The   Publishing Working Group   has published two Proposed Recommendations: Publication Manifest  defines a general manifest format for expressing information about a digital publication. It uses  schema.org  metadata augmented to include various structural properties about publications, serialized in JSON-LD, to enable interoperability between publishing formats while accommodating variances in the information that needs to be expressed. Audiobooks  describes the requirements for the creation of audiobooks, using a profile of the Publication Manifest specification. Comments on the Proposed Recommendations are welcome through  03:59 UTC/GMT on 2020-10-31  (23:59 Boston time on 2020-10-30).

  W3C has published a new version of its  Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. The September 2020 snapshot refreshes the list of technologies under incubation in Community Groups or on the standardization track in Working Groups. See the  Change history since November 2019  for details. Standardization proposals that have emerged since last publication include: various proposals focused on privacy (such as the Storage Access API, the Trust Token API, Private Click Measurement, TURTLEDOVE, or the isLoggedIn proposal), described in  Security and Privacy ; exploration of standards needed for so-called MiniApps, see  Application Lifecycle ; main thread scheduling APIs to improve scheduling primitives, see  Performance and Tuning ; Web Monetization to enable continuous and small payments ...

  The  15 September 2020 W3C Process Document  and  15 September 2020 W3C Patent Policy  take effect today. At a time when the Web is increasingly essential with the world going more and more virtual, these updates increase the Web Consortium’s responsiveness and strengthen standardization activities by adding a continuous standard development mode and earlier Royalty-Free protection for implementers, among other changes. Please read more in our  press release . Of the changes to the W3C Process Document, the most anticipated ones offer a real boost in helping the Web serve the community: streamlined community review and review for integrity (Horizontal review to ensure accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security); flexibility for multiple work modes, including stability of referenced versions and reflection of the current status in the technical reports list; a continuous development mode that enables specifications to reflect rapidly develo...