W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
2009-01-13: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected John Kemp (Nokia), Larry Masinter (Adobe), and T.V. Raman (Google) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM, appointed), Jonathan Rees (Science Commons, appointed), and Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh). The Director is expected to appoint one individual as well. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. (Permalink)
Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0
2009-01-20: The Media Annotations Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0. This document specifies use cases and requirements as an input for the development of the "Ontology for Media Object 1.0" and the "API for Media Object 1.0". The ontology will be a simple ontology to support cross-community data integration of information related to media objects on the Web. The API will provide read access and potentially write access to media objects, relying on the definitions from the ontology. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. (Permalink)
W3C Invites Implementations of CURIE Syntax 1.0
2009-01-16: The XHTML2 Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CURIE Syntax 1.0. This document defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing URIs. This syntax is intended to be used as a common element by language designers. The intended audience for this document is Language designers, not the users of those Languages. Track implementations in an ongoing implementation report and learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
Future of Social Networking Workshop Begins
2009-01-15: Today began a 2-day
Workshop on the Future of
Social Networking, organized by W3C to explore
the landscape of social networking technologies.
Participants submitted 72 position papers on
a wide range of topics regarding the growth and
future of social networking, including, but not
limited to, the mobile context. The meeting is
hosted in Barcelona, Spain by Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya and ReadyPeople. Many
thanks to the hosts and to Silver Sponsors
Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, Flock, and Peperoni for
their support. (Permalink)
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Upcoming Talks
- 29 January, Orlando, USA: Update on Accessibility Guidelines for Browsers, Media Players, Cell phones, PDAs and Other User AgentsJeanne Spellman presents at Assistive Technology Industry Association Conference 2009.
- 30 January, Orlando, USA: Web Accessibility Update 2009: WCAG 2.0, WAI-ARIA, Section 508Shawn Henry presents at Assistive Technology Industry Association .
- 31 January, Orlando, USA: Accessible Social Networking and Web 2.0 ContentJeanne Spellman presents at Assistive Technology Industry Association.
- 2 February, Denver, Colorado, USA: (TBD)Dan Connolly gives a keynote at Web Directions North.
- 4 February, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open SourceOlle Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
- 6 February, Paris, France: World Wide Web 2010Steve Bratt gives a keynote at Netexplorateur Forum 2009.
- 12 February, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs for DevelopmentJosé Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
- 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath Care and Life Sciences Interest GroupLee Feigenbaum, Susie Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
- 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools and TechniquesMichael Cooper participates in a panel at South by Southwest Conference.
- 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web Accessibility Q&A with the EditorsShawn Henry, Michael Cooper, Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference.
- 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible BrowserJeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference.
- 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and ChoreographyMohamed Zergaoui is at XML Prague 2009.
- 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent or AccessibleDominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel at European Accessibility Forum.
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