Planning for TPAC discussion
Hi all, We will discuss this CG and the emerging W3C Open Source Program at a TPAC breakout session on 28 October. Please expect more activity in the group after TPAC. Thanks! Ian
Call for Participation in W3C Open Source Program Community Group
The W3C Open Source Program Community Group has been launched: In September 2026, W3C announced a first pilot project for a new Open Source Program. The mission of the W3C Open Source Program Community Group is to manage the next … Continue reading
SSTIM 0.20.0: published protocols
SSTIM 0.20.0 is out: https://w3id.org/sstim/0.20.0 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23480076). Nothing is removed or deprecated. To test the vocabulary against work it did not shape, we encoded nine published sensory stimulation protocols from their papers. The terms they needed are in this release: … Continue reading
PortableWeb Breakout Session at W3C TPAC 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Portable Web Content Format (PortableWeb) Community Group will be hosting a breakout session at W3C TPAC 2026! This session is an opportunity to introduce PortableWeb to the wider Web community, share our vision … Continue reading
Proposed Group: W3C Open Source Program Community Group
The W3C Open Source Program Community Group has been proposed by Ian Jacobs: In September 2026, W3C announced a first pilot project for a new Open Source Program. The mission of the W3C Open Source Program Community Group is to … Continue reading
MusicXML progress update: October 15, 2026
ROADMAP PROGRESS Milestone 4.1 is now 66% complete! I expect that the challenging issues ahead will concern guitar notation and sound effects – we welcome all your feedback on those, including schema proposals. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Great feedback on Special … Continue reading
Going Dormant
Dear members, It was a privilege to work with you all since 2022. I am proud of what we achieved together, incubating specifications like Element Capture and Captured Surface Control, shipping them in Chromium-based browsers, and having specifications progress along … Continue reading
New Initiative for Cred Web
Hey, sorry that we’ve been so quiet. I’m hoping that will change very soon. Next week I’ll be presenting the idea for a new Working Group on publisher transparency to the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council. If you aren’t … Continue reading
Nordic Accessibility Community Group meeting: October 8th 2026
Participants Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes + host), Kosei Oki, Stein Erik Skotkjerra, Christer Janzon Roundtable Kosei and Tobias went to the WAD event in Iceland. Anne-Thyme has joined the public sector monitoring agency Digitaliseringsstyrelsen in Denmark. Stein Erik mentioned … Continue reading
DIA Community Group: Technical Progress and Upcoming Activities
The Data Interoperating Architecture (DIA) Community Group aims to promote open technical collaboration on secure and trustworthy data interoperability across heterogeneous systems and administrative domains. Following the establishment of the group, participating researchers have continued to investigate architectural and protocol-level … Continue reading