W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-07-01

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Launches New Digital Publishing Activity

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9871

   Today W3C launched a new Digital Publishing Activity to make
   the Web a platform for the digital publishing industry, and to
   build the necessary bridges between the developers of the Open
   Web Platform and the publishing industry.

   http://www.w3.org/dpub/

   Today's eBook readers and tablets for electronic books,
   magazines, journals and educational resources use W3C
   technologies such as (X)HTML, CSS, SVG, SMIL, MathML, or
   various Web API-s. Commercial publishers also rely on W3C
   technologies in their back-end processing all the way from
   authoring through to delivering the printed or electronic
   product and beyond.The publishing industry is one of the
   largest consumers of W3C technology.

   Work in this activity primarily takes place in the Digital
   Publishing Interest Group. That Interest Group is a forum for
   experts in the digital publishing ecosystem of electronic
   journals, magazines, news, or book publishing (authors,
   creators, publishers, news organizations, booksellers,
   accessibility and internationalization specialists, etc.) for
   technical discussions, gathering use cases and requirements to
   align the existing formats and technologies (e.g., for
   electronic books) with those used by the Open Web Platform.

   http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/

   The launch of this Activity follows two W3C Workshops this year
   so far: Great Expectations for Web Standards (February) and
   Richer Internationalization for eBooks (June). W3C is also
   holding a Workshop on publishing workflow in September in
   Paris.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/
   https://www.w3.org/2013/06/ebooks/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/

EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 1.1
Draft Published

   27 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9878

   The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
   language Version 1.1." This specification provides details for
   an XML markup language for containing and annotating the
   interpretation of user input. Examples of interpretation of
   user input are a transcription into words of a raw signal, for
   instance derived from speech, pen or keystroke input, a set of
   attribute/value pairs describing their meaning, or a set of
   attribute/value pairs describing a gesture. The interpretation
   of the user's input is expected to be generated by signal
   interpretation processes, such as speech and ink recognition,
   semantic interpreters, and other types of processors for use by
   components that act on the user's inputs such as interaction
   managers. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-emma11-20130627/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Linked Data Glossary Note Published

   27 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9877

   The Government Linked Data Working Group has published a Group
   Note of "Linked Data Glossary." This document is a glossary of
   terms defined and used to describe Linked Data, and its
   associated vocabularies and Best Practices. This document will
   help information management professionals, Web developers,
   scientists and the general public better understand publishing
   structured data using Linked Data Principles. Learn more about
   the eGovernment Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-ld-glossary-20130627/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

Call for Implementations: Org and Data-Cube Vocabularies

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9876

   The Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group today published
   two Candidate Recommendations:

   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Main_Page
     * The Organization Ontology (org) defines a vocabulary for
       describing the structure of an organization, such as a
       government agency or a corporation.
     * The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary (data-cube) allows
       multi-dimensional data, such as statistics or environmental
       data, to be published on the Web in a standard way.

   Each of these vocabularies is stable and has already been used
   in a variety of applications (see org implementations and data
   cube implementations). The group is now encouraging everyone
   who wants to provide or consume this kind of data to begin
   using these vocabularies, and it asks people to please send in
   reports of implementation experience, as explained in the
   documents. These reports will help us be sure the vocabularies
   are ready to become W3C Recommendations and generally help
   build global interoperability. Learn more about the Semantic
   Web.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/ORG_Implementations
   http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Data_Cube_Implementations
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

HTML+RDFa 1.1 is a Proposed Recommendation; two other RDFa Proposed
Edited Recommendations Published

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9875

   The RDFa Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation
   for "HTML+RDFa 1.1." This specification defines rules and
   guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1
   specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined
   in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in
   non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents
   interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-html-rdfa-20130625/

   The Working Group has also published two Proposed Edited
   Recommendations for "RDFa Core 1.1" and "XHTML+RDFa 1.1,"
   folding in the errata reported by the community since their
   publication as Recommendations in June 2012; all changes are
   editorial.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PER-rdfa-core-20130625/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PER-xhtml-rdfa-20130625/

   Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

First Draft of Web Animations 1.0; Compositing and Blending Level 1
Updated

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9874

   The CSS Working Group and SVG Working Group today jointly
   published a First Public Working Draft of "Web Animations 1.0"
   , which defines a model for synchronization and timing of
   changes to the presentation of a Web page. This specification
   also defines an application programming interface for
   interacting with this model and it is expected that further
   specifications will define declarative means for exposing these
   features. The Web Animations model aims at two broad areas of
   application: User interface effects, and Storytelling and
   visualisation.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-web-animations-20130625/

   The two groups also updated today "Compositing and Blending
   Level 1." Compositing describes how shapes of different
   elements are combined into a single image.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-compositing-1-20130625/

Web Cryptography API Draft Published

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9872

   The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Web Cryptography API." This specification describes
   a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations
   in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and
   verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it
   describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the
   keying material necessary to perform these operations. Uses for
   this API range from user or service authentication, document or
   code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of
   communications. Learn more about the Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20130625/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

Publishing Workflow Focus of September Workshop in Paris

   25 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9870

   In April we announced the third W3C Workshop on digital
   publishing, Workshop on Publishing using the Open Web Platform,
   which takes place Paris 16-17 September. The goal of this W3C
   Workshop is to bring together major players, including
   publishers, standardization organizations, technology
   developers, booksellers, accessibility organizations and others
   to identify areas where work is needed to make the Open Web
   Platform suitable for commercial publishing, especially in
   print, all the way from authoring through to delivering the
   printed product and beyond. We have extended the deadline for
   position papers to 15 July. Participation is free and open to
   W3C members and non-members. Each organization may provide a
   maximum of two attendees. Learn more about how to participate.

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9778
   http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/participate

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

Workshops

     * 2013-07-22 (22 JUL) – 2013-07-23 (23 JUL)
       Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web -
       Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development
       http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/
       New York Metropolitan Area, US
       Hosted by Openstream
       HTML5 has paved the way for development of rich web
       applications and has been widely adopted by application
       developers. Ease of user-interaction (user experience) with
       applications has become a prime focus world-wide, thanks to
       the proliferation of new devices and platforms including
       mobile phones, tablet devices, eBook readers, and gaming
       platforms. In addition, traditional platforms such as TV's,
       sudio systems, and automobiles are rapidly becoming capable
       of much more intelligent interaction than in the past.
       User-interaction through speech, touch, gesture and swipe
       has become the key differentiator in the success of popular
       applications today. One of the key advantages of the W3C
       Multimodal Architecture (MMI) is its suitability for simple
       to sophisticated applications across devices in creating
       compelling user experiences, leveraging advances in i/o
       methodologies, and supporting inter-operability among
       multiple vendors' products.
     * 2013-08-07 ( 7 AUG) – 2013-08-08 ( 8 AUG)
       Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business
       http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/
       San Francisco, United States
       Hosted by AppFusions and sponsored by IBM
     * 2013-09-10 (10 SEP) – 2013-09-11 (11 SEP)
       RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality
       RDF Data
       https://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/
       Cambridge, MA
       Hosted by MIT
     * 2013-09-16 (16 SEP) – 2013-09-17 (17 SEP)
       Publishing and the Open Web Platform
       http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/
       Paris, France
       Hosted by the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI)

W3C Blog

     * HTML templates and XML
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/06/html_templates_and_xml
       25 June 2013 by Liam Quin
       http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-07-31 (31 JUL)
       What do we want from the web?
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/07-xx-web/
       by Steven Pemberton
       OHM 2013
       https://ohm2013.org/
       Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands
     * 2013-08-05 (5 AUG)
       Using XForms for interfaces to XML data
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-05-xml-interfaces/
       by Steven Pemberton
       International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces
       http://www.balisage.net/XML-Interfaces/
       Montréal, Canada
     * 2013-08-07 (7 AUG)
       Invisible XML
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-07-invisible-xml/
       by Steven Pemberton
       Balisage 2013
       http://www.balisage.net/2013/Program
       Montréal, Canada

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