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- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:58:34 -0500
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Eleven SPARQL 1.1 Specifications Published
08 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9624
The SPARQL Working Group has today published a set of eleven
documents, advancing most of SPARQL 1.1 to Proposed
Recommendation. Building on the success of SPARQL 1.0, SPARQL
1.1 is a full-featured standard system for working with RDF
data, including a query/update language, two HTTP protocols
(one full-featured, one using basic HTTP verbs), three result
formats, and other features which allow SPARQL endpoints to be
combined and work together. Most features of SPARQL 1.1 have
already been implemented by a range of SPARQL suppliers, as
shown in our table of implementations and test results.
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/implementations/
The Proposed Recommendations are:
1. SPARQL 1.1 Overview - Overview of SPARQL 1.1 and the SPARQL
1.1 documents
2. SPARQL 1.1 Query Language - A query language for RDF data.
3. SPARQL 1.1 Update - Specifies additions to the query
language to allow clients to update stored data
4. SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format - How to use JSON for
SPARQL query results
5. SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats - How to use
comma-separated values (CVS) and tab-separated values (TSV)
for SPARQL query results
6. SPARQL Query Results XML Format - How to use XML for SPARQL
query results. (This contains only minor, editorial updates
from SPARQL 1.0, and is actually a Proposed Edited
Recommendation.)
7. SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query - an extension of the SPARQL 1.1
Query Language for executing queries distributed over
different SPARQL endpoints.
8. SPARQL 1.1 Service Description - a method for discovering
and a vocabulary for describing SPARQL services.
The following are Candidate Recommendations, as the group still
seeks more feedback from implementors:
1. SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes - defines the semantics of
SPARQL queries under entailment regimes such as RDF Schema,
OWL, or RIF.
2. SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF - A protocol defining means for
conveying arbitrary SPARQL queries and update requests to a
SPARQL service.
3. SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol - As opposed to the
full SPARQL protocol, this specification defines minimal
means for managing RDF graph content directly via common
HTTP operations.
The group has also produced a test suite and a page on using
SPARQL 1.1 with RDF 1.1. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/using-with-rdf11
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Mobile Web 1 Online Training Starts Today; Still Time to Register
12 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9629
A new edition of W3C Mobile Web 1: Best Practices online
training starts today, and there is still time to register.
Participants gain expertise in improving the Web user
experience on mobile devices. This 6-week online training
course (from 12 Nov. to 23 Dec. 2012), led by a mobile Web
professional, lets you study at your own pace. The course is
available in English or Spanish during the same period. Learn
more about W3DevCampus, W3C's online training for developers.
http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
tices-training/
http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=27
http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
tices-training/
http://www.w3devcampus.com/buenas-practicas-en-web-movil/
http://www.w3devcampus.com/
W3C Launches Pointer Events Working Group
09 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9628
W3C announced today the launch of the Pointer Events Working
Group. Web browsers can receive input in a variety of ways. A
“pointer” is an abstract form of input that can be any point of
contact on a input surface made by a mouse cursor, pen, finger,
or multiple fingers. The mission of this group is to define a
single unified event model for mouse, touch, and pen/tablet
user interfaces. Enabling content creators to use a single
model for different input types will make content creation more
efficient and inclusive. See the Pointer Events Working Group
Charter for more information.
http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/
http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/charter/
Agenda, Papers Announced for Web and Automotive Workshop
08 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9625
[] W3C announced today the agenda and accepted papers for Shift
into High Gear on the Web , W3C's first Web and Automotive
Workshop, hosted by Intel Open Source Technology Center, in
Rome, Italy on 14-15 November.
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/agenda
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/papers
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
People today enjoy applications and services from multiple
networked devices. With our increasingly mobile lifestyles,
it’s time to include the connected car in this mix.
Participants in this workshop will share their own
perspectives, requirements, and ideas to ensure that emerging
global technology standards meet the needs of the Web and
Automotive industries.
The Workshop is also supported through sponsorships from QNX
and Webinos.
Online Symposium: Text Customization for Readability
06 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9623
Registration is now open for the online symposium on Text
Customization for Readability to be held on 19 November 2012.
This symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and
users with disabilities to explore the needs of people with low
vision, dyslexia, and other conditions and situations that
impact reading. It focuses specifically on text customization
requirements and functionality, that is, providing users the
ability to change (or personalize) specific aspects of text
display to improve readability for their particular needs. For
details and registration, see Text Customization for
Readability - Online Symposium. To share your perspectives on
text customization for readability, see Invitation for short
contributions. Learn more about the Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012OctDec/0074
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
CSS Grid Layout Draft Published
06 November 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9622
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Grid Layout." Grid Layout contains
features targeted at web application authors. The Grid can be
used to achieve many different layouts. It excels at dividing
up space for major regions of an application, or defining the
relationship in terms of size, position, and layer between
parts of a control built from HTML primitives. Like tables, the
Grid enables an author to align elements into columns and rows,
but unlike tables, the Grid doesn't have content structure, and
thus enables a wide variety of layouts not possible with
tables. In addition, the absence of content structure in the
Grid helps to manage changes to layout by using fluid and
source order independent layout techniques. By combining media
queries with the CSS properties that control layout of the Grid
and its children, authors can adapt their layout to changes in
device form factors, orientation, and available space, without
needing to alter the semantic nature of their content. Learn
more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-grid-layout-20121106/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-11-14 (14 NOV) – 2012-11-15 (15 NOV)
Shift into High Gear on the Web: W3C Workshop on Web and
Automotive
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
Rome, Italy
Hosted by Intel and Sponsored by Webinos
W3C’s Open Web Platform (OWP) is driving this and other
industry transformations. The promise of the early
information superhighway is being fulfilled. Whether
tethering a driver’s smartphone or tablet to work with a
car--or embedding technology into the car itself--there’s
no need to reinvent the wheel. The Web can take you there.
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to
share their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to
ensure that emerging global technology standards meet the
needs of the Web and Automotive industries.
* 2012-11-26 (26 NOV) – 2012-11-27 (27 NOV)
Do Not Track and Beyond
http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/
Berkeley, California
Hosted by UC Berkeley and TRUST Science and Technology
Center
This workshop serves as a forum for the W3C membership and
the public to discuss the Consortium's next steps in the
area of tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we
learned from Do Not Track standardization and real-world
implementations? Furthermore, undoubtedly support for
privacy on the Web platform cannot end with Do Not Track:
what should we look at next and beyond DNT?
* 2013-02-11 (11 FEB) – 2013-02-12 (12 FEB)
Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/
New York (USA)
Hosted by O'Reilly Media
Today’s eBook market is dynamic, fast-changing and strong.
eBooks compete with printed versions, and there is a wide
choice of hardware and software available for eBook
readers. Nevertheless, publishers face major business and
technical challenges in this market, some of which could be
reduced or removed by standardization.
* 2013-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2013-03-13 (13 MAR)
Making the Multilingual Web Work
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/rome-workshop/ro
me-cfp
Rome, Italy
Hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO).
The MultilingualWeb community develops and promotes best
practices and standards related to all aspects of creating,
localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of
language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best
practices and standards for dealing with language on the
Internet and on identifying and resolving gaps that keep
the Internet from living up to its global potential.
W3C Blog
* W3C and Digital Publishing
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/11/w3c_and_digital_publishing
9 November 2012 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Chinese Developers endeavor to get more involved in the
community - Test The Web Forward hackathon in China
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/11/chinese_developers_endeavors_t
9 November 2012 by Angel Li
* TPAC2012 Storified: "See, sketch and fun"
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/11/tpac2012_storified_see_sketch
5 November 2012 by Coralie Mercier
http://my.opera.com/koalie/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-11-12 (12 NOV)
Open Data: Setting the Scene
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2012/1112-openData_EISCO-M
A
by Martín Álvarez
EISCO 2012
http://www.eisco2012.eu/
Guimarães, Portugal
* 2012-11-17 (17 NOV)
End-to-end W3C API support
by Alexandre Morgaut
JS.everywhere(2012) Europe
http://jseverywhere.eu
Paris, France
* 2012-11-20 (20 NOV)
Why HTML5?
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/1120-owp-plh/
by Philippe Le Hégaret
HTML5FEST 2012
http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/
Kfar maccabiah, Ramat Gan, Israel
* 2012-11-20 (20 NOV)
Web Accessibilty Demystified
http://zohararad.github.com/presentations/accessibility-dem
ystified/presentation/#/step-1
by Zohar Arad
HTML5FEST 2012 - The Israeli Web Community conference
http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/
Ramat Gan, Israel
* 2012-11-23 (23 NOV)
Web Accessibility: A Catalyst to Greatness
keynote by Shawn Henry
a11yMTL
http://a11ymtl.org/en/
Montreal, Canada
* 2012-11-24 (24 NOV)
HTML5 and CSS
by Bert Bos
Web Standards Days
http://webstandardsdays.ru/
Moscow, Russia
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