This public report was first prepared for the June 2014 Advisory Committee meeting. It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights - June 2014. See the previous fact sheet.
Membership, Staff, Offices
- 384 Members as of 28 May 2014 (was
386 in November 2013)
- Includes 11 new Startup Members
- 43.90 FTE from Member dues, 64.74 total. 83 staff are full-time or part-time (was 87 in November);
Members have access to daily FTE updates.
- Arrived:
- Ninja Marnau (December 2013, Technology and Society, W3C/ERCIM)
- Eric Eggert (December 2013, WAI, W3C/ERCIM)
- Osamu Nakamura (April 2014, Keio Site Manager, W3C/Keio)
- François Daoust (May 2014, UbiWeb, W3C/ERCIM)
- Left:
- Hiroto Yahagi (December 2013, Systems Team)
- Thomas Gambet (January 2014, Systems Team)
- Alexandre Bertails (January 2014, Systems Team)
- Brett Smith (March 2014, Systems Team)
- Tobie Langel (W3C Fellow, March 2014, Interaction)
- Tatsuya Hagino (December 2013, Keio)
- Marilyn Siderwicz (May 2014, Marketing and Communications)
- Masao Isshiki (May 2014, Keio Site Manager)
- 5 Fellows (was 6 in November 2013), Tobie Langel, Facebook fellow, left.
- Arrived:
- Offices:
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) now hosts the India Office, led by Dr. Rajendra Kumar.
Workshops
Recent
- W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT), 28 February – 1 March 2014 [Report]
- Linking Geospatial Data, 5–6 March 2014
- Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence, 12–13 March 2014 [Report]
- Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?, 24–25 March 2014 [Report]
- Footnotes, comments, bookmarks, and marginalia on the Web, A W3C Workshop on Annotations, 2 April 2014
- Seventh MultilingualWeb Workshop: New Horizons for the Multilingual Web, 7–8 May 2014
Upcoming
- Workshop on the Web of Things, Berlin (Germany), 25-26 June 2014
- Workshop on Web Cryptography Next Steps, Mountain View (USA), 10-11 September 2014
Groups
New and extended Working and Interest Groups
- CSV on the Web Working Group
- Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group
- Timed Text Working Group
- HTML5 Chinese Interest Group
- Geolocation Working Group
Closed Working and Interest Groups
- Web Testing Interest Group
- Web Events Working Group
- Hypertext Coordination Group
- Media Fragments Working Group
- MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group
- Media Annotations Working Group
- Model-Based UI Working Group
Community Groups
- 180 groups (was 150 in November 2013)
- There is interest to transition the Second Screen Presentation Community Group into a W3C Working Group [advance notice]
- 4050+ participants (3310+ in November 2013, 2800+ in May 2013)
- 195 (was 188 in November 2013) Member organizations
- 1412 (was 1192 in November 2013) non-Member organizations
- For more information, see 2014 Update: Community and Business Groups
Technical Reports
218 Technical Reports were published from 29 October 2013 to 29 May 2014.
Recommendations
35 published:
- Page Visibility (Second Edition)
- Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0
- Widget Interface
- CSS Style Attributes
- Performance Timeline
- User Timing
- The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
- JSON-LD 1.0
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API
- The Organization Ontology
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 (Second Edition)
- Progress Events
- RDF Schema 1.1
- RDF 1.1 Turtle
- RDF 1.1 XML Syntax
- RDF 1.1 N-Quads
- RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax
- RDF 1.1 N-Triples
- RDF 1.1 Semantics
- RDF 1.1 TriG
- Metadata API for Media Resources 1.0
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide
- CSS Namespaces Module Level 3
- XQueryX 3.0
- XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0
- XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0
- XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0
- XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0
- XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language
- Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 2nd Edition
- XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition)
- Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0
Other Types
- 19 Proposed Recommendations
- 4 Proposed Edited Recommendation
- 20 Candidate Recommendations
- 26 Last Call Working Drafts
- 53 Working Drafts (not LC)
- 25 Group Notes
Liaisons
- Wendy Seltzer's position on the IGF MAG was renewed.
- Wendy Seltzer and Daniel Dardailler were named representatives of W3C on the ICANN Technical Liaison Group.
- Tim Berners-Lee delivered a keynote at NetMundial in Brazil.
- W3C replied to a European Commission consultation on copyright with a clear message to keep the freedom to link on the Web.
- W3C received a positive evaluation report from the EU Multi Stakeholders Platform for ICT (MSP) subsequent to our 2013 submission of a package of 7 XML Recommendations.
- The staff are preparing the next PAS submission to ISO/IEC JTC 1, for MathML 3.
Marketing and Communications
- 25th anniversary of the Web, a collaboration with the World Wide Web Foundation.
- 20th anniversary of the W3C: Preparations for upcoming Symposium on the Web's Future & Celebratory Dinner (29 October 2014) in Santa Clara, California.
- 4 press releases, generally translated into 2-4 languages by the Offices.
- 59 talks
- 22 Public Newsletters
- 55 W3C Blog entries
- Social Web: twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
- 14 new volunteer translations, including activity around Authorized Translations:
Online Training
W3DevCampus is W3C's official online training for Web developers.
- NEW! Responsive Web Design course. Thanks to Intel® XDK sponsorship, three course sessions were offered for free.
- NEW! "Get new skills!" marketing campaign.
- NEW! W3DevCampus video (1'34" long) - sponsored by Intel® XDK.
- Global partnerships for training in languages other than English: Japanese (Internet Academy), Korean (Mirae Web) and Spanish (W3C Spain/CTIC). See all W3C training courses.
W3C Validator Suite
- In the first 8 months of the service 19,000 users have registered to use the W3C Validator Suite from countries around the world.