Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the August newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, internationalization, XML Query, Compound Documents and SPARQL.
1. Events
2. XML Key Management (XKMS) is a W3C Recommendation
3. Device Description Technologies Survey
4. W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language
5. Internationalization Articles Published
6. XML Query Test Suite Released
7. Compound Documents
8. SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Last Call Working Draft
9. About this newsletter
Brisbane - 30 August 2005 (Standard workshop)
Brisbane - 31 August 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Adelaide - 6 September 2005 (Standard workshop)
Adelaide - 7 September 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Sydney - 5 October 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Sydney - 6 October 2005 (Standard workshop)
Melbourne - 10 October 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Melbourne - 11 October 2005 (Standard workshop)
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) will be conducting one-day workshops that introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. The workshops provide a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them.
Brisbane - 30 August 2005
Adelaide - 6 September 2005
Melbourne - 27 September 2005
Sydney - 1 December 2005
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) will be conducting one-day workshops to focus on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your Web content. It teaches you how to communicate effectively with your readers.
The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. The conference is one of the leading forums for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web.
W3C has released the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its Bindings as a Recommendation. An open, standards-based interface for key management, XKMS makes PKI practical to implement in Web applications including Web services. With XKMS, enterprises can share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries.
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) Device Description Working Group is conducting a survey of mobile Web devices: the type of devices currently available and the standards that they support. This information will feed into the Landscape document, which is intended to review and describe these existing technologies. This survey is open to the public, and responses are due by the 25th of August 2005.
The W3C is conduction a Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to be held 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve the rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Position papers are due 23rd September 2005.
The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group published: Using Character Entities and NCRs, Using <select> to Link to Localized Content and Ruby Markup and Styling, as well as numerous updates and translations.
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The test suite contains approximately 7,000 test cases, and will be used to gauge the implementability and interoperability of the XML Query language. XML Query is a language that allows data to be queried and retrieved from data-stores containing XML.
The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released its First Public Working Draft of the Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles. A compound document combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. The framework describes the behaviour for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding for compound documents. This document also describes Web Integration Compound Document (WICD) profiles for mobile and desktops.
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. Comments are welcome through 1 September. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") 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.
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