Outline
- W3C Overview
- Subset of new efforts and emerging standards:
- Emerging: Web of Data and Services
- XML, Web Services, Semantic Web
- Emerging: Web on Everything
- Rich Web Clients, Web Mobility, Embedded Systems, Web
Ubiquity
- Emerging: Web for Everyone
- Web Accessibility, Internationalization, International
Outreach, Security, Authentication, Trust
- Mission
- Composition
- Leadership
- Achievements
Mission: Leading the Web to its Full Potential
Founded by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee in 1994, W3C
is:
- Providing the Vision to Lead.
- Engineering the Standards that Make the Web Work.
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- From a Web of Documents ...
- ... converging toward One Web:
- of Data and Services
- on Everything
- for Everyone
- ... that is Interoperable, Trustworthy, Evolving with time
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(Membership / Benefits
/ "At a Glance"
brochure)
International Web Standards Organization
Expanding base of international operations
International Leadership and Cooperation
Expanding base of the world's leading technology organizations
and technologists
W3C Membership by Country (Dec
2005)
Developing Standards at W3C
- New Incubator
Activity
- Quicker, lighter process for efforts that are innovative and
not-yet-ready for standardization
- XML
- Web Services
- Semantic Web
XML
- Foundation for W3C's standards
- XML Activity
- Core, XSL, Schema, DOM, URI, I18N
- Emerging standards:
- Future of XML
Semantic Web and Web Services
- Web Services
- Web of programs
- Standards for interactions between programs, linked on the
Web
- Easier to Expose and Use services (and data
they provide)
- Semantic Web
- Web of data
- Standards for things, relationships and descriptions, linked on
the Web
- Easier to Understand, Search for, Share,
Re-Use, Aggregate, Extend information
Web Services
Semantic Web
Semantic Web Query and Rules
- RDF Data Access
Working Group
- Defining a protocol for selecting instances of subgraphs from an
RDF graph
- Lots of interest - implementations and growing WG participation
- Standard planned for completion 3Q2006
- New Rules Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
- Rules as data
- Bringing a new class of information onto the Web
- 1st FTF: 8-9 December 2005 (co-located with OMG Rules group)
Value of Semantic Web to the Health Care / Life Sciences
- Data interoperability needed to bridge all forms of biological and
medical information
- Semantic Web technologies offer
- Common data model to ...
- ... to support domain-specific knowledge, vocabularies, taxonomies,
etc. ...
- ... and make it easier for cross-domain understanding, searching,
sharing, re-use, aggregating, and extending information
- By embedding semantics, researchers will be able to better:
- Find cures to diseases
- Make drugs safer and more affordable
- Enable health-care providers to offer individualized clinical
management to patients
- etc., etc., etc.
Value of Health Care / Life Sciences to Semantic Web
- Analogy?
Life Sciences : Semantic Web = Physics : Web
- Challenging problem
- Interested community
- Great testbed for emerging Semantic Web technologies
W3C's Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
- New Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
- Co-Chairs: Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners), Eric Neumann (Invited
Expert, formerly Sanofi-Aventis)
- Charter: Develop
and support the use of Semantic Web technologies and practices to improve
collaboration, research and development, innovation adoption
- Core Vocabularies that bridge communities
- Guidelines and Best Practices for resource identification
- Publication Integration (data, people, software, etc.)
- Strong focus on collecting implementation
experience and community outreach
- 1st face-to-face meeting: 25-26 January 2006 in Boston, MA USA
- Motivation
- Rich Web Clients
- Web Mobility
- Embedded Systems
- Web Ubiquity
Vision: One Web
... where Web
technologies provide the means of interacting via all devices, including
computing, communications, entertainment, embedded, personal, home,
transportation, industrial, health care, etc. systems
... worldwide.
Why Does this Make Sense?
- Web model has proved successful for users
- Users want to access data and services from more than just
computers
- Content providers want to author data and services once
- Web technologies are becoming very rich and adaptable
Why Mobile Web Will be the Next "Thing"
- Total
mobile phone units sold: 680 million in 2004, 800M million in 2005
(est)
- 61% of the total installed phones (2005) are Web-capable - 24% of these
have tried only once to hit a Web site
- Even in places where mobile Web has a foothold, different operators
require different markup guidelines to make Web sites work via their
phones
- Content providers, then, must provide different versions of their Web
sites (often with different URIs) in order to work on different
phones.
W3C's Mobile Web Initiative
- Overview
presentation
- Goal: Make access to the Web on mobile devices as -
- seamless, uncomplicated, reliable, cost-effective
- as desktop/laptop Web access
- Initial focus: Support for authoring of adaptable
content
Toward Embedded Systems and Ubiquity
- Ubiquitous
Web Workshop (9-10 March 2006, Tokyo)
- Explore requirements
- Application mobility
- Applications involving multiple devices
- Identifying resources and managing them in application
session
- Privacy and security
- Present relevant W3C work (Rich Web Clients, Multimodal/Voice,
Device Independence, SVG, ...)
- Collect requirements for new standards work
- Web Accessibility
- Internationalization
- International Outreach
- Security, Authentication, Trust
Multi-Layered Solution for Web Accessibility
Make the Web accessible for people with disabilities, by:
- ensuring that core Web technologies support accessibility
- developing guidelines for accessibility
- improving tools to evaluate & facilitate accessibility
- developing materials for education & outreach
- coordinating with advanced research & development
Internationalization (I18N)
国际化活动、万维网联盟
W3C's Internationalization
Activity develops standards and guidelines that make it easy to use W3C
technology worldwide by breaking down barriers between the Web and our
planet's many languages, scripts, and cultures.
- Core WG: Reviews standards in development
for I18N issues, and develops its own work (charter)
- Guidelines, Education & Outreach WG:
Global communication of I18N to the outside, through articles, tutorials,
tests, etc. (charter)
- Tag Set WG: Developing a set of elements
and attributes for use with new DTDs/Schemas, and development of best
practices to support internationalization and localization of documents
(charter)
- Interest Group: Public forum for discussion of I18N issues (archive)
International Outreach: Goal and Plan
- Expand reach to and participation of people in developing countries
- Plans
- Leverage substantial accomplishments in open standards
development
- Expand Offices, translations, liaisons, outreach
- Reduce financial and non-financial barriers
International Outreach: Accomplishments
- World Summit on the Information
Society, in Tunis, Tunisia
- Web accessibility
- Internet governance
- 19 new Members under developing countries
program
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, China (4), Columbia, Costa Rica,
India (8), Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka,
Tunisia, Turkey, Venezuela
- Translations
- Opening of the Indian Office (photos)
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Member profile
- Member value
- How to join
Member Profile
W3C Membership, Dec 2005
* popular
saying in Chinese business and government, from China’s Post-WTO Technology Policy: Standards,
Software and the Changing Nature of Techno-Nationalism, by Richard P. Suttmeier and Yao
Xiangkui.
- Leadership
- Introduce new ideas through submissions & workshops
- Drive new standards through Working Group
participation, review, implementation
- Provide strategic direction through seat on Advisory Committee
- Each Member has
one AC Representative
- Early insight into market trends
- Access Member & Team technical experts
- Track emerging technologies & markets through Member-confidential
access
- Implement standards & plan for procurement of new technologies
ahead of market
- Promoting image as innovator
- Participate in international media activities, press releases, testimonials
(e.g., MWI)
- Display organization and logo on W3C
site (250K visits/day)
- Display W3C Member
logo on organization's page
- Ensure & enjoy benefits of royalty-free implementation of Web
standards
- Join
W3C
- Public participation and accountability
Conclusions
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- W3C is an dynamic, unique, successful int'l
organization
- Building foundational Web standards
- Innovating toward a Web ...
- of Data and Services
- on Everything
- for Everyone
- Looking forward to working with you
http://www.w3.org/
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Thank you
