Australian W3C Office

Web Services Interoperability

The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with the Department of Innovation and Information Economy (Queensland Government) and DSTC Pty Ltd is pleased to present a free W3C short workshop by Dr Michael Sperberg-McQueen, W3C Architecture Domain Leader to be held on Thursday, 21st August 2003 at 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Venue: Level 3, 80 George Street, Brisbane.

Abstract: Web Services are the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web. The Web of today is, for the most part, a network of documents intended to be read by human beings; they can be read by non-human agents like Web spiders, but for the most part such non-human agents cannot do much with them. Web Services promise to make the Web much more hospitable for information suited for machine processing.

This talk will give an introduction to Web Services, and an account of why W3C is active in the area and what we hope to accomplish. The talk will provide an overview of the Web Services standardization landscape, beginning with an account of where the fundamental ideas of Web Services come from and what is meant by the term. Some sample use cases and usage scenarios will help clarify the kinds of problems people hope to solve with Web Services; an introduction to the core specifications in the area will help show how the problems are to be solved. Some basic design principles and problems in Web Services will be identified.

Presenter: Michael Sperberg-McQueen is the W3C Architecture Domain Leader. He serves as co-chair of the XML Schema Working Group, which is part of the W3C XML Activity, and of the XML Coordination Group. Before the XML Schema work started, he served as co-editor of the first edition of the W3C Recommendation XML 1.0. He works full-time for W3C from his home in Española, New Mexico. From 1988 to 2001, Michael served as editor in chief of the Text Encoding Initiative, an international cooperative project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the encoding and interchange of electronic texts for research purposes. He also serves as co-coordinator of the Model Editions Partnership, a project to apply the TEI guidelines to the creation of electronic historical documentary editions. Michael holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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