Latest Press Releases of the World Wide Web Consortium. (Usually published in English, French, and Japanese, and often translated to other languages like Spanish, German, Chinese, or Korean.) http://www.w3.org/Press/ http://www.w3.org/ — 6 October 2009 — The W3C community convenes next month in Santa Clara, California for TPAC Week 2009, this year's edition of an annual week-long opportunity for W3C group participants to share news of progress and to address hot-button technical issues face-to-face. (...) http://www.w3.org/2009/11/tpac2009-pr.html.en 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 5 October 2009 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and XBRL International, Inc. (XII) will bring together technical and financial experts at the Workshop on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October in Washington, DC to address key challenges and collaborative possibilities in reporting, transparency and access to government and corporate financial data on the Web. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will host the event. Diane Mueller, vice president of XBRL Development, JustSystems and XBRL International Board Member and Dave Raggett, W3C Fellow, are co-chairs of the Workshop. (...) http://www.w3.org/2009/09/xbrl-pressrelease 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ — 1 September 2009 — Today W3C takes steps toward building a Web of trust, and making it possible to discover relevant, quality content more efficiently. When content providers use POWDER, the Protocol for Web Description Resources, they help people with tasks such as seeking sound medical advice, looking for trustworthy retailers, or searching for content available under a particular license (for instance, a Creative Commons license). (...) http://www.w3.org/2009/09/powder-pr.html 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr.html 2009-08-18T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 15 June 2009 -- W3C technical staff and more than 30 W3C Member organizations will present at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) this week in San Jose, California. Sessions led by W3C staff and Member organizations highlight the accelerating rate of adoption and deployment of Semantic Web technologies in the past year. In particular, the talks underscore an active Linked Data community in government, healthcare, finance and other industries dedicated to the adoption of Semantic Web technologies based on W3C standards. (...) http://www.w3.org/2009/06/SemTech-pressrelease 2009-06-15T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 26 May 2009 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is proud to announce the launch of its first W3C Office in West Africa: the W3C Senegal Office will be hosted by the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), attached to the UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), in Dakar, Senegal. With this first French-speaking office, W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the French-speaking community, especially neighboring countries in Africa. The opening ceremony will be held on 27 May 2009, as part of the eLearning Africa conference program. (...) http://www.w3.org/2009/05/senegal-pressrelease.html.en 2009-05-26T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/2009/04/sml-pressrelease.html.en 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z