Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the April’03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, MathML, OWL, DOM, Xpointer and SOAP.

1. Events
2. W3C Names Associate Chairman and Deputy Director for Europe, Acting Chairman
3. XML Key Management Last Call Published
4. Framework for I18n Guidelines Working Draft Published
5. MathML 2.0 Second Edition Last Call Published
6. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft Published
7. OWL Last Call Working Drafts Published
8. DOM Level 3 XPath Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
9. DOM Level 3 Events Last Call Published
10. XPointer Is a W3C Recommendation
11. SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization Published
12. About this newsletter

1. Events

# 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

# The Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages

This workshop is being organized by the P3P Specification Working Group, a part of the W3C Privacy Activity. It is hosted by the Independent Center for Privacy
Protection. The workshop will be held in Kiel, Scheswig-Holstein, Germany from the 18 to 20 June.

URLs:

Workshop: http://www.w3.org/2003/p3p-ws/
Call for participation: http://www.w3.org/2003/p3p-ws/cfp-kiel.html

# Registration is Open for the May AC Meeting in Budapest

Registration is open through 1 May for the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting to be held 18-20 May 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. AC Reps, please inform the planners if you are or are not coming using the new Web-based straw-poll and balloting system.

# W3C Track at WWW2003

The W3C Track has been announced for the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) in Budapest, Hungary. On 21-23 May, W3C presents three days of presentations on the Web, future Web browsers, W3C architectural principles, the XML family, Web services, the Semantic Web, new devices, and horizontal essentials.

URLs:

W3C Track @ WWW2003: http://www.w3.org/2003/03/w3c-track03.html
Conference: http://www2003.org/
Registration: http://www2003.org/registration.html#Registration

# First Latin American web congress, Santiago 2003

The First Latin American web congress will be held in Santiago on November 10-12 2003. International researchers, technologists, and leaders from academia, industry, and government will gather at LA-WEB to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest developments of the Web and how they can be used to empower the Latin American Web. The technical programme will include refereed paper presentations, alternate track presentations (see below), plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials will precede the main program.

URL:

First Latin American Web Congress: http://la-web.org/

2. W3C Names Associate Chairman and Deputy Director for Europe, Acting Chairman

W3C is pleased to announce three management assignments allowing for stronger international representation. Daniel Dardailler now serves as Associate Chairman for Europe. Philipp Hoschka becomes Deputy Director for Europe and maintains his role as Interaction Domain Leader. Steve Bratt, Chief Operating Officer, takes the additional role of Acting Chairman.

URL:

W3C Management Team: http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management

3. XML Key Management Last Call Published

The XKMS Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the "XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)" and its bindings. The documents specify protocols for distributing and registering public keys for use with XML Signature and XML Encryption. Comments are welcome through 23 May.

URLs:

XKMS: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xkms2-20030418/
XKMS Bindings: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xkms2-bindings-20030418/

4. Framework for I18n Guidelines Working Draft Published

The Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working Group has published a Working Draft of a "Framework Document for i18n Guidelines 1.0." I18n is shorthand for "internationalization." GEO has a mandate to make the internationalization aspects of W3C technology better understood and more widely and consistently used. Comments are welcome.

URLs

Framework Document for i18n Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-i18n-guide-framework-20030417/
W3C Internationalization Homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/

5. MathML 2.0 Second Edition Last Call Published

The Math Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition)." MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. The 2nd edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are welcome through 9 May.

URLs

MathML Version 2.0 (2nd Ed): http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-MathML2-20030411/
Math Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Math/

6. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Working Draft of "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition." The draft describes the contents of speech recognition grammar tags used to represent natural language utterances. It is expected that the results can be integrated into the EMMA data format. Comments are welcome through 2 May.

URLs

Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-semantic-interpretation-20030401/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/

7. OWL Last Call Working Drafts Published

The Web Ontology Working Group has released six Working Drafts, five in Last Call, for the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0, including the OWL Guide, Overview, Use Cases and Requirements, Semantics and Abstract Syntax, Reference, and Test Cases. Comments are welcome through 9 May. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.

URLs

OWL Guide: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-guide-20030331/
OWL Features: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-features-20030331/
OWL Use Cases and Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webont-req-20030331/
OWL Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-semantics-20030331/
OWL Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-ref-20030331/
Owl Test Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-test-20030331/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

8. DOM Level 3 XPath Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification" to Candidate Recommendation. The document provides access to a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Reviews are welcome through 26 May. Implementers are invited to send a message to the DOM public mailing list.

URLs:

DOM Level 3 XPath Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20030331/
DOM Homepage: http://www.w3.org/DOM/

9. DOM Level 3 Events Last Call Published

The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the "DOM Level 3 Events" specification. Comments are welcome through 1 May. Language and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event.

URLs:

DOM Level 3 Events Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20030331/
DOM Activity Statement: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity

10. XPointer Is a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium released XPointer as a three-part W3C Recommendation. The XPointer Framework is an extensible system for identifying regions in XML documents which provides for multiple addressing schemes. The element() scheme allows basic addressing of XML elements in terms of a document's tree structure. The xmlns() scheme is used to interpret namespace prefixes in scheme names and pointers.

URLs:

XPointer Framework: http://www.w3c.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-framework-20030325/
XPointer element()Scheme: http://www.w3c.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-element-20030325/
xmlns()scheme: http://www.w3c.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-xmlns-20030325/
Press release: http://www.w3c.org/2003/03/xpointer-pressrelease
XML Homepage: http://www.w3c.org/XML/

11. SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization Published

The XML Protocol Working Group has released SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization as a W3C Note. The document defines a transformation algorithm that renders all semantically equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.

URLs:

SOAP V 1.2 Message Normalization:
http://www.w3c.org/TR/2003/NOTE-soap12-n11n-20030328/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3c.org/2002/ws/

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