Australian W3C Office

Keynote Speech

Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
Why Web Standards Are Important: an overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions

Full Day Special Interest Group: Web Research, Standards and Web Applications (W3C Update)

Facilitator: Ross Ackland (W3C and CSIRO ICT Centre)

Outline: This SIG provided an opportunity to find out who is doing what in Australia in some of the areas relating to Web standards: Web services and Semantic Web were covered during the morning sessions and the afternoon session covered Content & Accessibility, eGovernment and next generation Web 2.0. The format for the day was a series of presentation and discussion/question sessions with a mix standards overview (why is this standard useful?) as well as application of a standard (how is a standard being applied?).

Morning session: Web services/Semantic Web. Chair Ivan Herman

0900 - 0930 Standards for Web services, WSDL 2.0. Paul Brebner, CSIRO ICT Centre
0930 - 1000 Semantic Interoperability. Anne Cregan, National ICT Australia (NICTA)/UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering
1000 - 1030 OWL 1.1: Proposed extensions to OWL. David Ratcliffe, CSIRO ICT Centre
1030 - 1100 Morning tea
1100 - 1130 Using XML/XQuery for video indexing. Dian Tjondronegoro, QUT
1130 - 1200 Semantic Web Technology for Health Care and Life Science. David Hansen, e-Health Research Centre

1200 - 1300 Lunch

Afternoon session: Other hot Web topics. Chair Ross Ackland

1300 - 1340 Web Content & Accessibility 2.0. Sofia Celic, Vision Australia
1340 - 1420 Web Standards Adoption in Government. Brian Stonebridge, Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO)
1420 - 1440 Afternoon tea
1440 - 1520 Next Generation Web, a technical perspective. Dean Jackson, W3C
1520 - 1600 Next Generation Web, a social perspective. Darren Sharp, Smart Internet CRC

Conference Images

   Keynote speaker: Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead

   W3C/CSIRO ICT Centre table at the Web Trivia Quiz