Welcome to the February 2006 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. W3C Internationalisation leader visits Australia 3. Australian Expert Joins 3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) 4. XHTML Modularization 1.1 Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation 5. XSL 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation 4. W3C Launches Incubator Activity 5. Internationalisation Articles Published 6. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants 7. W3C Names Steve Bratt Chief Executive Officer 1. Events WWW2006 Scotland. 22-26 May 2006. The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference[1] will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22-26 May 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. [1] http://www2006.org/ AusWeb06, Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa. 1-5 July 2006. The 12th Australasian World Wide Web Conference[2] will again offer a program of pre-conference tutorials and workshops, a core program of national and international keynotes, refereed papers, a poster session and several post conference Special Interest Group (SIG) sessions. Ivan Herman[3], W3C's Head of Offices, will deliver a keynote presentation on behalf of the Australian W3C Office entitled "Why Web Standards Are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions". The Australian W3C Office will facilitate one of the SIG sessions. AusWeb is an IW3C2 Endorsed Regional Conference. [2] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au [3] http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ 2. W3C Internationalisation leader visits Australia W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, Richard Ishida[4], visited Melbourne this month to speak at the 2006 Open Road Conference. He concluded his trip with a visit to the Australian W3C office in Canberra, where he presented on the challenges and benefits of Web Internationalisation to an appreciative and larger than anticipated audience. [4] http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ 3. Australian Expert Joins W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) Australia’s role in the development of the Semantic Web was recognised earlier this month when the e-Health Research Centre's Dr David Hansen[5] was accepted as a participant in the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG)[6], a recently formed W3C interest group that met in Boston last month for its inaugural meeting. [5] http://e-hrc.net/media/PRAustExpertSemanticWeb25Jan2006.htm [6] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/ 4. XHTML Modularization 1.1 Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XHTML Modularization 1.1" to Proposed Recommendation[7]. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema" and the "Modularization of XHTML" W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 6 March. [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-modularization-20060213/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ 5. XSL 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1" to Candidate Recommendation[8]. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May. [8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xsl11-20060220/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 6. W3C Launches Incubator Activity[9] W3C announces the launch of its Incubator Activity[10], a new initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. "With the Incubator Activity, W3C Members and Invited Experts can now combine Web technology discovery with the outstanding technical resources of W3C and see what develops," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Executive Officer. The first Incubator Group (XG) to be launched addresses the issue of content labels[11]. [9] http://www.w3.org/2006/02/incubator-pressrelease [10] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ [11] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/wcl-charter-20060208) 7. Internationalisation Articles Published[12] The Internationalisation GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. Recently the group published Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8, xml:lang in XML document schemas and Localization vs. Internationalization, as well as numerous updates and translations. [12] http://www.w3.org/International/ 8. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants The W3C Advisory Committee has elected T.V. Raman (Google) and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)[13]. Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) and co-Chairs Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Vincent Quint (INRIA). In 2004, the TAG published the W3C Recommendation Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One[14]. [13] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ [14] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ 9. W3C Names Steve Bratt Chief Executive Officer W3C has named Dr. Steven R. Bratt[15] to the newly-created position of W3C Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 20 January. In this capacity, Steve will continue to oversee worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management of Member relations, the W3C Process, the staff, strategic planning, budget, legal matters, external liaisons and major events. Since joining W3C in 2002, Steve served as W3C's Chief Operating Officer and subsequently also as Acting Chair. [15] http://www.w3.org/People/all#steve ________________________________________________________________________ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au