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- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:14:09 -0500
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2016-11-21 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20161121
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W3C Communications Team
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Media Source Extensions™ is a W3C Recommendation
17 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5979>
" " The HTML Media Extensions Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation for "Media Source Extensions™." This specification fulfills a vital part of putting video on the Web by extending the HTML5 video capabilities and facilitating a variety of use cases like adaptive streaming, time shifting and video editing, as well as 360° video players. Flexible and powerful, Media Source Extensions™ provides commercial quality IP streaming video for Web applications, across different platforms and between unrelated companies, and is already deployed in major browsers and video services, such as Youtube.
<https://www.w3.org/html/wg/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-media-source-20161117/>
<https://www.youtube.com/html5/>
W3C invites implementations of ActivityPub
17 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5976>
The W3C Social Web Working Group is calling for implementations of "ActivityPub," which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content. The protocol design iterates significantly on the earlier pump.io protocol, and implementors of pump.io clients and servers are particularly encouraged to update.
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/>
W3C Workshop Report: Web & Virtual Reality
17 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5970>
W3C published today the report of the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality held on October 19-20 2016 in San Jose, California, USA. During the workshop, 120 participants representing browser vendors, headset and hardware manufacturers, VR content providers, designers and distributors analyzed the opportunities provided by making the Web a full-fledged platform for VR experiences.
<https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/report>
They recognized the strong prospects already opened by existing and in-development Web APIs, in particular the WebVR API that was highlighted as an important target for near-term standardization, as well as the high priority of making the Web a primary platform for distributing 360° videos. They also identified new opportunities that would be brought by enabling traditional Web pages to be enhanceable as immersive spaces, and in the longer term, by making 3D content a basic brick available to Web developers and content aggregators.
<https://w3c.github.io/webvr/>
You may read more in our media advisory.
<https://www.w3.org/2016/11/web-and-virtual-reality-workshop-report.html.en>
More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>
Workshops
* 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
* HTML 5.1 is the gold standard
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/11/html-5-1-is-the-gold-standard/>
17 November 2016 by Philippe le Hegaret
<http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/>
Upcoming Talks
* 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
* 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
W3C Now and Next
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1121_phila_semwebpro/>
by Phil Archer
SemWebPro 2016
<http://www.semweb.pro>
Paris, France
* 2016-11-22 (22 NOV)
Building the Web of Data
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1122_phila_mdm/>
keynote by Phil Archer
Marine Data Management & GIS Workshop
<http://www.oceanwise.eu/news/events/event-register/>
London, United Kingdom
* 2016-12-08 (8 DEC)
Making Sense of Big Data
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1208_phila_wef/>
by Phil Archer
The future of big data in the UK: growth, challenges and the policy context
<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=1328&t=20146>
London, United Kingdom
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