W3C Member Discount for Open Mobile Summit in SF
LBNL employees can get a discount when they join mobile, Internet and app world leaders at The Open Mobile Summit and Appcelerate, November 7-9, InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco. One of the best respected events in the mobile industry calendar returns to San Francisco for its 5th annual edition. Plus meet the leaders of the mobile app economy on Nov 9th at Appcelerate. Contact your W3C rep for the discount code.
W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond will be in Berkeley
W3C has announced a Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond, 26-27 November in Berkeley, California. W3C is currently creating standards that define mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking. There is no fee to participate in this Workshop and W3C Membership is not required. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 19 October and space is limited.
Discount for 11th International Semantic Web Conference
The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the primary conference on the use of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data. This year it will be held in Boston November 11-15. LBNL employees can save $75 off registration for the full conference (not for industry day). Contact your W3C rep for the discount code.
New Recommendations of note
Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs via particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a certain fragment.
R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language is a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets.
A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF addresses the need to expose relational data on the Web of Data in order to share that data with collaborators.
Public Drafts
The Web Cryptography Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of “Web Cryptography API.” This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Key storage is provided for both temporary and permanent keys. Access to keying material is contingent on the same origin policy. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications. Learn more about the Security Activity.
The Provenance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of “Constraints of the Provenance Data Model.” This document defines a subset of PROV instances called valid PROV instances. The intent of validation is to ensure that a PROV instance represents a history of objects and their interactions which is consistent, and thus safe to use for the purpose of logical reasoning and other kinds of analysis. Comments are welcome through 10 October.
The SVG Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of “Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2.” This specification defines the features and syntax for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. This version of SVG improves the usability of the language and adds new features commonly requested by authors.
Calls for Participation
W3C has issued a call for participation in the Audio Working Group, part of the Rich Web Client Activity. The group is chartered to deliver the Web Audio API specification [1] and the Web MIDI API specification.
There is also a Call for Participation in the RDFa Working Group, part of the Semantic Web Activity. The charter of this Working Group includes one deliverable, namely the HTML+RDFa 1.1 specification.