Current and Upcoming Events
- 5 December '08 Closing date for Last Call comments
POWDER Working Group
The POWDER Working Group ( member only link) is open to W3C members and invited experts. The working group meets weekly by phone. Face-to-face meetings are held up to four times per year.
- POWDER Validator
- This tool is almost complete at its temporary location and likely to move to validator.w3.org soon
- POWDER Processor
- This tool still has a 'To Do' list attached but implements most of the features of a POWDER Processor defined the Description Resources document.
- POWDER to POWDER-BASE transformation tool
- This uses a subset of the validator to validate a POWDER document and return a POWDER-BASE transformation of it. The script is documented on the validator page.
Members
The following W3C Member organizations have appointed participants to this Working Group ( details are Member-only):
- AOL
- Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Com
- FOSI
- Fundación ONCE
- Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT), NCSR
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Opera Software
- Segala (until October 2008)
- Vodafone
Joining the POWDER Working Group
If your organization is already a member of W3C, ask your W3C Advisory Committee Representative to appoint you using the join/leave Web forms. This will also automatically subscribe you to the WG mailing list.
More information about the W3C is available as is information about joining W3C.
Relationship with Other W3C Work
- Mobile Web Best Practices
- The development of the mobileOK trustmark is an important use case and test case for description resources.
- Rule Interchange Format
- POWDER has an inherent need for rules to define the scope of a description and for when one description should be used in preference to another. Furthermore, some applications will store user preferences as rules and it it will be beneficial to be able to copy these user preferences between clients. Cooperation and discussion with RIF is therefore important.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- The POWDER Working Group seeks close cooperation with WAI on the labelling of resources that meet WCAG guidelines and with the ERT WG on integration with EARL.
- Technical Architecture Group
- TAG has published a number of relevant findings and POWDER will need to ensure conformance with these. For example the April 2006 finding on Authoritative Metadata.
- Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
- POWDER will need to draw on this group's expertise and guidance, particularly in relation to the applications of POWDER deliverables outside Description Resources.
- Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group
- There may be features in common between the protocol for accessing description resources developed by POWDER and a protocol useful for CC/PP. The POWDER Working Group should track future work on a protocol for CC/PP in the Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group (successor to the Device Independence Working Group) and identify any such opportunities for common features.
- XML Activity
- POWDER will need to explore non-Semantic Web technologies as alternative approaches to meeting its aims. In particular input will be sought from the XML Query (XQuery) group on the resource grouping Recommendation.
Phil Archer, Chair
Matt Womer, W3C/ERCIM, staff contact
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