Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the July 2004 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on event slides, regional events, WAI, XForms and SOAP.
Slides for the following free W3C events are now available at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/events_past.html
# Semantic Web Services - This project was funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation.
# New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials - This project was funded by the Department of Communication Information Technology and the Arts, Information Technology OnLine Program and DSTC, SpeedLegal, Vision Australia Foundation, and Victorian Society for Computers and the Law Inc.
Many thanks to the following organisations who helped to make these events so successful:
ACS NT Branch; ATUG; AEEMA; DSTC; Charles Darwin University; Department of Economic Development, Tasmania; Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania; Information Industries Bureau, Queensland Government; Monash University; Multi-Media Victoria; National Library of Australia; Office of E-Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australian Government; Department of Urban Services, ACT Government; The Distillery; The Government of South Australia; The Training Consortium, Tasmania; University of South Australia; University of Tasmania; and The University of Technology, Sydney; Web Standards Group; WIT.
Semanatic Web Services Interest Group: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/
XForms: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
AusIndustry: http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/
DCITA: http://www.dcita.gov.au/
# Web Essentials '04 - University of Technology, Sydney, September 30 - October 1
W3C Team member, Dean Jackson will join international experts in web development and accessibility - Joe Clark, Dave Shea and Doug Bowman - on the program for this conference. This event aims to break new ground in inspiring web developers, designers and decision-makers to embrace web standards. The two-day conference also features Australian pioneers in web accessibility, design and coding Russ Weakley, John Allsopp, Bruce Macguire (the man who sued SOCOG over website accessibility), Roger Hudson, David Woodbridge and more. Over 300 delegates are expected from Australia and around the world.
Conference: http://we04.com/banner.cfm
W3C is pleased to announce that on 15 June in Helsinki, Ms. Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, presented the first Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award is given in one of four disciplines for "outstanding technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic development."
Millennium
Technology Prize
Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
The Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0. Part of a markup language supporting the creation of Web sites that can be used from diverse devices, this document provides selection between versions of materials using only modest processing power.
DISelect 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-cselection-20040611/
Device Independence Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
The XForms Working Group has updated the XForms 1.1 Requirements Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in other host languages.
XForms 1.1 Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-xforms-11-req-20040611/
XForms 1.0 Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/
XForms Homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP Resource Representation Header. Comments are welcome through 29 June. The document describes a SOAP header block that allows applications to carry a representation of a Web resource in a SOAP message. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.
SOAP Resource Representation Header: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-rep-20040608/
SOAP Version 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working Group jointly released the First Public Working Draft of Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML. The draft describes how to indicate the media type of XML element content and the way to specify that type in XML Schema.
Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20040608/
XML Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20040608/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Task Force regularly produces resources to assist in the international application of W3C technologies. The most recent are tutorials on Using language information in XHTML, HTML and CSS and Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS and an article on Serving XHTML 1.0.
Using langugage information: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-lang/
Character sets: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/
Serving XHTML 1.0: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/Overview.html
Internationalisation Homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/
The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) updated the WAI Resources Page, which is an annotated reference list of W3C/WAI documents including guidelines, techniques, checklists, evaluation resources, information on translations, and materials to help promote awareness and implementation of Web accessibility. New materials are periodically added to the list.
WAI Resources: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources
EOWG: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
Thanks to the W3C’s United Kingdom and Ireland Office for input.
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