Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on W3C Team Members in Australia; Amaya; Internationalisation; Namespaces and RDF.
* Ms Janet Daly, Head of Communications, W3C
As well as Chairing the Australian W3C Day (8 Oct) Janet will also talk
about W3C’s Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) activity during
the session. On the following day (9 Oct) Janet will present at the Evolve
Conference on W3C’s Web Service activity groups and on Thursday (10
Oct) Janet will join a panel discussing the "Three Milestones before
the Death of the Web".
* Mr Hugo Haas, Web Services Activity Lead, XML Protocol Working Group,
W3C
Hugo will give a presentation at the Australian W3C Day on “Web Services
at W3C & the Status of SOAP Version 1.2".
* Mr Joseph Reagle, Public Policy Analyst & Working Group Chair, W3C
Joseph will be at the Australian W3C Day discussing “Securing the Web
with XML Security.
* Dean Jackson, CSIRO (W3C Fellow)
Dean will be presenting at the Semantic Web Workshop (11 Oct). Dean’s
presentation will be “A User Interface to the Semantic Web".
Janet Daly: http://www.w3.org/People/all#janet
Australian W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c.htm
P3P Activity: http://www.w3.org/P3P/
Evolve Conference: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Hugo Hass: http://www.w3.org/People/all#hugo
Joseph Reagle: http://www.w3.org/People/all#reagle
Dean Jackson: http://www.w3.org/People/all#dean.jackson@csiro.au
Semantic Web Workshop: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/semantic.htm
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.
Dates: Hobart - 24 Sept 2002, Launceston - 26 Sept 2002, Canberra - 22 Oct 2002
Workshop Information: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~webacces/
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 6.3 include control over whether images are loaded; new preference options; more SVG, MathML, and Unicode support; and support for annotations described with Dublin Core 1.1. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available.
Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
New features: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Download Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Source code: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
Annotea homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Internationalization Activity through August 2004. In keeping with W3C's goals, the Internationalization Activity makes it easy to use W3C technology worldwide, with different languages, scripts, and cultures. Visit the Internationalization home page.
W3C Goals: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Points/
Internationalisation homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Finnish Office in Tampere, Finland, hosted by the Digital Media Institute of the Tampere University of Technology. Tarja Systä is Office Manager, and Ossi Nykänen is coordinator. The opening ceremony takes place 11 October in Tampere.
W3C Finnish Office: http://www.w3c.tut.fi/
Tampere University of Technology: http://www.tut.fi/public/
W3C Offices: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Namespaces in XML 1.1. Identified by IRI references, namespaces qualify element and attribute names in XML documents. Version 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Comments are welcome through 28 September.
Namespaces in XML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xml-names11-20020905/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The HTML Working Group has released XHTML 1.0 in XML Schema as a W3C Note. This work in progress provides informative XML schemas corresponding to the XHTML 1.0 Strict, Transitional, and Frameset DTDs. Comments are welcome.
XHTML 1.0 in XML Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml1-schema-20020902/
HTML homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released its first public Working Draft, "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web." Comments are welcome. This document establishes a reference set of principles and good practice for Web architecture, including identifiers, formats, and protocols.
Working Paper: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webarch-20020830/
TAG homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Data Model." The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based, and other technical aspects of RDF.
Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20020829/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XML-Signature Xpath Filter 2.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 24 September. The specification defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document.
XML-Signature Xpath Filter 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xmldsig-filter2-20020827/
Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Signature/
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