The HTML Working Group has published Media Source Extensions as a Candidate Recommendation. This specification extends HTMLMediaElement to allow JavaScript to generate media streams for playback. Allowing JavaScript to generate streams facilitates a variety of use cases like adaptive streaming and time shifting live streams. Comments and implementations are welcome by 9 April 2014. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The Government Linked Data Working Group has published a First Public Working Group Note of Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data. This document sets out a series of best practices designed to facilitate development and delivery of open government data as Linked Open Data. Linked Open Data makes the World Wide Web into a global database, sometimes referred to as the “Web of Data”. Using Linked Data Principles, developers can query Linked Data from multiple sources at once and combine it without the need for a single common schema that all data shares. Prior to international data exchange standards for data on the Web, it was time consuming and difficult to build applications using traditional data management techniques. As more open government data is published on the Web, best practices are evolving too. The goal of this document is to compile the most relevant data management practices for the publication and use of of high quality data published by governments around the world as Linked Open Data. Learn more about the Data Activity.

The W3C Advisory Committee has elected the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Domenic Denicola (Lab49) and David Herman (Mozilla Foundation). They join continuing participants Daniel Appelquist (Telefónica; co-Chair), Yehuda Katz (JQuery Foundation), Sergey Konstantinov (Yandex), Peter Linss (HP; co-Chair), Alex Russell (Google), and Jeni Tennison (ODI), as well as co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee. W3C thanks those TAG participants whose terms end this month for their contributions: Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh) and Anne van Kesteren (Mozilla Foundation). The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. Learn more about the TAG.