Welcome to the October 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.
Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…
News & Events
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1. W3C Australia at Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration
World 2008
2. Challenges for Future Web Bring Experts Together at W3C Global
Plenary
3. W3C Invites Community to Explore Future of Social Networking in
Workshop
4. W3C Organizes Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0
5. W3C Organizes Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the
Web
6. Incubator Group to Evaluate Research on Model-Based User Interfaces
Last calls & Call for Reviews
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7. Last Call: Media Queries
8. Call for Review: Device Description Repository Simple API Proposed
Recommendation
Reports & Working Drafts
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9. Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published
10. RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Is a W3C Recommendation; RDFa
Primer Updated
11.W3C Standard Simplifies Creation of Speech-Enabled Web Applications
12.Schema Support Strengthens Toolkit in Updated XHTML Modularization
Standard
13.Seven OWL 2 Drafts Published
14.Widgets 1.0: Updates
15.XMLHttpRequest Level 2 Draft Published
1. W3C Australia at Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration
World 2008
Ross Ackland will be giving a presentation titled:
Beyond Web 2.0 - Integrating Data and Services
- What are the next generation of web technologies?
- What opportunities does this offer to marketers, enterprise and
government
http://www.acevents.com.au/socialmedia08/
2. Challenges for Future Web Bring Experts Together at W3C Global
Plenary
The World Wide Web Consortium held its annual Technical Plenary week
near its European host site in France. More than 350 software
engineers, developers, and other experts in a wide range of
technologies such as HTML, XML, CSS, Mobile Web, Semantic
Web, and Video in the Web, came together to address a variety of
challenges in the development of Web standards. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Director and inventor of the Web, opened the 22 October plenary
session with a keynote and discussion on the technical direction of
W3C for the next several years and where Web applications,
documents, and data come together. In the keynote, Berners-Lee
also shared thoughts on the future of HTML in the browser and how
HTML and XML communities can learn from each other. Slides and
minutes from the plenary day will be publicly available. Read the
press release for more information, including information for media
wishing to cover the event.
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/tpac-pressrelease.html
3. W3C Invites Community to Explore Future of Social Networking in
Workshop
Social networking is a complex, rapidly expanding, and in some
cases, disruptive sector of the information economy. For example,
user-generated content is causing changes in the traditional
content/media industry structure. In the future, community features
may well become an integral part of all digital experiences — from
information/publishing to business and entertainment. Companies
providing services for social media and social networking must
anticipate barriers to industry growth and stability. W3C believes
that now is the time for industry to gather to discuss their
experience so far, and what barriers they foresee in the near- and
medium-term. W3C therefore invites people to participate in a
Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, to analyze risks and
opportunities of the social networking industry, and to define plans
for the future. The Workshop will be held 15-16 January 2009 in
Barcelona (Spain) and is hosted by Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya and ReadyPeople. Anyone may attend, but position papers
are required and are due November 20. Instructions for workshop
registration/participation will be sent exclusively to authors of
submitted position papers. Read more about the Workshop scope and
sponsorship opportunities.
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html#papers
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html#scope
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/sponsorship
4. W3C Organizes Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Speaker
biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 on 5-6 March 2009 in Menlo Park,
California (USA), hosted by SRI International. Attendees will
discuss directions for Speaker Identification and Verification (SIV)
standards work, and in particular, requirements for SIV and SIV
standards relevant to VoiceXML 3.0. The goal of the Workshop is to
help the Voice Browser Working Group integrate existing and
in-process standards with VoiceXML 3.0 specification and make the
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. Position
papers are due 18 December 2008. Read about “Voice Extensible Markup
Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements,” Voice Browser and learn more
about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2008/08/siv/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-vxml30reqs-20080808/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
5. W3C Organizes Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the
Web
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Security for
Access to Device APIs from the Web to be hosted by Vodafone in
London (UK) on 10-11 December 2008. The goal of this workshop is to
bring together people from a wide variety of backgrounds (API
designers, security experts, usability experts, …) to discuss the
security challenges involved in allowing Web applications and
widgets to access the APIs that allow to control these features
(e.g., cameras, gps, address books, etc.). Participants will also
advise the W3C on appropriate next steps for any gap that needs to
be addressed with new technical work. Position papers are due 30
October. W3C invites you to read more about the Workshop scope.
http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/#paper
http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/#scope
6. Incubator Group to Evaluate Research on Model-Based User Interfaces
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Model-Based User
Interfaces Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, JustSystems,
Siemens, Telefónica de España, and Université Catholique de Louvain.
The group’s mission is to evaluate research on model-based user
interface design as a framework for authoring Web applications and
with a view to proposing work on related standards. Read more about
the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of
emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is not on
the “W3C standards track.”
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/model-based-ui/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
http://www.w3.org/TR/
7. Last Call: Media Queries
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Last Call Working Draft of “Media Queries.” HTML4 and CSS2
currently support media-dependent style sheets tailored for
different media types. For example, a document may use sans-serif
fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed.
’screen’ and ‘print’ are two media types that have been defined.
Media queries extend the functionality of media types by allowing
more precise labeling of style sheets. Comments are welcome through
21 November. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-mediaqueries-20081015/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
8. Call for Review: Device Description Repository Simple API Proposed
Recommendation
The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Proposed Recommendation of “Device Description
Repository Simple API.” Web content delivered to mobile devices
usually benefits from being tailored to take into account a range of
factors such as screen size, markup language support and image
format support. Such information is stored in “Device Description
Repositories” (DDRs). This document describes a simple API for
access to DDRs, in order to ease and promote the development of Web
content that adapts to its Delivery Context. Comments are welcome
through 31 October. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-DDR-Simple-API-20080917/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
9. Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published
Participants from four W3C Groups — CSS, Internationalization Core,
SVG and XSL Working Groups — as part of the Japanese Layout Task
Force published an update of “Requirements of Japanese Text Layout”
. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout
realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is
mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However,
it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This
draft contains most of the material which the task force intends to
publish as a Group Note in December 2008. A “Japanese version” is
also available. Learn more about W3C’s Internationalization
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/ja/
http://www.w3.org/International/
10. RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Is a W3C Recommendation; RDFa
Primer Updated
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working
Group published the W3C Recommendation “RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and
Processing.” This specification allows publishers to express
structured data on the Web within XHTML. This allows tools to read
it, enabling a new world of user functionality, allowing users to
transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and
allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. For
those looking for an introduction to the use of RDFa and some
real-world examples, please consult the updated “RDFa Primer.”
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity and the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
11.W3C Standard Simplifies Creation of Speech-Enabled Web Applications
W3C published today a standard that will simplify the development of
Web applications that speak and listen to users. The “Pronunciation
Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0″ is the newest piece of W3C’s Speech
Interface Framework for creating Web applications driven by voice
and speech. PLS can reduce the cost of developing these applications
by allowing people to share and reuse pronunciation dictionaries.
“There are 10 times as many phones in the world as connected PCs.
Phones will become the major portal to the Web,” said James A.
Larson, co-Chair of the Voice Browser Working Group, which produced
the new standard. Read the press release and testimonials, and learn
more about the W3C Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-pronunciation-lexicon-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/pls-pressrelease.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/pls-testimonials
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
12.Schema Support Strengthens Toolkit in Updated XHTML Modularization
Standard
W3C updated its XHTML Modularization standard today with support for
designing modular languages using “XML Schema.” The addition of
schemas to “XHTML Modularization 1.1″ is an important step towards
the XHTML2 Working Group’s goal that XHTML support rich Web content
and be extensible, while remaining interoperable. A modularization
standard allows language designers to reuse elements defined by
multiple parties (including other W3C standards such as SVG and
MathML) and combine them into new formats to meet specific
application needs. The standard allows people to use schema-enabled,
off-the-shelf tools to immediately begin authoring and validating
documents written in those new languages. The XHTML2 Working Group,
which gained experience using Modularization 1.1 to build some
modules and languages, now plans to add schema support to other
XHTML standards. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-modularization-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/xhtml-m12n-11-implementation.html
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
13.Seven OWL 2 Drafts Published
The OWL Working Group published seven documents yesterday relating
to the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 extends “OWL,” a core
standard of the Semantic Web, adding new features that users have
requested and that software providers are prepared to implement. The
documents are:
1. “Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax”
2. “Direct Semantics”
3. “RDF-Based Semantics” (First Public Draft)
4. “Mapping to RDF Graphs”
5. “XML Serialization”
6. “Profiles”
7. “Conformance and Test Cases” (First Public Draft)
The first three documents form the technical core of OWL 2, which
has both a traditional “direct” semantics (for OWL DL) and a new
“RDF-based” semantics (for OWL Full). Documents 4 and 5 specify two
different serializations for OWL ontologies, one based on RDF and
one using XML more directly. Document 6 defines useful subsets of
OWL which may be easier to implement or may better meet certain
performance requirements. Finally, document 7 specifies conformance
and will later enumerate the OWL 2 test cases. Five other documents
are under development; but they are not yet ready for public review.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-syntax-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-semantics-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-rdf-based-semantics-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-xml-serialization-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-profiles-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-test-20081008/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
14.Widgets 1.0: Updates
The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of “Widgets 1.0: Updates.” This specification defines
a model to allow a widget user agent to locate and replace a widget
resource with a new or different version of a widget resource. The
updates model is designed to work both over HTTP and from local
storage. For updates performed via the Web, the model makes use a
simple XML documents that authors place on a Web server to indicate,
amongst other things, where the next most suitable version of a
widget resource can be retrieved from. It also defines a mechanism
that allows authors to be notified of installation errors or
success. This specification also describes how to renegotiate
security policies when widgets are updated. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-updates-20081007/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
15.XMLHttpRequest Level 2 Draft Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft
of “XMLHttpRequest Level 2.” The specification enhances
XMLHttpRequest with new features, such as cross-site requests,
progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending
and receiving. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XMLHttpRequest2-20080930/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
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