2006-10-26: The World Wide Web Consortium
marks the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with a public
celebration on 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. The program includes "Role
of W3C at Keio - From Foundations to the Future," "How Japanese
Industry Works with Web Standards," "How Asia Will Influence the Future
Web," discussion, and a press briefing and reception.
Sponsorships are available and
advance registration is required.
Read the media
advisory and more about W3C10 Asia.
2006-11-20: The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment will be held on 1-2 February 2007, in Gijon, Asturias, Spain. The symposium is organized by the W3C Spanish Office and Fundacion CTIC, and supported by the Principality of Asturias Government. Attendees will discuss specific government and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies. Registration is open and sponsorship opportunities are available. In order to establish better communication about Web technologies for eGovernment W3C plans a possible series of which this is the first event.
2006-10-23: W3C has updated its W3C Markup Validation Service and Link Checker with bug fixes, documentation and usability improvements, and a new Validator API for developers. Along with W3C's other Web Quality Tools, the Markup Validator and Link Checker are developed as open source software with the participation of volunteers and support of a large community, and are among W3C's most popular and useful resources.
2006-11-02: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page.
2006-11-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) to Candidate Recommendation. The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 16 February 2007. W3C encourages developers to implement the specification and share their experience with the Timed Text Working Group.
2006-10-19: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Delivery Context: Interfaces (DCI) Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties to Candidate Recommendation. DCI provides access to device properties including capabilities, configuration, user preferences and environmental conditions such as remaining battery life, signal strength, ambient brightness, location, and display orientation. Comments are welcome through 31 March 2007. Read the Device Independence Activity.
The North East's leading brand technology company, TH_NK, is working with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art to bring an innovative digital dimension to its campaign for the UK's first major international urban art exhibition, Spank the Monkey - all part of a unique partnership enabling a diverse audience to access and experience artwork in challenging, new ways, as well as keeping hot on the heels of iconic street artists such as Shepard Fairey!
As BALTIC's first ever New Media sponsor, TH_NK has devised a programme of online activity as part of a fully integrated creative campaign to promote and bring to life work by established world art figures - from the infamous Faile and street art super stars Takashi Murakami and Invader to Japanese graphic designers, Groovisions.
The campaign for Spank the Monkey has been constructed to capture the maximum degree of media attention and generate word of mouth during the course of the exhibition, which runs from October to January 2007. Officially going live next week week (w/c 13.11.06), a series of site specific, one-off artworks and new commissions are being showcased via an SMS campaign which draws together a citywide trail of artworks across NewcastleGateshead - from underground Metro stations to the quayside. Each artwork is accompanied by a mobile number signposting the next location of each piece and taking you on a unique and alternative journey through the exhibition.
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