W3C

Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (2008)

January 2008

8 January
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" at the "Curso de Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Universidad Laboral) (Course in Application Developing)" on Tuesday, 8 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.
11 January
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk entitled "Why you need a Web Site (and other Web 3.0 issues)" at the "Freelance Friday" on Friday, 11 January 2008, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
23 January
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Overview of W3C activities" ; Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Video en la Web (Video on the Web)"; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Mobile Web in Developing Countries" at the "W3C Spain Office Seminar" , on Wednesday, 23 January 2008.
23 January
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk via Webcast on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "eGovernment and the Web" at the "Virtual W3C Seminar" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008.
23 January
Matt Womer gives a talk entitled "Unifying a Fragmenting Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry Development" at the "Mobile Web USA" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008, in San Francisco, CA, USA.
24 January
José Manuel Alonso gives a lecture entitled "Hacia una mejor Administración mediante el uso de la Web (Improving Government through better use of the Web)" at the "Entrega de Insignias de Oro del CITIPA (CITIPA Awarding Ceremony)" on Thursday, 24 January 2008, in Oviedo, Spain.
28 January
Seungyun Lee gives a lecture entitled "IPTV Web Platform Technology" at the "IPTV 기술 (IPTV Technology)" between Monday, 28 January, and Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Daejeon, Korea.
28 January
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Making the Web Accessible to All" organized by the University at Albany, on Monday, 28 January 2008, in Albany, NY, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:

It is vital that the Web is accessible given its increasingly key role in education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. Accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web, and accessibility also makes websites more usable to older people with changing abilities due to aging, people with low bandwidth connections and older technologies, and people using mobile devices and new technologies.

This presentation discusses the current state of web accessibility and explores how we can each play a role in ensuring that the future Web enables greater participation in society instead of creating additional barriers. We'll look at responsibilities in several areas, including: higher education - from incorporating web standards and accessibility in curriculum, to providing effective technical systems to support education for all, to researching solutions to improve the future of the Web; government; and industry, along with the opportunities for positive return on investment (ROI) in accessibility efforts.

Through real-world examples, Shawn will demo specific accessibility barriers and solutions, provide an update on Web accessibility standards and regulations, and provide resources for more information. Come learn how to make your website more usable to more people in more situations.

29 January
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Toward the Mobile Web 2.0" at the "Future of the Internet Economy Conference 2008 " on Tuesday, 29 January 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
30 January
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "JFokus 2008 " on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
30 January
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" at the "Curso Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Course in Application Developing)" on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.
31 January
José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel entitled "TIC y Gobernabilidad" at the "Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0 (Development Cooperation 2.0)" on Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.
31 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "World Wide Web Consoritum: Semantic Web and Opportunities for the Oil and Gas Industry" at the "PCA Member Meeting" on Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Houston, Texas, USA.

February 2008

4 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: International Standards for Local Users" at the "Techshare India 2008" on Monday, 4 February 2008, in New Delhi, India. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The Web offers unprecedented opportunities for people with disabilities to participate equally in the information society. At the same time, there are many avoidable barriers that exclude people from using the Web for education, at the workplace, for civil participation, and other day-to-day activities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. This presentation introduces the international W3C standards for Web accessibility and describes how your organization can benefit from implementing these standards to better reach your local audience.
5 February
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "HTML 5" organized by the Jagat, on Tuesday, 5 February 2008, in Tokyo, Japan.
11 February
Marie-Claire Forgue , Dominique Hazaël-Massieux , and François Daoust run a booth at "The Mobile World Congress" between Monday, 11 February, and Thursday, 14 February 2008, in Barcelona, Spain.
11 February
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Achieving Web for All: Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your Website" at the "Webstock 2008" on Monday, 11 February 2008, in Wellington, New Zealand. (see abstract)
Abstract:

This workshop provides approaches for making your website more usable to more people in more situations -- especially people with disabilities, seniors, and people using the web on their mobile phone. Shawn will put standards and guidelines in perspective, and show you a new method for developing effective accessibility solutions efficiently.

We'll go through:

  • Understanding the fundamental issues first
  • How to get the most quickly from standards, guidelines, and best practices guides on accessibility and design for mobile phones, including WCAG 2.0
  • Tools and techniques for testing
  • Tips for evaluating prototypes/drafts as you go along
  • Guidance on including people with disabilities in your project to learn how they really interact with your site

Along the way we'll look at specifics, such as providing scalable text (and we'll answer, "What about a text size widget?"); marking up headings, lists, and such; wording headings and links; forms; data tables; linearization (that is, reading order) issues; and JavaScript/Ajax issues.

Who's it for

This is a beginners to intermediate level workshop for anyone involved in web creation.

12 February
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스 (Mobile Web 2.0 & Mobile Convergence)" at the "제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내" on Tuesday, 12 February 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
13 February
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "(not yet determined)" at the "Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders in Government (ITSL) workshop" on Wednesday, 13 February 2008, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
18 February
Seungyun Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies" at "The 10th International Conference On Advanced Communication Technology" on Monday, 18 February 2008, in Phoenix Park, Korea.
20 February
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Interoperabilidad Semántica en la Web (Semantic Interoperability on the Web)" at the "IV Congreso Nacional de BPMS (National Congress on BPMS (Business Process Management Systems))" on Wednesday, 20 February 2008, in Madrid, Spain.
21 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives an invited talk entitled "Web Accessibility - Hochglanz und Qualität (Web Accessibility - Polishing and Quality)" at the "SAE Workshop" on Thursday, 21 February 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

March 2008

3 March
Judy Brewer participates at a panel entitled "Accessibility of the Web: Strategies and Resources" at the "Foro G3ICT" on Monday, 3 March 2008, in Quito, Ecuador.
5 March
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Towards the Web of Things" (see abstract) and Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web 2.0 Forum Standardization Activities" at the "Mobile Wednesday Workshop" , on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
Abstract for “Towards the Web of Things”:
A look at the origins of the Web and the challenges and opportunities presented by an increasing variety of networked devices. How Web technologies will enable device coordination and reduce the costs for authoring distributed applications of ubiquitous devices.
5 March
Eric Prud'hommeaux and Lee Feigenbaum give a tutorial entitled "W3C Semantic Web Tutorial" at the "Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences (C-SHALS)" on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, in Boston, USA.
7 March
Karl Dubost and Ivan Herman give a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" at the "INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008" on Friday, 7 March 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation will give a short review on the state of adoption of the Semantic Web today, as well as some of the latest developments. Technologies and developments such as linking open data, RDFa, role of SPARQL, OWL1.1, rules will all be addressed. The presentation will also provide examples of how the Semantic Web is used in practice by major companies or public institutions.
8 March
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly" at the "SXSW Interactive 2008 Conference" on Saturday, 8 March 2008, in Austin, TX, USA.
10 March
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "New W3C Standards For Speech and Multimodal Applications" at the "Voice Search Conference" on Monday, 10 March 2008, in San Diego, CA, USA.
10 March
Phil Archer and Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to POWDER (tentative)" at the "Web 2.0 Telecoms" on Monday, 10 March 2008, in Berlin, Germany.
15 March
Shadi Abou-Zahra and Andrew Arch give a talk entitled "How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population" at the "CSUN 2008" on Saturday, 15 March 2008, in Los Angeles, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The W3C WAI-AGE Project researches and develops resources to better explain the relevance of Web accessibility guidelines to the needs of the ageing population.
17 March
Philippe Le Hégaret gives an invited talk entitled "Video on the Web at W3C" at the "Media Distribution over Open Internet" on Monday, 17 March 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland.
27 March
Felix Sasaki gives an invited talk entitled "Identifying Resources on the Web and Beyond" at the "MPG eScience Seminar on "Unique and persistent identifiers"" on Thursday, 27 March 2008, in Munich, Germany.
27 March
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "The Web of Things" at the "Internet of Things 2008" on Thursday, 27 March 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland.

April 2008

1 April
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Web 2.0 Meets the Handset" at the "Roundtable at CTIA" on Tuesday, 1 April 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
2 April
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Standards for Crossing the Mobile Web Chasm" at the "Mobile Internet" on Wednesday, 2 April 2008, in Berlin, Germany.
3, 4 April
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Designing the Web for All of Society Benefits Us All", "International Web Accessibility Guidelines and Standards", and "Web Accessibility Basics" on Thursday, 3 April 2008 and gives an invited talk entitled "Integrating Accessibility in the Development Process" and "Accessible Ajax" on Friday, 4 April 2008 at the "Web Accessibility: Bridging the Digital Divide" , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
4 April
François Daoust gives a talk entitled "mobileOK Basic for Developers" at the "Over The Air" on Friday, 4 April 2008, in London, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Using a badly-designed web page that still is displayed correctly on most desktop browsers:

  • Show that it doesn't work on most mobile browsers
  • Introduce the mobileOK checker as a way to know what needs to be improved and why
  • Fix the web page
  • Show that the resulting page now works in both worlds

The message:

  • Mobile Best Practices are not constraints
  • No need to know Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 doc by heart to start using it, the mobileOK checker is here to help
  • Think Mobile even if that's not your initial target
7 April
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Prospects of Mobile Web 2.0 in Korea" at the "Mobile Monday Seoul" on Monday, 7 April 2008, in Seoul, Korea, Korea.
17 April
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "HTML 5 - kommande HTML-standard (HTML 5 - future HTML standard)" and runs a booth entitled "Vad nytt under webben? (What's new in the web?)" at the "SICS Open House 2008" , on Thursday, 17 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
18 April
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Framtidsspaning (Looking into the Future)" at the "ITARC2008" on Friday, 18 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
18 April
Daniel Dardailler gives a lecture entitled "Internet and Web Nice Sophia University public lecture" at the "Master of Information System/Ergonomy. WAI link as well" on Friday, 18 April 2008, in Nice, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:
In french! http://www.nice-premium.com/article/l-universite-nice-sophia-antipolis-fait-du-web-une-conference.3100.html
21 April
Judy Brewer participates at a panel entitled "Web Accessibility Guidelines, in panel on accessible content and services: addressing information deprivation (via teleconference)" at "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT Standards" on Monday, 21 April 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland.
21, 23, 24, 25 April
at "The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)" , Beijing, China.
Abstract for “The Future of Web Applications”:
Web applications currently provide greater flexibility and more effective human interface than static Web pages. As client-side storage is added, Web applications and desktop applications become closer, although significant differences remain. The open standards (HTML, SVG, CSS, etc.) vie with proprietary systems (Air, Silverlight, etc.) for the presentation side. RDF, XML, JSON , SPARQL and SQL compete as data access techniques. There is a blossoming of code and widget libraries. On social networking sites, application portability and data portability are concerns of the day, for developers and users. We must ask ourselves in the long term, how we would like the Web application platform to evolve, and what facilities would be useful in the future.
22 April
Seungyun Lee gives a keynote entitled "Mobile Web goes 2.0" at the "MobEA IV workshop - collocated with WWW2008 conference" on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, in Beijing, China.
22 April
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Looking To The Future: Web Accessibility, Ageing, and Emerging Web Trends" at the "W4A 2008" on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, in Beijing, China. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The Web is becoming increasing ubiquitous and transparent. It is part of our every day life at home and at work. It is also becoming part of our every day life when we are on the move. Web-enabled mobile technologies and portable devices are being deployed at a fascinating rate, so that soon mobile browsers will outnumber traditional desktop browsers. This trend is creating new markets and opportunities for creative ideas and applications. Amongst these markets are e-government initiatives that aim to deliver maximum services for the citizens and authorities at the same time. These systems need to be inclusive and accommodate the accessibility needs of people with disabilities and elderly Web users. At the same time, the understanding for Web accessibility is shifting. In May 2008 the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will enter into force, making access to information technology a basic human right. This will have significant impact in a world of dynamic Web applications, user-generated content, and social networking systems. This presentation will look at some emerging Web trends and discuss the impact on people with disabilities and on a rapidly ageing workforce. It will also highlight some of the potential solutions and challenges for Web authoring tools, user agents, and content creators.
23 April
Najib Tounsi gives an invited talk entitled "L’Importance des Standards Ouverts pour l'Interopérabilité (On the importance of open standards for Interoperability)" at the "Atelier International «Développement de l’administration électronique : Rôle et importance de l’interopérabilité des SI de l’Administration» (International Workshop, "Development of e-government: The role and importance of interoperability")" on Wednesday, 23 April 2008, in Rabat, Morocco. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Le Web et les technologies de l'information sont utilisés par les différents organes du gov/adm pour interagir entre eux et avec le citoyen. Il est donc essentiel pour ces technologies de travailler ensemble et façon interchangeable. Mon intervention portera sur pourquoi la conformité aux standards ouverts est le fondement pour cette interopérabilité. Cet exposé portera sur ces standards, leur développement au sein du W3C et des efforts W3C pour le eGov.
23, 24 April
  • Chris Bizer, Tom Heath, and Tim Berners-Lee give a talk entitled "Linking Open Data" ; Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "A World of Stakeholders: Lessons from Global Outreach" ; Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Geolocation in the Mobile Web " ; Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "News from W3C's Mobile Web Initiative" ; Henny Swan gives a talk entitled "Making a Web Site Accessible Both for Mobile Devices and for People with Disabilities" ; Huajun Chen gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web Development in China" ; Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "Adopting International Standards Locally: The Importance of Harmonization " ; Paul Nelson gives a talk entitled "Localization and Internationalization of Layout on the Web" ; Raphaël Troncy gives a talk entitled "Managing Online Video (or Multimedia) Content with the Semantic Web" ; Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "What you Need to Know to Reach a Chinese Audience?" ; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web in Rural China" ; Tina Dam gives a talk entitled "International Domain Names" ; Zhi Wei Shuang gives a talk entitled "Internationalizing Speech Synthesis" on Wednesday, 23 April 2008;
  • Art Barstow gives a talk entitled "Standards and mobile applications, services and widgets" ; Doug Schepers gives a talk entitled "Wicked Wide Web: Integrating Documents and Devices" ; José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web" ; Kai-Dietrich Scheppe gives a talk entitled "POWDER Use Cases" ; Lisa Pappas gives a talk entitled "Accessibility for rich Web applications" ; Mary-Ellen Zurko gives a talk entitled "Building a More Secure Browser" ; Michael Smith gives a talk entitled "HTML 5, the future of Web Content" ; Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk entitled "Video on the Web" ; Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Designing the Web for All of Society" ; Thomas Roessler gives a talk entitled "Web applications security issues" ; Weihan Liu gives a talk entitled "Web Usage in China" on Thursday, 24 April 2008;
at the "W3C Track, The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)" , Beijing, China.
26 April
Bert Bos gives an invited talk on behalf of the Hungary Office entitled "Advanced layout in CSS" at the "Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2008 (Hungarian Web Conference 2008)" on Saturday, 26 April 2008, in Budapest, Hungary.
28 April
Oreste Signore gives a tutorial entitled " Origini, motivazioni e regole di evoluzione del World Wide Web (Origins, motivations and evolution rules for the World Wide Web)" at the "Storia dell' Informatica (History of informatics)" on Monday, 28 April 2008, in Pisa, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A brief history of the Web, with an insight towards the Semantic Web

May 2008

5 May
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "What is the Semantic Web?" and participates at a panel entitled "XBRL and the Semantic Web" at the "17th International XBRL Conference" , on Monday, 5 May 2008, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
6, 8 May
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms 1.1" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 6 May 2008; Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "CSS Template Layout is not only for big grids" (see abstract) on Thursday, 8 May 2008; Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "Why you should have a Website" (see abstract) on Thursday, 8 May 2008 at the "XTech 2008" , Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract for “XForms 1.1”:
XForms 1.1 XForms is a new technology being widely adopted by industry: even though it was designed for forms, as the name suggests, it is capable of, and is being used for, much more. It has been adopted by Open Office for use in its ODF Document Format, and Yahoo! has recently announced its use on their new mobile platform Blueprint. Industry experience is showing that using XForms can greatly reduce the amount of work needed: one company reported that a task that in the past needed 150 person-years needed only 10 person-years with XForms. The advantages of XForms include: * It improves the user experience: XForms has been designed to allow much to be checked by the browser, such as types of fields being filled in, or that one date is later than another. This reduces the need for round trips to the server or for extensive script-based solutions, and improves the user experience by giving immediate feedback to what is being filled in. * It is XML, and it can submit XML. * It combines existing XML technologies: Rather than reinventing the wheel, XForms uses a number of existing XML technologies, such as XPath for addressing and calculating values, and XML Schemas for defining data types. This has a dual benefit: ease of learning for people who already know these technologies, and implementors can use off-the-shelf components to build their systems. * It is internationalized. * It is accessible: XForms has been designed so that it will work equally well with accessible technologies (for instance for blind users) and with traditional visual browsers. * It is device independent: the same form can be delivered without change to a traditional browser, a PDA, a mobile phone, a voice browser, and even some more exotic emerging clients such as an Instant Messenger. This greatly eases providing forms to a wide audience, since forms only need to be authored once. * It is easier to author complicated forms. The presenter is one of the authors of the XForms specifications, and is Forms Activity lead at the W3C. This tutorial introduces XForms step-by-step. It covers essentially all of XForms except some technical details about events, and no more than a passing reference to the use of Schemas. It particularly deals with what is new in XForms 1.1, which is currently at candidate recommendation phase, and is being implemented for several browsers. Emphasis is on how to improve the user experience, and how XForms improves accessibility and device independence, and makes the author's life easy in producing a better experience.
Abstract for “ CSS Template Layout is not only for big…”:

The CSS Advanced Layout module that is currently under development in W3C grew out of a need to easily create “portal” pages in HTML with different layouts on screens of different sizes, in particular on mobile phones. But it can not only create grids for positioning text boxes and images, but also create very small grids, such as for placing the elements of a mathematical formula.

This presentation shows how the same idea, the traditional layout grid, can be used at different scales, from a whole document or a printed page, via forms and GUIs, down to an inline formula.

The CSS rule to define a grid is typically only one line. And the grids are quite independent of the mark-up, which is what makes it possible, e.g., to render subscripts in MathML in front of a symbol, although they come after the symbol in the mark-up.

The Advanced Layout module thus promises not only to make the “visual semantics” of a document easier to express, but also to make the mark-up, which embodies the rest of the meaning, less dependent on the desired rendering.

The presentation includes a demo with a (partial) prototype implementation.

Abstract for “Why you should have a Website”:
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis postulates a link between thought and language: if you haven’t got a word for a concept, you can’t think about it; if you don’t think about it, you won’t invent a word for it. The term “Web 2.0” is a case in point. It was invented by a book publisher as a term to build a series of conferences around, and conceptualises the idea of Web sites that gain value by their users adding data to them. But the concept existed before the term: Ebay was already Web 2.0 in the era of Web 1.0. But now we have the term we can talk about it, and it becomes a structure in our minds, and in this case a movement has built up around it. There are inherent dangers for users of Web 2.0. For a start, by putting a lot of work into a Web site, you commit yourself to it, and lock yourself into their data formats. This is similar to data lock-in when you use a proprietary program. You commit yourself and lock yourself in. Moving comes at great cost. This was one of the justifications for creating the eXtended Markup Language (XML): it reduces the possibility of data lock-in – having a standard representation for data helps using the same data in different ways too. As an example, if you commit to a particular photo-sharing Web site, you upload thousands of photos, tagging extensively, and then a better site comes along. What do you do? How about if the site you have chosen closes down (as has happened with some Web 2.0 music sites): all your work is lost. How do you decide which social networking site to join? Do you join several and repeat the work? How about geneology sites, and school-friend sites? These are all examples of Metcalf’s law, which postulates that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes in the network. Simple maths shows that if you split a network into two, its value is halved. This is why it is good that there is a single email network, and bad that there are many instant messenger networks. It is why it is good that there is only one World Wide Web. Web 2.0 partitions the Web into a number of topical sub-Webs, and locks you in, thereby reducing the value of the network as a whole. So does this mean that user contributed content is a Bad Thing? Not at all, it is the method of delivery and storage that is wrong. The future lies in better aggregators.
6 May
Shadi Abou-Zahra participates at a panel entitled "Verordnete (Barriere-)Freiheit (Prescribed (Barrier-)Freedom)" at the "Einfach-für-Alle Tagung (Easy-for-All Conference)" on Tuesday, 6 May 2008, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
7 May
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Tecnologie W3C per l'e-inclusion (W3C Technologies for e-inclusion)" (see abstract) and gives a tutorial entitled "Introduzione al Semantic Web (Introduction to Semantic Web)" (see abstract) at the " Web Senza Barriere '08 (No barriers in the Web '08)" , on Wednesday, 7 May 2008, in Roma, Italy.
Abstract for “Tecnologie W3C per l'e-inclusion”:
Generalities about accessibility and main points of WCAG 2.0
Abstract for “Introduzione al Semantic Web”:
Basic principles of Semantic Web and related technologies
8 May
Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Claves de accesibilidad para las empresas" at the "Expansión Conferencias: Novedades Legislativas para el Impulso de la sociedad de la Información y la Protección de Datos" on Thursday, 8 May 2008, in Madrid, Spain.
10 May
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled " Proposal, shared type/text specification for the desktop" at the "Libre Graphics Meeting 2008" on Saturday, 10 May 2008, in Wrocław, Poland.
14 May
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Internationalisering och lokalisering -- språk på webben (Internationalization and Localization - languages on the web)" at the "Språk och Internet (Languages and the Internet)" on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
15 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "How to make the most out of eGovernment" at the "Web Standards Group Meeting" on Thursday, 15 May 2008, in Melbourne, Australia.
16 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "How to make the most out of eGovernment" at the "Web Standards Group Meeting" on Friday, 16 May 2008, in Sydney, Australia.
18, 22 May
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" (see abstract) on Sunday, 18 May 2008 and participates at a panel entitled "Bringing SemTech Back to the Business" (see abstract) on Thursday, 22 May 2008 at the "2008 Semantic Technology Conference" , San Jose, CA, USA.
Abstract for “State of the Semantic Web”:
The history of the Semantic Web goes back several years now. It is worth looking at what has been achieved, where we are, and where we are going. Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) leads us through this as we prepare for a week of deep discussions with people from all parts of the community of semantic technologies.
Abstract for “Bringing SemTech Back to the Business”:
With a panel of leaders from the semantic technology industry, this session will give us the opportunity to reflect on the many discussions that have taken place during the week of SemTech 2008 and help us map the course as we prepare to extend those conversations back into our workplaces. We will touch on issues of ROI, making the case for semantic technologies in the enterprise, and what to expect in the coming year in the semantic tech space.
19 May
José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "Improving Government through better use of the Web" at the "Web Directions South: Government" on Monday, 19 May 2008, in Canberra, Australia. (see abstract)
Abstract:
It’s no secret that just as the web has revolutionised business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionising how governments and citizens interact, and how government provide services. But how to do it well is still something of a black art. In this keynote presentation, the lead of the W3C's eGovernment initiative, Jose Manuel Alonso, looks at the opportunities the web provides governments, the challenges, old and new, the web poses, and the role of the W3C in helping to develop underlying, interoperable technologies with which to build these services. Jose's presentation will cover best practices and methodologies for providing eGovernment services, and look at case studies of how governments and communities are connecting via the web around the world.
20 May
Steve Bratt gives a keynote on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Fast Forward: Get Ready for Web 3.0" at the "bdigital Global Congress" on Tuesday, 20 May 2008, in Barcelona, Spain. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The Web has been a tremendous vehicle for global communication, commerce and change. A suite of emerging technologies is leveraging the fundamental principles that has made Web a success, and will enable the useful integration of data, information and knowledge from across the entire Web. Steve Bratt, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will discuss how new, interoperable standards in areas such Web 2.0 semantic Web, mobility, ubiquity, accessibility and security will foster unbounded, Web-scale mashups of information made available on an increasing range of devices. The benefits of this new "Web 3.0" will be felt by everyone everywhere -- from physicians seeking critical information to deliver better medical care, to farmers in rural Africa looking for the most favorable markets for their produce.
21 May
Thomas Roessler gives a talk entitled "Would you like fries with that? A security-minded reader's guide to HTML5." at the "OWASP AppSec Europe 2008" on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, in Ghent, Belgium.
21 May
José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "Towards eGovernment 2.0" at the "eGovernment Forum at CeBIT" on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, in Sydney, Australia. (see abstract)
Abstract:
eGovernment services are achieving the highest levels of sophistication ever. Several countries are at 100% of online availability and close to perfectly sophisticated services but even so, their usage is not taking off and some good old problems are still unsolved. This talk will review the challenges that governments are still facing and propose ways to tackle them by using open standards, improving transparency and participation and achieving seamless integration of data.
23 May
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Il supporto delle ontologie nella ricerca dell' informazione (Ontology support in information retrieval)" at the "La strutturazione delle informazioni nella documentazione tecnica (Information structuring in technical documentation)" on Friday, 23 May 2008, in Udine, Italy.
25 May
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk on behalf of the Israel Office entitled "W3C Open Standard " at the "Launch W3C Israel Office" on Sunday, 25 May 2008, in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
27 May
Dan Brickley gives a talk entitled "One Big Happy Family: Practical Collaboration on Meaningful Markup " at the "Microformats vEvent" on Tuesday, 27 May 2008, in London, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This talk explores some ways in which the Microformat and RDF approaches can complement each other, and some ways in which we can share data, tools and experiences between these two technologies. It will outline the often-unarticulated history of the RDF design, the techniques used for parsing and querying RDF data, and the things made easy and hard through this approach. RDF techniques can be contrasted with the different choices made for Microformats. However these differences obscure an underlying similarity that comes from shared ‘Webby’ values.

June 2008

2 June
Olle Olsson participates at a panel entitled "Framtidssäkra eFörvaltningen (Technologies and the future of eGovernment)" at the "Offentliga Rummet 2008 (The Public Room 2008)" on Monday, 2 June 2008, in Västerås, Sweden.
2 June
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "Towards eGovernment 2.0 through Better Use of the Web" at the "W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development" on Monday, 2 June 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
4 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk on behalf of the Brazil Office entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards" at the "W3C Brazil Office Launch event " on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
4 June
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Brazil Office entitled "Towards eGovernment 2.0 through better use of the Web" at the "W3C Brazil Office Public Launch" on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
4 June
Judy Brewer participates at a panel entitled "International Perspective" at the "Open conference on the Results from Phase I of Standards Mandate 376: Public Procurement of Accessible ICT in Europe" on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, in Brussels, Belgium.
10 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: People with Disabilities and Elderly Citizens" at the "Web Sin Barreras (Web Without Barriers)" on Tuesday, 10 June 2008, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
11, 12 June
Molly E Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Color for the Global Web" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 and gives a talk entitled "Designing for Today’s Browsers" (see abstract) on Thursday, 12 June 2008 at the "Voices That Matter" , Nashville, TN, USA.
Abstract for “Color for the Global Web”:
The perception of color is dependent on gender, culture, race and physical attributes. If you're designing Web sites, you're designing for the broadest audience imaginable. The success of your Web site relates directly to how the colors you use in your designs are perceived through the eyes of the world. Developers, designers and content mavens all are encouraged to participate in this colorful, interactive session.
Abstract for “Designing for Today’s Browsers”:
So you know about CSS, and might even sport serious skills in markup, style and script. But we all share one problem in common no matter our skill level: Browsers are different. Hacking, working and scripting around browser differences is the most time consuming, exhausting and frustrating web design job of all. In "Designing for Today’s Browsers," you'll learn several extremely valuable and practical methods to lighten that heavy load of today's browser woes.
11 June
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Future of the World Wide Web" at the "Washington, Wikipedia, and Web 3.0: What is the Future of the Web?" on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
12 June
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Making the Web Accessible to People with Disabilities" at the "Universal Service Provision (USP) Technology Seminar" on Thursday, 12 June 2008, in Seremban, Malaysia.
13 June
Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Rita 2.0 - Effective Methods and Messages in Online Safety Education.' " at the "'Beyond Byron - Towards a New Culture of Responsibility," on Friday, 13 June 2008, in Oxford, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Asked by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to investigate the new dangers to children being brought up in the digital age, Dr. Tanya Byron, under the auspices of the Department for Children, Schools and Families, produced a 224-page report. Using ideas and questions from the Thursday Evening Lecture, an invited panel will delve deeper into the meaningful delivery of online safety education at the roundtable on June 13th.
16 June
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Gambling 2.0 Harnessing evolving technologies " at the "World Online Gambling Law Report Summer Retreat 2008" on Monday, 16 June 2008, in Hampshire, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Taking gambling online transformed the industry. Social networking sites, user generated content and high speed access are now transforming the online landscape. The standards under development at the World Wide Web Consortium will shape the Web of tomorrow. This Session provides a survey of both technical (the browser as application platform, peer-to-peer, video on the web, the mobile web, the semantic web) and social (privacy and security, internationalization, accessibility) initiatives currently underway at W3C and elsewhere, and their likely impact on the future of the Web.
16 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards, ICT skills" at the "OECD Internet Future forum" on Monday, 16 June 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
17 June
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web of Data" at the "LinkedData Planet" on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, in New York, NYC, USA.
17 June
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "Web of Data" at the "LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web of linked data" on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, in New York, NY, USA.
18 June
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Korean Member Report & Taking Action as AC Representative" at the "2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵 (2008 W3C Korean member's Workshop)" on Wednesday, 18 June 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
19 June
Ivan Herman gives a keynote entitled "États des lieux du Web sémantique" at the "19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008) (19th Francophone Knowledge Engineering Days)" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Nancy, France.
19 June
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "How New Web Accessibility Standards Impact User Experience Design" at the "Usability Professionals' Association International Conference 2008" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This presentation provides the latest on new international standards expected in 2008, including the updated U.S. Section 508 Standards, WCAG 2.0, and WAI-ARIA for accessibility of Ajax applications. It compares the different documents, and demos how the new requirements impact user experience design, such as new accessibility requirements for forms.
19 June
Judy Brewer gives an invited talk entitled "Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including WCAG 2.0" at the "Open Seminar of Information Accessibility" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Tokyo, Japan.
20 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards" at the "EGENI" on Friday, 20 June 2008, in Paris, France.
26 June
Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "Challenges in the Air – Mobile Internet" at the "2nd NGMN Industry Conference 2008" on Thursday, 26 June 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.
26 June
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "New Frontiers for Engineering and Science" on Thursday, 26 June 2008, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom.

July 2008

1 July
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "차세대 웹 기술 동향 (The Trends of Next Generation Web)" at the "Korea Computer Congress 2008" on Tuesday, 1 July 2008, in Bokwang , Korea.
7 July
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Senioren, Mobile Surfer und andere Trends (Seniors, Mobile Surfers and other Trends)" at the "IKT Forum 2008 (ICT Forum 2008)" on Monday, 7 July 2008, in Linz, Austria.
10, 11 July
Andrew Arch gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility for Older Users" on Thursday, 10 July 2008; Michael Cooper gives a keynote entitled "Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web" on Friday, 11 July 2008; Shadi Abou-Zahra participates at a panel entitled "Web Accessibility 2.0 - Mainstreaming Accessibility at a Global Level" on Friday, 11 July 2008 at the "ICCHP 2008" , Linz, Austria.
11 July
Michael Cooper gives a keynote entitled "Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web" at the " ICCHP 2008 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs" on Friday, 11 July 2008, in Linz, Austria.
13 July
Ori Idan gives a talk entitled "Web site standards why, what and how" at the "Open Source Developers Club biweekly meeting " on Sunday, 13 July 2008, in Tel-Aviv, Israel. (see abstract)
Abstract:
  • Introduction to W3C organization
  • Role of W3C members
  • Overview of W3C recommendations
  • Process of W3C recommendation
  • Main active working groups
  • Future of the web according to W3C
  • Activity of a W3C office
  • Activity of W3C Israel office
22 July
Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Web Science" at the "Oxford Internet Institute 2008 Summer Doctoral Programme" on Tuesday, 22 July 2008, in Oxford, United Kingdom.
29 July
Tim Berners-Lee gives a tutorial entitled "The Future of the Web" at the "Campus Party 2008" on Tuesday, 29 July 2008, in Valencia , Spain.

August 2008

1 August
Ori Idan gives a talk entitled "Why do we need Internet standards and W3C" at the "August Penguin " on Friday, 1 August 2008, in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
16 August
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "Hot and Spicy Style with CSS" at the "Hot and Spicy Style with CSS" between Saturday, 16 August, and Sunday, 17 August 2008, in Honolulu, HI, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
From image replacement to effective navigation and background graphic design, integration with Flash in standards-based design, to anecdotes, and wit and wisdom from the entertaining Molly E. Holzschlag, this two day CSS hands-on methods helps any modern Web designer advance his or her work with CSS, no matter which tool or level of CSS knowledge.
20 August
Deborah Dahl , Ingmar Kliche, and Raj Tumuluri give a talk entitled "Multimodal Standards and Applications" at the "SpeechTEK" on Wednesday, 20 August 2008, in New York, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This presentation will showcase standards-based multimodal applications developed by member companies of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group. It will also demonstrate some laboratory applications that illustrate the principles of the W3C Multimodal Architecture and a deployed healthcare application that enables users to type, speak, and scribble on their mobile devices to record vital readings, highlight regions of interest on images, and submit them wirelessly.
22 August
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Detailed introduction into RDF and the Semantic Web" at the "4th Search & Find Workshop" on Friday, 22 August 2008, in Ghent, Belgium.

September 2008

1 September
Andrew Arch gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility and the Older Population" at the "HCI and the Older Population 2008" on Monday, 1 September 2008, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This paper introduces the “Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation” (WAI-AGE) project, a W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme (FP6) of the Information Society Technologies (IST). It briefly discusses some of the initial findings from the first stage of the project – a comprehensive review of the literature relating to this topic. It concludes with a discussion of some of the ways we intend to promote the needs of the older user to the Web development community.
2 September
François Daoust gives a talk entitled "From pages to applications: Mobile Web Best Practices" at the "Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08)" on Tuesday, 2 September 2008, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) was created in 2005 to help make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality.

This paper presents an overview of the Mobile Web Best Practices developed within the MWI to improve the mobile-browsing user experience on as many mobile devices as possible.

16 September
Phil Archer and Matt Womer give a state of the art report entitled "Introduction to the Protocol for Web Description Resources" at the "POWDER: More of what you want, when you want it" on Tuesday, 16 September 2008, in Yahoo!'s Mission College Campus, Santa Clara, California, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Members of the POWDER Working Group will gather at Yahoo's Mission College Campus to present its work, highlighting its benefits to end users, publishers and aggregators.
23 September
Andrew Arch and Shadi Abou-Zahra give a talk entitled "How web accessibility guidelines apply to design for the ageing population" at the "Accessible Design in the Digital World" on Tuesday, 23 September 2008, in York, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

There has been extensive development of guidelines for accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities. While these guidelines address many requirements needed by the ageing population, the relevance of these guidelines to the needs of the ageing population is not well understood by many organizations representing and/or serving the needs of the ageing community nor by technology developers. There is a need to better understand the relationship and overlap of the requirements, and to develop educational resources to help developers provide Web sites that work better for people who experience changes in abilities due to ageing.

One of the key aspects of ageing is a development of functional limitations such as declines in vision, dexterity, and hearing. Additionally, we find various declines in cognitive ability, and these may be as likely, or more likely, to affect the use of ICT and the Web than physical and sensory limitations in older adults. In addition to the diversity in functional ability of older adults, we need be aware of the diversity of attitude and aptitude, when we are discussing the use of ICT and the Web.

This paper introduces the “Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation” (WAI-AGE) project, a W3C Web Accessibility Initiative project that is funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme of the Information Society Technologies. A significant part of this work includes researching existing literature with regard to information technology access, and comparing the findings with solutions provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative.

This reflective paper will report on the findings from the literature review and the synergies with the existing WAI guidelines.

23 September
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "Standardisation vs. Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters" at the "Mobile Web Europe 2008" on Tuesday, 23 September 2008, in London, United Kingdom.
24 September
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "2nd European Semantic Technology Conference" on Wednesday, 24 September 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

October 2008

13, 14 October
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World" (see abstract) on Monday, 13 October 2008 and gives a talk entitled "Getting Real with Accesibility" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 at the "Web Builder 2.0" , Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Abstract for “Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World”:
Web 2.0, Ajax, rich Web applications, blogs, wikis --- the Web continues to develop. What are the accessibility issues in this next-generation Web? Scripting, once a no-no for accessibility, is a key aspect. Join us to get the latest on how the W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.
Abstract for “Getting Real with Accesibility”:
Accessibility isn't about checklists, it's about making your site more usable to more people in more situations. This session puts standards and guidelines in perspective, and shows you a new approach for developing effective accessibility solutions efficiently. Get hands-on screening techniques that anyone can use, and guidance on including people with disabilities in your project to learn how they really interact with your site.
17 October
Renato Iannella gives a keynote entitled "The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods" at the "6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods" on Friday, 17 October 2008, in Poznan, Poland. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The Policy-Aware Web is the promise for supporting policy management at the Web infrastructure level. A policy is any set of rules or statements that capture and express the requirements of individuals and organsaitions from a corporate, legal, best practices, and/or social perspective. Currently, policy languages exisit that cover and broadly address the privacy, access control, and obligation management areas. However, what is missing is an overall framework and architecture for these policy languages to interoperate and provide an accountable, enforceable, flexible and trusted experience for the web community. This talk will review the technology challanges that face the Policy-Aware Web, the current policy specifications and the supporting standards and the road forward towards an enhanced web architecture. The goal is to provide a balance between creators, distributors, and consumers of digital goods by providing an open and transparent framework to transact and exchange digital items over the policy-savvy web.

December 2008

5 December
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities" at the "UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity" on Friday, 5 December 2008, in Turn, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
There is significant overlap between designing websites to be usable on mobile devices and designing websites to be accessible to people with disabilities (using desktops). Understanding this overlap helps more efficiently meet both goals. This session highlights those overlaps and introduces new resources to help you address both effectively.

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