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The 2016-09-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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W3C Communications Team
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Travel Time on the Web from W3C Wiki and Specs
31 August 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5770>
The W3C Wiki and the W3C specifications are now accessible using the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol. This is the result of a collaboration with with W3C Member Los Alamos National Laboratory, W3C Systems Team and others.
The Memento protocol is a straightforward extension of HTTP that adds a time dimension to the Web. It supports integrating live web resources, resources in versioning systems, and archived resources in web archives into an interoperable, distributed, machine-accessible versioning system for the entire web. W3C finds Memento work with online reversion history extremely useful for the Web in general and practical application on its own standards to be able to illustrate how they evolve over time. We applaud the effort in this area and are pleased to join the notable ranks of sites deploying it. For more details about this project, please read Herbert Van De Sompel’s guest W3C Blog post Memento at the W3C.
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/memento-at-the-w3c/>
Sensors on the Web: APIs Under Wide Review
30 August 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5751>
The Device and Sensors Working Group has published a Working Draft of the "Generic Sensor API," a framework to bring support for any kind of sensors to the Open Web Platform. An updated Working Draft of the "Ambient Light API" illustrates a concrete sensor API based on this framework.
<https://www.w3.org/2009/dap/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-generic-sensor-20160830/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-ambient-light-20160830/>
The Working Group has determined that these APIs are now advanced enough that they would benefit from getting wide review from the broader community and welcome feedback from implementors and developers on both these documents.
First Public Working Draft: Input Events
30 August 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5753>
The Web Platform Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Input Events." This specification defines additions to events for text and related input to allow for the monitoring and manipulation of default browser behavior in the context of text editor applications and other applications that deal with text input and text formatting. It builds on the UI events spec.
<https://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-input-events-20160830/>
Call for Review: Pointer Lock Proposed Recommendation Published
30 August 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5757>
W3C Invites Implementations of its Data on the Web Best Practices
30 August 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5760>
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published its "primary document" which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines. Where data is used in some way, whether by the originator of the data or by an external party, such usage should also be discoverable and the efforts of the data publisher recognized. In short, following these Best Practices will facilitate interaction between publishers and consumers.
<https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-dwbp-20160830/>
As a further aid, the Working Group has also published stable versions of its "Data Quality" and "Dataset Usage" vocabularies. Taken together, the three documents address the group’s mission as stated in its charter:
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-vocab-dqv-20160830/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-vocab-duv-20160830/>
<https://www.w3.org/2013/05/odbp-charter>
1. to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
2. to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
3. to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.
Finally, it’s worth noting that the closely related Share-PSI project, co-funded by the European Commission, has concluded its work recently with the publication of a set of high level policy-related Best Practices and guides for the sharing of public sector information online. Although targeted at Europe, the advice, which is available in many languages and contexts, is likely to be applicable world wide.
<https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/bp/>
<https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/lg/>
More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>
Workshops
* 2016-10-19 (19 OCT) – 2016-10-20 (20 OCT)
Web & Virtual Reality Workshop
<https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/>
San Jose, CA, USA
Hosted by Samsung
The Workshop will look at the intersection of Web and Virtual Reality technologies. It aims at enabling the sharing of experiences between practitioners of the field, discuss existing gaps in the Web platform that make some Virtual Reality use cases difficult or impossible in browsers today, and explore what future standards are needed to pave the way for the Web to be one of the major VR platforms.
* 2016-11-30 (30 NOV) – 2016-12-01 ( 1 DEC)
Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)
<https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sdsvoc/>
Amsterdam
CWI with support from the VRE4EIC project
The workshop will cover a variety of related issues: how to manage a vocabulary in a collaborative environment, how to define an application profile for human and machine consumption, how to request data using a specific profile and, as a prime example of all this - experiences of using "DCAT" that might lead to its extension.
<https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/>
W3C Blog
* Memento at the W3C
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/memento-at-the-w3c/>
31 August 2016 by Herbert Van De Sompel
Upcoming Talks
* 2016-09-14 (14 SEP)
Web, meet Virtual Reality
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
View Source
<https://viewsourceconf.org/berlin-2016>
Berlin, Germany
* 2016-09-24 (24 SEP)
REST Interfaces to the Internet of Things
<http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/09-24-euroia>
EuroIA 2016
<http://www.euroia.org>
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
Petroleum retail opportunities with the web
by Bernard Gidon
IFSF annual conference
<http://www.ifsf.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/ifsf_newsletter_august_2016.pdf>
Schiphol, The Netherlands
* 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
XForms, the only Standard Web Framework
<http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/11-21-nluug>
by Steven Pemberton
NLUUG najaarsconferentie
<https://www.nluug.nl/events/>
Bunnik, The Netherlands
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