Plan
- Open Standards and W3C
- W3C ways of working
- Lessons for other communities
Open Standards Policies
- No-one should require people to purchase particular software for
access
- Promote longevity of information
- Openness helps to maximize reuse of knowledge
- colleagues, friends, public, companies, governments
- Open standards promote research!
Open Standard Definition
A lot of debates nowadays for a common definition of Open Standards (IGF,
EC, etc.)
- Transparent process
- Open participation
- Technical Consensus and Appeal
- Running code
- Free and Persistent Specification
- W3C Patent Policy
for Web Technologies
Challenges...
- The Internet and the Web is the easy part : Web, email, forum, online
chat, IM, etc.
- Lots of non-internet technologies: telephone, fax, PDA,
SMS, MMS, Wifi, Bluetooth, RFID, biometric, smart cards, TV and radio,
etc.
- New technology-specific platforms: geolocation, foaf
blog, mashup, ads, etc.
W3C Exec Summary
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an International Consortium
where Member and External organizations, a full-time technical staff, and the
public work together to lead the World Wide Web to its full
potential by developing Web standards such as protocols and guidelines
that ensure long-term growth for the Web.
- Goals: Interoperability, Universality,
Functionalities
- Neutral/nonforprofit, consensus based, open
participation, open results
- ~350 members, ~50 staff,
- ~60 Working Groups ~20 Coordination Groups and Interest Groups
- Hosting: MIT (America), ERCIM (Europe) and Keio
University (Japan) + Offices
- Advisory Board, Technical Architecture Group
- Liaisons with 40+ other standards bodies,
Accountable to the global Public
Director: WWW (http, HTML, URL) inventor Tim Berners Lee http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
W3C Process Flow
![rectrack schema](https://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0704Berlin-KB/figures/rectrack.jpg)
Web Standards
Transparency has many faces
- Accessible Web site
![Essential components of Web Accessibility](https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/relate.png)
Open Data
Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or
privilege limitations (could be Your Data as well..)
- Complete: All Public data is made available online.
- Primary: Public data is as collected at the source.
- Timely: Public data is made available asap.
- Accessible: Public data is available to all.
- Machine readable: Public data allow automated processing, several
levels.
- Non-discriminatory: Public data is available to anyone, no
registration.
- Non-proprietary: Public data is encoded using Open Standards.
- License-free: Public Data is available at no cost.
See original OGD
document.
Semantic Technologies
![SemWeb view](https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20081014/diagrams/presentation-vs-semantics.png)
Making Standards at W3C
Inclusiveness is the rule.
W3C Eating its own dog food!
W3C works with thousands of engineers using the Web and the Internet as a
platform.
- Emails, open archives (e.g. HTML5
WG today)
- Web sites under w3.org (public, member, team)
- Web 2.0 applications (action item, issues tracker, web survey)
- Web DB tools (to manage group participants)
- Instant Message (IRC) + bots for teleconferencing
- VOIP, slides in HTML/CSS, etc.
Many using Semantic Web technologies on the server, and accessible to
participants with disabilities.
Like IETF, our process is one of our specification (bootstrap
principle)
Some simple rules - great impact
- everything is on the web, starting with a
solid process/bible,
- paperless
- history - archiving and versioning
- be your own usecase
- conform to open ICT standards + many open source tools are available
- document your communication - use mailinglists and logged chat
- be open to new applications of standards : RSS, Wiki, SemWeb, etc.
- go public - listen to the public - respond to the public, microblog