W3Conf

Various speakers: Giorgio Sardo, Mike Bostock, Becky Gibson, Brad Hill, Scott Stender, Grant Goodale, Grant Skinner, Faruk Ates, Art Barstow, Paul Cotton, Tantek Çelik, Charles McCathieNevile, Chris Wilson, Peter Vosshall, Ian Jacobs

W3Conf

Redmond, Washington

Day 2 of W3C's first Developer Conference.

W3Conf

Various speakers: Philippe Le Hégaret, Manu Sporny, Doug Schepers, Divya Manian, Vincent Hardy, Arvind Jain, John Allsopp, Rajesh Lal, Rey Bango, Christopher Slye, Paul Irish, Ian Jacobs

W3Conf

Redmond, Washington

Day 1 of W3C's first Developer Conference.

The Semantic Link – Episode 11, October 2011

Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Ivan Herman, Eric Hoffer, Bernadette Hyland, Andraz Tori

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about schema.org.

HTML5 for Business

Philippe Le Hégaret

JavaScript Everywhere

Boston, Massachusetts

Philippe le Hégaret of the W3C talks about the use of HTML5 for business applications.

Keynote

Tim Berners-Lee

future.talk 2011

Vienna, Austria

Tim Berners Lee delivers a keynote speech at Telekom Austria Group’s future.talk 2011 which had the theme World Wild Web – Who Rules the Internet Society? Tim Berners-Lee’s segment begins at 15:30. Panel starts at 41:00.

Accessibility Post Web 2.0

Michael Cooper

a11yMTL

Montréal Canada

Michael Cooper discusses how W3C develops technology standards and helps make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. In his talk he summarizes current work and plans to meet new challenges, and discusses the role Web designers can play.

W3C and the Open Web Platform

Jeff Jaffe

Avoin tieto ja World Wide Web tietoyhteiskunnan palveluksessa

Helsinki, Finland

Jeff Jaffe discusses how the Open Web Platform is transforming multiple industries.

HTML5 proposed markup changes related to internationalization

Richard Ishida

W3C Workshop on Multilingual Web

Pisa, Italy

Richard Ishida discusses upcoming changes in HTML5 related to internationalization. They include character encoding declarations, language declarations, ruby, and the new elements and attributes for bidi support. HTML5 is still very much work in progress, and these topics are still under discussion.

The Semantic Link – Episode 4, March 2011

Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer, Ivan Hermann, Paul Miller, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the fourth installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies.

The Semantic Link – Episode 2, January 2011

Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, Eric Franzon, Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Hoffer, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the second installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies.

The Semantic Link – Episode 1, December 2010

Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer, Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the world meet with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the first installment of the Semantic Link, an ongoing monthly podcast on semanticweb.com.

Interview with Jeff Jaffe in El País

Jeff Jaffe

Bilbao, Spain

Jeff Jaffe talks about about role of W3C in developing an Open Web Platform. Text of the interview is available in Spanish; the video interview is in English.

HTML5 et le Web de Demain ("HTML and the Web of Tomorrow")

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Robin Berjon

ParisWeb 2010

Bois-Colombes, France

A review of how the technologies currently in development in W3C will shape the future of the Web as a development platform, with a specific focus on mobile. (In French).

Tim Berners-Lee on PhiloWeb and Philosophical engineering

Tim Berners-Lee

TPAC 2010

Lyon, France

Harry Halpin et Alexandre Monnin interview Tim Berners-Lee about the Web and philosophy.

W3C標準/HTML5を広げよう

Masao Isshiki

Google Developer Day 2010 (Japan)

Tokyo, Japan

Masao discusses W3C's activities for developing HTML5 and other specifications, encouraging developers to use emerging standardized technology on the Web.

HTML5 についての最新情報 (HTML5 Update)

Mike Smith

Google Developer Day 2010 (Japan)

Tokyo, Japan

Mike Smith provides an update about the HTML5 specification and the activities of the HTML Working Group. In English

HTML5 Redux

Philippe Le Hégaret

Boston PHP

Boston, Massaschusetts

Philippe Le Hégaret presents the technologies that make up the W3C Open Web Platform, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, various APIs, and more. The presentation is rich in examples of what designers will appreciate. Slides are available.

כלים ושיטות להנגשת אתרי אינטרנט
(Tools and practices for web accessibility)

Eyal Sela

וורדקמפ 2010
(Wordcamp 2010)

Jerusalem, Israel

An accessible website lets people with disabilities access your contact more easily. It can help increase traffic and be more useful for users without disabilities. In the lecture you will learn how to develop more accessible websites according to WCAG 2.0, the guidelines for creating accessible online content. You will get tools to implement accessibility practices in the design and development process, and to learn more by yourself. The lecturer is Eyal Sela from the Israeli Internet Association (ISOC-IL) and W3C Israel Office. The talk is in Hebrew.

From Relational Databases to the Semantic Web: New W3C Standards and Directions (2 parts)

Ivan Herman

2010 Semantic Technology Conference

San Francisco, CA

A new W3C standard for mapping relational data to RDF is being created by the RDB2RDF Working Group based on the best practices of current approaches. This exciting work should allow current data in relational databases to be transformed to RDF with a minimum of effort, creating a standardized mapping language that will allow the market to concentrate optimization and custom features rather than re-inventing the wheel. There are two videos: part 1 and part 2.

Web inventor discusses importance of open data

Tim Berners-Lee

(US) Federal News Radio Program "Dorobek Insider"

Tim Berners-Lee radio interview on open data in a government context; see the online (text) summary of the interview.

An Introduction to Linked Data

Sandro Hawke

Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sandro Hawke makes linked data easy! See also his slides.

Open, Linked Data for a Global Community

Tim Berners-Lee

Gov 2.0 Expo

Washington, D.C.

Tim Berners-Lee uses a bag of chips to illustrate some principles of linked data. See also a video interview exploring open linked data, how governments' open data efforts should be judged, and more.

Data Sharing Standards in Government

Sandro Hawke

Gov 2.0 Expo

Washington, D.C.

Sandro Hawke discusses eGovernment data efforts, moving towards the use of linked data standards, and how the Semantic Web is turning the corner.

Reflecting on the last 20 years and looking forward to the next 20

Tim Berners-Lee

WWW 2009

Tim Berners-Lee delivers a keynote at WWW 2009 reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the invention of the Web, and on what the future holds.

The World Wide Web: Where Do We Go from Here?

Tim Berners-Lee

Paradigm Shifts

Radio show

Tim Berners-Lee in a WMBR (MIT campus radio) interview answers questions from Rohit Sakhuja including Where did the initial idea for the world wide web come from? What have we accomplished so far with the web and where do we go next from here? If networks are built to be completely open, can we restrict access to information? And how can we modify our models of how we pay for information to continue to support good quality journalism?

HTML5 Meetup (in French)

Philippe Le Hégaret, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, François Daoust, Marie-Claire Forgue, Daniel Glazman

La Cantine

Paris, France

Members of the W3C community discuss the open Web platform.

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

MIT+150 Infinite History Project

Cambridge, MA, USA

Tim Berners-Lee talks with Toby A. Smith about Tim's background, the creation of the Web, and much more.

The Next Open Web Platform

Philippe Le Hégaret

YUI Theater

Sunnyvale, California

Philippe gave a take in early 2010 at Yahoo! about the new Web platform, centered around HTML 5 but including other technologies. These range from HTML video to SVG to CSS animations or Web sockets. Philippe’s talk gives an overview of what’s ahead, using concrete demonstrations in latest generation Web browsers.

The year open data went worldwide

Tim Berners-Lee

TED University 2010

Long Beach, California

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he illustrated a few interesting examples of real world linked data.

IdeasLab with MIT: the nature of intelligence

Tim Berners-Lee

World Economic Forum ("Davos" 2010)

Geneva, Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee talks about linked data, and the connection, at Web scale, between people and their data.

Panel Discussion: The Power of Apps

Tim Berners-Lee, et al.

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Filmed live at the launch of data.gov.u k, Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt, Richard Allan and Chris Taggart join the Guard ian's technology director Mike Bracken to discuss the issues and opportunities sur rounding the release of government data.

Making Data Public

Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt.

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt present the reasons and their vision for opening government data on the Web at the launch of data.gov.uk.

Tim Berners-Lee on the UK national data website launch

Tim Berners-Lee

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Tim Berners-Lee talks about how he persuaded Gordon Brown to open UK government data to the public.

Podcast: Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Recorded during Web 2.0 Summit 2009

San Fransisco, California

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the past and future Web. A transcript is available as well.

Interview: Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Tim Berners-Lee speaks about the Semantic Web, barriers to enabling the information society for all, Mobile Web, and more. A transcript is available as well.

TEDxKampala: Tim Berners-Lee Q&A Session

Tim Berners-Lee, Stéphane Boyera

TedxKampala 2009

Kampala, Uganda

Tim Berners-Lee, Stephane Boyera, and others spoke about extending the Web to more users in talks with the Uganda Linux Users Group.

Smarter Government

Tim Berners-Lee

London, England

UK Prime Minister's Office announces 2000 data sets will be opened up, pursuant to recommendations by Tim Berners-Lee.

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Washington, D.C.

Tim Berners-Lee talks about Internet privacy, net neutrality, and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Round Table: Mobile Web (in French)

François Daoust, Robin Berjon, Charles McCathieNevile

Paris Web 2009

Paris, France

The round table discussed mobile web (in French)

Web 2.0 Summit 09: Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly, "A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee"

Tim Berners-Lee

Web 2.0 Summit 2009

San Francisco, CA, USA

Tim O'Reilly asks Tim Berners-Lee about the early Web, why it was intended to be open and free, how it was always meant to be a read/write medium, his concerns about points of control, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and more.

Fonts, formats, CSS and libre graphics

Chris Lilley

Libre Graphics Meeting 2009

Montréal, Canada

Chris Lilley gave a talk (slides) summarizing the history, development, and current state of @font-face Web Fonts in CSS and SVG, and the interactions between these specifications and Libre software.

Ivan Herman talks about the Semantic Web and W3Cs

Talis Podcasts

Ivan discusses W3C's continued engagement with Semantic Web activity around the world, touches upon current activity to enhance existing specifications such as SPARQL, and consider the success of the Linked Data meme.

Device Independent or Accessible

Dominique Hazael-Massieux

European Accessibility Forum 2009

Frankfurt, Germany

Tour of beta.w3.org (screencast)

Ian Jacobs

Beta of W3C Redesign

Online

A 10-minute tour of W3C's redesigned Web site. Learn more about the redesign.

WWW @ 20

Tim Berners-Lee

CERN celebrates 20 years of the Web

Geneva, Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee participated in an event at CERN celebrating twenty years since he first proposed the system called the World Wide Web. photos are also available.

The next Web of open, linked data

Tim Berners-Lee

TED 2009

Long Beach, California, USA

Tim Berners-Lee gave a talk (slides) at TED 2009 on the Semantic Web and the future of "linked data."

Accessibility: It's for Everyone and Everything”

Shawn Henry

WebProfessionals.org interview at Web Design World

Boston, Massachusetts

Interview with Shawn Henry

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines V2.0 - An Interview with Shawn Henry

Shawn Henry

Interview with User Experience Podcast

Turin, Italy

Audio Interview with Shawn Henry; a text transcript is available.

Mobile Web and Accessibility (in French, Le web mobile)

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Access-Key Tutorial

Tutorial explaining the relationship between designing a Web page with accessibility and with mobile devices in mind.

W3C's Mobile Web Initiative: Towards the Web of Things

Philipp Hoschka

Internet of Things; Internet of the Future

Nice, France

Philipp Hoschka talks about what W3C is doing to promote the spread of mobile Web applications.

Making the Web Accessible to People with Disabilities

Shawn Henry

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM), Universal Service Provision (USP) Technology Seminar

Malaysia

This is a presentation for a technology seminar on communications projects for underserved areas and underserved groups, including people with disabilities, in Malaysia.

Ein Web für Menschen mit Hörbehinderung (A Web for the Hard of Hearing) — article in German with Austrian sign language

Shadi Abou-Zahra

Austrian Union for the Deaf

Austria

Introduces the types of issues that people with hearing impairments encounter on the Web and highlights some of the cross-disabilities issues. It describes the approach that has been taken in WCAG 2.0 to provide better support for the heard of hearing on the Web.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks about the Semantic Web

Talis Podcasts

Tim and Paul Miller discuss the Semantic Web’s readiness for mainstream adoption, and explore a wide range of issues from Linked Data to the writing of new books for developers.

Radio New Zealand Interview

Shawn Henry

Bryan Crump interview during Webstock 08

Wellington, New Zealand

Shawn Henry talked with Bryan Crump for Radio New Zealand National while in New Zealand for Webstock 08. They talked about the potential for the Internet to enable people with disabilities to participate more actively in everyday life and business; the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI); and including accessibility from the beginning when developing technology. A text transcript is available.

Interview with Shawn Henry

Shawn Henry

Roger Hudson interview during Webstock 08

Wellington, New Zealand

Shawn Henry, from the W3C, was a presenter at Webstock 2008. During a break in the conference, she talked with Roger Hudson about how she first got involved in website accessibility, the need to continue breaking down some of misconceptions associated with accessibility and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Versions 1 and 2. A text transcript is available.

Mobile Web Good Practices (in French, Les Bonnes Pratiques du Web Mobile)

Dominique Hazael-Massieux

Paris Web 2007

Paris, France

Web standards open the door to a Web accessible to all, including those using mobile devices. Learn more about Mobile Web Good Practices.

Future of the Internet (part 1 and part 2)

Tim Berners-Lee

4th Ministerial eGovernment Conference Paris Web 2007

Lisbon, Portugal

This remote video presentation in two parts looks at the future of a Web of data, the benefits of using Semantic Web standards, and how open data can help governments serve the people.

A Video Interview with Shawn Henry, From California to Japan

Shawn Henry

Mitsue-Links "Meet the Professionals" video series

California

As part of the Mitsue-Links "Meet the Professionals" video series, Shawn Henry of W3C WAI talks with Kazuhito Kidachi about shared responsibilities between web site developers, browsers, and assistive technologies; the importance of different types of authoring tools supporting accessibility; how WCAG 2.0 and WAI-ARIA address the more difficult aspects of Web accessibility; WAI's outreach resources; and what led Shawn to accessibility years ago.

On the Semantic Web

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the exponential growth pattern of the Semantic Web, how it resembles the growth of the Web of Documents, and about building a Web of data.

WCAG 2.0 Presentation for YUI Theater

YUI Theater

Sunnyvale, California

Learn how the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft differs from WCAG 1.0, get shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, and hear answers to common questions on W3C WAI's work in Shawn Henry's presentation to the Yahoo! User Interface Developer Network. Shawn also addresses the role of browsers and authoring tools in Web accessibility, and combining standards and usability techniques to optimize accessibility. A text transcript is available.