Australian W3C Office

Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. This edition includes news about X-Signature, DOM Level 3, P3P, RDF and events.

1. Regional Activities
   
2. XML-Signature Becomes a W3C Recommendation
   
3. WWW2002 Update
   
4. The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0
   
5. DOM Level 3 Working Drafts Published
6. Exclusive XML Canonicalization Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
7. W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Activity
8. DOM Level 1 Core Conformance Test Suite Published
9. RDF Model Theory Working Draft Published
10. Call for Papers: MathML Conference 2002
11. About this newsletter
    
    

1. Regional Activities

# Registrations For Ausweb 02 Are Now Open

Early bird rates are now available. Ausweb 02 will be held at Novotel Twin Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Key dates:
11 March - Proposals for Refereed Papers close
15 April - Authors advised
13 May - Revised versions of final papers due & Early Bird Registration closes
13 May - Last day for Poster Proposals
3 June - Papers and full program posted to Web site
6 & 7 July - Workshops and Tutorials (all day)
7 July - Conference Opening
10 July -Workshops and Special Interest Group meetings (all day)

URLs:

Conference Homepage: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au
Call for papers/posters: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/cfp.html
Venue: http://www.twinwatersresort.com.au/
Register now: https://secure.inspired.net.au/ntech/cgi-bin/ausweb/register.cgi

# Web Accessibility Workshops

These full-day workshops will provide participants with a thorough overview of accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and the W3C internationally recognised guidelines. The workshop covers the whys and wherefores of web accessibility, issues confronting users with particular needs. It also provides an in-depth look at particular accessibility issues, with an emphasis on techniques and assessment tools. Participants will be able to see and hear how different sites appear to people using assistive technology and people facing bandwidth limitations. Relevant international guidelines will be distributed. Please call Vision Australia Foundation (03 9864 9524) if you would like further information.

URLs:

Information: http://www.vicnet.net.au/disability/training/

2. XML-Signature Becomes a W3C Recommendation

The W3C today released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, XML digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer authentication services. A W3C Recommendation is a specification that has been completed and is a final document ratified by the W3C process.

URLs:

XML-Signature Syntax and Processing: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-core-20020212/
Press Release: http://www.w3.org/2002/02/xmlsignature-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2002/02/xmlsignature-testimonial

3. WWW2002 Update

WWW2002 program details are now available. Featured speakers include: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, Richard DeMillo, VP and CTO of Hewlett-Packard, Ian Foster, Leader and Innovator in Grid Computing; Pam Samuelson, McArthur Fellow; Alfred Spector, IBM Research VP. Early Bird registration is now available.

URL:

Speakers: http://www2002.org/speakers.html
Full list papers: http://www2002.org/refpapers.html
Alternate Track papers: http://www2002.org/altpapers.html
Panels: http://www2002.org/panels.html
Tutorials and workshops: http://www2002.org/halfdaytutorials.html - http://www2002.org/fulldaytutorials.html - http://www2002.org/fulldayworkshops.html
Developers Day: http://www2002.org/devday.html
Secure web registration: https://www0.hawaii.edu/www2002/regonline/

4. The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0

"Deployment Guide" has been updated. Written for content owners and Webmasters, the guide explains how to write a machine-readable privacy policy, and gives step-by-step instructions for deploying your privacy policy on popular Web servers. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

URLs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-p3pdeployment-20020211
http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/Activity

5. DOM Level 3 Working Drafts Published

The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts. DOM Level 3 XPath provides functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. DOM Level 3 Events is an interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically update the content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C DOM Activity.

URL:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20020208/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20020208/
http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity i

6. Exclusive XML Canonicalization Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Exclusive XML Canonicalization to Candidate Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, the specification provides a method to exclude ancestor context from the canonicalized form of a subset of an XML document. Comments are welcome through 16 April.

URL:

Exclusive XML Canonicslization: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml-exc-c14n-20020212
Canonicalized: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315
Interoperability Report and XML Digital Signature Activity:
http://www.w3.org/Signature/2002/02/01-exc-c14n-interop

7. W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Activity

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Multimodal Interaction Activity. By developing markup specifications for synchronization across multiple modalities and devices, the new Activity is extending the Web user interface. It offers a choice of input and output.

URL:

Multimodal Interaction Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

8. DOM Level 1 Core Conformance Test Suite Published

The DOM Test Suite Group has released the first version of the DOM Conformance Test Suite for Level 1 Core. Launched by W3C and NIST, the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology, this work is a publicly developed and open framework to test Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Core implementations. Comments are welcome.

URL:

DOM Conformance Test Suite for Level 1 Core: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test/
NIST: http://www.nist.gov/
Level 1 Core implementations: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/

9. RDF Model Theory Working Draft Published

The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Model Theory. The document provides a precise semantic theory for RDF and RDFS, and sharpens the notions of consequence and inference in RDF.

URL:

RDF Core Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/
RDF Model Theory: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-mt-20020214/
RDF homepage: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

10. Call for Papers: MathML Conference 2002

W3C is pleased to be co-sponsoring the second international MathML conference, "MathML and Technologies for Mathematics on the Web," scheduled for 28-30 June 2002, near Chicago, IL, USA. The deadline for submitting abstract and panel proposals is 18 February. Poster abstracts and demo proposals are due 15 March. MathML 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation one year ago.

URL:

MathML 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-MathML2-20010221/
MathML Conference 2002: http://www.mathmlconference.org/2002/

11. About this newsletter

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