Australian W3C Office

W3C Workshop - Darwin

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a non-for-profit, vendor-neutral international Web standards organisation that develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

You are invited to a free W3C workshop on the W3C’s Semantic Web Services Activity to be held at:

Room 24.01 (map)
Charles Darwin University
Thursday, 3 June 2004

Workshop Program

9.30am to 10.30am– Semantic Web Services
Presenter: Dr Jane Hunter

Web services are transforming the Internet from a collection of information into a distributed computational device. They enable software applications to be distributed, accessed and executed via the Web. But current web service technologies (UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP) provide limited support for automating service discovery, service
configuration and service composition (i.e., realizing complex workflows with Web services). In order to fully employ the potential of web services, they need to be appropriately described. Semantic Web Services combines Semantic Web technology with Web Service technology to enable automated and dynamic Web service discovery, execution and composition through new technologies such as OWL-S (Ontology Web
Language for Services).

This presentation will provide an overview of the Semantic Web Services vision, describe recent technological developments (such as OWL-S), and demonstrate potential applications of Semantic Web services through a number of case studies.

W3C Semantic Web Services Interest Group: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/

Bio: Dr Jane Hunter is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) Cooperative Research Centre, at the University of Queensland. She is also Project Leader of DSTC's MAENAD (Multimedia Access for Enterprises across Networks And Domains) project which is developing indexing, archival, discovery, analysis, integration, management and preservation tools and services to enable knowledge management, mining and capture within the educational, cultural and scientific domains. She is currently the liaison between MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) and W3C, a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board and the W3C Web Ontology Language Working group and on the Editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics.

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This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation and supported by Charles Darwin University, ACS Northern Territory Branch, Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG), Web Standards Group, Women In Technology, and DSTC.