New Digital Publishing Activity
On June 25, W3C launched a new Digital Publishing Activity to make the Web a platform for the digital publishing industry, and to build the necessary bridges between the developers of the Open Web Platform and the publishing industry. More information can be found at http://www.w3.org/dpub/.
Do Not Track
W3C activities around developing a standard for the meaning of Do Not Track (DNT) have been much in the news. Some examples: Do Not Track standards group shoots down advertiser proposal (CNET) and ‘Do Not Track’ Rules for Advertising to Web Users Come a Step Closer to an Agreement (NYT).
Digital Rights management
Another hot-button issue involving W3C is the development of a standard for digital rights management (DRM). Netflix recently drew fire by stating its intention to use HTML5 to control access to web content. Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for boycott (Gigaom).
Official Recommendations
The Provenance Working Group published the PROV Family of Documents as W3C Recommendations. The PROV Family of Documents defines a model, corresponding serializations and other supporting definitions to enable the interoperable interchange of provenance information.
The Web Performance Working Group published a W3C Recommendation of Page Visibility. This specification defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications.
Candidate Recommendations
The Pointer Events Working Group published the Pointer Events specification as a Candidate Recommendation.
The Device APIs Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of HTML Media Capture.
The Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group published two Candidate Recommendations: The Organization Ontology and The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary.
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Indexed Database API.
The Device APIs Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Vibration API.
Proposed Recommendations
The Web Events Working Group advanced the earlier Touch Events
version 1 specification to Proposed Recommendation.
The RDFa Working Group published a Proposed Recommendation for HTML+RDFa 1.1.
Working Drafts Published
The Cascading Style Sheets Working Group published a working draft of Selectors Level 4
The Semantic Web Interest Group published a working draft of vCard Ontology
The Tracking Protection Working Group published two working drafts: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) and Tracking Compliance and Scope.
The HTML Working Group published a Working Draft of Encrypted Media Extensions.
The RDF Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API.
The System Applications Working Group published two Working Drafts: The app: URI scheme and Messaging API.
The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group published a Working Draft of Media Capture and Streams.
The System Applications Working Group published a Working Draft of Raw Socket API.
The Web Applications Working Group published four Working Drafts: Shadow DOM, Custom Elements, HTML Imports, and Java language binding for Web IDL.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published a Working Draft of CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3.
The Internationalization Working Group published a Working Draft of Requirements for Hangul Text Layout and Typography.
The Web Application Security Working Group published a Working Draft of User Interface Security Directives for Content Security Policy.
The Device APIs Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of Vibration API.
The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of “Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0.
The Web Applications Working Group published A Working Draft of Introduction to Web Components.
The Technical Architecture Group published the First Public Working Draft of URLs in Data Primer.
The Web Application Security Working Group published a Working Draft of Content Security Policy 1.1.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG Working Group published a Working Draft of Filter Effects 1.0.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published two Working Drafts: CSS Exclusions Module Level 1 and CSS Regions Module Level 1.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1 and a First Public Working Draft of CSS Shapes Module Level 1.
The System Applications Working Group published a Working Draft of Web Telephony API.
The SVG Working Group has published a Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2.
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group published a Working Draft of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 1.1.
The CSS Working Group and SVG Working Group jointly published a First Public Working Draft of Web Animations 1.0.
The Web Cryptography Working Group published a Working Draft of Web Cryptography API.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Fonts Module Level 3.
The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group and Device APIs Working Group published the First Public Working Draft of Mediastream Image Capture.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Counter Styles Level 3.
The HTML Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of the HTML5 Image Description Extension.
The Web Applications Working Group published a Working Draft of UI Events.
The Internationalization Working Group has published a Working Draft of Predefined Counter Styles.
The RDF Working Group published two Last Call Working Drafts: RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax and RDF 1.1 Semantics.
The XML Query Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language.
Group Notes
The Technical Architecture Group has published a Group Note of Publishing and Linking on the Web.
The Device APIs Working Group and the Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group published a Working Group Note of Web Intents. This informative specification defines a service discovery and light-weight RPC mechanism for web apps.
The Web Applications Working Group published a Group Note of Widget Updates.
The HTML Working Group published three Group Notes: HTML5: Edition for Web Authors, main element – an HTML5 extension specification, and HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language reference).
The Government Linked Data Working Group published two Group Notes: Registered Organization Vocabulary and Asset Description Metadata Schema.
The XML Security Working Group published a Group Note of Test cases for Canonical XML 2.0.
The Government Linked Data Working Group published a Group Note of Linked Data Glossary.
Reports
A report summarizing the MultilingualWeb workshop in Rome is now available. A new workshop in the MultilingualWeb series is planned for 2014.
W3C published a report summarizing the Open Data on the Web workshop that took place in April.
W3C published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile.
W3C published a report summarizing the Workshop on Richer Internationalization for eBooks, which took place 4 June in Tokyo.
Workshops
2013-09-10 (10 SEP) – 2013-09-11 (11 SEP)
RDF Validation Workshop – Practical Assurances for Quality
RDF Data
https://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/
Cambridge, MA
2013-09-16 (16 SEP) – 2013-09-17 (17 SEP)
Publishing and the Open Web Platform
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/
Paris, France