"Entertaining
Content"
The Third W3C
Web and TV Workshop
19-20
September, 2011
Hollywood,
California, USA
"Continuing the Global
Conversation on Key Issues in Web & TV Convergence"
W3C gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Comcast to make this
Workshop possible.
W3C thanks Tomo-Digi for its support of this Workshop.
If you're interested in being a Sponsor for this workshop, please contact J.
Alan Bird at abird@w3.org or +1 617 253 7823.
For additional information about Sponsorship programs, please visit the Sponsor site.
Important Dates
August 1, 2011
Reservation booking opens for discount hotel rate.
August 15, 2011
Deadline for Position Papers and Statements of Interest
Submit Papers and Statements to team-webtv-ws-submit@w3.org.
August 23, 2011
Position Paper acceptance notification and workshop registration instructions
sent.
September 11, 2011
Program, accepted position papers and detailed logistics information posted on
the workshop website.
September 12, 2011
Deadline for workshop registration (September 12, noon Eastern
September 12, 2011
Deadline for hotel discount rate
September 19, 2011
Workshop Begins (9:00 AM).
September 20, 2011
Workshop Ends (5:00 PM).
September 30, 2011
Conference minutes posted on the workshop website.
October 4, 2011
Conference deliverables posted on the workshop website.
Workshop Organizing Committee
●Yosuke Funahashi, Tomo-Digi
●Giuseppe Pascale, Opera Software
●Mark Vickers, Comcast Cable
●Karen Myers, W3C
●Kaz Ashimura, W3C
Program Committee
The program committee consists of:
●Ralph Brown, CableLabs
●Pablo Cesar, CWI
●Yosuke Funahashi, Tomo-Digi
●Tatsuya Igarashi, Sony
●Masahito Kawamori, NTT/ITU-T
●Hyeonjae Lee, LG
●Ted Leung, Disney
●Giuseppe Pascale, Opera
●Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer Gesellshaft
●Mark Vickers, Comcast
●Chris Wilson, Google
●Olivier Thereaux, BBC
●Kazuyuki Ashimura, W3C
The Program Committee will review Position Papers to determine the workshop
agenda and to select and invite authors to give presentations for discussion.
Updates
The following resources are available on the W3C server:
●Workshop Agenda
●Workshop Minutes
●Workshop Papers
●Workshop Attendees
●Workshop Summary
Workshop Overview
Following the success of its regional workshops in Tokyo, Japan and Berlin,
Germany, the W3C will host a third workshop on Web and TV convergence in
Hollywood, California on 19-20 September, 2011. In the previous two workshops,
participants identified opportunities for convergence of Web and TV
infrastructure and began identifying technical challenges. This third workshop
will continue these efforts, with a particular focus on the needs of content
creators and distributors. Additionally, there will be an opportunity to
discuss and debate some of the initial requirements arising in the Web and TV
Interest Group that began its work in February 2011. It is expected that
starting this fall, these requirements will drive W3C Working Group activity,
defining new standards for the Web.
The W3C invites submission of short presentations on Web & TV
convergence, such as:
●Home networking
●Issues in delivering commercial video to web browsers
●Web support in connected TVs
●International TV standards and web standards convergence
●User interface for Web &TV
●Multiple screen scenario
In addition, W3C Members will present status on current activities,
including:
●HTML5
●Web and TV Interest Group's Home Networking Task Force
●Web and TV Interest Group's Media Pipeline Task Force
●Update on other relevant W3C standards work
Although we anticipate significant participation from organizations in North
America, all W3C Workshops are international and we encourage participation
from relevant industries all over the world.
Who should attend?
W3C invites up to two attendees per company from industry sectors and
categories such as:
●Advertising
●Backend service providers such as Content Management Systems
●Broadcast and media companies
●Browser vendors (including embedded browsers)
●Cable operators
●Consumer electronics manufacturers
●Content developers, aggregators and delivery providers
●Device manufacturers
●Gaming companies
●Internet video
●Middleware developers
●Network providers and telecommunications companies, especially video
service divisions of those companies
●Service vendors of cloud computing
●Standardization organizations related to Web &TV
●Television operators (broadcast, cable, satellite)
●Video delivery systems
●VOD operators
●Government organizations seeking to standardize the integration of
broadcasting and Web technologies
●Academic researchers with an interest in smarter integration of Web
technologies, broadcasting and non-PC devices
Among the attendees of the previous two Web & TV workshops were
representatives from: ACCESS, BBC, BSkyB, CableLabs, Canon, Cisco, Comcast,
Dolby, Ericsson, Fuji Television, Hearst Interactive, Huawei, Hulu, Intel, IPTV
Forum Japan, ITU-T, KDDI, KT, LG, Melco, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Nagravision,
National Council for the Blind of Ireland, NEC, Netflix, NHK, Nippon
Television, NTT, Nokia, Open IPTV Forum, Opera, Oracle, Orange, Panasonic,
Philips, Qualcomm, Samsung, SanDisk, Slovak Telekom, Sony, Sony Ericsson,
STMicroelectronics, TBS, Technicolor, Time Warner Cable, Tomo-Digi, Toshiba,
T-Systems, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo and WOWOW.
Schedule:
The workshop will be held on Monday and Tuesday, September 19-20, 2011. The
workshop program will run from 9 am to 5 pm on both days.
Note: There will be a meeting of the W3C Web & TV Interest Group the
following two days, September 21-22. While the Workshop is open to non-W3C
members, the Interest Group meeting is only open to W3C members. (See:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join)
Workshop Venue:
The workshop will be held at The Globe Theatre atUniversal Studios
Hollywood
100 Universal City Plaza
Bldg. 5511-6, Universal City, CA 91608, USA
Hotel Information:
We have reserved a block of rooms at a special discount rate with the Hilton
Hotel Los Angeles/Universal City, 555 Universal Hollywood Drive, Universal
City, CA 91608. You will receive information about how to register after you
submit your Position Paper or Statement of Interest.
Workshop Goals
The goal of this workshop is to continue the global conversation about the
convergence of the Web & TV so that we can gather additional use cases and
requirements leading to standardization work. We encourage stakeholders who
have not yet participated in previous Web & TV workshops or the Interest
Group to attend. We are particularly interested in the perspectives from
content creation and delivery organizations, since video content and
distribution requirements are one of several key focus areas for the W3C Web
& TV Interest Group.
At this workshop we will also brief attendees on the latest status of the
W3C Web & TV Interest Group, including work to date by the Home Networking
Task Force. Updates from other external standardization organizations are also
welcome, particularly those that participated in the first workshop in Tokyo
and the second workshop
in Berlin.
Topics
Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
●Implementability and Reliability
●Personalization
●Accessibility
●Content Rights
●Viewpoints on use cases for Web &TV
●Connect and Link
●Specific Suggestions on APIs
●Adaptive Streaming
●Extensions to HTML5
●Relationship with existing approaches
Note: Updates on the topics discussed during the previous two workshops will
be on the agenda. (See also the IG
report for the details):
Use cases and requirements from new stakeholders:
●A survey of existing integration of Web technologies
●Demonstrating the advantages of Web-based framework
●Standardization of Web-based frameworks for the development of
broadcasting/content delivery systems
●Relationship between existing broadcasting/content delivery systems and
Web standards
●The role of Web-based broadcasting/content delivery approaches for
improving the quality and reducing cost
●The role of Web-based approaches for improving accessibility
●The role of Web-based approaches for nomadic user interfaces where users
switch devices in the midst of using an application
●Requirements for extensions to existing standards (e.g., HTML, CSS) to
improve the support of broadcasting on various non-PC devices
●What additional standards are needed to support Web-based technologies
(e.g. HTML5)
●Re-use of existing W3C/non-W3C markup languages for richer
broadcasting/content delivery services
Deliverables
The main outcome of the workshop will be the publication of a report that
will serve as a guide for further work in W3C.
Requirements for Participation
Participation will be governed by the following:
●To ensure maximum interaction among participants, the number of
participants will be limited to two from one company.
●W3C membership is not required to participate in this workshop.
●Attendees are required to submit a Position Paper (Presenters) or a
Statement of Interest (Non-presenters).
Requirements for Presenters:
Position Papers will be the basis for the discussions at the workshop. Each
organization or individual wishing to participate in the workshop and
give a presentation on his or her idea must submit a Position Paper by
email to <team-webtv-ws-submit@w3.org>by15 August 2011. The program committee will select papers
that provide insight into the use cases and requirements for deeper
understanding of key issues in Web & TV convergence.
Position Papers should be written in English. Examples may be illustrated
with non-English languages with an English explanation. All submissions should
be 1 to 5 pages in length, although they may link to longer versions or
appendices. Allowed formats are valid (X)HTML, PDF or plain text. Papers in any
other format (including invalid (X)HTML) may be returned with a request for
correct formatting.
Position Papers will be published on the public Web page of the workshop.
Submitting a Position Paper comprises a default recognition of these terms for
publication. The Program Committee reserves the right to decline submissions
that are not deemed relevant to the workshop's stated goals.
The Program Committee will ask the authors of particularly salient
submissions to present their position at the workshop to foster discussion.
Presenters will be asked to make the slides of the presentation available on
the workshop home page in HTML, PDF or plain text.
Position Papers should explain the participant's key issue(s) in Web &
TV convergence, e.g., a limitation, constraint or difficulty in their systems
or services. The following should be clearly mentioned in the paper:
●Description on participant's use case that demonstrates the issue
●Describe participant's system or service (if possible)
●Why the participant can't use existing standards to accomplish their use
case?
●What could be standardized to improve the situation?
Concrete examples should be included in the above issue description.
See also the following example Position Papers:
●Example
1 (PDF)
●Example
2 (PDF)
●Example
3 (Plain Text)
Requirements for Observers:
A non-presenter must submit a Statement of Interest. Statements of Interest
must be submitted by email to <team-webtv-ws-submit@w3.org>by15 August 2011.
Statements of interest should explain the following:
●The participant's interest in the workshop
●Their viewpoint
See also the following example Statements of Interest:
●Example
1 (PDF)
●Example 2
(Plain Text)
●Example 3
(Plain Text)
Workshop Organization
Workshop Registration:
A registration page for the workshop will be provided shortly. Please note
that your submission of a Statement of Interest or Position Paper is required
to register. We encourage you to register as soon as possible to optimize your
travel arrangements.
Workshop languages:
Position Papers and Statements of Interest must be submitted in English.
The workshop will be conducted in English, and the published minutes will be
written in English.
Yosuke Funahashi, Giuseppe Pascale, Mark Vickers, Karen Myers and Kaz Ashimura, Workshop Organizing Committee
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