Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Web & Machine Learning
14 January 2020 | Archive
W3C announced today a Workshop on Web & Machine Learning, 24-25 March 2020, in Berlin, Germany. The event is hosted by Microsoft.
The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together providers of Machine Learning tools and frameworks with Web platform practitioners to enrich the Open Web Platform with better foundations for machine learning.
The secondary goals of the workshop are as follows:
- Understand how machine learning fits into the Web technology stack,
- Understand how browser-based machine learning fits into the machine learning ecosystem,
- Explore the impact of machine learning technologies on Web browsers and Web applications,
- Evaluate the opportunities for standardization around machine learning APIs and formats.
Expected topics of discussion include:
- Dedicated machine learning APIs for browsers as explored by the Machine Learning for the Web Community Group
- Integration of browser-provided data sources in machine learning workflows
- Layering and interoperability of machine learning APIs with other computing APIs (e.g. WebGPU, WebAssembly)
- Domain-specific machine learning APIs
- Interchange format for machine learning models on the Web
- Client- and cloud-based machine learning interactions
- On-device machine learning training in browsers
- Risks and benefits of browser-based machine learning on privacy, security, accessibility
- Using machine learning primitives to help improve accessibility of Web pages and applications
- Machine learning frameworks for the Web
- Machine learning hardware accelerators
Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C members. For more information on the workshop, please see the workshop details and submission instructions.
Registration is available online due by 21 February 2020.
Call for Review: Web of Things Architecture and Thing Description are W3C Proposed Recommendations
30 January 2020 | Archive
The Web of Things Working Group has published two Proposed Recommendations:
WoT Architecture describes a formal model and a common representation for a WoT Thing Description. A Thing Description describes the metadata and interfaces of Things, where a Thing is an abstraction of a physical or virtual entity that provides interactions to and participates in the Web of Things. Thing Descriptions provide a set of interactions based on a small vocabulary that makes it possible both to integrate diverse devices and to allow diverse applications to interoperate.
Comments are welcome through 27 February 2020.
Updated Candidate Recommendation: Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2) (2nd Edition)
28 January 2020 | Archive
The Timed Text (TT) Working Group invites implementation of its updated Candidate Recommendation of Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2) (2nd Edition). This document specifies the Second Edition of the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML), Version 2, also known as TTML2 (2e), in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof. The Timed Text Markup Language is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information. It is intended to be used for the purpose of transcoding or exchanging timed text information among legacy distribution content formats presently in use for subtitling and captioning functions.
Comments are welcome by 25 February 2020.
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group
13 January 2020 | Archive
The W3C Advisory Committee has elected the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Rossen Atanassov (Microsoft Corporation), David Baron (Mozilla Foundation) and Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (Intel Corporation). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants, Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Alice Boxhall (Google), Peter Linss (W3C Invited Expert; co-Chair), Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts), and Theresa O’Connor (Apple, Inc.). Yves Lafon continues as staff contact. Many thanks to Lukasz Olejnik (W3C Invited Expert) whose term ends at the end of this month.
The TAG is a special group within the W3C, chartered under the W3C Process Document, with stewardship of the Web architecture. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. The elected Members of the TAG participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. TAG participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user. Learn more about the TAG.