W3C

• An industry consortium works for Web technology standardization
• Specifications & guidelines for Web interoperability
• Tim Berners-Lee is the Director.

W3C Hosts

3 research institutes collaboratively run W3C

US: MIT

Europe: ERCIM

Japan: Keio Univ.

W3C/Keio

Keio Univ. Shonan-Fujisawa Campus

Graduate School building 4th floor τ45 room

• Please drop in on us :)
• Contact: keio-contact@w3.org

One Web

• Web for Everyone
• Web on Everything
• Web as Knowledge Base
• Trust and Confidence

Web tecnology for everybody

Interoperable:

Input/Output of various devices

Multilingual:

Processing variety of languages

Multi-Modal:

Combination of various UI modalities

Accessible:

Needs of various users/cases

HTML5 and the Open Web Platform

HTML5 ≒ HTML + CSS + JS APIs

• Video & Audio
• Canvas
• Drag & Drop
• Web Storage
• Web Workers
• Web Sockets

Now HTML5 is a Last Call Working Draft!

• HTML5 Last Call Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/

See also The Web platform site maintained by Mike Smith.

HTML5 Features

• Mozilla's demo on Audio Data API
• Google's demo on HTML5 in general
• attowave's Drag & Drop

Audio

Web and TV: Web for CE devices

Launched in February, 2011

Charter: http://www.w3.org/2010/09/webTVIGcharter.html

DOs:

• Provide a forum for technical disucussion on smarter integration of Web and TV
• Review existing work including the relationship between Web services and TV services
• Identify requirements and potential solutions to ensure the Web will function well with TV

DO NOTs:

• Generate specifications for Web and TV integration
• Define profiles of existing Web standards for Web and TV

Five co-Chairs from imporant stakeholders

Browser Vendor:

Giuseppe Pascale (Opera Software)

Cable:

Mark Vickers (Comcast)

Broadcasting:

Yosuke Funahashi (Tomo-Digi)

Telecommunication:

Masahito Kawamori (NTT/ITU-T)

Device Manufacturer:

Hyeonjae Lee (LG)

Three Workshops so far

Tokyo in September, 2010 Berlin in February, 2011 and Hollywood in September, 2011

Topics on how to extend existing technologies, e.g., HTML5:

• Web and CE devices (Second-Screen Scenario, DLNA, etc.)
• Adaptive Streaming
• Content Protection
• Accessibility
• Binary data
• Metadata

Various Stakeholders got involved

Broadcasters:

BBC, BSkyB, EBU, Fuji TV, KBS, NHK, Nippon TV, TBS, Tomo-Digi, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, WOWOW

Browser Vendors:

ACCESS, Apple, Google, Opera, Microsoft

Cable Operators & Video service providers:

CableLabs, Comcast, Cox Communications, Netflix, Rogers, Time Warner Cable

Content/Service/Video solution Providers:

BestBuy, Boxee, Disney, ESPN, Harmonic, HBO, MTV, NBCUniversal, NBCUDPS, NDS, Neulion, Technicolor, Warner Bros., ZiXi

Consumer Electronics Manuafacturers:

Canon, LG, Mitsubishi, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba

Mobile:

Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Sony Ericsson

Network devices:

Cisco, Ericsson,

Satellite:

Echostar

Semiconductor Manuafacturers:

Entropic Communications, MStar, Intel, STMicroelectronics, TI

Software vendors:

Adobe, Allegro Software, Oracle

Standardization bodies:

ITU-T, IPTV Forum Japan, Open IPTV Forum,

Telcos:

AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KDDI, KT, NTT, Orange, SK Telecom, Slovak Telekom, T-Systems

Other W3C activities related to device integration

• Device APIs: APIs for TV control
• Geolocation: Position detection
• HTML5: User interface for TV
• Internationalization: Global service
• Multimodal Interaction: Multimodal/Multi-device interaction
• Semantic Web: Metadata
• SVG: Vector Graphics for user interface
• SMIL/Timed Text: Synchronization of devices/contents
• Media Annotation/Media Fragment: Fragments of video contents
• Voice Browser: Speech interface
• Web Accessibility: Accessibility for Web and TV
• Web Applications: APIs for TV services

And now extending the Web to a new class of devices...

Web-based Signage

Very large digital displays like those found in New York's Times Square

Workshop on 14-15 June 2012 in Makuhari

Call for Participation:

http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp.html

Agenda:

http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/agenda.html

Working Group Lifetime

W3C Recommendation Track

Lead the Web to its full potential with us!

Participation in Interest Groups/Working Groups:

Can directly participate in the groups and provide your own idea to Web standardization

Getting details on Web standardization:

Can get undocumented/pre-released information using meetings/mailinglists

Discussion with experts:

Can have detailed discussion with experts of the specs and resove your issues much earlier

W3C Membership & Membership Fee

Membership Fee Calculator

Full Member

For-profit organization that has annual gross revenue of greater than or equal to 5,750,000,000 JPY.

Membership Fee: 7.4M JPY

Affiliate Member

All other organizations, including non-profit organizations and government agencies.

Membership Fee: 0.85M JPY

Contact us

W3C/Keio University, Keio Research Institute at SFC

5322 Endo Fuijsawa Kanagawa 252-0882, Japan

Tel: +81.466.49.1170

Fax: +81.466.49.1171

email: keio-contact@w3.org

Contacts: Isshiki, Yoshizawa, Ashimura

Thanks!