Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the Australian W3C Office January newsletter. In this edition we include information on regional events, Multimodal Interaction, Device Independence, SPARQL and SMIL.
1. Regional Events
2. W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Activity
3. W3C Launches Voice Browser Activity
4. Working Draft: Glossary of Terms for Device Independence
5. Working Group Note: Delivery Context Overview
6. Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
7. Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0 Last Call Published
8. W3C Offices Meet Face to Face
9. SMIL 2.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
10. About this newsletter
# Australian W3C Day – Slides
Presentation slides from the Australian W3C Day (and DSTC’s Evolve Conference) are now available. 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.
W3C Day presentation slides: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/presentations.html
AusIndustry: http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/
DSTC: http://www.dstc.edu.au/
# XML Workshop - Slides
Presentation slides from the recent XML Workshop are now available. Many thanks to the presenters for taking the time to present at this workshop … especially those suffering from jetlag! – DSTC for supporting and funding the event and the Queensland Government’s Information Industries Bureau for their support.
XML Workshop slides: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/presentations/2005-01-14-xml-workshop/index.html
DSTC: http://www.dstc.edu.au/
IIB: http://www.iib.qld.gov.au/
# Accessibility Workshops
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running "Web and Online Accessibility Workshops" in Melbourne on 10 February and in Canberra on 16 and 17 February 2005. 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).
Melbourne - http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0502-melb.html
Canberra - http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0505-canb.html
# AusWeb - 2nd to 6th July
AusWeb05 the 11th Australasian Web conference is on again, 2nd to 6th
July 2005 at Royal Pines Resort on Australia's Gold Coast (fly into
either Brisbane or Coolangatta). AusWeb is a mutli-track conference that
gives you the chance to present your latest research findings
and showcase work-in-progress, http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
The major track is Web-based education and training.
Call for Papers and Posters: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/index.html
Early Bird Registration: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/register/index.html
Workshops: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/conf/workshops.html
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction Activity. The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is chaired by Deborah Dahl and is chartered through 31 January 2007. The Activity extends user interaction with the Web to multiple modes such as GUI, speech, vision, pen, haptic interfaces, and gestures. Their work enables rich capabilities for mobile phones and other devices with limited resources, and for future generations of multimodal devices. Participation is open to W3C Members.
Multimodal Interaction Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser Activity. The Voice Browser Working Group, co-chaired by Jim Larson (Intel) and Scott McGlashan (HP), is chartered through 31 January 2007. Voice browsing includes Web interaction with key pads, spoken commands, listening to prerecorded speech, synthetic speech and music. The Activity is defining a suite of markup languages for dialog, speech synthesis, speech recognition, call control and other aspects of interactive voice response applications. Participation is open to W3C Members.
Voice Browser Activity: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
The Device Independence Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Glossary of Terms used in the group's publications. The glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for all Web access devices.
Glossary of Terms: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-di-gloss-20050118/
Publications: http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-activity#DeviceIndependenceActivity
Device Independence Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
The Device Independence Working Group has published Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence as a Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. This document explains the role of delivery context in achieving a device independent Web. The group plans no further changes.
Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-di-dco-20050118/
Device Independence Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well.
SPARQL Protocol for RDF: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20050114/
SPARQL Query Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Addressing comments received during the first Last Call, the Voice Browser Working Group has published a second Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 31 January.
CCXML Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ccxml-20050111/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C's Offices hold their annual meeting n 10-11 January in Sophia Antipolis, France. "Office representatives from five continents have gathered at W3C's host in France to discuss local issues, recruiting and Membership issues, Office events and outreach as they plan for 2005 and beyond," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
Offices Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. This second edition is not a new version; its purpose is to correct errors in the SMIL 2.0 first edition as a convenience to readers. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language.
SMIL 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/
Synchronized Multimedia Homepage: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
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