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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a W3C Recommendation
16 January 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3593
The Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group and the Web
Application Security (WebAppSec) Working Group have published
today a Recommendation of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing"
(CORS). This document defines a mechanism to enable client-side
cross-origin requests. Specifications that enable an API to
make cross-origin requests to resources can use the algorithms
defined by this specification. If such an API is used on
http://example.org resources, a resource on
http://hello-world.example can opt in using the mechanism
described by this specification (e.g., specifying
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.org as response
header), which would allow that resource to be fetched
cross-origin from http://example.org. Learn more about the Rich
Web Client Activity and the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-cors-20140116/
https://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
https://www.w3.org/Security/
For Review: Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG)
16 January 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3600
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG
WG) requests review of draft updates to Notes that accompany
WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Editors’ Draft) and
Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Editors’ Draft). Comments are welcome
through 14 February 2014. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0,
which is a stable document.) To learn more about the updates,
see the Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Techniques Draft Updates
e-mail. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2014/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20140107/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2014/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20140107/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014JanMar/0015
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Three Linked Data Vocabularies are W3C Recommendations
16 January 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3591
Three Recommendations were published today to enhance data
interoperability, especially in government data. Each one
specifies an RDF vocabulary (a set of properties and classes)
for conveying a particular kind of information:
* The Data Catalog (DCAT) Vocabulary is used to provide
information about available data sources. When data sources
are described using DCAT, it becomes much easier to create
high-quality integrated and customized catalogs including
entries from many different providers. Many national data
portals are already using DCAT.
* The Data Cube Vocabulary brings the cube model underlying
SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange, a popular ISO
standard) to Linked Data. This vocabulary enables
statistical and other regular data, such as measurements,
to be published and then integrated and analyzed with
RDF-based tools.
* The Organization Ontology provides a powerful and flexible
vocabulary for expressing the official relationships and
roles within an organization. This allows for
interoperation of personnel tools and will support emerging
socially-aware software.
All three vocabularies have been developed by the Government
Linked Data Working Group, but they are applicable beyond just
government data. For a list of data sources or software known
to be using these vocabularies, see the “Implementation Report”
linked from each document. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
JSON-LD is a W3C Recommendation
16 January 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3589
The RDF Working Group has published two Recommendations today:
http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
* JSON-LD 1.0. JSON is a useful data serialization and
messaging format. This specification defines JSON-LD, a
JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. The syntax is
designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that
already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from
JSON to JSON-LD. It is primarily intended to be a way to
use Linked Data in Web-based programming environments, to
build interoperable Web services, and to store Linked Data
in JSON-based storage engines.
* JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API. This
specification defines a set of algorithms for programmatic
transformations of JSON-LD documents. Restructuring data
according to the defined transformations often dramatically
simplifies its usage. Furthermore, this document proposes
an Application Programming Interface (API) for developers
implementing the specified algorithms.
Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Web NFC API is a First Public Working Draft
14 January 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3586
The NFC Working Group has published a First Public Working
Draft of "Web NFC API." Near Field Communication (NFC) is an
international standard (ISO/IEC 18092) that specifies an
interface and protocol for simple wireless interconnection of
closely coupled devices operating at 13.56 MHz. NFC enables
wireless communication between two devices at close proximity,
usually less than a few centimeters, according to three groups
of scenarios; holding a device close to a wireless tag to
exchange some digital information or data, holding two devices
close to each other in order to exchange some information or
data between them, making payments by holding mobile phones
close to point of sales terminals instead of swiping smart
cards. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/nfc/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-nfc-20140114/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/Activity
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 Ingenico
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: misconceptions on DRM into HTML5,
JSON-LD, Net Neutrality, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/01/this-week-at-w3c-misconcepti
ons-jsonld-net-neutrality/
17 January 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
Upcoming Talks
* 2014-01-23 (23 JAN)
The New W3C Data Activity
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0123_phila_lata/
by Phil Archer
Atvērtie dati: iespējas un izaicinājumi
http://lata.org.lv/?p=1255
Riga, Latvia
* 2014-01-29 (29 JAN)
LOD in Context
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0129_phila_pilod/#(1)
by Phil Archer
PiLOD (Platform implementatie Linked Open Data)
http://www.pilod.nl/
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 2014-01-31 (31 JAN)
Declarative Web Applications
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2014/01-31-declarative/
by Steven Pemberton
CWI Scientific Meeting
http://www.cwi.nl/events/cwi-scientific-meeting-15
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 2014-03-05 (5 MAR)
Technologies, Tools, and Standards for Multimodal
Application Development
by Deborah Dahl
Mobile Voice Conference
http://mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
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