Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the February ’03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, XML, VoiceXML, SVG, CSS3, OWL and QA.
# Free W3C Seminar - Melbourne, 3pm -5pm, 24th March. Venue: TBA The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with DSTC and ManageSoft, presents a free seminar - W3C and Web Services. Web services is a hot topic today, because it promises to be the foundation of the Web tomorrow. We have all seen the impact and benefits of the Web. Web services will enable the Web to be even more powerful and useful. The W3C is developing the specifications for Web Services. It is a vendor neutral organisation and it is committed to keeping the Web open and interoperable - vital ingredients for the success of the Web. Building on the success of HTML, XML and other W3C technologies, Web Services will help us realise the full potential of the Web. Further information will become available at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
To register for this seminar please complete the following and email to: w3c-australia@w3.org
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# AusWeb
AusWeb, Australia's premier Web conference, provides an opportunity for you to report your research outcomes as a refereed paper, present a poster session of your activities, attend a tutorial or workshop, or just listen, talk and network with other Web developers and users from around Australia and overseas - AusWeb03 is on again from the 5th to 9th July, on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Details regarding the call for papers, tutorial and workshop program, keynotes and online registration are available at http://ausweb.scu.edu.au
Celebrate the fifth birthday of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), first published as a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 1998. Visit the XML home page. Read about XML's growth in this article by Dave Hollander and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, participants in the W3C XML Working Group who wrote the original twenty-five page XML specification. The authors believe, "Just as interchangeable parts drove the Industrial Age, reusable information powers the Information Age."
XML hompage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
Article on XML's growth: http://www.w3.org/2003/02/xml-at-5.html
Dave Hollander: http://www.w3.org/2003/02/xml-at-5.html
C M Sperberg-McQueen: http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/
Making a correction to the schemas, the Voice Browser Working Group has released a revised Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 10 April. VoiceXML uses XML to bring speech, touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording, telephony, and computer-human conversations to the Web.
VoiceXML Version 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-voicexml20-20030220/
XML: http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points
The XML Protocol Working Group has released a final Working Draft of the XML Protocol Abstract Model. First published in 2001, the document was an evaluation and reasoning tool used to craft SOAP Version 1.2. The Working Group believes the model has served its purpose and plans no further work on it.
XML Protocol Abstract Model: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlp-am-20030220/
Web Services homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The SVG Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of SVG Printing Requirements. The draft describes usage scenarios, feature sets, design principles and requirements for a print-specific version of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) called SVG Print. Comments are welcome.
SVG Printing Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVGPrintReqs-20030218/
SVG home page: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases. Designed for OWL developers, the draft is a companion to the OWL language definition. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.
OWL Test Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-test-20030217/
OWL language definition: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The CSS Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: Colour harmonized with SVG 1.0. The draft describes colour units and properties that authors can use to specify foreground colour and opacity, colour profiles, and rendering intent. Comments are welcome through 28 February.
CSS3 module: Colour: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-color-20030214/
CSS home page: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Through joint efforts, the XQuery and XSL Working Groups have released the first public Working Drafts of XQuery and XPath Full-Text Requirements and Use Cases. The drafts describe the basis for full-text searching of XML text and documents. Comments are invited.
XQuery and XPath Full-Text Requirements:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlquery-full-text-requirements-20030214/
XQuery and XPath Full-Text Use Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20030214/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XML Events" to Candidate Recommendation. The specification defines a module used to associate behaviours with document-level markup for XML languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome through 5 March.
XML Events: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-xml-events-20030207/
HTML home page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released three Last Call Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the "Introduction," "Operational Guidelines," and "Specification Guidelines." Comments are welcome through 14 March. Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C technologies are well implemented.
Introduction: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-intro-20030210/
Operational Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-ops-20030210/
Specification Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-spec-20030210/
QA Homepage: http://www.w3.org/QA/
QA WG Roadmap: http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/Roadmap
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of "Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques." The draft specifies intended uses, scope and structure for the technology-specific documents produced by the Working Group. Feedback is welcomed.
Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wcag2-tech-req-20030207/
WAI Home page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The W3C RDF Validation Service has been updated to deal correctly with a wide range of characters and character encodings for better internationalization and to support Last Call Working Drafts issued by the RDF Core Working Group. The RDF Validator is based on the ARP parser in Jena 1.6.1. Graphs are generated using GraphViz 1.8.9. The service runs under Jigsaw.
RDF Validator Service: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
Early bird registration has started for SVG Open 2003, to be held in Vancouver, Canada on 15-18 July 2003, with additional half-day workshops and tutorials on 13-14 July. Co-sponsored by W3C, the SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. The call for papers is open through 28 February.
SVG Open 2003: http://www.svgopen.org/
Based on feedback received during Last Call, the DOM Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification." The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents remain or become valid. Comments are invited. Read about the DOM Activity.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Val-20030205/
DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 7.2 is a bug fix release with user interface, annotation, XHTML, HTML, SVG, MathML, CSS, and XML enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
Amaya homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Annotea homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
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