Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. As the Web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a “plug-in” language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

vCard Ontology for describing People and Organizations Note Published

The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new version of the Interest Group Note for the vCard Ontology. The document describes a mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to RDF/OWL. The goal is to promote the use of vCard for the description of people and organizations utilizing semantic web techniques and allowing compatibility with traditional vCard implementations. Learn more about the Data Activity.

Last Call: CSS Font Loading Module Level 3

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Font Loading Module Level 3. This CSS module describes events and interfaces used for dynamically loading font resources. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Comments are welcome through 30 June 2014. Learn more about the Style Activity.

First Public Working Draft of Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1, Last Call: CSS Masking Module Level 1

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published two documents today:
  • A First Public Working Draft of Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1. This specification describes several geometry interfaces for the representation of points, quads, rectangles and transformation matrices. The SVG interfaces are aliasing the interfaces in favor for common interfaces used by SVG, Canvas 2D Context and CSS Transforms.
  • A Last Call Working Draft of CSS Masking Module Level 1. CSS Masking provides two means for partially or fully hiding portions of visual elements: masking and clipping. Masking describes how to use another graphical element or image as a luminance or alpha mask. Clipping describes the visible region of visual elements. The region can be described by using certain SVG graphics elements or basic shapes. Anything outside of this region is not rendered. Comments are welcome through 19 June 2014.
Learn more about the Style Activity and the Graphics Activity.