W3C will host a deconstructed mini-workshop series to discuss a project framework for assessing tooling in the authentic web ecosystem.

We will hold a virtual meeting on 12 March 2025, 10:00-11:00 EDT / 14:00-15:00 UTC, to review the framework and discuss how to move proposals to interoperable standards to combat misinformation on the web.

Pierre-Antoine, W3C Staff Contact will be on a "Reshaping the Web with the Solid Project" at SOOCon25 in London with Louise Burke, CEO, ODI,  Laurens Debackere, co-chair of the W3C Linked Web Storage (Solid) Working Group and Lead Solution Architect with Digitaal Vlaanderen's data platform and Jesse Wright, Solid Lead, ODI.

The DAISY Consortium, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) are pleased to announce that they are partnering to support and advance the accessibility of scientific and technical publications to people with disabilities through a series of virtual public forums. 

Building on work initiated in 2024 by the U.S. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), these meetings will seek to advance the goal of ensuring the digital accessibility of content.

Recognizing that advancing accessibility is a community effort, the three organizations will work to bring representatives from publishers, research societies, libraries, US Federal Agencies, institutional and government repository hosts, and others around the world together to share knowledge and support best practices. 

With a long history of leadership in both promoting accessibility and engaging the information and publishing communities, DAISY, W3C, and NISO are well positioned to pursue the vision for a more open, accessible, and inclusive future for science and innovation. Building upon the voluntary commitments of the three organizations, the effort will initially focus on the priority areas identified by OSTP:

• Meet and surpass federal requirements for digital accessibility of publications.
• Promote awareness of barriers to digital accessibility, advance training to reduce such barriers, and increase accountability for improving the digital accessibility of publications.
• Promote improvement and use of platforms, apps, testing tools, and resources that facilitate the design, creation, production, interoperability, and user experience of accessible publications.

The goals of this initiative are to continue to build community around this effort, support ongoing voluntary actions, share knowledge, and help to catalyze support for the continuing advancement of best practices regarding the accessibility of scientific and technical content.

Seth Dobbs, President and CEO of W3C, will be the keynote speaker at the Society for Information Management (SIM) Chicago - 2024 CIO of the Year Awards Gala Dinner. Seth will speak on how W3C’s change to a 501(c)(3) public interest not-for-profit organization changed the focus of the organization and how this focus affected your leadership style.

A presentation on the state of the W3C Data activity at the conference SemWeb.pro,

The meeting report is available.

W3C is participating in the 2024 Identity & Payments Summit, which explores how payments, access and the broader secure identity industries converge in multiple vertical markets across the globe.

 

W3C is participating in the 2024 Identity & Payments Summit, which explores how payments, access and the broader secure identity industries converge in multiple vertical markets across the globe.

W3C Members benefit from a 35% registration discount. Just enter code I&P35Disc at registration checkout.

The event summary is available.

Registration now open until 13 September

Description in French (see next paragraph for translation): Pierre-Antoine Champin (W3C / Inria / Université de Lyon) présentera le regain d'intérêt pour les thématiques "données liées" et "web sémantique" au sein du consortium W3C, y compris les avancées accomplies en un an par les différents groupes de travail: évolution du standard RDF, canonicalisation RDF, /data integrity/, le vocabulaire DCAT. Il présentera également les groupes en cours de création et les futurs standards sur lesquels ces groupes vont travailler.

Pierre-Antoine Champin (W3C / Inria / University of Lyon) will present the renewed interest in the themes of "linked data" and "semantic web" within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), including advances made in one year by the different work groups: evolution of the RDF standard, RDF canonicalization, /data integrity/, the DCAT vocabulary. He will also present the groups currently being created and the future standards on which these groups will work.

Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C Project and Strategy Lead, will give a talk "Moving the Web and Automotive Forward" (slides).

The vision of W3C is to provide a consistent architecture across the rapid pace of progress in the Web, while continuing to expand the Web's scope and reach. Over the years, the Web has integrated several industries, including mobile and media, and continues to do so, such as immersive experiences and Internet of Things. With the deployment of connected vehicles, it becomes increasingly important to leverage the Web platform in the automotive industry and take advantage of an architecture used all around the world.

Hybrid meeting.