Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the October 2004 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, XML Binary and XML Query, mobility and InkML.
# 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 and Online Accessibility Workshop
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running a "Web
and Online Accessibility Workshop" in Canberra on 9 November 2004.
These
workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts
and internationally recognised requirements. (NILS is a subsidiary
of RBS.RVIB.VAF Ltd, formerly Royal Blind Society of NSW, Royal Victorian
Institute for the Blind and Vision Australia Foundation).
Workshop: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0911-canb.html
# Australian W3C Day
The 2004 W3C Day will be held on ***Tuesday 7th December*** (previous newsletter have had the wrong date) in Brisbane immediately proceeding DSTC’s annual Evolve Conference. Registration information will shortly be available on the event website.
W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3cday.html
Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for the Semantic Web: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/newsletters/04jul.html
Position papers are due 15 October for the W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 18-19 November. Attendees will discuss how a W3C initiative could help to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device.
W3C Mobile Web Initiative Workshop: http://www.w3.org/2004/09/mwi-workshop-cfp.html
Other W3C Workshops: http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Mobile activities: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Mobile.html
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Properties. Derived from use cases, this first draft in a series describes properties identified as desirable for any serialization of an XML data model. Comments are welcome.
XML Binary Characterization Properties: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xbc-properties-20041005/
Use cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xbc-use-cases-20040728/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 29 October.
XInclude Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-xinclude-20040930/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a third Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages.
InkML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-InkML-20040928/
Multimodal Interaction Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
W3C is pleased to announce that Noah Mendelsohn (IBM) has been appointed to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Noah joins TAG participants Dan Connolly (W3C), Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Roy Fielding (Day Software), Chris Lilley (W3C), Norm Walsh (Sun), and co-Chairs Stuart Williams (Hewlett-Packard) and Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). The remaining one open seat will be filled at the next TAG election. Created in 2001, the TAG documents principles of Web architecture and works with other groups to resolve architectural issues.
Architecture of the World Wide Web: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040816/
TAG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Massimo Marchiori, W3C Research Scientist at MIT and research professor in Computer Science at the University of Venice, has been chosen as one of Technology Review's 2004 TR100, a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world. The award recognizes Massimo's innovative contributions in a variety of fields including search engines, networks, Semantic Web, privacy, and modularity.
Massimo Marchiori: http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/
Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/
2004 TR100: http://www.techreview.com/articles/04/10/tr100_1004.asp
The World Wide Web Consortium recently released the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. "SSML builds on the work of the pioneers in speech synthesis to provide application developers with a powerful and flexible means to deliver a high quality mix of synthetic and pre-recorded speech as part of interactive voice response services," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon).
SSML Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-speech-synthesis-20040907/
Press release: http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ssml-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ssml-testimonial.html
Implementation report: http://www.w3.org/Voice/2004/ssml-ir/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/2004/ssml-ir/
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the XML Query Working Group through June 2006, based on positive review of the charter by the Advisory Committee. In order to participate, all participants current and new must join and commit to the terms of the W3C Patent Policy using the online form.
Charter: http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-query-wg-charter.html
Online form (W3C Members only): http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/18797/join
Thanks to the W3C’s United Kingdom and Ireland Office for input.
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