Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the May newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, SMIL, XML and WSDL.
1. Events
2. W3C Launches Mobile Web Initiative
3. SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
4. Working Drafts: Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
2.0
5. XML 1.1 and XML Schema Processors
6. Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
7. Note: Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML
8. XML Key Management (XKMS) Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
9. Semantically-Interlinked Online Community
10. About this newsletter
#RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup
Languages for the Semantic Web
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, will host the
RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages
for the Semantic Web. The conference is co-located with the International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005.
Conference: http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/
#AusWeb05 Conference
AusWeb offers a program focused around tracks on the Web and education and
training, marketing and ebusiness, standards and technical issues and society,
information systems. There are a range of pre and post conference tutorials
and workshops on offer plus a core program of keynotes, refereed papers
and posters. Please note the tutorial and workshops can be attended separately
as professional development activities. A partners package including the
Conference Dinner and BBQ and all other meals is also available.
AusWeb05: http://ausweb.scu.ed.au
The World Wide Web Consortium recently launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C thanks MWI Founding Sponsors France Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Segala M Test, Vodafone and Volantis.
Mobile Web Initiative: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/
Sponsoring MWI: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Sponsoring.html
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-testimonials
Media Release: http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-pressrelease
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 15 June. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics, and new mobile profiles.
SMIL 2.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-SMIL2-20050513/
SMIL 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/
SMIL Homepage: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
The Web Services Description Working Group has published Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the first complete draft of the Primer, updates to Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts and a First Public Working Draft of the SOAP 1.1 Binding. An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used to document distributed systems and automate communication between applications.
URIs:
Primer: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-primer-20050510/
Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-20050510/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20050510/
SOAP 1.1 Binding: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20050510/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The XML Schema Working Group has published Processing XML 1.1 Documents With XML Schema 1.0 Processors as a Working Group Note. Developed to encourage adoption of internationalised XML, the note presents a strategy for users, specifications and processors until XML Schema addresses this issue normatively.
Processing XML 1.1 ..: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml11schema10-20050511/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released three First Public Working Drafts: SKOS Core Guide, SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification, and a Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web. The drafts explain how to express classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the European project SWAD-Europe.
URIs:
Core Guide:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/
Core Vocabulary Specifications:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20050510/
Quick Guide:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050510/
RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
SWAD-Europe: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working Group have completed Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML and published the document as a Working Group Note. The note specifies how to indicate the content-type associated with binary element content in an XML document and to specify, in XML Schema, the expected content-type(s) associated with binary element content. Use of these attributes is expected to improve the handling and description of binary data in Web services messages.
Describing Media Content:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml-media-types-20050504/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its Bindings to Proposed Recommendation. The documents specify protocols for distributing and registering public keys for use with the XML Signature and XML Encryption W3C Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 3 June.
XKMS 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-xkms2-20050502/
Bindings: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-xkms2-bindings-20050502/
XML Signature: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
XML Encryption: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core/
XKMS Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Community) is an ontology for describing and linking discussion forums and threaded posts in online community sites. The first version of this ontology has been created by the Semantic Web cluster at DERI Galway, and can be used to create metadata from community discussion systems such as blogs and forums. SIOC metadata producers are also being created for some popular discussion systems.
SIOC: http://rdfs.org/sioc/
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