W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-09-16

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Two Drafts in Last Call: N-Triples, N-Quads

   06 September 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9932

   The RDF Working Group has published two Last Call Working
   Drafts:

   http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
     * N-Triples. N-Triples is a line-based, plain text format for
       encoding an RDF graph. Comments are welcome through 14
       October.
     * N-Quads. N-Quads is a line-based, plain text format for
       encoding an RDF dataset. Comments are welcome through 14
       October.

   Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

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

Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0

   05 September 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9931

   The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today
   published updates of two Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0:
   "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" and "Understanding WCAG 2.0." (This
   is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) For
   background, important information about techniques, and
   opportunities to contribute to future updates, please see the
   Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria e-mail. Read
   about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20130905/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20130905/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013JulSep/0098
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Last Call: Media Source Extensions

   05 September 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9930

   The HTML Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
   of "Media Source Extensions." This specification extends
   HTMLMediaElement to allow JavaScript to generate media streams
   for playback. Allowing JavaScript to generate streams
   facilitates a variety of use cases like adaptive streaming and
   time shifting live streams. If you wish to make comments or
   file bugs regarding this document in a manner that is tracked
   by the W3C, please submit them via our public bug database.
   Comments are welcome through 17 October. Learn more about the
   HTML Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-media-source-20130905/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT: WCAG2ICT Note Published

   05 September 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9929

   The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is
   pleased to announce publication of the completed "Guidance on
   Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications
   Technologies (WCAG2ICT)" as an informative W3C Working Group
   Note. WCAG2ICT provides guidance on the interpretation and
   application of WCAG 2.0 to non-web documents and software. It
   is the result of a collaborative effort to support harmonized
   accessibility solutions across a range of technologies. Learn
   more from the WCAG2ICT Overview and read about the Web
   Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag2ict
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Media Capture and Streams Draft Published

   03 September 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9927

   The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group and the Device
   APIs Working Group have published an updated Working Draft of
   "Media Capture and Streams." This document defines a set of
   JavaScript APIs that allow local media, including audio and
   video, to be requested from a platform. Learn more about the
   Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/
   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mediacapture-streams-20130516/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

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

Workshops

     * 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

     * XML, JSON, XSLT and XQuery
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/09/xml_json_xslt_and_xquery
       4 September 2013 by Liam Quin
       http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-09-11 (11 SEP)
       Web and Location
       keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       TUT W3C Technology day
       Tampere, Finland
     * 2013-10-03 (3 OCT)
       Information technology standardisation - theory and
       practice
       http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20131003/
       by Olle Olsson
       course "Law and ICT"
       Stockholm, Sweden
     * 2013-10-10 (10 OCT)
       Livre Électronique et Standard du Web
       by Daniel Glazman
       Paris Web 2013
       http://www.paris-web.fr/
       Paris, France
     * 2013-10-16 (16 OCT)
       Standards for Web Applications on Mobile
       by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       NETTAB 2013: Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for
       Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories
       http://www.nettab.org/2013/
       Venice, Italy
     * 2013-11-07 (7 NOV)
       Web and Mobile
       keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       MobiCASE 2013
       http://mobicase.org/2013/show/home
       Paris, France

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