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EXPRESSION OF INTERESTNewW3C India Invite expression of interest to work in the major W3C areas for detailed study of existing standards, evolving new requirements for Indian perspective in related to these standards , preparing draft standards for submission in W3C,reference implementation, developing validators , compliance testing etc. There is also a need to translate W3C standards to Indian languages.
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Inputs regarding “Global and Accessible Web” Task Force to develop a vision for W3C’s activityNewWorld-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C) “Global and Accessible Web” Task Force proposes to develop a vision for W3C’s activity for the next 10 Years. W3C has indentified four thematic domains namely Accessibility, Multilingualism, Mobile and Literacy as focused initiatives to chalk out its medium term and long term strategy.
A set of Questionnaire has been developed to evolve the inputs in these thematic areas.
W3C India Workshop on Internationalization of E-Governance ApplicationsW3C India Office organized the workshop on Internationalization of E-Governance Applications. The objective and focus of the workshop was to create awareness and training to the, E-Governance applications/ developers/ users and all associated stake holders about the necessity and benefits of using W3C web standards especially in the perspective of internationalization.
Privacy Workshop Participants Share Implementation Experience; User Behaviors
15 Aug 2010
In July, W3C brought together participants across the industry for a privacy workshop (organized jointly with the PrimeLife EU project in London). Discussion topics included privacy-related implementation experience with the W3C geolocation API, and privacy icon and ruleset proposals for Web sites and APIs, respectively. Read the Workshop Report and learn more about the W3C Privacy Activity.
Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines is a W3C Recommendation 12 Aug 2010
The Web Security Context Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines. This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and informed decisions where possible. It describes user interactions and user interface guidelines with a goal toward making security usable, based on known best practice in this area. Learn more about the Security Activity.
W3C Invites Review of First Draft of The Messaging API
10 Aug 2010
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of The Messaging API. The Messaging API defines a high-level interface to Messaging functionality, including SMS, MMS and Email. It includes APIs to create, send and receive messages. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
Call for Review: MathML 3.0; MathML for CSS Profile are Proposed Recommendations
10 Aug 2010
The Math Working Group published two Proposed Recommendations today: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 and A MathML for CSS Profile. This first defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML, which enables people to express mathematics in Web documents. The second describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that is suitable for styling with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Comments are welcome through 10 September. Learn more about the Math Activity.
Second Last Call for Seven Web Services Drafts
05 Aug 2010
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published seven Second Last Call Working Drafts for Web Services: Enumeration (WS-Enumeration), Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions), Eventing (WS-Eventing), Fragment (WS-Fragment), Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange), SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions), and Transfer (WS-Transfer). Comments welcome through 17 September 2010. Learn more about the Web Services Activity.
W3C Invites Implementations of XMLHttpRequest
03 Aug 2010
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XMLHttpRequest. The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
RDF Workshop Report Emphasizes Support for JSON, Turtle, Other Formats
09 July 2010
The last week of June, participants at the W3C RDF Next Steps Workshop concluded that support for JSON, Turtle, and for "Named Graphs" are top priorities for any future work on RDF. Participants also highlighted the importance of compatibility with existing deployment. Read about these and other topics in the Workshop report. To join the discussion about organizing future work on RDF, please share your thoughts on the Semantic Web Interest Group mailing list (with a copy to the separate RDF Comments list). W3C thanks the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at Stanford, Palo Alto, USA, for hosting the Workshop. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
Last Call: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0, Implementating ATAG 2.0
08 July 2010
The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the companion document Implementing ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. The ATAG documents also describe how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Comments are welcome through 2 September 2010. Read the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WA).
For Review: Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
08 July 2010
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today requests review of draft updates to Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft) and Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft). Comments are welcome through 9 August 2010. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about the updates, see the Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Techniques Draft Updates e-mail. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Contacts API Working Draft Published
01 July 2010
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Contacts API. This document defines the high-level interfaces required to provide access to a user's unified address book, which may source address book data from several sources, both online and locally. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
Device API Access Control Notes Published
29 June 2010
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published two Group Notes: Device API Access Control Requirements and Device API Privacy Requirements. The former defines requirements for controlling access to device APIs, illustrated by corresponding use cases. The latter provides definitions, use cases, and requirements for making device APIs more privacy-friendly. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
HTML Progresses with Eight Drafts; Two New
25 June 2010
The HTML Working Group published eight documents:
Learn more about HTML5.
Last Call: Media Fragments URI 1.0
24 June 2010
The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Media Fragments URI 1.0. This document describes the Media Fragments 1.0 specification. It specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular field-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a certain fragment. Comments are welcome through 27 August. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
RIF Standard Supports Data Integration, Enterprise Agility
Call for Review: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines Proposed Recommendation Published
22 June 2010
The Web Security Context Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines. This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and informed decisions where possible. In order to achieve that goal, this specification includes recommendations on the presentation of identity information by user agents as well as recommendations on conveying error situations in security protocols. Comments are welcome through 20 July. Learn more about the Security Activity.
RIF Standard Supports Data Integration, Enterprise Agility
22 June 2010
Today W3C published a new standard for building rule systems on the Web. Declarative rules allow integration and transformation of data from multiple sources in a distributed, transparent and scalable manner. The new standard, called Rule Interchange Format (RIF), was developed with participation from the Business Rules, Logic Programming, and Semantic Web communities to provide interoperability and portability between many different systems using declarative technologies. For more information, see the RIF FAQ.
The six new standards are:
Along with these standards, W3C today published five related documents: RIF Overview, RIF Test Cases, OWL 2 RL in RIF, RIF Combination with XML data, and RIF In RDF. The RIF Working Group is also preparing a primer and a revision of its outdated Use Cases and Requirements. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
W3C Invites Implementations of Digital Signatures for Widgets; 'view-mode' Media Feature
22 June 2010
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: Digital Signatures for Widgets and The 'view-mode' Media Feature. The first defines a profile of the XML Signature Syntax and Processing 1.1 specification to allow a widget package to be digitally signed. Widget authors and distributors can digitally sign widgets as a mechanism to ensure continuity of authorship and distributorship; follow the implementation report. The second specification defines a media feature to match the different visual presentation modes that can be applied to web applications and thereby apply different styling based on these different modes using CSS Media Queries; follow the implementation report. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition)
22 June 2010
The SVG Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition). This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1, a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. This specification incorporates SVG 1.1 errata. Comments are welcome through 13 July. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Updated
17 June 2010
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0. UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. This draft includes updates to focus behavior and indication, form submission, and relative font sizes. The Working Group requests comments now in preparation for Last Call. The Working Group also published a Working Draft of the Implementing UAAG 2.0 supporting Note. Read the invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
W3C Invites Implementations of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies 1.0
17 June 2010
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies 1.0. This document provides guidance to Content Transformation proxies as to whether and how to transform Web content. Content Transformation proxies are mostly used to convert Web sites designed for desktop computers to a form suitable for mobile devices. The objective is to reduce undesirable effects on Web applications, especially mobile-ready ones, and to limit the diversity in the modes of operation of Content Transformation proxies, while at the same time allowing proxies to alter content that would otherwise not display successfully on mobile devices. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative.
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published
17 June 2010
The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. This document specifies VoiceXML 3.0, a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized video. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 New resource: How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
16 June 2010
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) today published How to Make Presentations Accessible to All, a page of the training resource suite being updated as part of the WAI-AGE Project. This new WAI resource helps you make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. It covers planning, preparing slides, providing accessible material, considerations during your session, and more. WAI would like to know how this resource works for you and how we can improve it. See the blog post: Make Your Presentations Accessible to All. Learn about Accessibility and visit the WAI home page.
Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3
15 June 2010
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3. This specification describes styles for borders and backgrounds. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2 by adding such features as: borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners, and boxes with shadows. Comments are welcome through 06 July. Learn more about the Style Activity.
Comments Welcome on First Draft of Requirements and Use Cases for XSLT 2.1
10 June 2010
The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Requirements and Use Cases for XSLT 2.1. This document is a characterization of requirements and use cases for XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1. The relative priorities to be assigned to these different enhancements are still being decided. W3C welcomes input to the XSL Working Group to help in that process. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
Last Call: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0
10 June 2010
The Math Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. MathML can be used to encode both mathematical notation and mathematical content. About thirty-eight of the MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while another about one hundred and seventy provide a way of unambiguously specifying the intended meaning of an expression. Comments are welcome through 01 July. Learn more about the Math Activity.
W3C Invites Comments on First Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping Relational Databases to RDF
08 June 2010
The RDB2RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping Relational Databases to RDF. The need to share data with collaborators motivates custodians and users of relational databases (RDB) to expose relational data on the Web of Data. This document examines a set of use cases from science and industry, taking relational data and exposing it in patterns conforming to shared RDF schemata. These use cases expose a set of functional requirements for exposing relational data as RDF in the RDB2RDF Mapping Language (R2RML). Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
First Draft of RDFa API Published
08 June 2010
The RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the RDFa API. RDFa API provides a mechanism that allows Web-based applications using documents containing RDFa markup to extract and utilize structured data in a way that is useful to developers. The specification details how a developer may extract, store and query structured data contained within one or more RDFa-enabled documents. The design of the system is modular and allows multiple pluggable extraction and storage mechanisms supporting not only RDFa, but also Microformats, Microdata, and other structured data formats. For more information about the Semantic Web, please see the Semantic Web Activity.
Web Services SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions) First Draft Published
08 June 2010
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Web Services SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions). This specification defines two WS-Policy assertions that can be used to advertise the requirement to use a certain version of SOAP in message exchanges. Learn more about the Web Services Activity.
CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module Draft Published
08 June 2010
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module. This module describes features often used in printed publications. Most of the specified functionality involves some sort of generated content where content from the document is adorned, replicated, or moved in the final presentation of the document. Along with two other CSS3 modules - multi-column layout and paged media - this module offers advanced functionality for presenting structured documents on paged media. Learn more about the Style Activity.
Last Call: Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, API for Media Resource 1.0
08 June 2010
The Media Annotations Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 and API for Media Resource 1.0. The former document defines the Ontology for Media Resource 1.0. This ontology, or "core vocabulary," is meant to bridge the different descriptions of media resources on the Web, as opposed to media resources in local archives or musea. It is defined based on a core set of properties which covers basic metadata to describe media resources. The ontology is designed to foster the interoperability among various kinds of metadata formats currently used to describe media resources on the Web. The latter specification defines a client-side API to access metadata information related to media resources on the Web. Comments are welcome through 11 July. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
First Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Federation Extensions Published; Five SPARQL 1.1 Drafts Updated
01 June 2010
The SPARQL Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Federation Extensions, which defines extensions to the SPARQL Query Language to support distributed SPARQL query execution. The group also published 5 updates, listed below. The group seeks feedback, particularly on open issues identified in each document. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
Last Call: Ink Markup Language (InkML) 27 May 2010
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Ink Markup Language (InkML). The Ink Markup Language serves as the data format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. The markup allows for the input and processing of handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages in applications. It provides a common format for the exchange of ink data between components such as handwriting and gesture recognizers, signature verifiers, and other ink-aware modules. Comments are welcome through 17 June. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.
W3C Launches Library Linked Data Incubator Group2010-05-21:W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group, whose mission is to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities - focusing on Linked Data - in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: Helsinki University of Technology, DERI Galway, Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Library of Congress, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIMOS, OCLC, Talis, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 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 but in many cases serves as a starting point for a future Working Group.
W3C Welcomes Comments on First Draft of XML Processor Profiles 2010-05-18:The XML Processing Model Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XML processor profiles. This specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of which fully determines a data model for any given XML document. It is intended as a resource for other specifications, which can by a single normative reference establish precisely what input processing they require. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
Last Call for Drafts Related to XML Security: Encryption, SIgnature, Generic Hybrid Ciphers2010-05-17:The XML Security Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts: XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, and XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers. The group also published a Working Draft of XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference. XML Encryption specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere. The third document augments XML Encryption by defining algorithms, XML types and elements necessary to enable use of generic hybrid ciphers in XML Security applications. The final document summarizes XML Security algorithm URI identifiers and the specifications associated with them. Last Call comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about the Security Activity.
State Chart XML (SCXML) Draft Published2010-05-17:The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that can be used in many ways. It can be used as a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated speech modules. It can also be used as a voice application metalanguage, where in addition to VoiceXML 3.0 functionality, it may also control database access and business logic modules. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
First Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1 Draft Published2010-05-12:The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT 2.1, a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. The main focus for enhancements in XSLT 2.1 is the requirement to enable streaming of source documents. This is needed when source documents become too large to hold in main memory, and also for applications where it is important to start delivering results before the entire source document is available. The approach adopted in this specification is twofold: it identifies a set of restrictions which, if followed by stylesheet authors, will enable implementations to adopt a streaming mode of operation without placing excessive demands on the optimization capabilities of the processor; and it provides new constructs to indicate that streaming is required, or to express transformations in a way that makes it easier for the processor to adopt a streaming execution plan. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
Last Call: Digital Signatures for Widgets2010-05-11:Today W3C announced a powerful tool for managing XML-rich processes such as business processes used in enterprise environments. The W3C Recommendation "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language," provides a standard framework for composing XML processes. XProc streamlines the automation, sequencing and management of complex computations involving XML by leveraging existing technologies widely adopted in the enterprise setting. "XML is tremendously versatile," said Norman Walsh, MarkLogic, and one of the co-editors of the specification. "Just off the top of my head, I can name standard ways to store, validate, query, transform, include, label, and link XML. What we haven't had is any standard way to describe how to combine them to accomplish any particular task. That's what XProc provides." Read more in the press release and learn more about XML.
XProc Standard Defines Way to Organize and Share XML Workflows2010-05-11:Today W3C announced a powerful tool for managing XML-rich processes such as business processes used in enterprise environments. The W3C Recommendation "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language," provides a standard framework for composing XML processes. XProc streamlines the automation, sequencing and management of complex computations involving XML by leveraging existing technologies widely adopted in the enterprise setting. "XML is tremendously versatile," said Norman Walsh, MarkLogic, and one of the co-editors of the specification. "Just off the top of my head, I can name standard ways to store, validate, query, transform, include, label, and link XML. What we haven't had is any standard way to describe how to combine them to accomplish any particular task. That's what XProc provides." Read more in the press release and learn more about XML.
XML Linking Language (XLink) 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation2010-05-06:The XML Core Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1, which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Changes from XLink 1.0 include: xlink:type is no longer required for simple links, IRIs are used instead of URIs, and the specification includes non-normative sample XML Schema and RELAX NG grammars. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
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