Codecs, Metadata, and Addressing: Video on the Web Workshop Report
2008-02-19: The report of the W3C Video on the Web Workshop
is now available. Thirty-seven
organizations discussed video and audio codecs,
spatial and temporal addressing, metadata, digital
rights management, accessibility, and other topics
related to ensuring the success of video as a "first
class citizen" of the Web. W3C thanks Cisco for
hosting the Workshop, which took place 12-13 December
2007 simultaneously in San Jose, California and
Brussels, Belgium. Read the forty-two position papers
and Workshop
minutes. W3C welcomes feedback on the Report and
the topic of video on the Web at
public-video-comments@w3.org (archive).
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W3C Offices Program: Ten Years of International Outreach
2008-02-25: Today representatives
from W3C
Offices, regional branches that promote W3C and
interact with participants in local languages,
celebrate ten years of the Offices program. Offices
currently represent 17 regions around the globe,
helping to organize meetings, recruit Members,
translate materials, and find creative ways to
encourage international participation in W3C work.
Offices staff gather for a face-to-face meeting in
Sophia-Antipolis France to review ten years of
experience and to forge improvements to the
program. At this occasion, W3C thanks the Offices staff
past and present for all of their work!
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XMLHttpRequest Level 2: Comments Welcome on First Public Working Draft
2008-02-25: The Web API Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. XMLHttpRequest Level 2 enhances XMLHttpRequest with new features, such as cross-site requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending and receiving. Learn more about the W3C Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
CSSOM View Module: Comments Welcome on First Public Working Draft
2008-02-25: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of CSSOM View Module. The APIs introduced by this specification provide authors with a way to inspect and manipulate the view information of a document. This includes getting the position of element layout boxes, obtaining the width of the viewport through script, and also scrolling an element. Learn more about the Style Activity. (Permalink)
Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development (Call for Participation)
2008-02-25: Position papers are due 20 April for the W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development on 2-3 June 2008 in São Paulo, Brazil. W3C thanks Workshop hosts NIC.br (Network Information Center), CGI.br Internet Steering Committee, and Institute CONIP. The goal of the Workshop is to understand specific challenges of using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations of Developing Countries. The Workshop scope includes: analysis of using mobile phones in development projects; strengths and weaknesses of SMS technology v. mobile Web v. voice technology; the challenges of integrating information and Communication Technologies in rural communities, and more. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
Last Call: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
2008-02-21: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML 2 Working Group have published the Last Call Working Draft of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. RDFa is a specification for attributes to be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express structured data. When publishers can express structured data, and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality becomes available, letting users transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. For example, a photo's creator, camera setting information, resolution, location and topic can be published as easily as the original photo itself, enabling structured search and sharing. With RDFa, the rendered, hypertext data of XHTML is reused, so that publishers don't need to repeat significant data in the document content. The RDFa specification explains use of the RDFa attributes with XHTML. Comments are welcome through 21 March. Learn more about XHTML and the Semantic Web Activity. (Permalink)
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer
2008-02-21: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. SKOS provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other types of controlled vocabulary. SKOS has been designed to provide a low-cost migration path for porting existing organization systems to the Semantic Web. The primer is intended to help implementors who have a basic understanding of the Semantic Web to use the capabilities defined in SKOS Reference to represent and publish their concept schemes as SKOS data. The Primer aims to provide introductory examples and guidance in the use of SKOS vocabulary features. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Permalink)
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Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Talks
- 5 March, Seoul, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Forum Standardization ActivitiesSeungyun Lee presents at Mobile Wednesday Workshop.
- 5 March, Seoul, Korea: Towards the Web of ThingsDave Raggett presents at Mobile Wednesday Workshop.
- 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic WebKarl Dubost, Ivan Herman present at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
- 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics QuicklyShawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008 Conference.
- 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER (tentative)Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at Web 2.0 Telecoms.
- 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and Multimodal ApplicationsDeborah Dahl presents at Voice Search Conference.
- 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing PopulationShadi Abou-Zahra, Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
- 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3CPhilippe Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
- 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet UsagePhilipp Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
- 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in HTMLBen Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
- 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works internationallyRichard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
- 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web (through an example…)Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
- 17 June, New York, NY, USA: (not yet determined)Tim Berners-Lee presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web of connected data.
- 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic WebIvan Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
- 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility Standards Impact User Experience DesignShawn Henry presents at Usability Professionals' Association International Conference 2008.
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