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Minutes for 01 May — 15 May 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 1 May 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/05/01-uwawg-minutes.html.
Feel free to send your comments to public-uwa@w3.org.
Minutes for 17 April — 1 May 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 17 April 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/04/17-uwawg-minutes.html.
Feel free to send your comments to public-uwa@w3.org.
Geolocation on the Mobile Web — 23 April 2008
Dave Raggett presents Geolocation on the Mobile Web (pdf) in WWW2008 on 23 April 2008, in the W3C Track session "The Web on the Move". The talk covers legal aspects, sensing techniques, examples of location based services, and the potential for work on standards.
Minutes for 10 April 2008 — 17 April 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 10 April 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/04/10-uwawg-minutes.html.
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Minutes for 3 April 2008 — 16 April 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 3 April 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/04/03-uwawg-minutes.html.
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Updated Working Draft for Delivery Context Ontology — 16 April 2008
The UWA Working Group published an updated Working Draft for the Delivery Context Ontology on 15 April 2008. The ontology defines a vocabulary for a wide range of primarily mobile device properties. We are now working on extending the ontology to cover user preferences and personalization, and a primer that provides an introduction to the ontology and how it relates to client and server-side APIs.
Minutes for 20 March 2008 — 3 April 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 20 March see http://www.w3.org/2008/03/20-uwawg-minutes.html.
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Seoul Face to Face Meeting 4,6 March 2008 — 1 April 2008
The UWA Working Group met face to face in Seoul, South Korea, hosted by ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute). The face to face meeting was co-located with meetings of the W3C Device Descriptions and Best Practices Working Groups together with the Mobile Wednesday Workshop.
Presentation at the Internet of Things conference — 20 March 2008
Dave Raggett presents on the Web of Things on Thursday, 27th March 2008 at the Internet of Things Conference in Zurich, Switzerland.
Minutes for 13 and 20 December 2007 — 10 January 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 13 December see: http://www.w3.org/2007/12/13-uwawg-minutes.html
and 20 December, see http://www.w3.org/2007/12/20-uwawg-minutes.html..
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Candidate Recommendation for DCCI — 21 December 2007
The Delivery Context Client Interfaces (DCCI) was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 21 December 2007. It provides a framework for Web pages to access static and dynamic device properties, for example, the screen size and orientation, battery level and signal strength, according to the formal model defined by the Delivery Context Ontology.
First public Working Draft for Delivery Context Ontology — 21 December 2007
The first public Working Draft for the Delivery Context Ontology was published on 21 December 2007. The ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices interact with the Web, and can be used to support adaptation at any point in the delivery chain.
UWA minutes now available for 6 December — 14 December 2007
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 6 December see: http://www.w3.org/2007/12/06-uwawg-minutes.html.
This includes the resolution to request moving DCCI to CR.
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UWA minutes aviable for 29 November — 11 December 2007
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 29 November see: http://www.w3.org/2007/11/29-uwawg-minutes.html.
Feel free to send your comments to public-uwa@w3.org.
UWA meeting at W3C Technical Plenary — 30 November 2007
The UWA working group met face to face at the W3C combined Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Meeting which was held at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge Mass. You can view a summary of the UWA meeting which started on Thursday afternoon on the 8th November and finished at lunchtime on Saturday 10th November. Our next face to face is planned for the first week in March 2008 in Seoul and will be hosted by ETRI.
UWA minutes available for 18 and 25 October — 2 November 2007
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 18 and 25 October, see: http://www.w3.org/2007/10/18-uwawg-minutes.html and http://www.w3.org/2007/10/25-uwawg-minutes.html.
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UWA Working Group to meet in Cambridge, MA — 1 November 2007
The Ubiquitous Web Applications working group is due to meet in Cambridge, Mass, USA from 8-10 November 2007 as part of W3C's co-located Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting. The draft agenda for the UWA face to face can be found on the UWA Wiki. The minutes and other materials will be published after the event.
Updated version of DIAL Primer — 1 November 2007
An updated version of the introduction to DIAL was published on 1 November 2007. The primer provides an introduction to DIAL (the Device Independent Authoring Language) as well as the benefits it offers for authoring Web applications for devices with widely varying capabilities. For more details, see http://www.w3.org/TR/dial-primer/.
Minutes now available for 11th October — 22 October 2007
The minutes of 11th October teleconference of the UWA working group are now publicly available at http://www.w3.org/2007/10/11-uwawg-minutes.html.
This meeting included a presentation on Device Coordination by Kangchan Lee.
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Minutes for 4 October now available — 12 October 2007
The minutes of 4th October teleconference of the UWA working group are now publicly available at http://www.w3.org/2007/10/04-uwawg-minutes.html.
This meeting included a presentation on the DCCI by Keith Waters.
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