On September 7, 2026, I gave a keynote at State of the Map Asia 2026 in Osaka. The title was: What if the Map itself became the Web? The talk looks back at the thirty-year journey of Hyper-Layering Architecture (HLA), … Continue reading
ROADMAP PROGRESS Slower progress than expected this month. Some roadmap issues opened deeper questions that kept me busy. – Closed: Clarify fan attribute usage for multi-level beams https://github.com/w3c-cg/musicxml/issues/663 (thanks @rpatters1) – Removed from roadmap: Add ‘smufl’ attribute to <senza-misura> https://github.com/w3c-cg/musicxml/issues/643 (thanks @lemzwerg … Continue reading
Participants Tobias Nyhuus Jensen (host), Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes), Sander Nijsingh, Kosei Oki, Anna-Liisa Mattila, Pär Lannerö. Notes Round table Anna-Liisa said that, in Finland, reviews often focus only on individual views rather than the user task or user … Continue reading
Staff lines Work on specifying the number of staff lines (pull request #548, issue #531) is now complete. It’s now possible to specify zero as the number of staff lines. We agreed that the pull request can be merged. There … Continue reading
This Thursday, September 10, the W3C Holon Community Group is holding its next general meeting — and it’s open to anyone curious about where knowledge graphs and AI-native infrastructure are headed. It’s been a little over two months since our … Continue reading
MusicXML Karim has been working on items from the roadmap. Progress can be slower than expected because of the hidden complexities that tackling even superficially simple-looking issues can reveal, but this is all good and interesting work. Karim is considering … Continue reading
SSTIM, the group’s vocabulary for describing sensory stimulation, is published at https://w3id.org/sstim under CC BY 4.0, as an OWL 2 ontology with a multilingual SKOS vocabulary, SHACL shapes and four conformance profiles. Continue reading
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on August 6th, 2026 15:00 UTC. Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed. CANCELLING 3:00 UTC meeting time moving forward. There has been no attendance for the last … Continue reading
The Agent Conformance and Benchmarking Community Group has been launched: Several groups now define how autonomous agents identify themselves, exchange protocol messages, carry memory, and prove what they did. None of them define how conformance to those things is measured, … Continue reading
New domain The MNX specification can now be found at the domain mnx.formats.music. (SMuFL can be found at smufl.formats.music, and MusicXML at musicxml.formats.music.) Doc generator The MNX doc generator tool no longer requires a back-end database or a web site … Continue reading
