Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on DOM, XML Signature, OWL, events and membership.
Free Technology Awareness Briefing from 2pm to 5pm, Tuesday 3 December 2002 at the Australian National Library theatre, Canberra. This briefing leverages off the outcomes of recent events in Sydney - the W3C Day, Evolve Conference and the Semantic Web Workshop. This event is supported by the National Library of Australia.
Program & registration details: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Tech_Transfer/Events/
National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/
OZeWAI 2002 is a conference on Web Content Accessibility Information to be held on the 27, 28 and 29 November 2002 at Rydges Carlton, Victoria. Keynote speakers at the event are: Dean Jackson - W3C Fellow employed by CSIRO Australia. Dean is the Team contact for the SVG working group. Charles McCathieNevile - W3C Team Member where he is working on the SWAD-E Semantic Web project and on Web Accessibility focussing on protocol review, and outreach. Jason White (University of Melbourne) - Co-Chair of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. Liddy Nevile - co-author of the IMS Accessibility Guidelines. Andrew Arch - Manager Online Accessibility, Vision Australia Foundation.
OZeWAI: http://www.ozewai.org/2002/
CSIRO: http://www.csiro.au/
SVG: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
SWAD-E: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/
WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI protocol Review: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
University of Melbourne: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
IMS Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.imsproject.org/accessibility/accwpv0p6/imsacc_wpv0p6.html
Vision Australia Foundation: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/
The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has published DOM Level 2 HTML as a W3C Proposed Recommendation. DOM Level 2 HTML is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 documents. The Call for Review closes 6 December.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20021108/
Document Object Model Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/
W3C is pleased to announce that XML-Signature Xpath Filter 2.0 has become a W3C Recommendation. XML-Signature Xpath Filter 2.0 defines a new XML Signature transform to provide a more efficient method for computing a portion of a document to be signed. The Implementation and Interop report includes two Open Source implementations.
XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-filter2-20021108/
XML Signature XPath Filter2 Interop Report: http://www.w3.org/Signature/2002/05/xmldsig-filter2-interop.html
XML Signature Activity: http://www.w3.org/Signature/Activity.html
The Web Ontology Working Group published its first Working Draft of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide. The OWL Guide demonstrates the use of OWL to formalise a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes; define individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language.
Web Ontology Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-guide-20021104/
Web Ontology Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
The Web Ontology Working Group released an updated Working Draft of OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics. The draft is a high-level description of the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web.
OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-semantics-20021108/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business St Anne's College Oxford, UK, December 17 and 18th 2002.
The conference theme is intended to prompt debate on a convergence of developments pioneered for e-science on the GRID and as web services to provide business applications. The communities who identify with the web, the GRID, Web Services, Grid Services and Semantic Web should not be isolated from each other, but need to come together to unify their approaches to meet the real needs of information, data and knowledge technology users.
Euroweb: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/Euroweb/
W3C is pleased to co-sponsor 2002 XML Japan to be held 28 November (Mobile XML Day), 29 November (Web Services / Document Day), and 30 November (Developers Day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, presents on 28 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, gives the keynote on 29 November, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa serves on the Program Committee. Registration is open.
XML Japan: http://www.xmljapan.org/
The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has updated three Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the Introduction, Process and Operational Guidelines, and Specification Guidelines. Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C technologies are well implemented.
Introduction: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-intro-20021108/
QA Framework: Operational Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-ops-20021108/
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-spec-20021108/
QA Homepage: http://www.w3.org/QA/
QA Working Group Roadmap: http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/Roadmap
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee was a recent guest on the USA's National Public Radio (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. Host Ira Flatow and callers from the United States discussed inventions, the Semantic Web, privacy, patents, broadband, "always on" connections, openness, trust, and spam. NPR provides a three-quarter hour audio archive of the show, as well as Mr. Berners-Lee's previous visit to Science Friday in 1999.
Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
National Public Radio: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=829325
Science Friday: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Nov/hour2_110599.html
The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released an update to the W3C Note, Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The document provides references, techniques and strategies to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy ATAG 1.0 checkpoints.
Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-ATAG10-TECHS-20021029/
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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