Australian W3C Office

Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. This edition includes news about regional activities, SVG, Advisory Committee Meeting, WWW2002 and Speech Recognition activities.

1. Regional Activities
   
2. Advisory Committee Meeting
   
3. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft Published
   
4. Selectors Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
   
5. RDF Test Cases Working Draft Published
   
6. Third Release: SVG 1.0 Test Suite
   
7. Call for Papers: SVG Open Conference
   
8. DOM Level 3 XPath Working Draft Published
9. New W3C Member
   
10. About this newsletter
    

1. Regional Activities

#Australian Semantic Web Workshop

This event has been postponed until 2002. Information on the new date and location will be available in future newsletters.

URLs:

Australian Semantic Web Workshop: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Tech_Transfer/Events/SemanticWeb.html
Overview article on the Semantic Web: http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

2. W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

W3C held its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-7 November in Nice, France. W3C Member organizations participated in two days of presentations and discussions on the range of W3C Activities. If you would like to join W3C, visit the Membership page, and consider attending the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held 5-7 May 2002, co-located with the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference on 7-11 May in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

URLs:

Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
Activities: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Activities
Membership: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining
WWW2002: http://www2002.org/

3. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition. Part of the W3C Speech Interface Framework, the draft describes syntax and semantics for tags in speech recognition grammar that are used to build computer-processable representations of user utterances. Comments are welcome.

URL:

Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-semantic-interpretation-20011116/
Speech recognition grammar: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/
Voice Browser hompage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/

4. Selectors Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Selectors to Candidate Recommendation. Selectors are patterns in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language that match to elements in HTML and XML. This specification describes the CSS1 and CSS2 selectors and new selectors for CSS3. A test suite is available. Please send your comments by May 2002 and read more on the CSS home page.

URLs:

Selectors: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
CSS homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
CSS1: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1
CSS2: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
CSS3: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-roadmap/
Test suite: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/

5. RDF Test Cases Working Draft Published

The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Test Cases. The draft describes a set of machine-processable test cases that correspond to the issues the Working Group is addressing. Comments are welcome. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.

URL:

RDF Core Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/
RDF Test Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-testcases-20011115/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

6. Third Release: SVG 1.0 Test Suite

The third public release of the W3C SVG Test Suite has been made to include errata, and to conform to the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Recommendation. The SVG implementation report is also updated. The SVG Working Group invites feedback on the tests, and also suggestions for new tests. Comments and suggestions should be sent to svg-testsuite-comments@w3.org.

URLs:

W3C SVG Test Suite: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/
SVG 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/
Implementation report: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/

7. Call for Papers: SVG Open Conference

The SVG Open / Carto.net Developers Conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 July 2002. Co-sponsored by W3C, SVG Open is a platform for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. Presenters are asked to send a 400-800 word abstract prior to 15 January 2002. For more information, please read the call for papers, contact Ivan Herman or Chris Lilley of the W3C Team, and consult the conference Web site.

URLs:

SVG Open/Carto.net Developers Conference: http://www.svgopen.org/
SVG: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
Call for Papers: http://www.svgopen.org/call_for_papers.shtml
Ivan Herman: http://www.w3.org/People/all#ivan
Chris Lilley: http://www.w3.org/People/chris/

8. DOM Level 3 XPath Working Draft Published

The DOM Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification. The draft provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C DOM Activity.

URLs:

DOM Level 3 Xpath Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20011031/
Xpath 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/
W3C DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity

9. New W3C Member

BackStream, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

URLs:

W3C List of all members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
How to Join: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

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