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RDFa and SVG Tiny (and the RDFa distiller)
W3C has just published the SVG Tiny 1.2 recommendation. Others are much more experts than me to describe the changes in the core functionality compared to the 1.1 version, so I let them do that. However, there is an interesting...
Filed on December 23, 2008 9:16 AM in SVG, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Small update of the RDFa distiller sofware
I have made a small update on the pyRdfa Python package that drives the RDFa distiller. The main differences between this version and the previous are: via a private communication Dan Brickley made me think on the following: what is...
Filed on December 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Amaya Also for RDFa
Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11. (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this...
Filed on December 17, 2008 1:36 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication
Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...
Filed on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized
WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...
Filed on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News
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XML and language resources
Language resources are needed by many people and tools: language teachers use computers to store example sentences, present grammars patterns, help learners to find mistakes etc. machine translation tools use word classes, grammar and other information, or large sets...
Filed on December 5, 2008 7:53 AM in Technology, XML
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What would a new CSS validator look like?
What if the CSS Validator didn't exist, what if we decided to build it from scratch today. What would it be? What would you make it to be?
Filed on November 11, 2008 3:44 PM in CSS, Technology, Tools
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With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to expected December 2008 publication
Today W3C WAI published WCAG 2.0 as a "W3C Proposed Recommendation". This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been used successfully in real websites. Up next: final publication as a Web standard, which we expect in December!
Filed on November 3, 2008 6:34 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, Technology 101, Video, eGov
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Semantic Web Applications
It so happens that, in a short time, several entries appeared in the blogosphere on Semantic Web applications. David Provost published a report, Richard MacManus published a blog in ReadWriteWeb or, in the last issue of Talis’ Nodalities, Ian Davis...
Filed on October 2, 2008 9:24 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Powdering logos (again)
Quite a while ago I wrote a short blog on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.
Filed on September 5, 2008 8:54 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Technology 101, W3C・QA News
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Towards better Web professionals
Good news come in twos: Within the span of a mere few weeks we have seen the opening of Opera's Web Standards Curriculum, and, announced today, the creation by the Web Standards Project of its WaSP Curriculum Framework as a follow-up to the publication of their education survey result. It's a good time to be a student in Web technologies…
Filed on July 31, 2008 3:18 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Reference, Technology, Tutorials, Web Spotting
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Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
Filed on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Semantic Desktop in KDE 4.0 on Linux
Semantic Web based desktop system in Linux using KDE 4.0…
Filed on May 27, 2008 12:28 PM in Semantic Web, Technology
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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XML Dev Day Tokyo 2007
Today (21 December 2007) I am attending the Tokyo 10th XML Developers day. This is an annual event, held in Japanese, with latest news from the Japanese XML developers community. The event is organized by Murakta-san. The presentations are of a great variety, providing both technical and rather "political" aspects of XML trends. Below is a summary of the talks, focusing on the technical aspects.
Filed on December 24, 2007 6:08 PM in Technology, XML
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EXI stance
XML is a popular language when it comes to sharing data. Surely, its human-readability was a key to its adoption in a wide range of applications, and as such it can be easily inferred that this feature has to be...
Filed on October 25, 2007 6:36 AM in Technology, Technology 101
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Video on the Web
W3C will be looking at the impact and challenges of video on the Web in the upcoming months and will have a workshop on Video on the Web. So, if you have a strong opinion about what should happen at that workshop (or what shouldn't), don't hesitate to contact us.
Filed on September 18, 2007 6:16 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Technology, Video, W3C Life
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SVG Open 2007 - Day 2
There is a typhoon approaching Tokyo, light rain and sun alternating with heat soaking everything. Cultural Diversity and the Responsibility of Technology KOBAYASHI Tatsuo is introducing in a very nice way is topics by introducing himself in all languages of...
Filed on September 5, 2007 12:43 AM in Meetings, Technology
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SVG Open 2007 Live from Tokyo
SVG open 2007 has started this morning in Tokyo. A list of papers about SVG are available on the Web site. SVG 101 A bright sun, it is 9:56am, and I'm following a session given by Doug Schepers on SVG...
Filed on September 4, 2007 12:55 AM in Meetings, Technology, Technology 101
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Web Standards Do - the Way of Web Standards
The WebStandardsDo, or ‘Way of the Web Standards’ is a humorous take at principles of Web quality, viewed through the filter of the Bushido, the Samurai's code of Honor. It is a companion to a talk given at the Days of Web Standards Conference, in Tokyo on July 15th, 2007.
Filed on July 15, 2007 1:00 AM in Technology
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