RIF 2012

Daniel Hladky, HSE/W3C Russia

The Open Semantic

Web Platform

April 19, 2012

Agenda

• Web Transformation

• Role of W3C

• HTML5 and the Open Web Platform (OWP)

• Momentum

• Industry Use of the Open Web Platform

• Participation

– Working Groups / Business Groups / Communities

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WORLD WIDE WEB

The

"Thirty years ago, we couldn't know that

something called the Internet would lead to

an economic revolution."

FEBRUARY 2011

Actually, we had some ideas about that ...

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Web 1.0

(Read)

Web 2.0

(Read/Write)

Social

Web 3.0

Semantic

Machine Proc.

Web 4.0

Ubiquitous

Ca. 1989 ca. 1999 2001 201x

Building Blocks

1. Modeling

(Taxonomy,

Ontology)

2. Calculating

Knowledge

(Inference/

Logic)

3. Exchanging

Information

(Communication

TCP/IP)

Philosophy

Computer Science

A NEW WAVE

TRANSFORMATIONS of

Just as the Web has transformed everything…

…It will transform everything again

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World Wide Web Consortium

• More than 340 Members (only 2 from Russia)

• Web ecosystem: users, developers, browsers, etc.

• Staff in US (MIT), France (ERCIM) and Japan (Keio)

• W3C Russia Office hosted by HSE

• Open Standards, Royalty Free

W3C Core Team (67 people)

Broad Reach

• Translations of standards to 55+ languages

• Liaisons w/ 40+ global standards organizations (UN, ISO, ITU, IETF, OGF, Unicode, ICANN, ETSI, Isoc…)

• 55,000+ people subscribed to 800+ mailing lists

• Millions of Hits/day on www.w3.org

• 220+ Web standards: (HTML, XML, NG/SVG, RDF/OWL/SPARQL, Accessibility….)

• 1,800+ participants in 60+ Groups

Let’s do some voting

Web Trends Affecting Society

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• Web everywhere

• Devices

– 85% – Percentage of handsets shipped globally in 2011 that

included a web browser

– Diversity of device types (eBooks, printers, tablets, televisions,

automobiles)

• Apps with rich interactions. People want:

- Apps in addition to documents

- Rich media (video, animations, digital photography, music)

- Location-based services

- Social

HTML5: Cornerstone of the Platform

• Reach multiple devices

– Desktop, mobile, tablet, TV

• Powerful and modular

– Documents, multimedia, interactivity

• Multi-application

– eBooks, user interfaces, games

• Standard scheduled 2014

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"The Web is going through a once-in-a-decade technology transition to HTML5 and CSS3”

- Gartner

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HTML5

New Elements

New Attributes

Full CSS3 Support

Video and Audio

2D/3D Graphics

Local Storage

Local SQL Database

Web Applications

HTML5 Multimedia

With HTML5, playing video and audio is easier than

ever.

HTML5 <video>

HTML5 <audio> HTML5 Graphics

With HTML5, drawing graphics is easier than ever:

Using the <canvas> element

Using inline SVG

Using CSS3 2D/3D

HTML5 Applications

With HTML5, web application development is easier

than ever.

Local data storage

Local file access

Local SQL database

Application cache

Javascript workers

XHTMLHttpRequest 2

Semantic Elements

New elements for headers, footers,

menues, sections and articles.

HTML5 Forms

New form elements, new attributes, new

input types, automatic validation.

Possible references: http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

Benefits of W3C Web Standards

• Lower cost of cross-platform development

• Rapid prototyping

• Create apps in the cloud

• Broad developer support

• Customers one click away

• Full control over content

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Web Client 2012

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Rapidly Growing Support

Cross-Device, Cross-Platform

• Major browsers

– IE9+, FF4+, Safari5+, Opera11+, Chrome10+, Blackberry Browser, Silk

• Platforms

– iOS, Android, ChromeOS, BlackberryOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile 8

• Libraries

– Webkit (Google, Apple, Nokia, etc.), Gecko (Mozilla), Trident (Microsoft), Presto (Opera)

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A Platform for Social Requirements

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• Privacy

– Tracking protection

• Security

– Security story changes with

distributed apps and logic on the

client

• Identity

– New crypto work starting

• Accessibility

– By people with range of

disabilities

• Multilingual

– Support the world’s languages

Web is Mobile Platform of the Future

• Video and Audio

• Voice, Videoconferencing, and real-time communications

• Peer-to-peer

• Location-based services

• Social networking

• Advertising

• Games

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“58% Of Mobile Web Users Get Their Content Fix Through Browsers” – TechCrunch

“Mobile Web application platforms will generate almost $2.6 billion in service

revenue by 2015” – Smith’s Point Analytics

Web Transports and Enhances TV

• Analog-to-digital conversion is nearly complete

• User generated content commonplace on Internet

• Convergence has started, but where will it lead? - User content and premium content

- How much integration of Web content into programming?

- Internet, wireless, or conventional distribution

- Device: TV, laptop, handheld

• Different stakeholders have different perspectives - Traditional broadcast

- Telecoms

- Content providers

- New entrants (youtube, netflix, hulu, pandora, spotify, …)

- Device manufacturers

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Social Networking – E.g. Facebook

• CTO Bret Taylor in July 2011

– “Over the long term, people in Silicon

Valley really view HTML5 as the future

platform …that’s where we’re putting a

huge amount of our investment …”

• Facebook mobile apps built with

HTML5 (including native apps)

• Facebook promotes HTML5 for

mobile and social apps

• Nearly 50% of 800 million users

access Facebook through mobile.

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Drawing

Video

History API

Geolocation

Web storage

Web sockets

CSS Transitions

App Cache

Gaming - E.g. Zynga

• Zynga mission: social gaming for all

– “The company … has 60 million daily active

users, who play Zynga games for more than

2 billion minutes every day.”

• Open Web Platform advantages

– No plugins (mobile users don’t install)

– Play quickly without install; one click

away

– Significant code reuse between

desktop, mobile

– User experience-driven live updates;

bug fixes

• Zynga leverages Facebook social

network by using HTML5

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Web sockets Caching CSS animations CSS 2d transforms

Touch events Orientation

HTML5 audio Timing control

Financial Times

• Financial Times launched popular iPad

app

• Quickly replicated 80-90% of user

experience using Open Web Platform

• Faster app launch times improve user

experience; customers have switched

to Web app

• Web app approach more cost-effective,

less confusion for users across devices

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Audio, Video, Touch, CSS, SVG, Flex box, Web SQL, History API, Local storage, App cache

Amazon and eBooks

• Amazon Silk browser supports

HTML5, leverages cloud services

• Ebook market leveraging

HTML5+CSS

– Ebooks starting to outsell printed

books in some markets

– Ebook standard (EPUB) based on

W3C standards: HTML, CSS, SVG

– Extensions also HTML+CSS

(Amazon KF8 on Kindle Fire, Apple

iBook)

• Document formats are increasingly

based on the Open Web Platform

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SVG

Fonts

Backgrounds

Borders

Video

Audio

Fonts

Media Queries

Digital News and Semantics

• Early adopters of RDF(a), SPARQL etc

– NYTIMES, BBC, Guardien, AP, RIAN etc.

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Advertising and More

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More Objects, More Information

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• Retail – Product information, …

• Airport logistics - Track suitcases, …

• Automotive - Is car ready for trip?, …

• General logistics - Track production parts

• Medical care - State of medical instruments

• Transportation - How to move to….

Use Cases

Drilling and Exploration

Value Chain

Compliance Information

Big Data Analytics

How can you participate?

Many ways to make an impact and contribute:

• Membership in W3C

• Sponsorship of W3C programs

• Business Groups

• Community Groups

• Participation in public Workshops/Working groups

• Many other Events, Training

Do you like:

To Lead the Web to its full potential

To Anticipate the Trends

To Increase your company value

Join W3C

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

Daniel Hladky Deputy Director W3C Office Russia Transforming the Web together

Phone: +7-(495)-436 0245 | Mobile: +41-79-3535043

E-mail: dhladky@w 3c.org.ru | W: w 3c.org.ru Skype: daniel.hladky

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