Transcript Web Technology and Standards Committee

Web Technical Standards
Committee
June 16 2010
Web Video WebM/VP8 and h.264
• Emerging HTML5 video standards are polarizing browser vendors.
• This committee is of the opinion that the use of both YouTube and
iTunesU is not a concern as this new standard emerges.
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Risks are primarily associated with users of open source browsers
like Firefox and Opera and their handling of the patent encumbered
h.264 video codec.
ODI - STUDENT CALENDARING
The committee has been looking for data that would benefit from being
included in or becoming a starting point of a open data intuitive on
campus.
There is a student demand for a university hosted calendaring system
that would allow interoperability with mobile devices. It is this
committees recommendation that this system be open standards
based.
ODI - STUDENT CALENDARING
• The concept model is a collection of iCal files stored on a webserver
supporting WebDAV.
• Calendars could contain course calendars, class schedules, clubs,
meetings and personal calendars.
• Should be based on open standards like iCal + WebDAV = CalDAV
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning to ensure data
portability.
• Calendar data could be integrated into a portal/module for ease of
use, however, data and the application should be separate systems.
• The importance of meta-data cannot be understated. It’s used to
describe the definition, structure and administration of data
files. (eg. Windows registry, meta tags, Exif)