Internet Society Board Approves Donation to Support W3C Stewardship of Open Web Platform
31 January 2012
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In its continuing efforts to foster an open Internet ecosystem, the Internet Society today announced a 1M USD donation to the World Wide Web Consortium. This donation, the final installment of the Internet Society’s 2009 pledge of 2.5M USD over three years, supports the continued evolution of W3C as an organization that creates open Web standards.
“The W3C is emblematic of the inclusive, multistakeholder approach that is critical to the continued development, operation, and use of the open, global Internet,” said Raúl Echeberría, Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees. “We look forward to continued cooperation between the W3C and the Internet Society to advance our shared values through independent voices.” Read the press release and ISOC and W3C FAQ.
The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation Draft Published
02 February 2012
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The Provenance Working Group has published a Working Draft of The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation. PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and activities involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined. PROV-DM is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a formal semantics. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
Three Last Call Working Drafts published by the RDF Web Applications Working Group
31 January 2012
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The RDF Web Applications
Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts today:
Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of
XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the
core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is
intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple
subset of RDFa for novice Web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the
usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language.
A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the past year
by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the other search
engine developers. Public review and comments have resulted in a number
of further refinements to the language that eases the learning curve for
beginner Web authors.
The release of these documents as Last Call Working Drafts is a signal
to the public that the Working Group believes that all of the technical
requirements, public comments and reported issues have been addressed.
It is also an open invitation to the general public to review and
provide feedback on the finalization of this technology via the RDF Web
Applications Working Group mailing list, by 21 February. Learn more about
the Semantic Web
Activity.