Meeting on Model-based design — 13 August 2008

On 23 July 2008, the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, hosted a one day meeting in Pisa, Italy on model-based design. The participants came from a range of organizations including Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, ISTI, JustSystems, Siemens and Telefónica de España. The meeting ended with a concensus on moving forward on preparing a draft charter for a W3C Incubator Group as a means to advise W3C on the role of model-based design for authoring Web applications. More details can be found in the minutes.

Personalization and the Delivery Context — 13 August 2008

The UWA working group has recently started work on mechanisms to support personalization of Web applications through exposing personal preferences as part of the delivery context. This will allow content developers to provide an enhanced user experience for people based upon their individual needs. This work is being led by Richard Schwerdtfeger (IBM) and Andy Heath (The Open University). A Working Group Note is planned on use cases and requirements.

Updated Working Draft for Delivery Context Ontology — 16 April 2008

The UWA Working Group published an updated Working Draft for the Delivery Context Ontology on 15 April 2008. The ontology defines a vocabulary for a wide range of primarily mobile device properties. We are now working on extending the ontology to cover user preferences and personalization, and a primer that provides an introduction to the ontology and how it relates to client and server-side APIs.

Presentation at the Internet of Things conference — 20 March 2008

Dave Raggett presents on the Web of Things on Thursday, 27th March 2008 at the Internet of Things Conference in Zurich, Switzerland.

Candidate Recommendation for DCCI — 21 December 2007

The Delivery Context Client Interfaces (DCCI) was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 21 December 2007. It provides a framework for Web pages to access static and dynamic device properties, for example, the screen size and orientation, battery level and signal strength, according to the formal model defined by the Delivery Context Ontology.

First public Working Draft for Delivery Context Ontology — 21 December 2007

The first public Working Draft for the Delivery Context Ontology was published on 21 December 2007. The ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices interact with the Web, and can be used to support adaptation at any point in the delivery chain.

Updated version of DIAL Primer — 1 November 2007

An updated version of the introduction to DIAL was published on 1 November 2007. The primer provides an introduction to DIAL (the Device Independent Authoring Language) as well as the benefits it offers for authoring Web applications for devices with widely varying capabilities. For more details, see http://www.w3.org/TR/dial-primer/.

Joint discussions on device ontologies and associated APIs — 2 October 2007

A joint meeting of the Ubiquitous Web Applications and Device Descriptions Working Groups was held on 24th September 2007 to discuss the relationship between the formal ontology and how it can be applied to specific vocabularies and exposed as an API for use by content selection/adaptation tools. More details are given in the DDWG Blog. The UWA WG plans to publish the first Working Draft for the delivery context ontology in the next few weeks.

Towards the Web of Things — 27 September 2007

Dave Raggett delivered the opening talk on "The Web of Things" at the UWE Web Developer's Conference in Bristol, UK on 26 September.

A look at the origins of the Web, how it has evolved, and the challenges in extending it to the Web of things as the number and variety of networked devices explodes. Changing the way we conceive of the Web. Why today's hacks will give way to more structured approaches to developing applications that allow developers to focus on what the application should do rather than the details of exactly how.

Dublin Workshop Report now available — 8 August 2007

The report for the W3C Workshop held in Dublin on 5-6 June 2007 on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications is now available. The report recommends that W3C create requirements for declarative modeling of Web applications, and a gap analysis that identifies where existing standards are insufficient.

Updated Working Draft for DIAL — 27 July 2007

The second public Working Draft for the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) was published on 27 July 2007. DIAL v1 is a profile of XHTML, XForms and DISelect. Authoring Web page content in DIAL frees developers from the need to deal with the myriad variations across devices. That task is devolved to content adaptation software that transforms the content and associated resources to suit particular delivery contexts. In addition, DIAL enables higher level authoring tools through the ability to capture the author's intent more effectively than is possible when authoring directly in HTML.

DCCI re-enters Last Call — 25 July 2007

Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0. The DCCI specification re-entered Last Call on 4 July 2007 following a normative change whereby the DCCI interface now inherits from DOM Element interface instead of the DOM Node interface. The Last Call review period Ends 27 July 2007.

Content Selection specs advance to Candidate Recommendation — 25 July 2007

Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0 and Delivery Context: XPath Access Functions 1.0 are now W3C Candidate Recommendations. The two specifications provide a mechanism for selecting XML content according to the delivery context and are used as part of the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL).

Dublin Workshop minutes and presentations now available — 15 June 2007

The program, minutes and presentations for the 5-6 June 2007 W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications are now available. A Workshop Report is in preparation. See also the associated W3C news item and press release.

Ubiquitous Web Track at XTech 2007 in Paris — 16 May 2007

As the web reaches further into our lives, we will consider the increasing ubiquity of connectivity, what it means for real world objects to connect to the web, and the increasing blurring of the lines between virtual worlds and our own.

15th May 2007, Paris. Dave Raggett chairs Ubiquitous Web day at XTech 2007 and presents on W3C's Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

CC/PP 2.0 moves to Last Call — 2 May 2007

Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0 was published as a Last Call Working Draft on 2 May 2007. CC/PP 2.0 is aligned with the latest version of RDF and OMA UAProf2 specifications. You are invited to send comments, preferably before 15 June 2007, see the status of this document for details on how to do so.

UWA at XTech 2007 — 2 April 2007

The theme for this year’s XTech conference is "The Ubiquitous Web". Conference organizer Edd Dumbill writes "As the web reaches further into our lives, we will consider the increasing ubiquity of connectivity, what it means for real world objects to connect to the web, and the increasing blurring of the lines between virtual worlds and our own." UWA WG Chair, Dave Raggett will describe W3C work in this area, and you may also be interested in the Geo-location BoF organized by W3C's Mike Smith. XTech is being held 15-18 May 2007, Paris, France.

Call for Papers — 2 April 2007

The W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications will take place in Dublin, Ireland on 5-6 June 2007. The Workshop will cover user interaction in multi-device applications from an end-to-end perspective. This is an opportunity to influence future W3C work through discussions on user interface and application modeling, security and usability, and richer access to device capabilities. Participation is free and open to anyone subject to acceptance of your position paper by the programme committee. The deadline for submitting position papers is 24 April 2007.

UWA WG takes over from DI WG — 2 April 2007

The Call for Participation for the Ubiquitous Web Application (UWA) Working Group was issued on 30 March 2007. The first face to face meeting is planned for 7-8 June in Dublin, Ireland and hosted by MobileAware. The UWA working group will continue with the work items from the former Device Independence activity, including DIAL, CC/PP and DCI, as well as starting new work on distributed applications of ubiquitous devices.