About W3C

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

An international consortium

Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Mission

The creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web.

Members

440 organizations (Nuance, Voxeo, Loquendo, France Telecom etc.)

W3C Member & W3C Team

W3C Member

• An organization who provides resources to W3C's mission of leading the Web to its full potential.
• Holds one Advisory Committee representative (AC rep) and Working Group participant(s).
• More than 400 organizations around the world.

W3C Team

• W3C paid staff, unpaid interns and W3C Fellows.
• Organizes W3C Activities + communicates with the Members and the public.
• 68 people from three hosts: MIT, ERCIM and Keio.

W3C Hosts

Three organizations who jointly run the W3C

USA

• the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)

Europe (hearquartered in France)

• the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)

Japan

• Keio University

W3C Offices

W3C's partners

1. act as local points of contact and
2. make sure that W3C and its specifications are known in their region.

Offices' addresses

• Australia
• Brazil
• Benelux/Bénélux
• 中国
• Suomi
• Deutschland und Österreich
• Ελλάδα
• 香港
• Magyarország
• भारत
• ישראל
• Italia
• 한국
• المغرب
• España
• Sverige
• UnitedKingdom and Ireland

Why standard? : Dry battery

Compatibility & Interoperability

• Available everywhere & everytime

Why standard? : Web is World Wide

• Open: patent free
• Global: universal
• De facto: implementable

W3C Recommendation Track

Working Groups

For various specifications.

Constituents of Working Group

Chair:

manages meetings and publication schedule (W3C Member)

Team Contact:

supports Working Group's activity (Team staff)

Invited Expert:

specialists who have great expertise needed for Working Group's activity

Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Goal

• Extends the Web technology to make it possible

Expectation

• Central point of coordination for multimodal related specifications
• Collaboration with other related Activities:
  • Voice Browser
  • Compound Document Formats
  • Ubiquitous Web Applications, etc.

To Do

• Clarify how to author concrete multimodal Web applications
• Especially loose coupling of various modalities
  e.g.
  • a local HTML and
  • multiple remote VoiceXML forms/dialogs

Scope of Multimodal Interaction

Architecture

• Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces

Data format

• Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (EMMA)

Handwriting and graphical capturing

• Ink Markup Language (InkML)

Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Participants

• 32 people
  (29 Participants from 19 Organizations + 3 Invited Experts)

Meetings

• Telephone conferences: 4 hours / week
• Face-to-Face Meeting: 3-4 times / year

Information sharing

• Mailing list: Public & Internal
• Web pages: Public & Internal

Face-to-Face Meeting

Purpose of this workshop

Identify and prioritize requirements

• changes, extensions and additions to the MMI Architecture
• better support of speech, GUI, Ink and other Modality Components

Focus

• Requirements for the interfaces between the Runtime Framework and Modality Components
• Voice, pen, ink, etc.

W3C Recommendation is Royalty-Free

• Any normative technology must be provided based on Royalty-Free lisence
• Recommendation track docs must be generated by Working Group Participants

Please join in W3C!

How to join

1. Become W3C Member
2. Register to Working Group(s)

Benefits

• Add your own ideas/requirements to W3C Recs
• Participate in the development of Web standards
• Good publicity for organizations/companies

Please contact me: ashimura@w3.org

More information

These slides are available at

• http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1116-w3c-mmi-ka/

And more ...

• Multimodal Interaction Working Group page
• W3C Mission
• Membershop Benefits