Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the June newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, SPARQL, SMIL, XHTML and Mobile Web Initiative.
1. Events
2. W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web in Europe
3. Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
4. Working Draft: SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format
5. Working Draft: XHTML 2.0
6. Working Group Note: SSML say-as Attribute Values
7. Representing Specified Values in OWL
8. SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
9. W3C Launches Mobile Web Initiative
10. Report on Semantic Web Technologies
11. 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
The AusWeb05 draft program for the full conference is now available. As
the paper presentations are confirmed full papers will be linked into the
current conference program with the final program available before the conference.
A reminder however that a sample of some of the titles of papers accepted
for presentation are also available.
AusWeb05: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au
Draft Program: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/conf/program.html
Sample papers: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/samples.html
The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June at CERAM in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe," "Policies Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and reception.
Media Advisory: http://www.w3.org/2005/05/w3c10-Europe_media_advisory
W3C10 Europe: http://www.w3.org/2005/06/W3C10.html
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second 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-20050527/
SPARQL Query Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML Format. The SPARQL query language offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources.
SPARQL Query Results XML Format: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20050527/
SPARQL Query Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations to follow.
XHTML 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/
Differences: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/introduction.html#s_intro
RELAX NG: http://relaxng.org/
HTML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
The Voice Browser Working Group has released SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values as a Working Group Note. The note provides definitions for the interpret-as, format, and detail attributes that cover many of the most common uses for the say-as element in the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-ssml-sayas-20050526/
Speech Synthesis Markup Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
Voice Browser Webpage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets" as a Working Group Note. Produced by the Ontology Engineering and Patterns Task Force, the note describes two methods for representing descriptive features in the OWL Web Ontology Language: partitions of classes and enumerations of individuals.
Specified Values in OWL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-specified-values-20050517/
Ontology engineering & Patterns Task Force: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/
OWL: http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
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/
Synchronised Multimedia Homepage: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
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/
How to sponsor MWI: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Sponsoring.html
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-testimonials
Press Release: http://www.w3.org/2005/05/mwi-pressrelease
Dr Brian Matthews of the UK and Ireland office of W3C has written a report on Semantic Web Technologies that is freely available from JISC TechWatch.
The Semantic Web is an ambitious vision, first proposed by Tim Berners-Lee, to extend today's Web imbuing it with a sense of meaning. The articulation of this vision in a now famous article in Scientific American has led to a wide reaching research programme. This programme is resulting in the development of new technologies for describing items of Web-based information and their inter-relationships, but what impact is this development likely to have on Higher and Further Education? This TechWatch report provides an introduction to the Semantic Web the vision, programme and technologies, but also explains where we currently are in its development and what the likely impact will be on education in areas such as information management and discovery tools, digital libraries, supporting Web-based interaction, and e-learning. It also proposes some realistic timescales for adoption and outlines the current and potential role of the UK F&HE community.
JISC TechWatch: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_ic_reports2005_published
UK & Ireland Office: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/
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