Ufficio Italiano W3C

Proceedings SWAP2007

25 gennaio 2008 : Sono disponibili online gli atti della conferenza SWAP2007 tenutasi a Bari il 18-20 dicembre 2007.

KM12

27 novembre 2007 - Milano : L' Ufficio partecipa a The 12th KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FORUM organizzato da Jekpot - The Knowledge Management Company.
Dettagli nella sezione eventi.

Semantic Web Tiny System

29 marzo 2007 : L' Uffico Italiano W3C ha realizzato Semantic Web Tiny System (SWTS), un sistema che raccoglie rimandi a risorse di pubblica utilità quali strumenti e documenti nell' area Semantic Web.
Il sistema è nato inzialmente per raccogliere documentazione relativa a risorse di interesse per i programmatori Java.
Al momento l' inserimento di nuove risorse è consentito solo agli amministratori. In futuro, potrebbe essere consentito anche a utenti registrati.
Chi avesse prodotti, librerie, applicazioni, etc. interessanti da segnalare, può per ora inviare le informazioni direttamente a Massimo Martinelli, responsabile dell' applicazione.

W3C Talks in February

1 febbraio 2008 : W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

• 4 February, New Delhi, India: Web Accessibility: International Standards for Local Users.Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at Techshare India 2008.
• 5 February, Tokyo, Japan: HTML 5.Michael(tm) Smith presents at Jagat.
• 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All: Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your Website.Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
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Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop Report on eGovernment and the Web

31 gennaio 2008 : W3C has published a Workshop Report: eGovernment and the Web Workshop: "Toward More Transparent Government". Participants discussed ways to facilitate the deployment of Web standards across government sites and how to shape the ongoing research agenda in the development of Web technology and public policy in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to and use of government information. Held 18-19 June (press release), in Washington D.C., USA, the Workshop was jointly organized by W3C and WSRI. Learn more about eGovernment at W3C. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1 Proposed Recommendation

29 gennaio 2008 : The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Canonical XML 1.1. The specification establishes a method for determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a document, except for transformations permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML 1.0 designed to address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path processing properly. Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more about W3C's XML Activity. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies

29 gennaio 2008 : The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). Each recipe introduces general principles and an example configuration for use with an Apache HTTP server (which may be adapted to other environments). The recipes are all designed to be consistent with the architecture of the Web as currently specified. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference (First Public Working Draft)

25 gennaio 2008 : The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Semantic Web. SKOS provides a standard, low-cost means to describe the semantic relationships between existing knowledge systems and to port those systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a lightweight, intuitive language for developing and sharing new knowledge organization systems. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants

22 gennaio 2008 : The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), T.V. Raman (Google), and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Jonathan Rees (Science Commons), Norm Walsh (Sun), and Stuart Williams (HP), who co-Chairs the TAG with Tim Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content

22 gennaio 2008 : W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. "HTML is of course a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML and W3C Director. "I am glad to see that the community of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web." New features include APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics and ways to embed and control audio and video content. HTML 5 helps to improve interoperability and reduce software costs by giving precise rules not only about how to handle all correct HTML documents but also how to recover from errors. Discover other new features, read the press release, and learn more about the future of HTML. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility (First Public Working Draft)

22 gennaio 2008 : The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group have published the First Public Working Draft of Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. See the announcement email.

The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third document, Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by People Using Mobile Devices, provides examples of barriers that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

Document Object Model Activity Closed

22 gennaio 2008 : W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Activity is now closed. The Document Object Model Working Group closed in the early 2004 after the completion of the DOM Level 3 Recommendations. Since then, several W3C Working Groups have taken the lead in maintaining and continuing to develop standard APIs for the Web; these include the HTML, SVG, CSS, and WebAPI Working Groups. W3C will continue to develop APIs in various Working Groups. Learn more about achievements of those participating as part of the DOM Activity on the DOM Activity Statement. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)

W3C Invites Implementations of SMIL 3.0 (Candidate Recommendation)

15 gennaio 2008 : The SYMM Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0), an XML-based language that allows authors to create interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author can describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. The Working Group is building a test suite help ensure interoperable implementation. Learn more about W3C work on Synchronized Multimedia. (Archivio News inglese, italiano)