Last week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published “ Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0” as a W3C Recommendation. So, what is ITS 2.0, who is behind it, and why should you care?

Like the Tunnels of Disneyland

Let’s compare this with Disneyland: you may not care about how the magic comes to life, as long as you are entertained. In the same way you don’t care how Web content in your language was created, as long as it conveys the information you need.

But there are many behind-the-scences tunnels in Disneyland, with thousands of people and a lot of machinery interacting to make your experience perfect. The same is true for multilingual Web content creation: it’s a complex process, often involving many people, tasks and tools: content creation in one language, preparation for localization, and actual translation into potentially dozens of languages, quality assurance, and much more.

Like in the tunnels beneath Disneyland, you can be sure that communication in such complex workflows is key to making things work correctly, in a timely and cost-effective manner. ITS 2.0 provides standard meta-data to support that communication, with a focus on automation: ITS 2.0 helps integrate content management systems, machine translation engines and computer assisted translation tools as well as human players. It enables them to work together seamlessly to reduce the overheads associated with building your Disneyland in your language.

A key Technology developed by key Drivers of the Multilingual Web

The European Commission supported the development of ITS 2.0 , to foster the vision of a European single digital market. ITS 2.0 was created by the Multilingual Web – Language Technology Working Group in just 18 months – a fast outcome in the standardization realm. This was only possible because we had the right people at the table. To give three of many examples: Pedro Luis Díez Orzas, CEO of Spanish language service provider Linguaserve, assured that ITS 2.0 was road-tested with major clients such as the Spanish Tax Office already during its development. This provided valuable input from the end users on the design of ITS 2.0. And the group co-chairs Dave Lewis and David Filip from the Centre for Next Generation Localization assured that ITS 2.0 feeds into core localization and language technology research goals and is harmonised with other standardization efforts in the realm of Web technologies as well as localisation and language technology.

Diving into the tunnels

If you want to learn more, consider as a start to use the HTML5 Translate attribute when creating Web content in your language. It is understood by both online machine translation systems and many ITS 2.0 tools . Then dive deeper into the tunnels and look into usage scenarios for ITS 2.0. Finally and now a bit unlike Disneyland, you yourself will be able to make the magic of the multilingual Web happen.

Web developers are key in the evolution of the Web, shaping its future. Their works impact on the quality of the Web –its contents, user experience and accessibility. Having this in mind, in the process of leading the Web to its full potential, W3C offers professional training activities with the main objective of “educating” developers about using W3C technologies. For over five years, W3C has organized official courses on Web standards, training developers on best practices in order to preserve and enhance the quality of Web sites and applications.

Hundreds of professionals have been taught by the best international experts on Mobile Web, HTML5, and JavaScript. Now, we are pleased to announce a new course on HTML5 (Web Design Fundamentals) for Spanish-speaking students. The content of this course is the same as the original English version, but adapted to the Spanish-speaking community. This 6-week-long course will start on 18 November 2013. Period for “early bird” registration ends on 8 November 2013, so register now to get the discount.

Read the full description of the HTML5 course in Spanish for information about fees, outline and more. Also, see all the courses in W3DevCampus.

Los desarrolladores Web son una parte esencial en la evolución de la Web. Sus creaciones impactan directamente en la calidad de la Web –la experiencia de usuario y accesibilidad– moldeando el presente y futuro. Teniendo esto en cuenta, en el proceso de llevar la Web a su máximo potencial, el W3C ofrece formación a profesionales con el principal objetivo de “educar” a los desarrolladores en el uso de tecnologías W3C. En estos últimos cinco años, el W3C ha organizado cursos oficiales sobre estándares Web, formando a desarrolladores en el uso de buenas prácticas para preservar y mejorar la calidad de los sitios y aplicaciones Web.

Expertos mundiales han formado a cientos de profesionales en materias tales como Web móvil, HTML5 y JavaScript. Hoy nos complace anunciar un nuevo curso sobre HTML5 (Fundamentos del Diseño Web) en castellano. El contenido de este curso es el mismo que la versión original en ingléspero adaptado para la comunidad hispano-parlante. Este curso tiene una duración de 6 semanas y comenzará el 18 de noviembre de 2013. Ya está abierto el periodo de registro y hasta el 8 de noviembre te podrás beneficiar de un descuento de inscripción anticipada.

Para más información, echa un vistazo a la descripción completa de este curso , que incluye la lista de los temas, los precios y más. Si lo deseas, mira todos los cursos en W3DevCampus.

“We strive to offer high quality training courses in other languages than English,” said Marie-Claire Forgue, Head of W3C Training. “After Spanish, W3DevCampusnow speaks Korean! This sets one milestone in W3C’s training globalization efforts and we are very excited to have found the right partner in Korea.”

W3C HTML5 온라인 트레이닝 과정 최초로 최고의 인기강좌는 HTML5 과정이 한국어로 제공됩니다. 미래웹기술연구소(주) 가 한국 개발자와 디자이너 여러분을 W3DevCampus의 이러닝 플랫폼 을 이용한 특별한 HTML5 온라인 강좌에 초대합니다. ( 등록하기 ) 6주 동안 진행되는 과정을 수료하면 강좌를 요약하는 오프라인 세미나가 열리고 수료증도 받아가실 수 있습니다. W3DevCampus 한국 런칭을 기념하며 특별히 이번 11월 코스 등록자에 한해 10만원 상품권도 지급합니다!

자세한 내용은 HTML5 한국어 과정 안내를 참고하세요. W3C 온라인 강좌를 듣고 HTML5 전문가가 되세요!

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0.

ITS 2.0 provides a foundation for integrating automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many commonalities with its predecessor, ITS 1.0, but provides additional concepts that are designed to foster the automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content.

Work on application scenarios for ITS 2.0 and gathering of usage and implementation experience will now take place in the ITS Interest Group.

This is the 18-25 October 2013edition of a “ weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived ). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. You may tweet your demos and cool dev/design stuffto @koalie , or write me e-mail. If you have suggestions for improvement, please leave a comment.

W3C and HTML5 related Twitter buzz

[What was tweeted frequently, what caught my attention.

Most recentfirst (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.]

• (8) Last Call: Revisions to Chapter 7(Technical Report Development Process) of the W3C Process Document in Last Call until 27 November
• W3C Specs :
  • (38) Geolocation API Specification is now a W3C recommendation
  • (24) CSS Writing Modes Level 3 updated Working Draft
  • (8) Last Call: Custom Elements
• (80) conferenciaweb.w3c.br: Concurso Web’s Got Talent do W3C premia tecnologias abertas , and W3C Brasil tweet.
• (31) MS Open Tech: MS Open Tech publishes first implementation of W3C ORTC to simplify Web-Based Real-Time Communications, and
• MS Open Tech: Pointer Events interoperability public demo of Firefox build integrating MS Open Tech’s contribution
• (90) Pando Daily: China’s betting big on HTML5 mobile apps. Will the US be next?
• (150+) Brendan Eich: The Bridge of Khazad-DRM
• (45) Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video Playback UI
• (17) Web Platform Docs: Web Platform Docs celebrates a great first year

W3C in the Press (or blogs)

17 articles this week. A selection follows. Highlight:

• DRM / EME (11 articles, in English, French, German)

[Most recent first. Find keywords and more on our Press clippings]

• CMS Wire(24 October), Discussion Point: Encrypted Media Extensions in the HTML Standard
• The Register(24 October), Mozilla CTO blasts WC3 plans to bless anti-piracy DRM tech in HTML5
• Computer World UK | Open Enterprise(23 October), Is Mozilla on the Bridge of Khazad – or on the Fence?
• CNET Australia(23 October), DRM likely in future versions of HTML
• GulfNews.com(22 October), Whistleblowers needed to check excesses by governments and corporations, says Berners-Lee
• Brendan Eich Blog(22 October), The Bridge of Khazad-DRM
• PandoDaily(22 October), China’s betting big on HTML5 mobile apps. Will the US be next?
• Examiner.com(18 October), Why DRM in HTML5 is wrong

Environments for Humans organizes the 3-day CSS Dev Conf 2013, in Estes Park, Colorado, USA. Speakers include Eric Meyer and Tab Atkins.

This is the 11-18 October 2013edition of a “ weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived ). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. You may tweet your demos and cool dev/design stuffto @koalie , or write me e-mail. If you have suggestions for improvement, please leave a comment.

W3C and HTML5 related Twitter buzz

[What was tweeted frequently, what caught my attention.

Most recentfirst (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.]

• (700) Smashing Magazine: Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code
• (70) W3C Validator Suite:
  • W3C Tweet: “ We launched Validator Suite™ which checks an entire Web site. Our free validators remain free, and will stay so.”
  • W3C Blog: W3C introduces new plan and pricing for Validator Suite
• (4K) HTML5: Super Mario implemented in HTML5
• (170) Amelia Andersdotter: DRM/EME in HTML5 – an American thing
• (90) W3C News: Touch Events is a W3C Recommendation
• (120) Simon St. Laurent: What Do We Get for That DRM?
• (410) TechCrunch: ICANN, W3C Call For End Of US Internet Ascendancy Following NSA Revelations
• (700) FayerWayer: ">">ICANN, W3C, Internet Society y más rompen con EE.UU. y se alían a Brasil(ICANN, W3C, the Internet Society and U.S. break up and join forces with Brazil)

W3C in the Press (or blogs)

22 articles this week. A selection follows. Highlights:

• Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation (12 articles, in English, French, Spanish, German)
• DNT / Tracking Protection Working Group (5 articles, in English, French, German)
• DRM / EME (3 articles)

[Most recent first. Find keywords and more on our Press clippings]

• Smashing Magazine(17 October), Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code
• Techdirt(16 October), DRM In HTML5: What Is Tim Berners-Lee Thinking?
• Computer World UK(14 October),  Tim Berners-Lee on Why HTML5 “Needs” DRM
• Engadget(12 October), Internet infrastructure groups push for more independence from US monitoring
• Wired(12 October), The US is losing control of the internet
• Washington Post(11 October), The Internet’s best hope for a Do Not Track standard is falling apart. Here’s why.
• Internet Governance Project Blog(11 October), The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government
• MediaPost Daily Online Examiner(10 October), Tim Berners-Lee To Decide Fate Of W3C Privacy Group
• CNET(10 October), Super Mario fully playable online using HTML5
• NetworkWorld(4 October), Critics slam World Wide Web Consortium over inclusion of DRM in HTML5

Today we are very happy to introduce a new W3C Validator Suite plan and pricing.

Further to important customer feedback, and market comments, our offers now feature increased flexibility, controland cost savings. Validator Suite is now based on credit of page validation.

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We know you trust W3C to provide expert Website validation, and we hope this evolution in plan and pricing further supports your goal to create a Web experience of quality for your Web site users.

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Your feedback and ideas are welcome; please, feel free to send us e-mail.

Thank you for building a better Web, The W3C Validator Suite team

As a complement to the HTML5 Tour in India and last year’s HTML5 Tour in Europe , the W3C Germany and Austria Office(W3C.DE/AT) invites you to the fourth HTML5 day.

The event will be held in Vienna and targets Web developers, programmers, students, teachers and everybody interested in the evolution of the Web. After a series of 3 successful events in Berlin, Bonn and Munich the next one will be held in Vienna on 7-8 November in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG).

As previously, the event will provide background and basics on HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, introduce new features and APIs and cover some hot topics (e.g. Web Components.) A special topic of the event will be “HTML5 and accessibility”. The event will be held in German. Speaker are Klaus Birkenbihl (on HTML5&Co) and Michael Stenitzer (on HTML5 and accessibility). Details can be found in the announcement.