This is the list of past Community and Business Groups.
This is the list of past Community and Business Groups.
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Group closed 2023-12-06
Our mission is to build and share 3D software that can connect and communicate in free and open ways on AR, VR, and 2D displays.Improving the accessibility features of browsers, other user agents, and operating systems makes every app and web site they render more accessible to people with disabilities. The Accessibility Features Community Group (AFCG) promotes the development of these accessibility features.
People with disabilities will find similar features across browsers and operating systems that also work consistently for all provided content. For content creators, reliable built-in features will help to focus their accessibility efforts on addressing challenges unique to their content. These accessibility features can come in a variety of forms, such as:
To promote the development of new accessibility features, AFCG will develop a list of recommended accessibility features. This list will include accessibility features already available, but also ideas for new accessibility features that can be shown to work through prototypes. To encourage the implementation of recommended accessibility features, AFCG will track which of these are supported in common browsers and operating systems.
The Accessibility Features Community Group will not develop any normative specification. As such, there will not be any Essential Claims under the W3C Contributor License Agreement or Final Specification Agreement.
Group closed 2023-12-06
Accessibility is often provided through accommodations. Schools are legally obligated to provide accommodations to enrolled students with identified disabilities, based on their needs—sign language interpreters in lectures for deaf students, digital copies of textbooks for students who are blind or have reading difficulties, extended time on exams for students who need more time due to cognitive or physical disabilities.
With online learning, the obligations are less clear—for example, with MOOCs, where students around the world are taking courses but are not enrolled at the sponsoring school or organization. Also, accommodations are not well established—sign language interpreters and note takers are typically accommodations for the physical classroom. How does an organization ensure they are meeting obligations and giving online students the support they need participate fully and to be successful?
Providers of online learning are best off delivering courses that are accessible out-of-the-box, without the need for special accommodations. And many of the features that provide an accessible experience for people with disabilities benefit all learners. For example, lecture transcripts are an excellent tool for study and review. However, without deliberate attention to the technologies, standards, and guidelines that comprise the Web Platform, accessibility may be difficult to achieve, and learners with disabilities may be left behind.
The activities of the Accessible Online Learning W3C Community Group take place at the intersection of accessibility and online learning. We focus on reviewing current W3C resources and technologies to ensure the requirements for accessible online learning experiences are considered. We also identify areas where additional resources and technologies are needed to ensure full participation of people with disabilities in online learning experiences.
This group will not publish Specifications.
closed on 2019-03-13 - see also the ActivityPub W3C Recommendation and the Social Web Incubator Community Group.
A group to develop a social web API standard based on Atom Publication Protocol and ActivityStreams.closed on 2019-08-13
Representatives from various publishers and advertising technology firms in ad operations roles discuss W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group's draft papers on Tracking Preference Expression and Tracking Compliance and Scope, and possibly propose alterations and amendments.Group closed 2023-12-06
The Argumentation Community Group will facilitate and promote the use of the Web for all forms of argumentation. The group will discuss and design both argumentation representation formats and systems.Group closed 2023-12-06
Develop a standard for exchanging type-safe data on the web. https://docs.atomicdata.devThe W3C Augmented Reality Community Group is an open forum for collaborative discussions about the intersection of Augmented Reality and the Web, or more simply the Augmented Web. This forum welcomes discussions about related standards, the standardisation process, related market developments and the broader social implications of this new generation of the web.
We believe that the Augmented Web brings a unique perspective that pushes standards, APIs, hardware technologies and the broader web platform to the edge of their performance limits. The Augmented Web embraces the changes brought about by HTML5 and other related standards including Geolocation, DeviceOrientation, DeviceMotion, WebGL, Web Audio, Media Capture & Streams and WebRTC. The Augmented Web integrates all of these disparate technologies into an integrated new vision of the web.
This group will not produce specifications.
Instead it aims to build an integrated community voice that reaches out to all of the other relevant working groups and standards bodies to ensure that the Augmented Web perspective is clearly represented and considered. Our goal is to help ensure that the disparate standards and APIs being planned and implemented by these other groups can be seamlessly integrated into this new vision for the Augmented Web.
Read more about goals and operating guidelines in the Charter: http://www.w3.org/community/ar/wiki/Charter
Group closed 2023-12-07
This group will discuss and advance automated planning and scheduling technologies, in particular planning domain definition languages. Using such languages, developers can define planning domains, these including types, predicates, actions, constraints, and preferences, and can define planning problems. Web technologies can be of use for designing new such languages, e.g., XML, JSON, Semantic Web technologies, and JavaScript. This group will develop a specification for a new planning domain definition language.This group has been replaced by the ACT Rules Community Group - it was closed on March 2, 2020.
Creating (semi-)automated tests for WCAG is key to affordable, large scale research. The tests are designed in a way that they are useable by people with a variety of skills. The results too should be informative, not just to developers, but to website managers, policy makers and disability advocates and others. The objective of this community is to create and maintain tests that can be implemented in large scale monitoring tools for web accessibility. These tests will be either automated, or semi-automated, in which tools assist non-expert users to evaluate web accessibility. By comparing the test results with results from expert accessibility evaluators, we aim to track the accuracy of the tests we've developed. This allows for an iterative improvement and adjustment of the tests as web development practices change and evolve. It also provides the statistical bases on which large scale accessibility monitoring and benchmarking can be built. This group will not publish specifications.This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials and is led by the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety (I.N.RA.S.T.E.S.) at NCSR Demokritos.
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies and is lead by CESSDA.
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine research and the bioeconomy and is led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the Health, demographic change and wellbeing challenge and is lead by the Open Phacts Foundation.
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens, and is lead by the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen).
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to secure, clean and efficient energy and is led by the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES).
This group will not publish specifications.
This group closed in April 2016; work has moved to the Big Data Europe Community Group.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to smart, green and integrated transport and is led by the ERTICO.
This group will not publish specifications.
closed on 2019-08-13
The bible - both as a literary work and as a religious work - has a very typical structure that doesn't always align with regular book structures. The intention of the group is to create a microdata format to allow to specify biblical passages, including perikopes built up from books, chapters, verses and occasionally subverses. There are also different possible translations of the bible.Group closed 2023-12-07
The mission of the the Blockchain Community Group is to generate message format standards of Blockchain based on ISO20022 and to generate guidelines for usage of storage including torrent, public blockchain, private blockchain, side chain and CDN. This group will study and evaluate new technologies related to blockchain, and use cases such as interbank communications.Group closed 2023-12-07
This Community Group will develop the Design Tokens Architecture: A methodology to collect, store and distribute design tokens systematically at scale, from simple, single brands, to widely complex, multi-brand organizations. This group will also produce the Design Tokens Architecture Specification to define taxonomy conventions for design tokens and design token systems. The Design Tokens Architecture Specification will also aim to extend the scope of design tokens from design-specific attributes to textual elements, utilities, code snippets, functions, and assets. And offer broader cross-platform applicability and reliability and cross-team understandability due to the addition of token clusters, token tiers, token categories, and token types.This community group will discuss the applications of web browsers as the computer for controlling robots (robotics, in other words). And it will be also intended to feedback knowledge obtained from this discussion to standardization activity about Web of Things.
What kinds of values are contained in using a Web browser not only in drawing graphical user interface but also in controlling and manipulating robots, and what kinds of difficulties and problems are there in that case? To search their answers may become the driving force of this activity.
As an example, there may be the following questions in the discussion:
An initial related activity is the Mozilla Factory Open Hardware Project.
Furthermore, this group may publish specifications based on those knowledge such as webGPIO, webI2C API and so on.
The mission of this group is to establish a standard for creating a universally verifiable proof of any data, file, or series of events, by anchoring data to the blockchain and other sources. This allows anyone to prove the data existed at a point in time and has not been modified.
The group will publish and formalize the Chainpoint specification as a stable reference, maintain a test suite, and take feedback and use cases for the future evolution for the specification.
The Chainpoint Community Group will coordinate with the Blockchain Community Group for general standardization of blockchain-related technology, and will operate according to the Chainpoint CG charter. You can read more about Chainpoint, its history, and goals, on our recent blog post announcing Chainpoint 2.0.
This group invites participants who are actively developing and deploying proof-of-existence, timestamping, and data integrity solutions, who are skilled in blockchain technologies, and who can work on use cases for Chainpoint and related technologies.
Note: The original name for this group was the Ad Blocker Community Group.
Group closed 2023-12-07
The mission of the Conversational Interfaces Community Group is to enable web developers to collaborate and share conversational experiences for a variety of domains. Most dialogue systems serve interactive experiences in their own domain specific language, causing a fragmented zoo of proprietary formats. For example, Google Home or Alexa do not share a common intermediate representation, which makes writing wide-spread content inaccessible to the mass audience. We study existing specs and design standards to harness proven techniques into common agreement. See the the Community Group's charter.Group closed 2023-12-12
We are a community of users of CSS print, working together to gather use cases, help with specifications, and advocate for more and better implementations.The purpose of the CV 2.0 - Global Resume group is to move the current textual data and partly chaotic graphical resumes to a well-structured and accessible CV 2.0 that supports applicants as well as recruiters.
The group will publish and update:
See the charter for more detailed information.
Group closed 2023-12-07
Move the current textual and graphical resume to a structured, accessible, privacy-respecting resume format that benefits both applicants and recruiters while giving applicants ultimate control of their data.Group closed 2023-12-07
The mission of this group is to provide a unified data model for data visualization, data visualization API, core model of data visualization methods and category, and domain specific data visualization methods (e.g. scientific data visualization), and further, data interactive analysis method.탈중앙 신원 대한민국 커뮤니티 그룹의 임무는 다음과 같습니다.
Group closed 2023-12-11
The goal is to work on interoperable sharing between decentralized platforms. The idea is not to design the perfect protocol but find a consensus that would lead to an interoperable data exchange with sync capabilities, access control, discovery, etc.Group closed 2023-12-11
The mission of this group is to write the specification of a set of HTML declarative extensions that allow :
This group will produce reports after discussions, specification(s), and maybe a javascript experimental implementation. One or more of this skills and expertise are desired from participants : HTML, XML, Javascript, and an attention to the importance of the javascript unobstrusive recommendation (declarative HTML should be full functionnal , security reasons, stability...).
This group may publish Specifications.
Group closed 2023-12-11
The mission of Digital Asset Management Business Ontology Community Group is to propose, discuss, create and maintain extensions to schema.org related to the Digital Asset Management Industry.The primary mission of the community group is to bring together (top companies, universities, and teams involved in digital finance technology in various industries) and frontier technology in digital finance to push forward the development to digital asset standardization.
What is a digital asset? A digital asset is data with unique identity attributes that are binary coded, owned, or controlled by a company or individual. The data has various manifestations, including text content, images, multimedia, Computer programs, etc. Generally speaking, digital assets include websites and their content, domain names, application software, codes, electronic documents, image content, media content, electronic money, emails, game accounts, other accounts & their content, social network accounts & their relationships and cloud service accounts & their data, etc.
The digital asset on the blockchain owns all the general attributes of digital assets above, it also has other characteristics: the computer programs registered on blockchain ledger or distributed ledger, as well as the virtual assets existed in the form of bit structure, can be programmed. The exchange of assets is essentially the exchange of code. The digital assets on the blockchain can achieve complete disintermediation of autonomous and autonomous point-to-point transactions without the need for third-party manual intervention. Once the asset is issued on the blockchain, the subsequent circulation link can be independent of the issuer’s system. As the asset circulation is changed from single-center control to socialized communication, any channel with resources can become a catalyst for asset circulation, which greatly improve the efficiency of digital asset circulation, and truly achieve the effect of "multi-party issuance and free circulation."
To welcome the era of asset digitization, the group is formed to technically communicate and cooperate with other members, and to develop a broader market together. The problems that we are trying to solve in this group are:
The group aims to support pioneer companies that explore digital assets, encourage communication and cooperation. We are expecting deliverables such as published reports and a service platform on this basis.
closed on 2019-08-13 - see the Credentials Community Group instead.
The mission of the Digital Verification Community Group is to study, design, promote, and deploy systems that increase trust on the Web. These systems include, but are not limited to signature systems, data normalization algorithms, and computational proof systems.Group closed 2018-08-24. This group has completed its work. People interested in this topic should join the Distributed Tracing Working Group (see the list of W3C groups).
The mission of this group was to define the standard for distributed trace context propagation. Distributed trace context is used to enable monitoring and diagnostics scenarios in micro-services environment. It consists of request identifiers and key properties that needs to be propagated from one micro-service to another. These identifiers and properties are used to analyze an end-to-end distributed traces.
The group primary objective was to publish a specification for the protocols to use for distributed trace context propagation. Protocol includes wire format and recommended scenarios to use these protocols in applications, web servers, libraries, and platforms. The group also targetted to produce reference implementation for some languages.
Standardized and universally used trace context propagation protocols enable monitoring and diagnostics scenarios that are hard to achieve otherwise. Authors of libraries, web servers, and application performance management (APM) vendors interested to improve micro-services monitoring and diagnostics story were encouraged to participate in this group.
Group closed 2023-12-11
Currently Experience API (xAPI) mostly focuses on providing “structural” interoperability via JavaScript Object Notation Language (JSON). Structural interoperability defines the syntax of the data exchange and ensures the data exchanged between systems can be interpreted at the data field level. In comparison, semantic interoperability leverages the structural interoperability of the data exchange, but provides a vocabulary so other systems and consumers can also interpret the data. Analytics produced by xAPI statements would benefit from more consistent and semantic approaches to describing domain-specific verbs. The xAPI specification recommends implementers to adopt community-defined vocabularies, but the only current guidance is to provide very basic, human-readable identifier metadata (e.g., literal string name(display), description). The main objective of the Vocabulary and Semantic Interoperability Working Group (WG) is to research machine-readable, semantic technologies (e.g., RDF, JSON-LD) in order to produce guidance for Communities of Practice (CoPs) on creating, publishing, or managing controlled vocabulary datasets (e.g., verbs).Decentralized e-commerce and storefront apps will more easily share and syndicate their products rather than relying on single and proprietary APIs from hosts to operate a storefront. By structuring portable commerce data stores, protocols, and semantics, this group seeks to enable marketplaces to be built more eaily and made more easily discoverable.
This group's efforts will complement existing activities such as Web Payments, Linked Data, and DID, to deliver a search, browse, configure, checkout, and payment workflow for physical and digital products with mostly existing web technologies.
At a higher-level, it would be potentially beneficial to include support for an aggregate query language, (such as SPARQL) to enable applications to query a known network of compatible applications for product information to better support web resource-to-web resource indexing and listing of products, increasing visibility without the need for central search engines. This would potentially utilize HTTP methods to register product catalogs in other web apps or request product catalogs from other web apps, enabling products to be purchased outside of the scope of the original commerce site, creating an aggregate marketing power across the web rather than depending on singular, monolithic e-commerce platforms.
closed on 2019-03-13 - see also the Social Web Incubator Community Group.
This group continues the work of the W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/)Group closed 2023-12-11
Each project has a timesheet system to track billable hours. Workers often spend time manually filling in this data multiple times. Instead, we’ll make time tracker apps (locally or on a self-hosted server) expose machine-readable timesheet data through a query endpoint (reader pull) or through a webhook (writer push). Timesheet data is relatively simple in terms of data format, data replication only flows in one direction, and there are not too many identities involved in the authentication / authorization of the data source connections. This simplicity makes the “Federated Timesheets” project an ideal case study for Federated Bookkeeping in general. We want to show case how our vision of Federated Bookkeeping can make internet users “connected but sovereign”.Group closed 2023-10-16
The Font and Text Community Group gathers individuals and organizations interested in discussing and developing specifications and implementations for technologies which operate on and at the interface between text encoding and font formats. Examples of such technologies are shaping engines and text layout applications.closed on 2019-08-13 - see also the W3C CSS Working Group Geometry API.
This group is to explore options and features around a native geometry API for operations on points, vectors, matrices, and so forth. Some features would include finding intersection points, centroids, shape area, and other common use cases, as well as specialized case for mapping.We invite you to visit the main site for this Community Group (<https://w3c.github.io/mathonwebpages/>)
There are many technical issues in presenting mathematics in today's Open Web Platform, which has led to the poor access to Mathematics in Web Pages. This is in spite of the existing de jure or de facto standards for authoring mathematics, like MathML, LaTeX, or asciimath, which have been around for a very long time and are widely used by the mathematical and technical communities.
While MathML was supposed to solve the problem of rendering mathematics on the web it lacks in both implementations and general interest from browser vendors. However, in the past decade, many math rendering tools have been pushing math on the web forward using HTML/CSS and SVG.
One of the identified issues is that, while browser manufacturers have continually improved and extended their HTML and CSS layout engines, the approaches to render mathematics have not been able to align with these improvements. In fact, the current approaches to math layout could be considered to be largely disjoint from the other technologies of OWP. Another key issue, is that exposing (and thus leveraging) semantic information of mathematical and scientific content on the web needs to move towards modern practices and standards instead of being limited to a single solution (MathML). Such information is critical for accessibility, machine-readability, and re-use of mathematical content.
This Community Group intends to look at the problems of math on the web in a very bottom-up manner. Experts in this group should identify how the core OWP layout engines, centered around HTML, SVG, and CSS, can be re-used for the purpose of mathematical layout by mapping mathematical entities on top of these, thereby ensuring a much more efficient result, and making use of current and future OWP optimization possibilities. Similarly, experts should work to identify best practices for semantics from the point of view of today's successful solutions.
This work should also reveal where the shortcomings are, from the mathematical layout point of view, in the details of these OWP technologies, and propose improvements and possible additions to these, with the ultimate goal of reaching out to the responsible W3C Working Groups to make these changes. This work may also reveal new technology areas that should be specified and standardized on their own right, for example in the area of Web Accessibility.
The ultimate goal is to pave the way for a standard, highly optimized implementation architecture, on top of which mathematical syntaxes, like LaTeX or MathML, may be mapped to provide an efficient display of mathematical formulae. Note that, although this community group will concentrate on mathematics, many other areas, e.g., science and engineering, will benefit from (and factor into) the approach and from the core architecture.
This mission of this group is to help re-establish platform interoperability between descendants of the original "High Fidelity Virtual Reality Platform" (HFVRP) open source project.
The group will initially host discussions and coordinate volunteer research efforts in order to identify relevant areas of common ground across HFVRP projects.
For example, it was once possible to use the "interface" client from one platform to connect to a "domain server" hosted on a similar, but different platform. As these projects have continued to evolve, the once-shared protocol version (for example) between them has fallen out of sync, inadvertently breaking the possibility of cross-connections.
By gathering together common interest across multiple projects, this group hopes to then help collectively estimate efforts and help champion neutral sub-projects that can restore specific compatibilities.
It is suggested that neutral community sub-projects emerging from this group adopt the permissive Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) open source license. LGPL currently seems to align best with the mission at hand and for these reasons:
This effort will hopefully span across diverse project politics, technical minds, and social circles which can come together and approach compatibility as a shared effort.
All platforms forked from the original HFVRP code base are welcome to join forces this way and in particular contributing developers, community members, and any others interested in helping broaden platform interoperability.
Some of the low-level technology skills likely needed to restore interoperability are:
We think it will be easiest for volunteers in cases where interested projects have remained open source, but all HFVRP projects (including closed source ones) are welcome to join and suggest specific layers or features they would nonetheless be interested in seeing reemerged as a common open source dependency.
This group will not publish Specifications.
The mission of the HTML5 Korean Community Group includes the following:
This Community Group is the successor of the HTML5 Korean Interest Group. This group will not publish Specifications.
Group closed 2023-12-11
A group addresses and discusses proposed ideas for HTML5 specifications.This group closed on 2021-05-26.
May 2021: Please, join the Positive Work Environment Community Group with which the W3C Inclusion and Diversity Community Group (ID CG) has merged.
The mission of the group was to increase the presence of under-represented groups at W3C, and strengthen W3C culture by supporting diversity. To serve this mission, the CG determinded to:
Following on the W3C Inclusive Design for the Immersive Web standards Workshop held in November 2019, the Inclusive Immersive Web Community Group tracks and promotes progress on accessibility issues identified across the many relevant W3C and Khronos groups working on aspects of XR (virtual reality and augmented reality), and ensures progress towards a consistent set of guidance, technologies and techniques to make the Immersive Web accessible to people with disabilities.
The group also acts as a liaison with the XR Access Initiative and its relevant sub-groups.
Work Mode: The primary work modes for the group will be to track and respond to accessibility issues logged in the group's repo. The group will endeavor to have a representative from each of the groups identified as relevant to the progress of the said issues and will meet a minimum of quarterly to review progress on all issues including those which have been logged but have not been actively taken up in order to ensure that there is a coordinated view of issues raised.
The Interactive Media Community Group is interested in all forms of interactive media, e.g., interactive storytelling, digital gamebooks, motion comics, visual novels, interactive films, hypervideo, and serious games.
This Group considers and discusses how standardization can support all forms of interactive media. This Group may work on a number of deliverables, reports, and specifications.
closed on 2019-08-13
Modern Kendo Equipment has been produced based on various standards by machines or craftsmen. In the era of Internet of Things, we think International specifications of Kendo Equipment can be organized and controlled by Web technology with security and safety for usage as well as with respect to the original.closed on 2019-08-13
This group is for the discussion of assigning an IPv6 address for every person on Earth, so everyone has a digital identity. Each individual could use this to proxy or alias other identifiers, permanent or temporary, over different spans of their lifetime. Thus, a person they can manage their domain names, physical or email addresses, phone numbers, WebRTC address, and other contact info as they wish, flexibly maintaining an identity in a decentralized way not controlled by third-party commercial interests or even governments. This system could also be used for organizations, businesses, animals, or any other entity that needs an identity. This group may produce specifications.The mission of this group is to help legal regulators understand and apply Internet and Web architectural principles -- like privacy, security, internationalisation, and accessibility -- when requiring 'big tech' companies to implement technical specifications.
See the CG GitHub page for more information, including a full charter.
This group does not publish Specifications.
Exploring effective architectural and best practices support for publishing content on, and author content for the web effectively expressing knowledge domain specific content according to standard practices in that knowledge domain discipline. By knowledge domain we mean such human disciplines as mathematics, physics, chemistry and other STEM disciplines. We also include disciplines such as music, economics, history and linguistics. We are particularly interested in disciplines that convey knowledge using discipline specific symbology which cannot currently gain effective communication through HTML. We further include domain specific markup systems as well as graphical representation such as SVG rendering.
This group may publish Specifications.
Group closed 2023-10-16
LDP Next aims to continue the work started by the LDP Working Group. LDP Next hopes to address the following topics that were not covered by LDP 1.0: (1) extensibility and discovery — allow clients to easily discover server affordances; (2) inlining on GET and POST — allow clients to request and create multiple resource with a single HTTP request; (3) query / search over LDPCs and LDPRs; (4) access control — provide a mechanism to control access to Linked Data Platform Resources.closed on 2019-08-13
Group to discuss how to handle licensed content that is published on the web. Propose an efficient way forward for all stakeholders. Content involved: - (stock) photos - song lyrics - video Currently majority of enforcement relies on identifying unlicensed content, contact publisher or hoster, followed up by DMCA's or proof of ownership/licensing.Group closed on 2016-04-29.
This group will specify a Query Language for the Linked Data Platform 1.0.
eLDQL will make it possible to query LDP Containers to retrieve their members. It will feature simple/limited filtering capabilities, ordering, aggregation, built-in paging, and resource inlining.
Group closed 2023-12-11
This group represents a collaborative, community effort with a mission to develop, maintain, and promote standard schemas for data mining and machine learning algorithms, datasets, and experiments. Our target is a community agreed schema as a basis for ontology development projects, markup languages and data exchange standards; and an extension model for the schema in the area of data mining and machine learning. The goals of this group are: To define a simple shared schema of data mining/ machine learning (DM/ML) algorithms, datasets, and experiments that may be used in many different formats: XML, RDF, OWL, spreadsheet tables. Collect use cases from the academic community and industry Use this schema as a basis to align existing DM/ML ontologies and develop more specific ontologies with specific purposes/applications Prevent a proliferation of incompatible DM/ML ontologies Turn machine learning algorithms and results into linked open data Promote the use of this schema, including involving stakeholders like ML tool developers Apply for funding (e.g. EU COST, UK Research Councils, Horizon2020 Coordination and Support Actions) to organize workshops, and for disseminationClosed on 2019-08-13 - see the CommonMark instead.
The mission of this group is to specify a syntax and provide tests for Markdown. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.htmlclosed on 2019-08-13
This group's aim is to discuss and agree on the use of a custom protocol handler (math:) and standard parameters for enabling the export of mathematical expressions in MathML to other applications, such as assistive technologies, graphing calculators, math notebooks and other mathematics oriented applications, such as IPython and MATLAB. For more information, see https://wiki.benetech.org/display/MATH/Protocol+Handlers+for+External+Applications+to+Process+MathMLGroup closed 2023-12-11
MathML first became a W3C recommendation in 1998. It has wide support in the publishing industry and with assistive technology. MathML has had several updates, but is showing its age and needs to be updated. This group will focus on changes to the MathML 3 recommendation so that it better aligns with the current web environment, eases the burden on browser implementations, and increases support for assistive technology. The group will propose a new revision for MathML, potentially with profiles for browsers, publishers, and other subgroups such as authors or online tests. The group will also develop tests so that authors/publishers can be confident that what they see as an author is what the user will see as a reader when the same font is used. Participation is encouraged if you are in involved in publishing, authoring, or rendering math. The group strongly encourages the participation of those involved with browser implementations, recommendations, and APIs that potentially affect the rendering of math.The mission of the Merchant Community Group (“Merchant CG”) is to improve the Web for people and organisations that sell goods or services, or accept donations online. This includes both business-to-business (B2B) merchants, business-to-consumer (B2C) merchants as well as not-for-profit donation acceptors. In this non-technical forum, participants will discuss merchant challenges, how emerging Web technologies could help address them, and what additional Web capabilities may be necessary. Likely topics include:
Participants will choose and prioritize discussion topics.
Activities in Scope
Activities out of Scope
Group closed on 2016-04-29.
The aim of this group is preparation for a future web standard for worldwide valid searchable metric spaces, so that these spaces can be defined by all domain name owners to all interesting topics.
Group closed 2023-12-11
The Mixed Reality Service Community Group will work to define an open protocol that provides a mapping between geospatial or virtual coordinates and URIs. Mixed Reality Service has numerous applications in areas as varied as gaming, autonomous vehicles, health & safety, and affordances for the disabled. More details can be found at mixedrealitysystem.org This group will expand upon the work presented at WWW1, and re-introduced in a lightning talk at the initial WebVR meeting in October 2016.Group closed 2016-09-14.
The MULTI-POS CG will provide use cases, requirements, and other information, to ensure that the state of the art research is recognized in the development of global standards. The MULTI-POS CG bridges the W3C community and the MULTI-POS Marie Curie Initial Training Network.
The MULTI-POS CG has the following goals: 1) Identify business and technology application scenarios based on the new positioning methods; 2) Specify the key technological, scientific, and industrial elements and their relationships in the new positioning ecosystem; and 3) Identify standardization opportunities.
The first concrete work item is a review of the current state of the art, providing a common framework of reference for future work.
What is the benefit (for you): Meet the professionals, get the big picture, have influence on use cases and requirements, get cited.
Group closed 2023-12-11
The mission of the Multicast web community group is to enable multicast IP transport for web traffic to efficiently solve scalability problems in networking and web operations. Please see the charter for details.closed on 2019-08-19
The Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data Community Group aims at analyzing, modelling, unifying and enhancing natural language interfaces for the Web of Data. The core goal is to improve the reusability of systems and to increase their quality and performance. The group will develop diverse modules as well as an unified data vocabulary and ontology to foster a growing interface landscape. This includes question answering, information retrieval, keyword search, answer verbalisation and so on. Furthermore, the Natural-Language Interfaces for the Web of Data CG will incubate a wide and collaborative environment for researchers, industrials and practitioners. We hope, that research as well as industry projects will support and benefit of this community group’s activity.closed on 2019-08-13
Currently a file URL (file:///) is the defined way to access a local file in a browser. For various reasons (some outdated) this is not a preferred mechanism. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to create an alternative, but these were focused on application-type functionality and not content.
For content originally created in HTML, it makes the most sense to offer a mechanism to store the file locally in the same format. While, if this is desired, that process is the responsibility of the site, the browser functionality for it must be a recognized standard.
This initiative is focused on creating an offline url standard to access HTML files and containers stored locally in a compressed format, but otherwise behave as close to possible as an online site accessed via http.
The charter for this group is currently under development on GitHub. If you are interested please follow and contribute there.
This group closed on 2017-03-16.
Although the World Wide Web (WWW) is an open and free information system, participation in the member-based World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) typically requires paying a membership fee to participate in the Consortium's standards setting groups. As such, the W3C is often criticized as a closed organization by those that are not members of the Consortium. This group aspires to help provide non Members with simple mechanisms to provide feedback to the Consortium (the Consortium's Members and the Consortium's Staff) on topics such as (but not limited to): areas where new Web standards are needed (e.g. to help address some interoperability pain point), Consortium priorities, the evolution of the Web, aligning Consortium's activities with the Web, collaboration with other organizations, etc. Anyone - including non-Members - is welcome and encouraged to join this group. Participants include technical contributors to Web standards, Web standards Editors and group Chairs. The group also includes participants from the Consortium's "Advisory Committee" and at least one member of the Consortium's elected Advisory Board. Additionally, the group welcomes members of the Consortium's staff. If someone wants to communicate with this group but does not want to formally join it, that's OK; just send an email to the group's mail list: public-openw3c@w3.org (see for the list archive and RSS feed information). This group will not publish specifications.
Group closed 2023-12-12
Our mission is to develop a universal RDF vocabulary to enhance open educational resources throughout the internet.closed on 2019-08-13
The aim of this group is to explore and develop a set of specifications for Organisational Profile Documents (OPDs). In particular we are interested in the usefulness of a machine readable OPD for the automatic discovery of resources in UK higher education institutions. Possible outcomes of the project would be: · Produce a specification for OPD · Create the documentation/supporting materials for OPDs · Promote the OPD to new organisations There is some support/resource from a UKHE funded project, data.ac.uk, more information on OPDs http://opd.data.ac.ukClosed on 2019-08-13 - see the Social Web Incubator Community Group instead.
OStatus is a suite of protocols that lets people on different social networks interact. This group will develop the next version of the protocol.Group closed 2023-10-11
Many philosophical issues have arisen in the technical design of Web standards over the years. Philosophical conundrums sometimes seem out of context in the light of seemingly more pressing technical problems. Yet, the very fact that these philosophical problems are constantly raised indicates that they are not easily dispensed with, but should instead be the focus of serious and ongoing long-term discussions. This is why this CG aims at undertaking such discussions, even outsourcing them to alleviate the task of other groups. To clarify the goal of this CG: it should not be a place to do unconstrained philosophical research but rather a forum to examine issues arising from the W3C technical community. Open discussion and precise descriptions of the minutiae of the Web will help guide the work in the CG, which should output short guides on precise topics to help case progress and discussions in other groups. The PhiloWeb Community group aims to undertake such discussions by bringing together experts from the web and the philosophical community to help the task of "philosophical engineering", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee.closed on 2019-08-13
The goal of this group is to provide a process ontology that can be used for workflow logging applications as well as for workflow execution applications. Operational semantics will be defined outside of the OWL ontology language, while the ontological commitment aims to be aligned with other W3C ontologies such as the PROV and Time Ontology. A mapping from/to established workflow languages/models such as BPMN is intended.closed on 2019-08-13
The Public Alert CG aims to establish specifications for a regional or global network that can send urgent information to any connected device. PALCG will improve upon US's WEA and intends to implement a similar system globally.closed on 2019-08-13 - see also the WebSub W3C Recommendation and the Social Web Incubator Community Group.
The group will promote and design a Publish-Subscribe pattern and protocol for the web. The current de-facto protocol for it, PubSubHubbub is already widely used but has a couple issues that we need to address. We hope this protocol can be used in wide range of applications, from social web, to e-commerce or even search engines.Group closed 2023-12-12
The activity of this group is to apply Web standards to trusted read and write operations.Group closed 2023-12-11
The Real Time Interaction Ecosystem Community Group provides a forum for global community to discuss, incubate and propose Real Time Interaction related use cases and proposals with the goal to bring more interoperability and robustness to Real Time Interaction ecosystem on the Web.closed on 2019-08-13 - see the Web Screens Community Group and the Second Screen Working Group instead.
Similarly to how the Shadow DOM paved the way for custom elements using web technologies, a "Remote DOM" could allow display of portions of the web app to be displayed on "remote" (i.e. "external") devices, such as screens, Smart TVs, etc. This brings interesting capabilities to web apps, such as leveraging external screens for presentation, supplemental content or second screen experiences.Group closed 2023-12-12
Research investigations are increasingly collaborative and require ‘‘borrowing strength’’ from the outputs of other research. Conventional digital publications are becoming less sufficient for the scientists to access, share, communicate, and enable the reuse of scientific outputs. The need to have a community-wide container data model to encapsulate the actual research data and methods with all the contextual information essential for interpreting and reusing them is becoming more and more imperative, for the science, publisher, as well as digital library communities. A number of different community groups and projects are now creating some form of container, bundling or aggregation mechanism (particularly using ORE OAI), partially driven by the above goal. There is a clear need and benefit to facilitate a consensus among these representations. In the ROSC community group we aim to provide an open platform for gathering and discussing current development of various container models and their implementations. These data models should be driven by the need of facilitating the reuse and exchange of the actual digital knowledge and the inspection of the reproducibility of scientific investigation results. They should consider not only the data used, methods employed to produce and analyse that data, but also the people involved in the investigation and annotations about these resources, which are essential to the understanding and interpretation of the scientific outcomes. As outcomes from the community group we aim to facilitate the establishment of a community data model and a set of community agreements that can effectively assist the establishment of a new form of scholarly communication, that is a prominent issue of today. This group will not publish specifications.closed on 2019-08-13
This group is emerging from a breakout session at an indiewebcamp on 3 December 2015. Short description for now: some people/organizations want to host other people's data without infringing on their privacy or freedom, and they want to set a clear bar for this kind of TOS.closed on 2019-08-13
Define a binary protocol that supports streams and channels with application-level message-oriented credit-based flow control and can be used over multiple transports. The specification should allow implementations in multiple languages with a Technical Compliance Kit (TCK) asserting compliance. It should allow layering at a minimum on top of HTTP/2, QUIC, and TCP as transports.The mission of the Schema Generator Community Group is to improve the availability, discovery and innovation of RDFa, Microdata, JSON-LD and other structured data related tooling. Schema generation tools pertaining to this group aim to ensure output can be validated with the W3C Schema validator or similar tools.
The group will assist others with discovering existing tools, updating online materials to find tools and supporting the development of new tools. The goal of this group is to foster the development of the ‘web of data’ through developer support, community engagement and advocacy. The Schema Generator Community Group will also assist by incubating support for works that include, but are not limited to, new RDF-related tools.
Group closed 2023-12-12
The mission of this group is to build a common, open format for the exchange of scholarly information.closed on 2019-08-13
No matter in research or in industrial practice, the implementation area of Building Information Modelling (BIM) has extended from ordinary buildings to infrastructure, of which obviously bridges are an indispensable component. Thus, this group gathering the experts from BIM globally aims at establishing a semantic reference standard. This standard will cover the entire aspects in the life cycle of a bridge for the purpose of representing important elements and the logic relations among them in the phases of, e.g. design, construction, structural analysis, monitoring, renovation, facility management, etc.closed on 2019-08-13 - see also the Linked Building Data Community Group.
This group works on creating and defining a semantic, web-author-friendly representation of building data. It will deliver a specification and tooling to work with declarative, semantic building information. Besides a specification for the data format, we plan on delivering libraries and plugins for existing software, such as A-Frame. We want to work with existing communities, such as the Linked Building Data and Declarative 3D and Declarative WebVR groups.Group closed 2023-12-12
This Community Group brings together people from research and industry who are interested in semantic modelling. Researchers are interested in understanding the actual needs of industrial partners, gathering use cases and example data, and clarifying the challenges that further research can help address, as well as refining the methodologies for developing semantic based solutions. Industrial partners are interested in having clear benefits for adopting semantic technologies in relation to the digital transformation of industry. How can these benefits be realised by average developers using higher level frameworks and better tooling. The W3C Community Group will make extensive use of the GitHub issue tracker to raise and discuss ideas, and to prepare W3C Community Group reports with our findings.closed on 2019-08-13
The group will work on a controlled vocabulary describing Properties and Services for Things which from part of water and wastewater infrastructure. Context is around standardised data models used for monitoring and control purposes.closed on 2019-08-13 - see also the RDF-DEV Community Group.
A community focused on the adoption of Semantic Web concepts within contemporary and new programming languages. These will incorporate W3C Semantic Web standards for Ontology, Linked data and representations as integral parts of the development tool chains. Particularly the group will aim to 1. Develop new semantically-aware programming languages, 2. Modify existing languages to be semantically-aware 3. Develop design patterns for semantically-aware programming. 4. Develop Ontologies for computer programming concepts to allow inter-lingual sharing of basic and domain-specific algorithms.Group closed 2023-12-11
The internet has several service discovery mechanisms, such as SRV records and mDNS which are not exposed to web clients. The purpose of this CG will be to define a browser API allowing service discovery via these and other relevant mechanisms.closed on 2019-08-13
The mission of this group is to define a standard way to manage web sessions directly from the web browser. The web sites must expose a set of functionalities in every page served in order to make easy to browser plugins (and the browser itself) to manage the user session.In this group we work on various web technologies needed for managing all kinds of economic relationships between individuals and organizations. While recognizing nowadays dominance of commerce, we take here more general approach which gives equal attention to all kind of non-commercial approaches, including Social Economy, Sharing/Collaborative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Informal Economy etc.
Some of relevant topics (by no means an exhaustive list!)
We based our work on Linked Data technologies and assume decentralized architecture.
During first year of operation (2016) we will hold regular monthly teleconference, use github for collaboration and follow other recommendations from Modern Tooling
Group closed on 2016-04-29.
The current W3C process for commenting on specifications is complicated and discouraging to users. Discovering previous comments is also challenging, and leads to lost time. It's also difficult for spec editors to matching out-of-band comments sent through email or issue-trackers to the spec itself. Having an annotation sidebar that lets users create, review, and resolve spec comments would make the workflow much easier.
For the past several months, the WebPlatform.org team has been working to integrate the Annotator project to allow spec annotations, and it is ready for experimental use for W3C working groups. The Spec Annotation Community Group will collect use cases and requirements, feature requests, and bug reports, and will help coordinate feature implementation and bug fixes as well as integration with other open annotation systems. This group will not publish specifications.The mission of this group is to gather and incubate new features and requirements for SVG — making it easier for software developers and content creators in the SVG community to engage with the SVG standardization process.
This group will complement the SVG working group, and covers the same scope of technologies. Draft proposals for new SVG features, developed in the community group, may transition to recommendation-track specifications in the working group.
This group may publish specifications.
See the SVG CG charter for more information.
Group closed 2023-10-16
This group is an open forum for discussing Web architecture, such as that discussed by the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Web architecture refers to the underlying principles that should be adhered to by Web components (APIs/Markup), whether developed inside or outside W3C. The architecture captures principles that affect such things as understandability, interoperability, scalability, accessibility, and internationalization. We expect to have a strong working relationship with the W3C TAG.Group closed on 2016-04-29.
The CG would deal with extensions allowing web-pages to communicate with local software as well as with devices connected with NFC/BLE.
closed on 2019-08-13
A group for people who love pixels! This group is in support of exposing device pixel densities to web developers and letting web developers have the ability to use 'hardware pixels' instead of 'CSS pixels' on demand. Native developers have this affordance, why can't we? Hardware pixels! We want hardware pixels! ## What we want ## We want metrics! The hardware pixel density of a screen can live in the window.screen object as window.screen.pixelDensity, for example. The value would be the average of the vertical pixel density and the horizontal pixel density of the screen (in hardware pixels per unit). Vertical and horizontal pixel densities of the screen can be exposed in window.screen.verticalPixelDensity and window.screen.horizontalPixelDensity. Yes, the vertical and horizontal values don't always have a ratio of 1 across devices. Pixel Aspect Ratios are important for developers and designers that truly care about device-independence. ## How can it be done? ## Easy. The EDID data in modern screens tells us the width and height of a display in millimeters, the native resolution of the screen, and other interesting information. This info allows us to calculate a screen's hardware pixel density in pixels per millimeter with floating point precision. Exposing these values in window.screen is even more trivial. ## Why do we want these values? ## In this modern day, developers are moving towards device-independent development more than ever before. By exposing physical characteristics of a screen (when supported by the screen (just like how OpenGL is exposed through WebGL when supported by a device)) web developers will be able to make device-independent decisions on their development process. Currently, the lack of these metrics means that a web app can only look *almost* the same across devices, but not necessarily *exactly* as intended. We're engineers; *almost* is not enough. For example, suppose I want to make a push menu that is *always* 1 physical inch wide. This is currently not possible because inches in the web are "CSS inches", not physical inches. CSS units like centimeters, millimeters, and inches are currently unreliable across devices. You might think "why not just create a div element that is 1 cm wide, then get it's width in pixels and that's how many pixels per cm you have". Sure, that works, but those are *CSS* pixels per *CSS* centimeter. On top of that, not all operating systems operate at the same dpi, and to make matters worse not all devices have a devicePixelRatio of 1 (mines 2 by default in Mac OS X Yosemite). So the value that you'll get from this technique, if you adopt it right now, vary a *whole lot* across devices. We can't say with any confidence that something being displayed on various screens on multiple devices is 1 physical inch wide. Giving us these screen metrics will not only help us, it will help the future generation of developers because not only will exposing these screen metrics based on EDID info (when supported by the screen) get us closer to device-independent development more often, it will also promote the use of the EDID standard by screen manufacturers so that the next generation can benefit even more from the exposed screen metrics. ## Pixel Freedom for All! May the pixel be with you! ##closed on 2019-08-13
The URI Specification Community Group endeavors to produce a set of coherent, maintainable artifacts for use by implementors, developers, authors, and everyday users. We will achieve this by creating a formal specification of the ad hoc URI/URL standard described by RFC 3986/3987 and the WHATWG URL Living Standard. The deliverable is a single formal specification source document in Lem (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/lem/) from which a typical standards document can be generated as well as a set of theorems over the concepts described and an executable test oracle for each specified function. Depending on community support and development of test generation tools, a test suite with proven specification coverage may also be delivered. If you think URI should work predictably and correctly and be able to be understood clearly, please join this group and give us your perspective!closed on 2019-08-13 - see the Web Assembly Community Group instead.
The purpose of this group is to develop a specification for high performance, low latency typed array processing for the Web. The basic idea is to create an API that makes it possible to utilize hardware level parallelism, such as SIMD instructions, by providing methods that operate on whole arrays rather than single elements at a time.Group closed on 2016-04-29.
This group is developing a specification to allow web apps to run tasks in the background. This includes running after the user has navigated away from the page, closed the browser, or the device has fallen asleep. We focus on preserving user privacy and resources while providing a useful and expressive API.
closed on 2019-08-13
The mission of the Web Commerce Community Group is to support the mission of the Web Commerce Interest Group by incubating technologies and specifications that may be transitioned to the W3C Standards Track.The purpose of this group should be to discuss anything that could enhance the web and reduce its impact on environment. Discussion could be about, for example:
Millions of kilowatts are wasted in the world each year because of various reasons, such as:
Any idea that could make the web more respectful for environment is welcome to this group.
closed on 2019-08-13 - see the WHATWG and the Memorandum of Understanding Between W3C and WHATWG.
Community group around the HTML living specification and its related Web Application technology specifications.Group closed on 2019-08-13 - see the Audio Working Group or the Audio Community Group instead.
The Web MIDI Community Group brings together folks interested in enabling MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) devices on the Web. Some example applications include dynamically generated music for games, alternative input devices, and controlling music instruments and lighting systems. This group will not create specifications.This group closed on 18 December 2020. What follows is the original mission statement.
The mission of the Web Payments and Commerce Accessibility Community Group (Payments A11Y CG) is to provide an ongoing forum for the evaluation and articulation of comprehensive support for accessibility to people with disabilities in W3C web payments and commerce-related specifications and technical documents. These specifications are generally developed by the Web Payments Working Group. The Payments and Commerce A11Y CG will track developments in, and work collaboratively with the various groups in W3C's Web Payments Activity, and most particularly with the Web Payments Interest Group The Payments and Commerce A11Y CG will develop and document use cases and requirements to support accessibility in web payments and web commerce across all known scenarios that encompass the widely varying technologies and human abilities utilized by persons living with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities to be submitted to the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group for consideration as a potential W3C Note, "Payments Accessibility User Requirements (PAUR)", as well as other relevant web commerce considerations where persons with disabilities could be impacted. The Payments and Commerce A11Y CG shall additionally advise APA on payments-related specifications and technical documents being developed by W3C groups to assist APA in its chartered horizontal review responsibility.This group closed on 18 December 2020. What follows is the original mission statement.
The purpose of the Web Payments Community Group is to discuss, research, prototype, and create working systems that enable Universal Payment for the Web. The goal is to create a safe, decentralized system and a set of open, patent and royalty-free specifications that allow people on the Web to send each other money as easily as they exchange instant messages and e-mail today. The group will focus on transforming the way we reward each other on the Web as well as how we organize financial resources to enhance our personal lives and pursue endeavors that improve upon the human condition.This group is closed - see the Web Chinese Interest Group instead.
To facilitate focused discussion in Web Platform specifications, to gather comments and questions in Chinese about those specifications, to collect information about specific use cases in Chinese speaking region for technologies defined in those specifications, and to report the results of its activities as a group back to the relevant W3C Working Groups, as well as to the W3C membership and community.Closed on 2019-08-13 - see also the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group.
This group aims at developing common tools, technologies, frameworks and platforms for automating tests in Web applications.closed on 2019-08-13
The internet has been considerable development in the world has led to an exponential growth in the number of online documents by scientists. In this sector, the current trend seems to be to digitize all funds scientific libraries and sample Museums and this internationally. Many of these documents: articles, monographs, academic work, digitized specimens and videos are now available online, but remained scattered on the canvas. They do not allow quick consultations and consolidation of information. The new generation of scientists studying species biodiversity, taxonomy, protection, conservation and many other natural sciences, wants more access and use these documents remotely and for free. They suffer, however, that some problem: too wide dissemination of data and information.
To meet this expectation, we collect (for 10 years) and archive it all these documents in a single point: WAS World Archives of Sciences: WAS-Archives.org : Biodiversity, Zoology, Botany, Taxonomy, Entomology, Paleontology, Geology, Natural History WAS contributes to the development of Knowledge and World Heritage. It allows the recognition of scientific organizations (Museums, Universities...). He participated in an ambitious scientific archiving, Museums becoming true mine of information as well as the Libraries or Documentation Centers. In addition to the departments of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, Taxonomy, Entomology, Paleontology, Geology and Natural History, WAS also archive the academic work of Administrations, Professional Associations, Commercial Societies, Non-Profit Foundations and Universities that become our natural partners and complete the panorama of available public sources of sciences.
closed on 2019-08-13
The goal of this group is to bring the functionalities of W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge to web browsers. This group will focus on requirements and issues of open teleconference systems which contain voice communications between web browsers. We will also focus on integrating IRC service for it. This group will not create specifications but may provide feedback to relevant working groups, if necesssary.Group closed 2023-12-11
To standardize the Zot protocol currently used in Hubzilla and Zap, and to push its adoption for social web.