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Sign up for the September mobile Web training courses
Learn how to easily develop robust mobile friendly Web sites so to deliver the best experience to your users, and enroll the W3C mobile Web training course before Monday 3 September! The “W3C mobile Web Best Practices” training courses are...
Open Data Conference in Paris
W3C (and friends, like Nigel Shadbolt) will participate in the first edition of the Open Data Conference taking place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France. This conference brings together an international set of experts to discuss current challenges as...
- open-data
Pitch in front of Michael[tm] Smith – present your #HTML5 developments #W3C #Berlin
The W3C Germany and Austria Office celebrates the W3C Days on 10-11 September, in Berlin, with a strong focus on HTML5. Michael[tm] Smith, W3C team contact for HTML5 will be speaking and available to exchange ideas. You’ll hear about the...
- html
Mapping Relational Data to RDF
Two documents from the RDB2RDF WG that prescribe a language for mapping Relational data to RDF have been published as Proposed Recommendations.
- rdf
- relational-database
W3C’s RDB2RDF Documents have been published as Proposed Recommendations
- linked-data
- rdb2rdf
- rdf
- relational-database
- sparql
A Time for Compromise on Do Not Track
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We last blogged about the Tracking Protection Working Group in June, immediately after the group's face-to-face meeting in Bellevue. That meeting was productive and laid the ground work for further progress. The "Tracking Preference Expression" (DNT) header is now implemented...
Community and Business Groups: The First Year
Almost one year ago, we launched Community and Business Groups. We wanted to make it easier for people to bring their ideas to W3C. And they have. In May of this year we issued a press release as participation rose...
Interview: Ora Lassila on Web Apps Powered by Linked Data
Ora Lassila (Nokia) is a long-time W3C participant and member of the W3C Advisory Board. He also is one of the early proponents of the Semantic Web. I spoke with him about getting the best that Web apps and...
- linked-data
Conformance for Vocabularies?
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How do you assess conformance to a vocabulary when the use of all terms is optional?
- egov
- validation
- vocabulary
HTML5 and HTML.next
HTML5 is the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform that the web community is building. This week saw two significant events in W3C that bolster our efforts. I wanted to share these with the broader web community, and in...
- ceo
- html