Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the August 2004 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, SVG, RDF, WSDL and Web Content Accessibility.
# Archiving web resources international conference, National Library of Australia, 9-11 November 2004
The Archiving web resources conference is the first of its kind to be held in Australia. It will bring together practitioners and decision makers from key institutions around the world. It will identify the issues the cultural heritage sector faces in providing on-going access to web resources and highlight what is being done to address these. Major web archiving programs and research projects will be presented. Speakers include the Library of Congress, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), the national libraries of Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, the national archives of Canada and the United Kingdom, and the Cornell, Harvard, Leeds and Leiden universities. In addition, a number of distinguished Australian speakers are included in the program representing the government, archiving, academic and cultural sectors.
Program and registration: http://www.nla.gov.au/webarchiving/
# 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
# Web and Online Accessibility Workshop
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running a "Web and Online Accessibility Workshop" in Sydney on the 18 August and Canberra on 31 August 2004. These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. (NILS is a subsidiary of Vision Australia Foundation, Royal Blind Society of NSW and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind).
Details and registration: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/0408-canberra.html
# Australian W3C Day
The 2004 W3C Day will be held on the 6th December [correction: Tuesday 7th December] in Brisbane immediately preceding DSTC’s annual Evolve Conference. The theme for this year’s W3C Day is the Semantic Web. Expert speakers include, Dr Ivan Herman (W3C), Mr Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard), Mr Dean Jackson (W3C), Dr Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam), Dr Ah Chung Tsoi (Australia Research Council) and Dr Jane Hunter (DSTC/Australian W3C Office). Detailed information on the event will be available in future newsletters and on the Australian W3C Office’s events webpage.
Regional Events: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for the Semantic Web: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/newsletters/04jul.html
W3C and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling their cooperation on mobile Web specifications. "Together, W3C and OMA are well positioned to lead development toward technological compatibility and the ease of repurposing Web content, known as single Web authoring," said Philipp Hoschka (W3C). In widespread use, W3C Recommendations for the mobile industry include XHTML Basic markup, SMIL multimedia and SVG graphics.
Open Mobile Alliance: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/
Memorandum of Understanding: http://www.w3.org/2004/05/W3C-OMA-Agreement-FINAL.html
Press Release: http://www.w3.org/2004/07/OMA-pressrelease
Device Independence homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the fourth Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny, Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices. The Working Group invites comments.
Mobile SVG Profile: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVGMobile12-20040806/
SVG homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The conference schedule has courses and presentations and location and accommodation. Registration opens 31 August. A joint event, UPIMap is colocated on 7-9 September. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development experiences, products, workflows and strategies. The conference language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese communication.
SVG Open 2004: http://www.svgopen.org/2004/
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. Comments are welcome.
RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20040802/
RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Predefined Extensions and Part 3: Bindings. WSDL is an XML language for describing network services. The drafts describe functionality, and define sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors. Comments are welcome through 4 October.
Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-20040803/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-extensions-20040803/
Part 3: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-bindings-20040803/
Web Services homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets." Comments are welcome. The draft presents methods for representing modified values and collections of values in the OWL Web Ontology Language.
Representing Specified Values in OWL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-swbp-specified-values-20040803/
OWL Web Ontology Language: http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20040730/
Web Accessibility Initiative homepage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released three First Public Working Drafts. HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0 give guidance on using HTML, XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create accessible content. Deprecated examples illustrate techniques that content developers should not use. The draft Gateway to Techniques for WCAG 2.0 is an entry point to meeting the success criteria in WCAG 2.0.
HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20040730/
CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20040730/
Gateway to Techniquest for WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20040730/
WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Queen Elizabeth II has dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) during an Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London on 16 July. UK Honours are available to all who give service to the United Kingdom. Sir Timothy, a British citizen who lives in the United States and is Director of W3C, was knighted in recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet through his invention of the World Wide Web.
Queen Elizabeth II: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page412.asp
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee: http://www.w3c.org/People/Berners-Lee/
UK Honours: http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/ceremonial/index.htm
Recently, Tim Berners-Lee made a presentation on “The History and Future of the World Wide Web” at the Millennium Technology Conference at the Dipoli Congress Centre, Espoo, Finland in which he included a diagram to capture his view of the likely adoption of various Semantic Web Technologies as a series of waves representing different years.
Diagram: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/newsletters/04jul.html
Thanks to the W3C’s United Kingdom and Ireland Office for input.
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