Welcome to the May 2006 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content 3. W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository 4. W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum 5. W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group 6. Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set 7. Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping 8. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 9. Working Draft: RDFa Primer 10. Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content 11. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Recommendation 12. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository 13. Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published 14. Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility 15. Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 1. Events WWW2006 Scotland. 22-26 May 2006. The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference is currently being held in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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. http://www2006.org/ Seminar: "The second coming of WSDL - what's new in WSDL 2.0", CSIRO ICT Centre, ANU, Canberra. 1 June 2006 Tony Rogers, co-chair of the W3C's Web Service Description Working Group, will be talking about the imminent WSDL 2.0 standard. WSDL 2.0 is the result of over four years of effort by the Working Group - has it been worthwhile, or couldn't they make up their minds? Will the transition from WSDL 1.1 be an easy one? The seminar will be held in Seminar Room N101 at the Computer Science & Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, Australian National University, Canberra. To express your interest in attending the seminar, email us at w3c-australia@w3.org. AusWeb06, Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa. 1-5 July 2006. The 12th Australasian World Wide Web Conference 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, W3C's new Sematic Web Activity lead and former W3C 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. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of AusWeb06, contact the Conference Chair, Allan Ellis, at aellis@scu.edu.au. http://ausweb.scu.edu.au http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ W3C Talks Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events (also available as an RSS channel). http://www.w3.org/Talks/ 2. DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL)." DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press release and more about device independence. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/ http://www.w3.org/2006/03/dial-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity 3. W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain. Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss the design, implementation and use of a repository of device information for content and service providers. Position papers are due 31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/ http://www.w3.org/2006/05/ddrworkshop-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 4. W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum In a 17 May 2006 press release, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a new forum for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel Dardailler, W3C's Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the new Advisory Board. W3C looks forward to sharing its experience in distributed consensus-building within this new international environment for standardization. http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm 5. W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the WebCGM Working Group. Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0 of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home page. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/ http://www.w3.org/2006/03/webcgm-charter.html W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39256/join 6. Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0," a First Public Working Draft of "Best Practices for XML Internationalization," and updated requirements. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20060518/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/ http://www.w3.org/International/ 7. Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping." Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 8. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" that incorporates comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060518/ http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ 9. Working Draft: RDFa Primer The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the "RDFa Primer 1.0." RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/ http://www.w3.org/Markup/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ 10. Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups jointly released a Working Draft of "Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the Processing Instruction 1.0." The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-access-control-20060517/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 11. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released "Web Services Addressing - Core" and its "SOAP Binding" as W3C Recommendations. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines their association to SOAP messages. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-soap-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/2006/04/wsaddressing-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2006/04/wsaddressing-testimonial http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 12. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository Position papers are due 31 May for the W3C International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository to be held 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR) being proposed by the MWI Device Description Working Group. The proposed DDR will provide device information to content and service providers for adapting content to suit client devices. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/ http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 13. Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released an updated Working Draft of "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text." The draft defines a language that extends XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. The companion "Use Cases" Working Draft has also been updated and provides examples for full-text search over data model collections. Read about the XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xquery-full-text-20060501/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20060501/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 14. Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility The XML Query Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of the "XQuery Update Facility" and its "Use Cases." XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as documents and databases. The specifications provide expressions to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060508/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060508/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 15. Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," Working Drafts of "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0," and "About Baselines for WCAG 2.0." Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060427/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/baseline/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ ________________________________________________________________________ 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