27 February - 3 March 2006, Hotel Royal Casino / Cannes-Mandelieu, France
Minutes | IRC log | Post-Meeting Survey
The Wednesday of the Technical Plenary Week offers a unique opportunity for our broad W3C Community (Working, Interest and Coordination Groups; Advisory Committee Representatives; Advisory Board; Technical Architecture Group; and Team) who have registered to gather in one room and discuss technical topics of broad interest to the attendees, and of significant importance to past, present and future of the World Wide Web Consortium. Discussion during this Technical Plenary day will not be considered Member confidential. Slides will be publicly accessible.
If you have IRC, you are welcome to join channel #tp on irc.w3.org:6665 to help record the meeting.
| 08:30 | Session
1: Welcome
Description: Two unique features of the World Wide Web Consortium are its broad spectrum of foundational work, coupled with its strong emphasis on coordination across and outside of that spectrum. The Technical Plenary week is a unique occasion when the people responsible for the work and coordination facilitate their objectives face-to-face. This session provides highlights of the W3C's spectrum of near-past, present and near-future work, and introduces the subsequent sessions of the Tech Plenary. Meeting Chair: Steve Bratt (W3C Chief Executive Officer) [slides] |
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| 09:00 | Session 2: My Data, Your
Data, The Web's Data: Challenges of Data Ownership
Description:As the Web has grown and matured, people have started to view their contributions to it differently. Users expect our content we create to be shared widely and transparently, while still controlling both its copyright and personally identifying information. This panel will explore the social forces behind this, give some examples of technical approaches to the problem, and discuss the growing tensions between the actual sharing of information versus the desire to maintain copyright and privacy rights. Moderator: Mark Nottingham (Yahoo) Presenters and Topics:
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| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Session 3:
Microformats
Description: Leveraging the widespread adoption and understanding of CSS and semantic (X)HTML among web designers and publishers, microformats are a set of simple, practical, open data formats that are designed for humans first and machines second. Microformats are designed by researching and adapting to current human web publishing behaviors and usage patterns, and then reusing bits of existing widely adopted standards. This session will demonstrate the capabilities that have been quickly developed with microformats on today's Web, review current microformats, and open discussion on what microformats and related efforts mean for the future of the Web. Moderators: Tantek ̽elik (Technorati, CSS Working Group) and Dan Connolly (W3C; URI Interest Group, RDF Data Access Working Group, Technical Architecture Group) Presenters and Topics:
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| 11:30 | Session 4: SQL, XQuery and SPARQL:
What's Wrong with this Picture?
Description: Does the world really need yet another query language? A new language for querying RDF, names SPARQL, is emerging from W3C. Some observers say that the W3C's own XQuery is sufficient for query RDF, at least in its XML incarnations, while others suggest that SQL is a more mature, widely-implemented language for querying tuples. This presentation explores the issues and positions the three languages. Presenter: Jim Melton (Oracle; XML Query Working Group, XML Coordination Group) [slides] |
| 12:00 | Session 5: Lightning Talks
(A)
Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 3-minute talks on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator: Paul Downey (BT; Web Services Addressing and Web Services Description Working Groups and Chair of XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group) Presenters and Topics:
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| 12:30 | Lunch
Birds-of-a-Feather Tables. Participants may add to provided sign-up sheets any topic they like for discussion at each lunch table, and all are welcome to sign-up to sit at a particular table where a discussion of interest (an, hopefully, an interesting discussion) is proposed to take place. |
| 14:00 | Session 6: The Grid: What is
the Grid and Why Does it Matter to W3C?
Description: The objectives for this session are to inform and encourage discussion on the GRID, including the technical context (What is the Grid? Where do Web standard, such as Web Services and Semantic Web, fit-in?) and the standards landscape (W3C, Global Grid Forum, Enterprise Grid Alliance, OASIS, DMTF, etc.) Moderator: Ian Jacobs (W3C) and David De Roure (University of Southampton; GGF W3C liaison, Chair of Semantic Grid, Area Director Technology Innovators, W3C Advisory Committee) Presenters and Topics: |
| 15:00 | Session 7: Adventures in
Formal Methods
Description: The work of various Working Groups who applied formal methods to support their work or to ground it will be presented, as a means of share experiences and discussing the benefits and costs of using these formalisms. Moderator: Jonathan Marsh (Microsoft, Web Services Addressing Working Group, Chair of Web Services Description Working Group) Presenters and Topics:
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| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:30 | Session 8: Rich Web
Application Backplane
Description: Introduce the idea of a backplane for compound documents to allow for more powerful markup combinations and reduce duplication in functionality across the combined markups. Moderator: Kevin Kelly (IBM; XForms Working Group, Hypertext Coordination Group, Chair of the Compound Document Formats Working Group) [slides] Presenters and Topics:
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| 17:30 | Session 9: Lightning Talks
(B)
Description: Presenters will again provide strictly-monitored 3-minute talks on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator: Paul Downey (BT, Web Services Addressing and Web Services Description Working Groups, and Chair of XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group) Presenters and Topics: |
| 18:00 | Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
An evening reception will close the day and start at 7pm in the restaurant of the hotel.
Those who attended this Technical Plenary meeting are kindly requested to complete the post-Meeting Survey, to help us make next year's Tech Plenary even stronger: http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/tp2006-feedback/
The deadline for responding is midnight Eastern US time, Friday 17 March 2006.
Those with Member-access accounts (if you registered for this meeteing using the WBS Web form, you have one) can complete the Survey. However, if other attendees wish to provide their input, please see a Team member for assistance. Thanks!
Al Gilman, Protocols and Formats WG Chair
Kevin Kelly (IBM) Compound Document Formats WG Chair, XForms WG
Mark Nottingham (Yahoo!) P3P Specification Working Group
Amit Sheth (Semagix) Advisory Committee Representative
Susie Stephens (Oracle) Health Care and Life Sciences IG
Rachel Yager (Financial Services Technology Consortium)
Yves Lafon (W3C) Web Services Choreography, XML Schema Patters for Databinding and XML Protocol WGs; Semantic Web Services IG Team Contact
Susan Lesch (W3C) Communications Team
Danny Weitzner (W3C) Technology and Society Domain Leader, Patent and Standards IG Co-Chair
Steve Bratt (W3C) Chief Executive Officer, Technical Plenary Day Program Committee Chair
Steve Bratt (steve@w3.org)