Effective immediately and through 15 May, the W3C Team travel policy prescribes that all international travel is suspended and staff are urged to consider the importance of any domestic travel before agreeing to domestic travel other than commuting. Remote teleconferencing is recommended in place of travel. W3C Management also recommends that all W3C groups not hold physical face-to-face meetings and should instead plan virtual equivalents. W3M plans on updating the guidance as conditions continue to evolve no later than March 26. To that effect the W3C Team has started to draft an addition to the Guidebook:  Continuity of Operations under Travel Restrictions Our primary concern is individual and community health. Slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus improves the chances that health systems will have the capacity to continue to treat usual health issues plus those affected. Individual and community health: take care of yourselves and those around you. Even if an indi...

25 February 2020 The  W3C Website redesign Request For Proposals  has concluded with W3C awarding the project to  Studio 24 , a small, independent digital agency in the heart of Cambridge, UK, founded in 1999. The project covers a subset of the public-facing pages of our Website and will span the next 10 months. Please, read more in our  joint press release . We are aiming for  this phase  to scale well to cover the redesign expectations for the rest of the site. Future phases will include the Member and Team spaces, internal Work Groups homepages, specifications template, mailing lists archives, W3C Community Groups and Business Groups. The current website was implemented  ten years ago  and is no longer as effective in supporting W3C’s mission and goals as it could be. We believe that by  implementing current web best practices and technologies, revising the information architecture, creating a content strategy and revamping the ...

30 March 2017 The  Spatial Data on the Web Working Group  has published a Group Note of  Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices . This document advises on best practices related to the publication and usage of spatial data on the Web; the use of Web technologies as they may be applied to location. The best practices are intended for practitioners, including Web developers and geospatial experts, and are compiled based on evidence of real-world application. These best practices suggest a significant change of emphasis from traditional Spatial Data Infrastructures by adopting a Linked Data approach. As location is often the common factor across multiple datasets, spatial data is an especially useful addition to the Linked Data cloud; the 5 Stars of Linked Data paradigm is promoted where relevant.

3 March 2017 Publishing@W3C  champion Bill McCoy and W3C Fellow from CWI Dr. Ivan Herman will join an impressive line-up of speakers next week at the  EPUB Summit , 9-10 March 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by W3C member EDRLab. The second such event, EPUB Summit will focus on the future direction of EPUB 3, now under W3C oversight following the combination with IDPF.  Registration  for the EPUB Summit is still open. A technical expert in the field, Herman is part of the leadership team of Publishing@W3C as well as the overall Strategy team of W3C. Herman was recently  appointed a W3C Fellow by CWI , Amsterdam, where he is a member of the Distributed and Interactive Systems research group. He played a seminal role in the combination of W3C and IDPF and has served as primary technical staff driver for the Digital Publishing at the W3C since inception in 2013. At the EPUB Summit Herman will talk about the IDPF/W3C combination, and the roadmap for upcom...

2 March 2017 W3C published a Team Submission of  W3C Security Disclosures Best Practices , a proposal for security and privacy disclosure programs, which will serve as a basis for further work in the space of security and privacy researchers protection, further to our  announcement  late January. This document contains a template intended for organizations interested in protecting their users and applications from fraud, malware, and computer viruses, as well as interested in ensuring proper adherence to security and privacy considerations included in W3C Recommendations. It also helps to support broad participation, testing, and audit from the security community to keep users safe and the web’s security model intact. In the coming days, the W3C Director will send the W3C Membership a Call for Review for the Encrypted Media Extensions Proposed Recommendation; and solicit feedback and expression of interest for the specification and the W3C Security Disclosures Be...

27 November 2013 W3C announced today a Workshop, Linking Geospatial Data , 5-6 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is hosted by Google. Many of the best data-driven Web applications have geospatial information at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in visualizing correlations between data sets that may otherwise be hidden. It’s this desire to work with multiple data sets in different formats about different topics and link those with the powerful technologies used in geospatial information systems that is behind the linking geospatial data workshop. How can geographic information best be integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover that different facts in different data sets relate to the same place, especially when ‘place’ can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity? W3C membership is not required to participa...

30 January 2013 Each year the W3C community gathers for a week of joint meetings and discussion of technical challenges that have a broad impact on the Web. W3C, and our exclusive Host Tencent, are pleased to announce today that TPAC2013 will be held in Shenzhen, China 18-22 November. "Tencent is excited to work with W3C to bring TPAC to China" said HuoTao (Hugo) Wang, Assistant General Manager for Tencent. "We believe this will be the first of many exciting events for W3C in China driven by the new Host at Beihang University ." Nearly 500 people attended TPAC 2012 in France and we anticipate at least that many attendees in China. This is a landmark event for W3C and an opportunity to bring the global Web community together for closer cooperation. Learn more about W3C Membership meetings .