." Fragment identifiers within URIs are
   specified as being interpreted based on the media type of a
   representation. Media type definitions therefore have to
   provide details about how fragment identifiers are interpreted
   for that media type. This document recommends best practices
   for the authors of media type definitions, for the authors of
   structured syntax suffix definitions (such as +xml), for the
   authors of specifications that define syntax for fragment
   identifiers, and for authors that publish documents that are
   intended to be used with fragment identifiers or who refer to
   URIs using fragment identifiers. Learn more about the Technical
   Architecture Group.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-fragid-best-practices-20120726/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Adobe, Google, Microsoft Sponsorships Bolster W3C Staffing of HTML5
Work

   24 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9510

   W3C is pleased to announce commitments from Adobe, Google, and
   Microsoft for sponsorship funding that will enable W3C to
   provide additional staffing in support of the HTML Working
   Group's full range of activities, including editing several
   specifications and developing tests. These sponsorships will
   help W3C fill a position announced in June in response to an
   April call for editors from the HTML Working Group Chairs. In
   their April email, the Chairs also outlined the group's
   parallel efforts to finalize a stable HTML5 standard by 2014
   and engage with the community on future HTML features. Learn
   more about the HTML Working Group.

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Jun/0135
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Apr/0204
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-stabilization-pla
   n
   http://www.w3.org/html/wg/

   Related story 2012-07-25: HTML Working Group Chairs announce
   some HTML5 editor appointments.

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Jul/0183

Three Provenance Last Call Drafts Published

   24 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9508

   The Provenance Working Group published three Last Call Working
   Drafts today. Provenance is information about entities,
   activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or
   thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality,
   reliability or trustworthiness.

   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. The PROV data model is domain-agnostic, but is
       equipped with extensibility points allowing domain-specific
       information to be included.
     * PROV-O: The PROV Ontology expresses the PROV Data Model
       using the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2). It provides a
       set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be
       used to represent and interchange provenance information
       generated in different systems and under different
       contexts. It can also be specialized to create new classes
       and properties to model provenance information for
       different applications and domains.
     * PROV-N: The Provenance Notation is introduced to provide
       examples of the PROV data model: aimed at human
       consumption, PROV-N allows serializations of PROV instances
       to be created in a compact manner. PROV-N facilitates the
       mapping of the PROV data model to concrete syntax, and is
       used as the basis for a formal semantics of PROV. The
       purpose of this document is to define the PROV-N notation.

   Comments on the Last Call Working Drafts are welcome through 18
   September. The group also published a Working Draft of "PROV
   Model Primer," which provides an intuitive introduction and
   guide to the PROV specification for provenance on the Web. The
   primer is intended as a starting point for those wishing to
   create or use PROV data. Learn more about the Semantic Web
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20120724/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Last Call: SPARQL 1.1 Query Language

   24 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9507

   The SPARQL Working Group has published a Last Call Working
   Draft of "SPARQL 1.1 Query Language." RDF is a directed,
   labeled graph data format for representing information in the
   Web. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the
   SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express
   queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored
   natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL
   contains capabilities for querying required and optional graph
   patterns along with their conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL
   also supports aggregation, subqueries, negation, creating
   values by expressions, extensible value testing, and
   constraining queries by source RDF graph. The results of SPARQL
   queries can be result sets or RDF graphs. Comments are welcome
   through 21 August. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-sparql11-query-20120724/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

W3C Blog

     * Conformance for Vocabularies?
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/07/conformance_for_vocabularies
       27 July 2012 by Phil Archer
     * HTML5 and HTML.next
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/07/html5_and_htmlnext
       26 July 2012 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
     * Discovery for Multimodal Interaction with Multi-Device
       Systems
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/07/discovery_for_multimodal_inter
       _1
       24 July 2012 by Deborah Dahl

Upcoming Talks

     * 2012-08-07 (7 AUG)
       Serialisation, Abstraction and XML Applications
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2012/08-07-steven-serialisa
       tion/
       by Steven Pemberton
       Balisage: The Markup Conference
       http://www.balisage.net/
       Montréal, Canada
     * 2012-08-12 (12 AUG)
       Introduction to Designing and Building Multimodal
       Applications
       by Deborah Dahl
       SpeechTEK
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2012/www.speechtek.com
       New York, USA
     * 2012-08-13 (13 AUG)
       Emotion Markup Language
       SpeechTEK
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2012/www.speechTEK.com
       New York, USA
     * 2012-09-13 (13 SEP)
       Masterclass CSS3
       by Bert Bos
       W3C Benelux + ISOC.NL
       Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     * 2012-09-28 (28 SEP)
       Accessible Design with HTML5
       by Rajesh Lal
       2012 HOW Interactive Design
       http://howinteractiveconference.com/ehome/index.php?eventid
       =34675
       Washington D.C., USA

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