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- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:19:15 -0500
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The 2013-12-24 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Pointer Lock is a Candidate Recommendation; First Draft of Manifest
for web apps and bookmarks
17 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3529
The Web Applications Working Group published three documents
today:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* A Candidate Recommendation of Pointer Lock, which defines
an API that provides scripted access to raw mouse movement
data while locking the target of mouse events to a single
element and removing the cursor from view. This is an
essential input mode for certain classes of applications,
especially first person perspective 3D applications and 3D
modelling software.
* A First Public Working Draft of Manifest for web apps and
bookmarks, which provides developers with a centralized
place to put metadata about a web application. This
includes, amongst other things, the ability to specify the
name of the web application, links to icons, as well as the
preferred URL at which the web application should open when
it is launched by the user.
* A Working Draft of Input Method Editor API, which defines
an input method editor (IME) API for Web applications. An
IME is an application that allows a standard keyboard (such
as a US-101 keyboard) to be used to type characters and
symbols that are not directly represented on the keyboard
itself. In China, Japan, and Korea, IMEs are used
ubiquitously to enable standard keyboards to be employed to
type the very large number of characters required for
writing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility Updated Draft
20 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3547
The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published
an updated draft of the WAI resource Easy Checks – A First
Review of Web Accessibility. Easy Checks helps you assess if a
Web page addresses accessibility. It provides simple steps for
anyone who can use the Web; no accessibility knowledge or skill
is required. The checks cover just a few accessibility issues
and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive.
Learn about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO
http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C at CeBIT 2014
20 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3541
W3C will be present at CeBIT 2014, in Hannover, Germany. The
main topic of CeBIT 2014 is Datability which relates in many
ways to upcoming W3C work e.g. in the W3C Data Activity and the
Web of Things. W3C is looking forward to meeting you on 11
March, at the DFKI booth. Consider to schedule a meeting with:
http://www.cebit.de/en/CeBIT-2014
http://www.cebit.de/en/datability
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
http://www.w3.org/community/wot/
http://www.dfki.de
http://www.w3c.de/2013/12/meet-w3c-at-cebit-2014/
* Phil Archer , Data Activity Lead;
* Alan Bird , Global Business Development Leader;
* Bernard Gidon , Business Development Europe, Middle-East
and Africa (EMEA);
* Dave Raggett , team contact in several Ubiquitous Web
Working Groups and chair of the Web of Things Community
Group; and
* Georg Rehm , W3C German-Austrian Office Manager.
Meeting slots are limited and decided on a first come, first
served basis.
W3C Workshop: New Horizons for the Multilingual Web
18 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3538
W3C announced today the seventh MultilingualWeb workshop in a
series of events exploring the mechanisms and processes needed
to ensure that the World Wide Web lives up to its potential
around the world and across barriers of language and culture.
To be held 7-8 May 2014 in Madrid, this workshop is made
possible by the generous support of the LIDER project. As part
of the event, LIDER will organize a roadmapping workshop on
linked data and content analytics. Anyone may attend all
sessions at no charge and the W3C welcomes participation by
both speakers and non-speaking attendees. Early registration is
encouraged due to limited space.
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/2014-madrid-workshop/20
14-madrid-cfp
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents
http://lider-project.eu/
Building on the success of six highly regarded previous
workshops, this workshop will emphasize new technology
developments that may lead to new opportunities for the
Multilingual Web. The workshop brings together participants
interested in the best practices and standards needed to help
content creators, localizers, language 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. We are particularly
interested in speakers who can demonstrate novel solutions for
reaching out to a global, multilingual audience. Registration
is available online.
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2014mlw/
Call for Review: Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), The Organization
Ontology, The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
17 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3522
The Government Linked Data Working Group has published today
three Proposed Recommendations.
http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
* Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), an RDF vocabulary designed
to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs
published on the Web. This document defines the schema and
provides examples for its use. By using DCAT to describe
datasets in data catalogs, publishers increase
discoverability and enable applications easily to consume
metadata from multiple catalogs. It further enables
decentralized publishing of catalogs and facilitates
federated dataset search across sites. Aggregated DCAT
metadata can serve as a manifest file to facilitate digital
preservation.
* The Organization Ontology, which describes a core ontology
for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked
data publishing of organizational information across a
number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific
extensions to add classification of organizations and
roles, as well as extensions to support neighbouring
information such as organizational activities.
* The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary, which provides a means, by
using the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework)
standard, to publish multi-dimensional data, such as
statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked
to related data sets and concepts.
Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Three RDF First Public Working Drafts Published
17 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3532
Today the RDF Working Group published three First Public
Working Drafts; they are all expected to become W3C Notes:
http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
* RDF 1.1 Primer, which explains how to use this language for
representing information about resources in the World Wide
Web.
* RDF 1.1: On Semantics of RDF Datasets, which presents some
issues to be addressed when defining a formal semantics for
datasets, as they have been discussed in the RDF Working
Group, and specify several semantics in terms of model
theory, each corresponding to a certain design choice for
RDF datasets.
* What’s New in RDF 1.1
Learn more about W3C’s new Data Activity, launched to help
people share data as far as possible using their existing tools
and working practices but in a way that enables others to
derive and add value, and to utilize it in ways that suit them.
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Draft of CSSOM View Module Published
17 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3527
Today the CSS Working Group published a Working Draft of "CSSOM
View Module." The APIs introduced by this specification
provide authors with a way to inspect and manipulate the visual
view of a document. This includes getting the position of
element layout boxes, obtaining the width of the viewport
through script, and also scrolling an element. Learn more about
CSS.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-cssom-view-20131217/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide is a Candidate
Recommendation
17 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3525
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published
the "WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide" as a
Candidate Recommendation. It describes how browsers and other
user agents should support WAI-ARIA (the Accessible Rich
Internet Applications specification), specifically, how to
expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility APIs.
Comments and implementations are welcome by 17 January 2014.
Learn about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-wai-aria-implementation-20131217/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 2014-02-28 (28 FEB) – 2014-03-01 ( 1 MAR)
W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against
Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
http://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
London, England
The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive
monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive
monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for
network manageability and security. This data is captured
and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as
to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network
manageability and security but still limit data capture and
correlation.
The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C
work so as to be able to improve or "strengthen" the
Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop
report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the
event.
* 2014-03-05 ( 5 MAR) – 2014-03-06 ( 6 MAR)
Linking Geospatial Data
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
London
Co-organized by the UK Government, Ordnance Survey, the OGC
and Google.
Many data-driven applications have geospatial information
at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple
data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in
visualizing correlations between data sets that may
otherwise be hidden. How can geographic information best be
integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover
that different facts in different data sets relate to the
same place, especially when 'place' can be expressed in
different ways and at different levels of granularity? It's
this desire to work with multiple data sets in different
formats about different topics and link those with the
powerful technologies used in geospatial information
systems that is behind the linking geospatial data
workshop.
* 2014-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2014-03-13 (13 MAR)
Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence
https://www.w3.org/2013/10/tv-workshop/
Munich, Germany
Hosted by IRT
With HTML5 well on its way to standardization in 2014, and
a new effort on HTML 5.1 recently launched, it is time to
have fresh look at the current state of the art in order to
identify remaining roadblocks for the use of Web technology
in broadcasting and the TV industry. The goal of this
workshop is to assemble key players from TV and the Web
industry to discuss the important questions of Web and TV
convergence, and how standardization can help across the
globe.
* 2014-03-24 (24 MAR) – 2014-03-25 (25 MAR)
Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?
http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
Paris, France
Hosted by the W3C France Office
This workshop seeks to make it easier to monetize open Web
applications, as an effective alternative to proprietary
native app ecosystems. In essence, we would like to improve
the end user experience and give users greater freedom in
how they pay, to reduce the burden on developers and
merchants, and to create a level playing field for
competing payment solutions providers large and small.
* 2014-05-07 ( 7 MAY) – 2014-05-08 ( 8 MAY)
Seventh MultilingualWeb Workshop: New Horizons for the
Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/2014-madrid-worksho
p/2014-madrid-cfp
Madrid, Spain
Hosted by UPM
As with previous MultilingualWeb events, this workshop will
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. This workshop will
emphasize new technology developments that may lead to new
opportunities for the Multilingual Web. A unique
proposition of the workshop is that it brings together
speakers and provides opportunities for networking across a
wide range of communities to produce a holistic view of the
problems faced in developing and deploying multilingual
content and applications on the Web.
W3C Blog
* This week at W3C: CSS is 17, W3C Spain office 10-year
anniversary, TimBL on mass surveillance, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/12/this-week-at-w3c-css-is-17-w
3c-spain-office-10-year-anniversary-timbl-on-mass-surveilla
nce-etc/
20 December 2013 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
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