Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the August '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, XForms, DOM, XHTML and the Semantic Web.
# Evolve Conference - W3C Day - 18 to 20 August
August brings a major W3C Event for Australia. The Evolve 2003 Conference, a leading vendor-independent event, features the Australian W3C Day. The conference runs from 18-20 August, in Sydney. Topics for W3C Day include Web Services Interoperability and Choreography, XML Query Languages, Semantic Web, SVG, and Web Accessibility. W3C Day presenters, Mr Paul Cotton and Dr Ivan Herman, will also join other Evolve Conference keynote presenters in a panel discussion at the conference to discuss topics of interest to the audience.
You'll find the W3C Day schedule, along with the full Conference information at: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/
The W3C Day is supported by the Federal Government, DSTC and Microsoft.
# Free W3C events
The Australian W3C Office, supported by the Federal Government, and sponsored by the DSTC, Monash University, Multimedia Victoria, National Library of Australia, the National Office for the Information Economy, the Office of E-Government (WA Gov), SEA WA, the Department of Innovation and Information Economy (Qld Gov), SEA Qld, TasIT, ACS Tasmania, The Distillery, The Learning Federation, ACS NT, AIIA NT, and the University of Technology, Sydney is pleased to present a free, short workshops and events in various cities around Australia.
Free W3C and Web Services: The next Generation Web
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 and 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 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. This talk will cover:
For information on locations, dates and registration please visit: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/
Spin-off talks - Brisbane and Melbourne
Three talks given at the W3C Day will be repeated in other cities. Mr Paul Cotton’s presentation on Querying XML Documents and Dr Michael Sperberg-McQueen’s Web Services talk will be held in Brisbane on the 14th and 21st August respectively. Dr Ivan Herman will repeat his Overview of W3C and intro to 2D Web Graphics: SVG talk in Melbourne, 21 August 2003. Information on these events is available at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
These talks are supported by the Federal Government, DSTC and Microsoft.
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XForms 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 29 August. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. The XForms specification is written for authors and implementers alike.
XForms 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xforms-20030801/
XForms homepage: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xforms-20030801/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Events to Proposed 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 2 September.
XML Events: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-events-20030804/
HTML homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
W3C is pleased to publish a Proposed Edited Recommendation 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 6 September.
MathML 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PER-MathML2-20030804/
Math homepage: http://www.w3.org/Math/
Ivan Herman speaks at W3C Day on 18 August at the Evolve Conference 2003 in Sydney, Australia. On 21 August, Ivan Herman
presents at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. The W3C Australian Office and the Australian Government are sponsors
of both events. Browse upcoming
W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c_day.html
Evolve Conference: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/
Australian W3C Office: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/
RSS Channel: http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/schedule.rss
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification to Candidate Recommendation. 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 through 31 August.
DOM Level 3: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Val-20030730/
DOM activity: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Val-20030730/
SOAP Version 1.2 Usage Scenarios has been published as a Working Group Note since the XML Protocol Working Group has completed work on it. This document was used to develop SOAP Version 1.2 and has served its purpose.
SOAP 1.2 Usage Scenarios: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-xmlp-scenarios-20030730/
SOAP 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The HTML Working Group has released XHTML-Print as a first public and Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 7 September. XHTML-Print is designed for printing from mobile devices, low-cost printers and in environments without a printer-specific driver. The work is based on XHTML-Print written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO.
XHTML Print: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-print-20030729/
XHTML-Print (PWG): http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html
HTML homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
The Semantic Web was originally proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1998 in his overview of the future of the web. The proposal was elaborated in an article in Scientific American in 2001, and is now taking shape. The Semantic Web is one of the three directions that W3C is trying to advance the Web - the other two being Web Services and further User Interaction advances.
Full editorial: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/newsletters/03jul.html
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Overview of the Future of the Web: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html
Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&catID=2
Web Services homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
User Interaction homepage: http://www.w3.org/Interaction/
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