This is the list of current Community and Business Groups. Anyone may join; W3C Membership is not required. However, you must have a W3C account.
See also the list of proposed groups and past groups.
Accessible Infographics
28 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-06
The goal of the Accessible Infographics CG is to make information graphics, like bar charts and maps, as accessible as possible to all. The plan is to bring together experts and pioneers in the fields of data visualization and accessibility, to create use cases and requirements in a systematic manner, to devise and propose additions to SVG that improve accessible options for data in that and other graphics formats, and to document best practices and tutorials for making infographics accessible.
News, publications, and more on the Accessible Infographics Community Group home page.
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ActivityPub
12 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-16
A group to develop a social web API standard based on Atom Publication Protocol and ActivityStreams.
News, publications, and more on the ActivityPub Community Group home page.
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Ad Ops Speaks on DNT
6 participants
Date Created: 2012-05-10
Representatives from various publishers and advertising technology firms in ad operations roles discuss W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group's draft papers on Tracking Preference Expression and Tracking Compliance and Scope, and possibly propose alterations and amendments.
News, publications, and more on the Ad Ops Speaks on DNT Community Group home page.
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African Developers Taking on the Web
13 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-11
The mission of this group is to create and support a Pan-African community of competent, internationally certified IT professionals focused on developing the IT Web and mobile based tools for African Agriculture, Business, Education, Health Care, Government and general Social needs.
News, publications, and more on the African Developers Taking on the Web Community Group home page.
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Argumentation
13 participants
Date Created: 2012-05-19
The Argumentation Community Group will facilitate and promote the use of the Web for all forms of argumentation. The group will discuss and design both argumentation representation formats and systems.
News, publications, and more on the Argumentation Community Group home page.
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Augmented Reality
29 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-19
W3C is about an Open Web Platform; https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI is about the development and further W3C standardization of open API's. On synergy of Open Hardware API's, hardware sensors, and Open Web Platform - is the work of this W3C AR Community. Purpose for this W3C AR Community is, respectively, in connecting these initiatives with AR related communities and initiatives like Open AR, Open ARWeb, AR Standards, AR Forum, W3C POI WG, WebRTC, WHATWG, Web Applications WGs, Khronos WG's, IETF WG's, ROS, PointClouds, OpenNI, OpenCV etc. on the topic of Augmented Reality Web. W3C AR Community development should help the development of the reference AR Web platform, dedicated to testing and experimenting with a reference implementations of W3C's and other open industry standards; evaluating a possibility of the secure data schemes for storing the Point Clouds (a set of colored points in 3D space, usually achieved in the process of 3D scanning) and other social-related GIS AR data; discussing, developing and proposing the open standards for hardware and software interfaces of open standards based Augmented Reality Web; developing the propositions for healthy conditions of Augmented Reality use.
News, publications, and more on the Augmented Reality Community Group home page.
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Big Data
37 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-12
This group will explore emerging BIG DATA pipelines and discuss the potential for developing standard architectures, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and languages that will improve interoperability, enable security, and lower the overall cost of BIG DATA solutions. The BIG DATA community group will also develop tools and methods that will enable: a) trust in BIG DATA solutions; b) standard techniques for operating on BIG DATA, and c) increased education and awareness of accuracy and uncertainties associated with applying emerging techniques to BIG DATA.
News, publications, and more on the Big Data Community Group home page.
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CSS Accessibility
27 participants
Date Created: 2011-10-12
Document and describe how browsers and assistive technology currently implement CSS in regards to accessibility and guidance on how they should. The documentation and guidance will be directed at both CSS implementers and developers who use CSS.
News, publications, and more on the CSS Accessibility Community Group home page.
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CSS Rates and Velocities
2 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-09
The mission of this group is to create a CSS Module to define the rate of change of CSS property values.
News, publications, and more on the CSS Rates and Velocities Community Group home page.
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CSS Selectors as Fragment Identifiers
13 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-02
Decades after the web emerged, hypertext creators pointing to a specific place in a resource they don't control still have to hope or beg that there's a convenient link anchor placed there by the author. CSS selectors let us point anywhere in a document - let's bring them to hypertext! You can see a very rough initial plan of this at http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html.
News, publications, and more on the CSS Selectors as Fragment Identifiers Community Group home page.
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Client and Server JavaScript APIs
16 participants
Date Created: 2012-05-11
REST seven's rule was "Code on Demand," meaning the ability for the server to deliver code able to run on the client. Some, to use the same code everywhere, tried to do it with Java, .NET (ActiveX). Today, even Flash is fading out to let this place to JavaScript. HTML5 and offline support contributed in the creation of a bunch of APIs which only made sense on server-side in first place: File/FileSystem, Workers, Sockets, Storage/Session, Blob, ImageData. Most of those APIs, and even the already existing XMLHttpRequest (now in version 2) have been designed from the beginning to be usable via either synchronous or asynchronous APIs from the very early stages (synchronous is not blocking any more the user interface in browsers when used in workers). Now that the Server-Side JavaScript is rising again either in synchronous and asynchronous implementations, it is time, if we really want interoperable code/libraries/modules, to make those APIs taking into account the server-side context, and then on the other end, to push Server-Side JavaScript implementations to support them. CommonJS started a great project, it is now time to make its ambitions real.
News, publications, and more on the Client and Server JavaScript APIs Community Group home page.
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Cloud Computing
25 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-03
The group will examine and create specifications related to distributed computation and storage, with an XML network transport layer and possible mapping to RDF.
News, publications, and more on the Cloud Computing Community Group home page.
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Community Council
31 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-06
The mission of the Community Council is to promote Community and Business Groups and ensure that they function smoothly. The Council's activities include: documenting good community practices, reaching out to new communities, identifying opportunities for collaboration between groups, helping groups transition to the standards track if they so desire, and routine group maintenance. The Community Council will also discuss existing and new features and other ways to enhance the Community Group experience. Anyone may join the Community Council. In particular, W3C encourages Chairs of other Community and Business Groups to participate (e.g., in monthly meetings that will include W3C staff). This group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus and with due process.
News, publications, and more on the Community Council home page.
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Community I/O
11 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-01
This group will focus on applying current information technologies to create a foundation of infrastructure for organizing the flow of resources and support with services within human community. All peers (individuals or projects) can state their needs (input) and offers (output). Using Semantic Web, Federated Social Web and other related technologies people can develop various approaches of connecting those needs and offers. Including variants with and without use of currencies.
News, publications, and more on the Community I/O Community Group home page.
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Core Mobile Web Platform
274 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-27
The goal of the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group (CG) is to accelerate the adoption of the Mobile Web as a compelling platform for the development of modern mobile web applications. In order to achieve this mission, the CG will bring developers, equipment manufacturers, browser vendors, operators and other relevant members of the industry together to agree on core features developers can depend on, create related conformance test suites and provide to W3C (and non-W3C) groups use cases, scenarios, and other input related to successful mobile development. Read the full charter: http://www.w3.org/community/coremob/charter/
News, publications, and more on the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group home page.
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Data Driven Standards
14 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-07
The Data Driven Standards Community Group focuses on researching, analyzing and publicly documenting current usage patterns on the Internet. Inspired by the Microformats Process, the goal of this group is to enlighten standards development with real-world data. This group will collect and report data from large Web crawls, produce detailed reports on protocol usage across the Internet, document yearly changes in usage patterns and promote findings that demonstrate that the current direction of a particular specification should be changed based on publicly available data. All data, research, and analysis will be made publicly available to ensure the scientific rigor of the findings. The group will be a collection of search engine companies, academic researchers, hobbyists, protocol designers and specification editors in search of data that will guide the Internet toward a brighter future.
News, publications, and more on the Data Driven Standards Community Group home page.
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Decisions and Decision-Making
8 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-25
The group will discuss and tentatively specify a format for representing decisions, i.e. decision information, so they can be used across diverse systems. Because of the great variety of applications and decision technologies, this format should focus on the generic, core components of decisions and decision-making information. Decisions are a source of information in themselves, i.e. each decision that is made is in itself a piece of information the may need to be stored, tracked, shared, combined and compared to other decisions. The same holds for information about the decision process. In particular, this group will discuss and study how Semantic Web technologies can facilitate the representation and sharing of decision information. Ultimately, the aim of the group is to study and develop technologies and methods to support better, rapid, and agile decision making.
News, publications, and more on the Decisions and Decision-Making Community Group home page.
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Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture
36 participants
Date Created: 2011-06-29
The mission of the Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture Community Group is to determine the requirements, options, and use cases for an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the W3C technology stack. This group is aimed to extract core features out of the requirements as foundation to propose feasible technical solutions. These should cover the majority of 3D use cases for the Web - but not necessarily all of them. There are upcoming open (e.g., WebGL) and proprietary (e.g., Adobe) proposals for imperative graphics APIs in the Web context but we are missing an easy way to add interactive high-level declarative 3D objects to the HTML-DOM to allow anyone to easily create, share, and experience interactive 3D graphics - with possibly wide ranging effects similar to those caused by the broad availability of video on the Web. The goal of this CG is to evaluate the necessary requirements for a successful standardization of a declarative approach to interactive 3D graphics as part of HTML documents.
News, publications, and more on the Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture Community Group home page.
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Decoders W3C Brasil
8 participants
Date Created: 2012-08-09
Este grupo pretende reunir discussões sobre os resultados dos eventos de desenvolvimento realizados pelo W3C Brasil e seus produtos resultantes, bem como incentivar reflexões sobre como melhorar, evoluir e manter os aplicativos feitos em atividades como hackdays e hackatons. This group aims to bring together the discussion on development events conducted by the W3C Brazil and its resulting products, as well as encouraging thoughts on how to improve, evolve and maintain applications made in activities like Hackdays and Hackatons.
News, publications, and more on the Decoders W3C Brasil Community Group home page.
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Development Linked Data
11 participants
Date Created: 2012-07-08
The goal of this group is to discuss the standards and best practices to expose Open Development Data as Linked Data.
News, publications, and more on the Development Linked Data Community Group home page.
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Digital Publication
35 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-23
The growth of the tablet and eReader market, and changes in scholarly publishing, have shown the accelerating impact of the Open Web Platform on digital publishing. For example, ePUB 3.0 no longer subsets W3C standards like HTML5, CSS, SVG, MathML, and Javascript APIs, but uses them in full. It also extends them to cover the various needs of digital publishing. These extensions, and continuing fragmentation among devices, formats, publishers, and distribution networks, suggest an opportunity for W3C to address publishing industry use cases, from novels and prose through to scientific and scholarly publishing, medical and legal publishing, interactive children's books, magazines and more. The initial aim of the Digital Publication Community Group will be to determine if W3C should invest more heavily in digital publication, and if so, what role it should play. The CG will establish and strengthen active liaisons with existing digital publishing fora, such as the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) which oversees the ePUB specification, as well as digital publishers and distributors of all types. The Digital Publication Community Group will also explore the idea of one or more workshop on the topic, and provide a forum for open discussions on the future of digital publishing, specifically: * reducing market fragmentation * describing traditional and emerging publishing workflows, from the technology perspective * creating scenarios and requirements to drive future standardization in W3C Working Groups, including layout, internationalization, security, accessibility, content protection, metadata, and vocabularies. This group will not publish Specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Digital Publication Community Group home page.
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Distributed Tasks
6 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-04
Common ground for people developing various collaboration software with notion of "tasks." Aiming for increasing interoperability across all such software and improving experience of a person contributing to big number of projects. Emphasis on interoperability, portability and extensibility!
News, publications, and more on the Distributed Tasks Community Group home page.
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Do-Not-Track
14 participants
Date Created: 2011-10-28
This community group, started by Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is intended as a companion to the Tracking Protection Working Group with the goal of enabling consumer and privacy groups to participate meaningfully in the WG even if they do not participate in WG conference calls, mailing lists, or in-person workshops. In the short term, this community group's major goal will be to analyze and respond to the First Public Working Draft, which is expected soon.
News, publications, and more on the Do-Not-Track Community Group home page.
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E-learning: Evolving technologies and growing reach
19 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-08
This Community Group focuses on e-learning. Participants will discuss new and existing technologies for e-learning and M-learning. The group will also talk about the reach, social change and impact of e-learning.
News, publications, and more on the E-learning: Evolving technologies and growing reach Community Group home page.
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EXPath
23 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-24
The mission of this group is to lead to extension of XPath and all related technologies (XSLT, XQuery, XProc, XForms, XML Schema).
News, publications, and more on the EXPath Community Group home page.
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Electrophysiology of Vision Markup Language
4 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-02
Exchange of electrophysiological data for post-processing including in clinical trials is gaining increasing importance. Although manufacturers of electrophysiological devices usually provide means for exporting data, these are often restricted to either proprietary or ASCII-based formats which do not provide access to raw data or protocol details. With the need for central reading in multi-centre trials this becomes a major problem. The reading process usually requires all details of a measurement, to allow for properly monitoring compliance with study protocols. Standards for exchanging data have already been approved for other applications of electrmophysiology including EEG or ECG. However, these standards are usually focused on their specific field of application. Common standards are also available, like GDF (General Data Format for Biosignals), EDF (European Data Format), or HL7 and DICOM; however, these standards either do not match the specific requirements of ophthalmic electrophysiology or the efforts to adapt them are very high. Therefore we are proposing an open standard for the exchange of data for electrophysiology of vision based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
News, publications, and more on the Electrophysiology of Vision Markup Language Community Group home page.
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Federated Social Web
73 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-12
This group continues the work of the W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/)
News, publications, and more on the Federated Social Web Community Group home page.
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Film Industry
6 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-15
The aim of the Film Industry Community Group is to explore the implementation of Open Web Platform and Semantic Web technologies within the professional world of filmmaking.
News, publications, and more on the Film Industry Community Group home page.
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Fixing Application Cache
30 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-06
This is a group for coordination between developers in the broader community, browser vendors, and specification writers about addressing the existing issues with Application Cache.
News, publications, and more on the Fixing Application Cache Community Group home page.
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Games
87 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-26
The goal of the games community group is to improve the quality of open web standards that game developers rely on to create games. This is done by: * Tracking specifications and vendor implementations related to open web games. * Recommending new specifications to be produced and finding working group homes for them. * Refining use cases to communicate specific needs of games. * Suggesting refinements or fixes to existing specifications to better meet the needs of the game development community * Evangelizing specifications to browser vendors. * Documenting how to best use open web standards for games * Evangelizing open web standards to game developers and game development best practices to web developers The games community group will not develop any specifications, and thus, there will not be any Essential Claims under the W3C Contributor License Agreement or Final Specification Agreement.
News, publications, and more on the Games Community Group home page.
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HTML Editing APIs
21 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-16
A group to work on APIs and other functionality related to rich-text HTML editing, such as (1) the contenteditable and designMode attributes (2)The execCommand(), queryCommandEnabled(), queryCommandIndeterm(), queryCommandState(), queryCommandSupported(), and queryCommandValue() methods on the Document interface (3) what exact effect user actions (such as typing text or hitting Enter) should have on rich-text editable regions (4) the Selection interface (5) spellcheck for rich-text editable regions, and (6) other functionality related to the foregoing. The group is expected to work on writing high-quality, detailed technical specifications suited for implementation by major browsers. It will start work with the preliminary specification hosted at http://aryeh.name/spec/editing/editing.html, and later add the Selection part of http://html5.org/specs/dom-range.html, both of which are currently developed entirely outside the W3C and are not close to interoperable implementation. The group's deliverables are expected to be submitted to the Recommendation track in the WebApps WG after they mature sufficiently.
News, publications, and more on the HTML Editing APIs Community Group home page.
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HTML5 Specifications
35 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-14
A group addresses and discusses proposed ideas for HTML5 specifications.
News, publications, and more on the HTML5 Specifications Community Group home page.
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High-Performance Computing
22 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-06
This community group is focused on bringing high performance computing (HPC) to the web. In particular, we're interested in making the computing and data resources that underlie simulation science, scientific computing, and data-centric science easily accessible through web browsers. Our members are working on APIs that expose HPC resources via the web, as well as gateways and web applications that take advantage of these APIs. The major goal of this community is to accelerate the pace of development of web-based HPC applications. Recognizing that we can build on each other's work, and that a consistent approach to developing such tools can enable features that require communication across multiple computing centers, we are interested in sharing technologies and ideas.
News, publications, and more on the High-Performance Computing Community Group home page.
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Instant Syndicating Standards
1 participants
Date Created: 2012-06-07
ISS/IM is an open set of standards that empowers individuals to discover and syndicate information through the help of their own personal social network. As of today, there is no existing technology that allows individuals to share information in a bottom-up manner on a global scale. ISS/IM is a proposal to create just that: a distributed worldwide recommender system perfectly tuned to output a very personalized stream of information for each individual, where information flows from the personal social network towards the whole wide world.
News, publications, and more on the Instant Syndicating Standards Community Group home page.
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JSON for Linking Data
48 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-01
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is a lightweight Linked Data format that gives your data context. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on the already successful JSON format and provides a way to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale. If you are already familiar with JSON, writing JSON-LD is very easy. These properties make JSON-LD an ideal Linked Data interchange language for JavaScript environments, Web service, and unstructured databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB.
News, publications, and more on the JSON for Linking Data Community Group home page.
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Law and Technology
8 participants
Date Created: 2012-08-07
The mission of the Law and Technology Community Group is to serve as a place for legal professionals and those interested in the law to share information on how current laws affect the implementation of new web technologies as well as how those new technologies can affect the law.
News, publications, and more on the Law and Technology Community Group home page.
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Locations and Addresses
28 participants
Date Created: 2012-08-06
There have been several recent efforts to standardize vocabularies for describing locations, using existing geometry specifications. GeoSPARQL, NeoGeo and the EU ISA Programme's Location Core Vocabulary join schema.org's vocabulary and more. Is there a set of use cases that an usefully be served by greater collaboration in this space? What problems remain? Where are the awkward edges that need to be knocked into shape? The mission of the Location and Addresses Community Group is to review the existing efforts in this space (notably GeoSPARQL, NeoGeo, the EU's INSPIRE Directive and schema.org) and assess whether any use cases would be served by harmonization and/or new standardization work. This group may produce specifications or use cases and requirements documents, which may be proposed for adoption by the Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group consistent with its charter (http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/charter).
News, publications, and more on the Locations and Addresses Community Group home page.
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MicroXML
32 participants
Date Created: 2012-07-16
MicroXML is a subset of XML intended for use in contexts where full XML is, or is perceived to be, too large and complex. MicroXML provides a set of rules for defining markup languages intended for use in encoding data objects, and specifies behavior for certain software modules that access them.
News, publications, and more on the MicroXML Community Group home page.
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Microposts
23 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-24
The purpose of this group is to connect the multidisciplinary (Social Science, Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, ...) research community interested in the study and treatment of low-effort user generated content on the Web (tweets, checkins, status messages, likes,...), called microposts. The objective of this community is to develop ways to leverage this massively growing, yet informationally poor source of data on the Web for different practical use cases. This group will not publish specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Microposts Community Group home page.
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Mobile Accessibility
23 participants
Date Created: 2012-07-20
The mission of this group is the discussion and investigation of the intersection of mobile and accessibility. A place to discuss emerging efforts, document needs and requirements and investigate emergent techniques and best practices. This group will not be developing any specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Mobile Accessibility Community Group home page.
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Mobile Web in Indian Languages
9 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-30
The W3C India Office is setting up this Community Group on Mobile Web in Indian Languages with the objective of addressing the issues concerning with the enablement of mobile, smartphones and next generation wireless devices with Indian Languages support, seamless SMS and MMS sending and receiving in Indian Language , Uniform user experience on the mobile through using Indian Languages, and access to Indian Languages websites from mobiles. The goal is to achieve seamless access and operation irrespective of the mobile manufacturers and service providers. This group will help in building the ecosystem for enhancing the penetration of mobiles in the country to the rural areas using the Indian Languages enablement. The Group will also explore and develop the Indian Language requirements in existing and future Mobile Communication standards.
News, publications, and more on the Mobile Web in Indian Languages Community Group home page.
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Multilingual Web Sites
21 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-19
The objective is to produce specifications to facilitate the use and creation of multilingual web sites.
News, publications, and more on the Multilingual Web Sites Community Group home page.
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Native Web Apps
63 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-19
A community driven take on the concepts driving the Widgets and Device APIs. Collectively understood these technologies form the basis for installable web apps. Living in a secured context these applications give the web access to traditionally native capabilities.
News, publications, and more on the Native Web Apps Community Group home page.
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Network-Friendly App and WebApp Best Practices
15 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-21
Welcome to the W3C Community Group for Network Friendly applications! In this group, we are looking for contributions to help us reach the widest possible consensus in a critical area facing the mobile industry. Smartphones and smartphone applications have established themselves as a major success story in the industry over the past few years. As the number of smartphones and smartphone applications has increased the industry has learnt much on how to create efficient applications for smartphones. The GSMA has created a set of guidelines for application developers that will enable improvements across a number of areas including application connectivity, power consumption, network reliability and security. By following these guidelines - Developers will be better equipped to create fit-for-purpose apps - Users will experience more responsive and reliable apps and improved battery life - Mobile operators will see a reduced strain on their networks For a copy of these guidelines check out http://www.gsma.com/go/download/file=gsmasmarterappsforsmarterphones0112v.0.14.pdf GSMA intends to issue an update of the above document by end of 2012. As such, it has compiled a list of items for inclusion in the update after consulting GSMA’s members; they include network operators and device manufactures. To ensure the new update will have the widest possible support by all communities across the industry, we have created a Community Group called ‘network friendly Developer guidelines’ under auspices of W3C. The new CG is formed with a view to engage other developers or interested parties and reach a consensus as what needs to be added beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The proposed items for inclusion are embedded in this document. Check out http://www.w3.org/community/networkfriendly/wiki/images/b/be/Proposed_items_for_inclusion_in_the_update.doc to download the current suggestions as approved by GSMA. As the update will be released by end of 2012, all changes should be agreed in time before the actual work of writing and editing the document starts in earnest and no later than 1st September 2012. That means the outcome of activities in the CG would be a list of items for inclusion beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The outcome would be considered by GSMA for inclusion when updating the document. In Brief, the goal and milestones to bear in mind are as follows. Goal To produce a set of items for inclusion in the updated document beyond what has already been suggested (see the enclosed document) Key milestones 19th April to 10th August 2012 to discuss the base document and the proposed updates and reach consensus in the CG on any additional proposals 11th August to 18th August is the cooling off period to take on board last minute suggestions and final touches 19th August to 31st August, GSMA will consider the final input from CG prior to commencing work on the update in September As a rule of thumb, the entire process would be transparent and inclusive to reach agreement by discussion. In the unlikely event of not reaching consensus on burning issues, the (yet to be named) CG chair would make the final decision only as a last resort. You are invited to actively engage with the process to make the resulting document much better than its debut version. We welcome views and contribution with an open mind.
News, publications, and more on the Network-Friendly App and WebApp Best Practices Community Group home page.
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Networked Data
17 participants
Date Created: 2011-10-12
The recent years have shown the need to deal with networked data in large-scale, distributed settings. Not only must the systems be scalable, elastic and performant, but also address *ability (usability, manageability, etc.). One key component is doing it the webby way. The Web is the leading concrete exemplar of RESTful design, being the result of posthumous analysis of what was already working with URIs, HTTP and HTML for a system of interlinked documents. Unfortunately the machine equivalent of HTML is still emerging. LinkedData has achieved some powerful results; automated navigation by querying the Linked Open Data cloud shows some of the potential. However many systems also need to evolve and be evolved. This can be expressed as 'service capability' and also needs to be supported with consistency. This should aim to eliminate the wide range of non-interoperable approaches muddling the current landscape of REST APIs through exploiting hypermedia concepts. The Networked Data Community Group aims to provide a forum for collecting use cases including but not limited to the fields of science data (such as biology, astronomy, etc.), economics data (financial markets, etc.), health care, configuration and systems management, Green IT, and smart infrastructures (cities, etc.). Based on the collection of use cases the CG will derive requirements and write up best practices for dealing with the dynamics of the data.
News, publications, and more on the Networked Data Community Group home page.
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ODRL
21 participants
Date Created: 2011-06-29
The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for policy expressions. ODRL provides flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital content in publishing, distribution and consumption of digital media across all sectors and communities. The ODRL Policy model is broad enough to support traditional rights expressions for commercial transaction, open access expressions for publicly distributed content, and privacy expressions for social media.
News, publications, and more on the ODRL Community Group home page.
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OStatus
16 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-11
OStatus is a suite of protocols that lets people on different social networks interact. This group will develop the next version of the protocol.
News, publications, and more on the OStatus Community Group home page.
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OWL: Experiences and Directions
22 participants
Date Created: 2012-05-29
Everything related to the Web Ontology Language.
News, publications, and more on the OWL: Experiences and Directions Community Group home page.
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Oil, Gas and Chemicals Business Group
16 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-09
The Oil, Gas and Chemicals Business Group is intended to study and possibly demonstrate applications of Semantic Web technology to business issues in those industries. An example of the topics the Business Group could focus on is information describing the equipment used in major capital projects, with an eye to integration of that information with other major parts of the value chain such as production, maintenance and facilities engineering information systems. Another possibility is open publishing of catalog or metadata records according to published ontologies so that the published records can be queried, aggregated and analyzed in order to improve the efficiency and intelligence of searching for relevant resources.
News, publications, and more on the Oil, Gas and Chemicals Business Group home page.
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Ontology-Lexica
59 participants
Date Created: 2011-07-03
The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to: (1) Develop models for the representation of lexica (and machine readable dictionaries) relative to ontologies. These lexicon models are intended to represent lexical entries containing information about how ontology elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in multiple languages. In addition, the lexical entries contain appropriate linguistic (syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic) information that constrains the usage of the entry. (2) Demonstrate the added value of representing lexica on the Semantic Web, in particularly focusing on how the use of linked data principles can allow for the re-use of existing linguistic information from resource such as WordNet. (3) Provide best practices for the use of linguistic data categories in combination with lexica. (4) Demonstrate that the creation of such lexica in combination with the semantics contained in ontologies can improve the performance of NLP tools. (5) Bring together people working on standards for representing linguistic information (syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic) building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future. (6) Cater for interoperability among existing models to represent and structure linguistic information. (7) Demonstrate the added value of applications relying on the use of the combination of lexica and ontologies.
News, publications, and more on the Ontology-Lexica Community Group home page.
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Open Annotation
46 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-08
The purpose of the Open Annotation Community Group is to work towards a common, RDF-based, specification for annotating digital resources. The effort will start by working towards a reconciliation of two proposals that have emerged over the past two years: the Annotation Ontology [1] and the Open Annotation Model [2]. Initially, editors of these proposals will closely collaborate to devise a common draft specification that addresses requirements and use cases that were identified in the course of their respective efforts. The goal is to make this draft available for public feedback and experimentation in the second quarter of 2012. The final deliverable of the Open Annotation Community Group will be a specification, published under an appropriate open license, that is informed by the existing proposals, the common draft specification, and the community feedback. [1] http://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ [2] http://www.openannotation.org/spec/beta/
News, publications, and more on the Open Annotation Community Group home page.
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Open Source SEO
6 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-30
A group sharing related interests in the world of Open Source SEO; software, tools, tips, tricks, plugins, coding, scripting and more.
News, publications, and more on the Open Source SEO Community Group home page.
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Philosophy of the Web
35 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-17
Many philosophical issues have arisen in the technical design of Web standards over the years. Philosophical conundrums sometimes seem out of context in the light of seemingly more pressing technical problems. Yet, the very fact that these philosophical problems are constantly raised indicates that they are not easily dispensed with, but should instead be the focus of serious and ongoing long-term discussions. This is why this CG aims at undertaking such discussions, even outsourcing them to alleviate the task of other groups. To clarify the goal of this CG: it should not be a place to do unconstrained philosophical research but rather a forum to examine issues arising from the W3C technical community. Open discussion and precise descriptions of the minutiae of the Web will help guide the work in the CG, which should output short guides on precise topics to help case progress and discussions in other groups. The PhiloWeb Community group aims to undertake such discussions by bringing together experts from the web and the philosophical community to help the task of "philosophical engineering", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee.
News, publications, and more on the Philosophy of the Web Community Group home page.
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Places
9 participants
Date Created: 2012-10-05
Place data has many uses, including augmented reality browsers, gazetteers, location-based social networking games, geocaching, mapping, navigation systems, and many others. In addition, the group will explore how the geospatial industry could best use, influence and contribute to Web standards.
News, publications, and more on the Places Community Group home page.
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Print and Page Layout
23 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-06
For people interested in XSL-FO and related page layout technologies, the Print & Page Layout Community Group is the "virtual water cooler" where they can hang out and discuss aspects of the current draft, of test cases, of implementations, or of requirements in advance of their solution in any draft. The success of the XSL-FO meetup at XML Prague 2012 shows there's a strong undercurrent of interest in XSL-FO and its implementation, and the Print and Page Layout Community Group is intended as a place where we can start to build a larger community of XSL-FO users and help to raise the visibility of this important technology.
News, publications, and more on the Print and Page Layout Community Group home page.
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Private User Agent
8 participants
Date Created: 2012-09-23
The Private User Agent Community Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by designing the User Agent to minimize fingerprinting and to improve the control the user has over information shared over the Web and to improve the security of the User Agent in these regards. The group seeks to standardize the designs necessary to achieve these goals, to develop extensions designed for privacy to mitigate inevitable losses of functionality, to foster consideration of privacy in the design of other Web standards, and to discuss and develop implementations and test suits. Mechanisms for expressing user privacy preferences to servers and content provides are outside the scope of this group.
News, publications, and more on the Private User Agent Community Group home page.
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PubSubHubbub
35 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-11
The group will promote and design a Publish-Subscribe pattern and protocol for the web. The current de-facto protocol for it, PubSubHubbub is already widely used but has a couple issues that we need to address. We hope this protocol can be used in wide range of applications, from social web, to e-commerce or even search engines.
News, publications, and more on the PubSubHubbub Community Group home page.
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Read Write Web
64 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-16
Focus on Read-Write aspect of the WWW via use of WebID protocol and ACLs.
News, publications, and more on the Read Write Web Community Group home page.
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Responsive Images
163 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-20
Our goal is a markup-based means of delivering alternate image sources based on device capabilities, to prevent wasted bandwidth and optimize display for both screen and print.
News, publications, and more on the Responsive Images Community Group home page.
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Revising W3C Process
21 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-03
Examine the way W3C works. Propose improvements to the formal processes. These will be given to the Advisory Board, which currently manages that process.
News, publications, and more on the Revising W3C Process Community Group home page.
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SDshare
15 participants
Date Created: 2012-10-08
SDshare is a highly RESTful protocol for synchronization of RDF (and potentially other) data, by publishing feeds of data changes as Atom feeds.
News, publications, and more on the SDshare Community Group home page.
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SVG Mapping
4 participants
Date Created: 2012-10-18
The mission of SVG Mapping Community Group (SVGMapCG) is to build requirements for SVG based Web Mapping through a discussion of use cases regarding map services. One of the key technologies for SVG Web Mapping is dynamic Tiling & Layering, which realizes zoom and pan display of maps in an efficient manner. The other technologies for the mapping (e.g. Shared Path, Vector Effects and etc.) are also necessary. Although these functionalities will be standardized as part of SVG 2 in SVG WG, the focus of discussion is for general use and the discussion may lack particular aspects for map services. Therefore, our main scope is to investigate whether these generic functions are enough or not to resolve challenges inherent in mapping, and to provide WGs (e.g. SVG and Geolocation) feedback from our observation. Envisioned issues for Web Mapping are a common coordinate system for map contents and a projection. Another issue is a relationship to other GIS communities (OpenLayers, Open Street Map, WMS, and etc.) outside W3C. They have developed map-related standards and frameworks, and we need to clarify our interrelationship and consider collaboration if necessary.
News, publications, and more on the SVG Mapping Community Group home page.
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SVG glyphs for OpenType
14 participants
Date Created: 2011-10-27
Extension of OpenType to allow multicolor, animated SVG glyphs while reusing the OpenType layout facilities.
News, publications, and more on the SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group home page.
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Schema Bib Extend
43 participants
Date Created: 2012-09-13
The mission of this group is to discuss and prepare proposal(s) for extending Schema.org schemas for the improved representation of bibliographic information markup and sharing. The group will seek consensus around, and support for, proposal(s) to the W3C WebSchemas Group. This Community Group will not, itself, produce technical specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Schema Bib Extend Community Group home page.
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Script Library
29 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-02
A forum for improved communication between script library authors and users, and W3C working groups working on relevant specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Script Library Community Group home page.
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Semantic News
46 participants
Date Created: 2011-07-08
The Semantic News Community Group is a forum for exploring the intersection of W3C semantic technologies and news gathering, production, distribution and consumption. It will focus on a common representation for abstract ideas in the news domain such as a 'news event' or a domain ontology for news. This includes the following subject areas: 1. Review, test and comment on existing and proposed standards for semantic technologies in the news domain. 2. Encourage the reuse of well-known datasets and ontologies and propose mappings between them as required. 3. Best practices for publishing, exchanging and linking data, including use cases. 4. Development of prototypes to help build the business case for this approach. 5. Discuss design principles of schemas and ontologies.
News, publications, and more on the Semantic News Community Group home page.
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Semantic Sensor Networks
30 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-22
To continue the work of the Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (the SSN-XG) in defining and using ontologies and mappings for querying, managing and understanding sensors, sensor networks and observations. This community group will also serve as a community and access point for ontologies (such as the group's SSN ontology) and technologies developed for semantic sensor networks.
News, publications, and more on the Semantic Sensor Networks Community Group home page.
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Semantic Web Interfaces
10 participants
Date Created: 2012-10-12
Although Interface and Interaction design typically pertain to the disciplinary domain of HCI, which can be considered a neighboring discipline to the semantic web, with this proposal we aim to bring the relevant aspects of HCI to address core technological, socio-technical and fundamental challenges for Semantic Web (and Web Science) research. Read more: http://tinyurl.com/8hxlx7x
News, publications, and more on the Semantic Web Interfaces Community Group home page.
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Semantic Web Programming Languages
17 participants
Date Created: 2011-11-03
A community focused on the adoption of Semantic Web concepts within contemporary and new programming languages. These will incorporate W3C Semantic Web standards for Ontology, Linked data and representations as integral parts of the development tool chains. Particularly the group will aim to 1. Develop new semantically-aware programming languages, 2. Modify existing languages to be semantically-aware 3. Develop design patterns for semantically-aware programming. 4. Develop Ontologies for computer programming concepts to allow inter-lingual sharing of basic and domain-specific algorithms.
News, publications, and more on the Semantic Web Programming Languages Community Group home page.
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Smart Phone Application Developer
6 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-08
This Group will help developers create Internet based Smart Phone applications. Participants will collaborate and code to make the web equally and easily accessible through Smart Phones. This group will document the new research papers created by group members regarding Internet based Phone applications.
News, publications, and more on the Smart Phone Application Developer Community Group home page.
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Social Business
40 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-10
This group will focus on social business use cases and application of those use cases to standards, standards improvements, and standards gaps. Initial conversations will be based on the W3C Jam Results recommendations: http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/report.html
News, publications, and more on the Social Business Community Group home page.
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Speech API
24 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-03
The goal and scope of this Community Group is to produce a JavaScript Speech API that supports the majority of use-cases in the the Speech Incubator Group's Final Report [1], but is a simplified subset API, such as this proposal [2]. For this initial specification, we believe that a simplified subset API will accelerate implementation, interoperability testing, standardization and ultimately developer adoption. This JavaScript Speech API will enable web developers to incorporate scripts into their web pages that can generate text-to-speech output and can use speech recognition as an input for forms, continuous dictation and control. Specification of HTML markup and a network speech protocol are out-of-scope of this Community Group. [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/XGR-htmlspeech/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/att-1696/speechapi.html
News, publications, and more on the Speech API Community Group home page.
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Technical Architecture
16 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-24
This group is an open forum for discussing Web architecture, such as that discussed by the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Web architecture refers to the underlying principles that should be adhered to by Web components (APIs/Markup), whether developed inside or outside W3C. The architecture captures principles that affect such things as understandability, interoperability, scalability, accessibility, and internationalization. We expect to have a strong working relationship with the W3C TAG.
News, publications, and more on the Technical Architecture Community Group home page.
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Timed Text
12 participants
Date Created: 2011-10-14
A number of organisations are now working with the TTML specification, and a degree of parallel discussion is happening. Some of that discussion is behind closed doors. There is a need to cross fertilize such groups so that the standard does not diverge, in addition new features and errata are being developed. This group is established to act as a forum for individuals, companies and consortia that are working with the TTML specification to address such issues. The core activities of the group will be as follows: - To act as a central forum for technical questions and answers on TTML - To act as a point of coordination for extensions and features being created in other organizations. - To identify issues, gaps and errata in the specification for future standardization. - Support the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG)) to develop a community standard which updates TTML 1.0 to address issues, gaps, and errata. - To develop and document tutorials, examples and best practice workflows - To host example code, templates, test data, and implementation code
News, publications, and more on the Timed Text Community Group home page.
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Uncertainty, Trust and the Semantic Web
25 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-17
Focus on trust and uncertainty aspect of the Semantic Web. The trust and uncertainty domains, although having different meanings, but can be represented in a similar manner.
News, publications, and more on the Uncertainty, Trust and the Semantic Web Community Group home page.
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Unhosted Web
33 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-06
We propose per-user cross-origin cloud storage, much in the sense described in http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html We are a non-profit project and have so far defined a first draft of our standard for this: http://unhosted.org/spec/dav/0.1 We have researched a lot of aspects in the last few months, and are about move to version 0.2 of our standard. People are starting to implement this with significant user base sizes, and other people are starting to develop apps that rely on it, which is now would be a good time to make this into a w3c cg.
News, publications, and more on the Unhosted Web Community Group home page.
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User Identity on the Web
7 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-14
Currently, more and more services are created on the web and require information about you, me, all of us. Therefore, users have to give away a lot of information about themselves to many different services. The point is that the users lose control of their identity on the web, by filling a lot of forms (e.g., through subscriptions). Privacy on the Internet is extremely important and must remain. Personal information is used by services we, sometimes, don't even know about, and it is a real problem. The aim of this group would be to think about new ways to identify individuals over the internet using trusted web based identities embedded directly into the core protocols of the web. At the same time it is important to maintain equilibrium between total privacy and providing information when needed, which means, when the user wants to.
News, publications, and more on the User Identity on the Web Community Group home page.
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User Interaction and Experience
11 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-26
As the number of Web applications is exponential, the capability to link user activity from application to another is also growing. However, these connections are more or less relying on specific models and APIs and set-up of a new connected application needs a tons of one-to-one configuration. This group will try to gather from these experience in order to build a more coherent model for sharing - semantically enabled & privacy safe - interaction data in order to provide better user experience among web applications.
News, publications, and more on the User Interaction and Experience Community Group home page.
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VIVO Open Research Networking
13 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-09
VIVO (http://vivoweb.org, http://vivo.sourceforge.net) is an open source semantic web platform and ontology for representing researchers and their associated training, background, activities, organizations, and outputs including publications and research resources. VIVO publishes linked open data integrated from a variety of authoritative sources as well as from direct user input. This group will bring together developers, ontologists, adopters, outreach and policy strategists, end users, and members of closely related communities (e.g., http://orcid.org, https://www.eagle-i.org/home/) for discussion on the use of semantic data for research representation and networking, related tools, and opportunities for collaboration and synergy.
News, publications, and more on the VIVO Open Research Networking Community Group home page.
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W3C Developer Relations
18 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-22
Developers and designers form an important audience for W3C standards, but the standards process itself is not an ideal way to engage with them. W3C has made strides in terms of developer relations in recent years, through W3Conf, Web Education XG and CG, easy access to W3C through community groups, more documentation, and online training. More can be done to reach more people and better reflect their interests in W3C. Initial ideas: * Create a developer relations activity or domain, to coordinate and explore different ways to directly engage with developers and designers, to gain early feedback on our specifications. * Make W3C a home for more useful documentation, demos, etc. * Support developer advocacy, in which ideas, use cases, and requirements for features or specification fixes are collected in detail from developers and designers, and presented to the appropriate W3C Groups. * Liaise with Members' developer relations departments on projects of mutual benefit. This group will not publish Specifications.
News, publications, and more on the W3C Developer Relations Community Group home page.
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WAI-Engage: Web Accessibility
43 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-06
WAI-Engage is an open forum for responsive development of material supporting web accessibility, including support for Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) resources. Developers, designers, project leaders, administrators, scholars, producers and consumers with disabilities, and anyone interested in accessibility -- please join us and share your perspectives to help build resources that will be useful to the broader community. We welcome everyone to this Community. There is no time commitment or experience expected. This is a place to suggest, share, and develop ideas. This group will not publish specifications.
News, publications, and more on the WAI-Engage: Web Accessibility Community Group home page.
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Web Application Store
20 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-30
Since the launch of Apple's App Store in 2008, developers found a market delivery channel that greatly reduced time-to-market and time-to-payment and provided a direct channel to consumers. The result: users started buying more and more smartphones, accessing app stores and downloading billions upon billions of apps. At same reason, web developers are also expressing interest in an app store model for the Web that would enable them to get paid for their efforts without having to abandon Web development in exchange for proprietary silos. The purpose for this Web Application Store community group is to discuss about the web application store, related technologies, and various issues for Open Web Application Store. This Web Application Store CG's activities include: * Tracking specifications and implementations related to Web Application Store. * Refining use cases to communicate specific needs of Web Application Store. * Discussing technological issues related to Web Apps & Web Application Store * Suggesting refinements or fixes to existing specifications to better meet the needs of the Web Application Development community * Evangelizing specifications to browser vendors. * Documenting how to best use open web standards for Web Application Store * Evangelizing open web standards and best practices for Web Application Store Anyone can join the Web Application Store Community Group.
News, publications, and more on the Web Application Store Community Group home page.
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Web Crypto API
30 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-31
This group discusses Web Crypto APIs for signing the message by the user certificate issuing from the certificate authority for SSL communications. It is based on http://html5.creation.net/webcrypto-api/
News, publications, and more on the Web Crypto API Community Group home page.
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Web Education
148 participants
Date Created: 2011-06-29
The Web Education Community Group (CG) aims to evolve the Web and improve the overall skill set of the web industry by improving the quality of available web education resources and courses around the world. To do this, we are engaging in several activities, which are the responsibilities of different projects inside the CG: 1. Learning material: Creating a comprehensive series of tutorial articles to teach all the W3C technologies, which will constantly be updated so that it remains current and best practice. The main basis of this is currently the Web standards curriculum. 2. Curriculum: Creating a series of structured courses based on the learning material, which educators from around the world can use to teach web design and development in a consistent, effective way. 3. Outreach: Contacting educators, companies and trainers and getting them to adopt our learning material and curricula. 4. Training and certification: Training the trainers to help them teach web design and development more effectively, and formulating a plan to, and researching the feasibility of, partnering with them to provide W3C endorsed qualifications. 5. Membership and policy: Dealing with issues of membership and policy. 6. International Education: Different groups responsible for outreach and translations into specific languages to serve groups for whom English is not the primary language. For more information, follow the relevant links in the Pages list. Please note that the Web Education Community Group will not be developing any specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Web Education Community Group home page.
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Web History
32 participants
Date Created: 2012-05-24
This group gathers people interested in the history of the World Wide Web: how it was invented, what was out there that made it possible, and what happened in its early years. Our main goal is to collect and preserve valuable information (software, documents, testimonials) before it is lost. This group will not produce specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Web History Community Group home page.
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Web Hypertext Application Technology
48 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-23
Community group around the HTML living specification and its related Web Application technology specifications.
News, publications, and more on the Web Hypertext Application Technology Community Group home page.
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Web Media Text Tracks
47 participants
Date Created: 2011-09-30
This group will work on text tracks for video on the Web, applied to captioning, subtitling and other purposes. This group plans to work initially on: 1) Documenting a semantic model underlying the caption formats in use, notably TTML, CEA 608/708, EBU STL, and WebVTT. 2) Creating a community specification for WebVTT. 3) Defining the mappings between WebVTT and some selected formats, including at least TTML (W3C/SMPTE), and CEA 608/708. 4) Creating web developer reference and tutorial material, including worked examples. 5) Creating a test suite and/or tools. A possible transition to REC-track for some of these document(s) is envisaged and that possibility will be used to guide the work and procedures. The group may produce recommendations for work in other groups, such as CSS, HTML5, and TTWG.
News, publications, and more on the Web Media Text Tracks Community Group home page.
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Web Observatory
43 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-16
The sister organisation of W3C, the Web Science Trust (www.webscience.org) proposes to create a Create a global "Web Observatory". The Open Data movement and the Transparency Agenda are successfully advocating the release of very large institutional and commercial data sets describing social phenomena, economic indicators and geographic trends. This proliferation of data represents great opportunity for researchers and industry but this data abundance also threatens to make it ever more difficult to locate, analyse, compare and interpret useful information in a consistent and reliable way; a situation which can only get worse unless we can help stakeholders perform useful analysis rather than drowning in a sea of data. The Web Observatory will offer an institutional framework to promote the use of W3C and other standards in the development of; Semantic Catalogues to globally locate existing data sets, Collection Systems to gather new global data sets, and Analytics Tools and methodologies to analyse these data sets. This community group seeks to articulate the business and technical requirements for the Web Observatory.
News, publications, and more on the Web Observatory Community Group home page.
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Web Payments
38 participants
Date Created: 2011-06-29
The purpose of the Web Payments Community Group is to discuss, research, prototype, and create working systems that enable Universal Payment for the Web. The goal is to create a safe, decentralized system and a set of open, patent and royalty-free specifications that allow people on the Web to send each other money as easily as they exchange instant messages and e-mail today. The group will focus on transforming the way we reward each other on the Web as well as how we organize financial resources to enhance our personal lives and pursue endeavors that improve upon the human condition.
News, publications, and more on the Web Payments Community Group home page.
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Web Performance
5 participants
Date Created: 2012-10-16
The goal of the Web Performance is to produce a general guideline to help people who work in the web field increasing their websites' performances. From the server abilities and rapidity to the analysis of the website's code (whatever would the markup language be), we try to help web designers making faster websites.
News, publications, and more on the Web Performance Community Group home page.
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Web Protocols and Energy Utilization
3 participants
Date Created: 2012-06-20
The mission of this group is to refactor Web Protocols in order to make them less energy utilizing for those who are concerned of that aspect. Make it possible to get immediate feedback to the end user how much each dialogue step did caused in resource utilization and ensure a smooth transition. Enable a smooth transition. Mix of old and new must cooperate.
News, publications, and more on the Web Protocols and Energy Utilization Community Group home page.
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Web Skill Profiles
11 participants
Date Created: 2011-08-16
This group has the mission to extend the discussion and development of the Web Skill Profiles originally developed by IWA/HWG (http://www.skillprofiles.eu) based on the EU Framework for education and outreach.
News, publications, and more on the Web Skill Profiles Community Group home page.
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Web Test Automation
5 participants
Date Created: 2011-12-08
This group aims at developing common tools, technologies, frameworks and platforms for automating tests in Web applications.
News, publications, and more on the Web Test Automation Community Group home page.
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Web and Broadcasting Business Group
39 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-26
The aim of the Web and Broadcasting Business Group is to study and clarify the influence of Open Web Platform on the professional world of broadcasting, and to help stakeholders within the broadcasting industry to build good and practical understanding on the standardization processes in W3C with the chair-to-chair communication mechanism built into business groups. The business group will create monthly or bi-monthly report to summarize their study on the influence and share the reports internally. Detailed discussion and analysis on the use cases in this area should be done in the Web and TV Interest Group, so the business group will not deal with those items to avoid scope overlap. However, fruitful collaborative works may happen as a result of the chair-to-chair communication between these two groups.
News, publications, and more on the Web and Broadcasting Business Group home page.
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Web of Sensors
24 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-12
This group explores how the Web platform could interact with sensors around us. For instance, how do we hook up an Arduino and interact with it through the Web platform? The scope is to explore we can safely expose sensor data to the Web platform in way that protects user's privacy and meets the needs of developers.
News, publications, and more on the Web of Sensors Community Group home page.
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Web-based Signage Business Group
37 participants
Date Created: 2012-04-17
The Web-based Signage Business Group is aimed at companies and organizations interested in the standardization of Web based digital signage. The goal of the group is to identify use cases and system image/model for expansion of web browser based digital signage and smarter integration of existing Web standards.
News, publications, and more on the Web-based Signage Business Group home page.
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WebApps UI
5 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-28
Web applications employ a range of UI methods from CSS, SVG, HTML Forms, Canvas and ARIA. Our focus is to ensure that UI methods are accessible, maintainable and of high quality across vendors and specifications. We use WCAG and ATAG to examine cross-specification techniques and identify issues with implementations and associated specifications.
News, publications, and more on the WebApps UI Community Group home page.
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WebID
55 participants
Date Created: 2012-01-17
The WebID Community Group is a continuation of the WebID Incubator Group [1]. The Community Group will continue development of a specification for the WebID protocol, build test suites, document use case, issues, and grow the community of implementations. [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/
News, publications, and more on the WebID Community Group home page.
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XForms Users
20 participants
Date Created: 2012-03-14
A group for XForms users to discuss the use of XForms and propose changes and additions to the markup.
News, publications, and more on the XForms Users Community Group home page.
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XML Error Recovery
23 participants
Date Created: 2012-02-12
This group's purpose is the discussion of applying error recovery parsing methods inspired from HTML to XML.
News, publications, and more on the XML Error Recovery Community Group home page.
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XML Hypermedia
20 participants
Date Created: 2012-07-16
Discuss possible benefits and implications of adding hypermedia affordance components to the XML language. Specifically, but not limited to discussion of Bugzilla bug# 17659.
News, publications, and more on the XML Hypermedia Community Group home page.
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XML Performance
13 participants
Date Created: 2011-06-29
The Mission of the XML Performance Community Group is to determine the requirements, use cases to get performance measurements of the whole XML technology stack. One of the goal is to be able to understand how XML (versus other technologies) could be used as ground to make efficient processing and identifies bottlenecks and features of this XML stack. One later goal will be to compare XML implementations among them. To do so, we might give hint on defining Efficient Profiles of existing Specifications.
News, publications, and more on the XML Performance Community Group home page.