Welcome to the September 2007 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation 3. Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation 4. GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web 5. OWL Group to Refine and Extend Web Ontology Language 6. Web Services Addressing Working Group Completes Work and Closes 7. SAWSDL Working Group Completes Work and Closes 8. Last Call: XML Pipeline Language 9. Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Structures 10. Last Call: Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors 11. Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 12. A MathML for CSS Profile: Working Draft 13. Enabling Read Access: Working Draft 14. POWDER Description Resources, Datatypes and Vocabulary: Working Draft 15. Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Draft 16. Update to SPARQL Candidate Recommendation: XML Results Format 1. Events W3C Australian Office - W3C Special Interest Group Day 26 September 2007 The W3C Australia Office would like to thank all the speakers for presenting on the day and making the event a success. We would also like to thank John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin from Web Directions South for all their assistance. The Office will also be publishing all the presentations online via the W3C Australia web site (very soon). Writing for the Web Workshop, * Melbourne - 9 October 2007 Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshops. Dey is co-convenor of the Web Accessibility Network of Australian Universities and is a regular presenter on useable and accessible web writing to the education, corporate and government sectors. Focusing on excellent content writing, this practical workshop complements the Vision Australia Web Accessibility Workshops. Workshop web site: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=64 Web Accessibility Workshop * Hobart - 19 October 2007 * Canberra - 23 October 2007 * Sydney - 30 October 2007 These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. They are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals, business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers and web contract managers. Workshop website: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=52 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=63 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=62 2. Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Policy 1.5 as a Recommendation. The Policy "Framework" defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. "Attachment" defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read the press release, the testimonials and about the Web Services Policy Working Group and Web services. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/ http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-testimonial http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 3. Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" as a Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for "Web Services Addressing 1.0" using "Web Services Policy 1.5" and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in "WSDL." Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/ http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 4. GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web The World Wide Web Consortium today released "GRDDL" and "GRDDL Test Cases" as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the "GRDDL Primer," the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-20070911/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-tests-20070911/ http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/ http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-primer/ http://www.w3.org/2007/07/grddl-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2007/07/grddl-testimonial http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ 5. OWL Group to Refine and Extend Web Ontology Language W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the OWL Working Group. Ian Horrocks (Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group which is chartered to produce a W3C Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology Language (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles identified by users and tool implementers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/ http://www.w3.org/2007/06/OWLCharter http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/#OWLSpecs http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/41712/join http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ 6. Web Services Addressing Working Group Completes Work and Closes W3C is pleased to announce that the Web Services Addressing Working Group has successfully completed its work: the Web Services Addressing 1.0 "Core," "SOAP Binding" and "Metadata" Recommendations and a Working Group Note, "SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding." The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. Read about Web services. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-soap-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-soap11-ror-httpbinding-20060321/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 7. SAWSDL Working Group Completes Work and Closes W3C is pleased to announce that the Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation "Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema" (SAWSDL) and its companion "Usage Guide." With SAWSDL, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing and invoking Web services. Read about Web services. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-sawsdl-20070828/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-sawsdl-guide-20070828/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 8. Last Call: XML Pipeline Language The XML Processing Model Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." Comments are welcome through 24 October. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070920/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 9. Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Structures The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures." Comments are welcome through 8 November. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Simplifications and changes in this draft are to sections on rules for checking validity, "all" groups, the PSVI, conformance, fallback for lax validation, particles and wildcards, among other revisions. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema11-1-20070830/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 10. Last Call: Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors The Web Services Policy Working Group released two Last Call Working Drafts. Comments are welcome through 19 October. The "Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer" introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The "Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors" provide best practices for creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 "Framework" and "Attachment" specifications. Read about Web services. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070928/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070928/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-20070706/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-attach-20070706/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 11. Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." Comments are welcome through 19 October. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's "Mobile Web Best Practices." Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070928/ http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 12. A MathML for CSS Profile: Working Draft The Math Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of "A MathML for CSS profile." This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters. Visit the Math home page. http://www.w3.org/Math/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20070924/ http://www.w3.org/Math/ 13. Enabling Read Access: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources." Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071001/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 14. POWDER Description Resources, Datatypes and Vocabulary: Working Drafts The POWDER Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of "Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources" and "Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary" and "Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources Datatypes (WDRD)." POWDER is a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-powder-dr-20070925/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-powder-voc-20070925/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-powder-xsd-20070925/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ 15. Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group released updated Working Drafts of "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1" and its "Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1." SML is used to model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about XML. http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-sml-20070926/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-sml-if-20070926/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 16. Update to SPARQL Candidate Recommendation: XML Results Format W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "SPARQL Query Results XML Format" to Candidate Recommendation. The "SPARQL Query Language for RDF" offers developers and end users a way to write and consume search results across a wide range of information and provides a means of integration over disparate sources. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be expressed in XML. Read about the RDF Data Access Working Group and visit the Semantic Web home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070925/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ________________________________________________________________________ ____ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au