Introduction to the Second W3C Web and TV Workshop

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Workshop Sponsors

Date and Location: 8-9 February 2011
Hosted by Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Speaker: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
Slides: http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0208-web-and-tv-fd/

The workshop has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°248687 (Open Media Web) and n°257103 (webinos).

The W3C

Screenshot from the Mobile Web Application Best Practices W3C Recommendation as an example of a standard that W3C produces

Web Standards
(X)HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, PNG, XSLT, WCAG, RDF, etc
Consortium
320 members, from industry and research
World-wide
Offices in many countries (Brazil, China, India, Morocco, etc)
W3C Team
Technical expertise
A well-tried Process
to make consensus emerge
Clear IPR rules
Royalty-Free Patent Policy
One Web!
Global, on any device, for everyone

Workshop Goals

Share on Convergence of Web and TV
Discuss use cases, requirements from different viewpoints
Discuss existing solutions, see what's blocking
Identity gaps in Web standards
Assess level of interest
Agree on concrete next steps

Possible Next Steps

Possible outcome of the Workshop
	Web and TV Interest Group	Specific Working Group
Charter	Broad, discussion forum	Tight and precise on a specific topic
Inputs	Generic requirements and use cases, priorities, ideas	Technical drafts, fine-grained requirements and use cases, tests
IPR Commitments	None	Royalty-free patent policy
Deliverables	Reports, guidelines, tools, roadmaps, coordination with existing WG, new WG charters, etc	Standards, reports, guidelines, tools, etc
Participation Mode	Proceedings are public Reserved to W3C Members (+ Invited Experts)	Proceedings are usually public Reserved to W3C Members (+ Invited Experts)
Work Commitment	Medium, 1 day per week	High, 1 day per week 2 days per week for Chairs and Editors

Note: The Web and TV Interest Group already exists!

Workshop Figures

64 papers submitted
30 PC members
27 papers to be presented
50/50 time share for presentation and discussion
8 sessions focused on technical topics

Agenda

Day 1 — Tuesday 8 February 2011

09:00 - 09:50: Setting the scene
09:50 - 10:45: Session 1 / Web&TV: Use Cases and Technologies
11:15 - 12:45: Session 2 / Second-Screen Scenarios
14:00 - 15:30: Session 3 / Panel on HTTP Adaptive Streaming
16:00 - 17:30: Session 4 / Content Protection

Day 2 — Wednesday 9 February 2011

09:00 - 10:30: Session 5 / Metadata / Semantic Web
11:00 - 12:30: Session 6 / HTML5 and TV: Gap Analysis
14:00 - 14:45: Session 7 / Accessibility
14:45 - 15:30: Session 8 / Profiling / Testing
16:00 - 17:00: Wrap-up, Next Steps, and Action Items

Sponsors & Support

The workshop has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°248687 (Open Media Web) and n°257103 (webinos).

Logistics

IRC

IRC server: irc.w3.org
Port number: 6665
Channel: #webtv
Web client: http://irc.w3.org/
Guide: http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/

Minutes

minutes taken on IRC will be published.
off the record comments possible using /me

Twitter

Hash tag #w3ctv