Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Happy New Year and welcome to the February '04 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, RDF, OWL, Jigsaw, and Web Services Architecture.
# Free Semantic Web Seminar
A free Semantic Web presentation will be held in Adelaide on Tuesday 16th March. In this talk, Dr Jane Hunter will give an overview of the W3C Semantic Web activities. The presentation will describe the current state of ontologies, languages, tools, significant research projects, applications and anticipated future developments in the area. Location and time details will be available on the following website as they are confirmed.
This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation. The event is also supported by DSTC Pty Ltd, the South Australian Government and the University of South Australia.
Australian W3C Events: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
# Free Seminars Brisbane and Canberra
W3C Team Member, Dr Max Froumentin, will be visiting Australia in May to present two free seminars (Brisbane and Canberra) on W3C’s Voice Browser. W3C Team Member, Dr Dean Jackson, will immediate follow Max presentation in Canberra with a talk on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The Canberra presentations will be held at the National Library. Further details on these events will be available in future newsletters and on the Australian W3C Office’s webpage as they are confirmed.
This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation. The event is also supported by DSTC Pty Ltd and the National Library.
Voice Browser Activity: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Australian W3C Events: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
#Web and Online Accessibility Workshops - Canberra and Sydney
These full-day workshops are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. National Information and Library Service will hold the Workshops in Canberra on 30 and 31 March and in Sydney on 7 April.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/
W3C recently released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.
Press Release: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/sws-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/sws-testimonial
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The Resource Description Framework (RDF):
RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) - Update for XML, namespaces, the Infoset, and XML Base: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/
RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema - Describes how to use RDF to build RDF vocabularies. Defines a basic vocabulary and conventions for use by Semantic Web applications: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-schema-20040210/
RDF Semantics - Formal mathematical theory for reasoning about RDF data: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/
RDF Primer - An introduction for all readers: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/ RDF Test Cases - Machine-processable test cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-testcases-20040210/Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax - Syntax, design goals, concepts, the meaning of RDF documents, character normalization and handling of URI references: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/
The OWL Web Ontology Language:
Overview - A simple introduction: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/
Guide - Demonstrates OWL through an extended example. Provides a glossary: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-guide-20040210/
Reference - A compact, informal description of OWL modelling primitives: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-ref-20040210/
Semantics and Abstract Syntax - Normative definition of the OWL language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-semantics-20040210/
Test Cases - Test cases illustrating correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of constructs, and resolution of issues. Specifies conformance: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-test-20040210/
Use Cases and Requirements - Usage scenarios, goals and requirements for a Web ontology language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webont-req-20040210/
The HTML Working Group has released a Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML 1.0 - Second Edition, a revision of the W3C Recommendation Modularization of XHTML. Published for community review, the document clarifies and makes corrections based on nearly three years of use. It includes a new implementation of the abstract modules using XML schemas.
Modularization of XHTML 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml-modularization-20040218/
Modulatization of XHTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml-modularization-20040218/
HTML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Jigsaw version 2.2.4 is available for download. As this version contains a security fix, updating to 2.2.4 is highly recommended. The new version also includes a revamped HTTP client stack as well as new SSL code from Thomas Kopp. Implemented in Java, Jigsaw is W3C's open source Web server platform.
Jigsaw version 2.2.4: http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/
The Device Independence Working Group has completed work on Authoring Techniques for Device Independence. The document addresses the rapidly changing area of delivering content to diverse devices. It covers content creation, maintenance and adaptation, and user interaction with applications.
Authoring Techniques for Device Independence: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-di-atdi-20040218/
Device Independence Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
W3C has published a new version of the Process Document to align with the Patent Policy, which was approved in May 2003. Among the changes are clarifications for Technical Architecture Group (TAG) and Advisory Board participation, and for the definitions of "consensus" and "First Public Working Draft." W3C has adopted a transition procedure as part of implementing the patent policy.
Process Document: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/
Patent Policy: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
Process Document Changes: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ProcessChanges
The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released Working Group Notes representing the culmination of their work: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios, the Glossary, and Requirements. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships and establishes constraints.
Web Services Architecture: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/
Usage Scenarios: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-scenarios-20040211/
Glossary: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-gloss-20040211/
Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-wsa-reqs-20040211/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
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