W3C Tracks @ WWW2013

W3C Tutorial Track

This track is supported by W3DevCampus, the W3C online training program for Web developers

Monday 13 May - Morning (8h30-12h) - Alhambra I

An Introduction to HTML5

W3C trainer: Michel Buffa

HTML5 simply rocks! Web content authors will learn how to enhance the user experience of existing Web sites by incrementally using some of the new HTML5 features presented in this W3C tutorial [slides].

Monday 13 May - Morning (8h30-12h) - - Alhambra II

An Introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data

W3C trainers: Fabien Gandon and Ivan Herman

He who controls metadata, controls the Web! The participants will be guided through the W3C semantic Web stack and its extensions with both an historical perspective and an explanation based on the Web architecture core concepts [slides].

Tuesday 14 May - Morning (8h30-12h) - Alhambra I

CSS3

W3C trainer: Bert Bos

Because you do judge a book by its cover. Participants will learn the latest features of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), such as media queries, columns, image borders, semi-transparent colors, advanced selectors and many more [slides].

W3C Track - Developer Camps

Wednesday 15 May - Afternoon (15h-18h30) - Imperial

eGov and Open Data Camp

W3C Moderators: Phil Archer (W3C) and Caroline Burle (W3C Brazil Office)

"eGovernment is about better communication between governments and their citizens. Governments can achieve substantial efficiency savings by using online technologies: XML-based for transactions, RDF-based for open data and policy modeling, and HTML-based for interactive communication with people."

• 15h–16h30 Session 1

  What must the public sector do to achieve the triple promise of open data: transparency, efficiency and financial stimulus? And how does the theory match up with reality? Where does the public sector obligation end and hand over to the private sector and private individuals? What practical measures need to be taken by government IT managers to promote innovation? How can new services be supported with existing infrastructure that may be far from agile? Short talks will include:

  • Developing vocabularies, the Brazilian vocabulary for social participation, by Rodrigo Bandeira (report on Brazilian efforts to encourage citizens to engage with the government).
  • The challenges and opportunities of data journalism, by Diego Rabatone Oliveira (O Estado de São Paulo)
  • Parliamentary Transparency, by Pierre Andrews (University of São Paulo)
  • Open Data for Development, by Vagner Diniz (W3C Brazil Office)
• 17h–18h30 Session 2

  Picking up from the discussion and ideas in the first part of the session, we'll have a series of parallel sessions in the style of an unconference - the topics are up to you! They can be on any eGov subject but possibilities include:

  • the technical challenges faced when using open data;
  • opportunities and challenges of using URIs as persistent identifiers in open data;
  • basic controlled vocabularies for countries, languages;
  • LinkedCSV - what can we to do to make CSV more powerful? (for reference, see Jeni Tennison's work on this).
  • describing organizations, making sense of Legal Entity Identifiers, business registers, tax numbers (ref Org Ontology, Registered Organization Vocabulary);
  • Global interoperability and multilingualism - are we talking to each other or past each other?

  For emphasis, these are just suggestions, the actual topics will be determined by those present in the room.

Thursday 16 May - Afternoon (17h-19h30) - Imperial

Web Performance Camp

W3C Moderators: Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C) and Arvind Jain (Google)

"Web Performance relies on methods to measure and improve aspects ofapplication performance in Web browsers and Web servers."

• 17h–18h30 Session 1
  • 17h-17h30: Web Performance Working Group work: current and upcoming, by Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C)
  • 17h30-18h: How to make the Web fast, by Arvind Jain (Google)
  • Breakout sessions
• 18h30–19h30 Session 2
  • Breakout sessions