Web Technical Standards Committee June

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. 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)