Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the October 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.

Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…

News & Events
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1. W3C Australia at Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration
World 2008
2. Challenges for Future Web Bring Experts Together at W3C Global
Plenary
3. W3C Invites Community to Explore Future of Social Networking in
Workshop
4. W3C Organizes Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0
5. W3C Organizes Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the
Web
6. Incubator Group to Evaluate Research on Model-Based User Interfaces

Last calls & Call for Reviews
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7. Last Call: Media Queries
8. Call for Review: Device Description Repository Simple API Proposed
Recommendation

Reports & Working Drafts
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9. Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published
10. RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Is a W3C Recommendation; RDFa
Primer Updated
11.W3C Standard Simplifies Creation of Speech-Enabled Web Applications
12.Schema Support Strengthens Toolkit in Updated XHTML Modularization
Standard
13.Seven OWL 2 Drafts Published
14.Widgets 1.0: Updates
15.XMLHttpRequest Level 2 Draft Published
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Welcome to the September 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.

Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…

News & Events
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1. Tim Berners-Lee Announces Creation of New Foundation to Bring the Web
to All People
2. Mike Smith at Web Directions South 08
3. New W3C Working Group Brings Location Information to the Web
4. The Power of Tests: New Licenses Promote Collaboration

Last calls
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5. Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Requirements
6. Last Call: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0
7. Last Call: WebCGM 2.1
8. Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification
9. Last Call: Service Modeling Language (1.1) and Interchange Format
10. Last Call: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference; Primer
Updated

Reports & Working Drafts
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11. Access Control for Cross-Site Requests Draft Published
12. CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 Draft Published
13. W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators Draft
Published
14. Representing Content in RDF and HTTP Vocabulary in RDF Drafts Published
15. Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts First Public Draft
16. Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Note Published
17. Web IDL Draft Published

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Michael (TM) Smith gave a great talk at Web Directions South in Sydney.  His talk was on the features of HTML 5, focusing on those features that are already supported by web browsers.

You can read more about Mike at:  http://people.w3.org/mike/

 (Photo from Rowen Atkinson  -   Some Rights Reserved)

Due to low registrations this event has been cancelled. We will still be providing Mike Smith as a keynote speaker at Web Directions and we will still be present at Web Directions South. So come along and learn all about HTML 5 from the Co-Chair for the HTML 5 working group.

We intend to come back next year with some great activities. If you have ideas or preferences for what sort of activities you would like W3C Australia to host, please contact us.

Welcome to the July 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.

Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…

Events:-
1. W3C Australia - Building the Semantic Web (Cancelled)

Last calls:-
2. Last Call: CSS Color Module Level 3
3. Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines

Reports & Working Drafts:-
4. Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working
Draft Published
5. Note: Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture
6. POWDER Formal Semantics First Working Draft Published
7. XML Entity definitions for Characters Draft Published
8. First Drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases Published
9. Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0;
Evaluation
10.SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 First Draft Published

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Web Directions South, Sydney - 24 September 2008

Featuring keynotes, presentations and tutorials by Australian and
international standards experts, the day aims to give an understanding
of emerging technologies and also hands on experience with semantic
technologies.

Areas covered will include:
- HTML 5 overview testing and implementing HTML 5 components
- Emergency Information Interoperability framework
- The Web Application Working Group projects
- Managing sensor networks with semantic technologies
- SPARQL - querying the semantic web
- The Widgets Working Group projects
- Implementing a semantic web application with SPARQL, GRDDL, RDF and OWL

Speakers include:
- Mike Smith (W3C HTML 5 Co-Chair)
- Charles McCathieNevile (W3C Web Applications working group chair)
- Renato Ianella (W3C Emergency Information Interoperability framework
co-chair)
- Marcos Caceres (W3C Widget Editor)
- Amit Parashar (W3C Australia & e-Gov interest group)

http://south08.webdirections.org/?cat=3#post-66

Welcome to the June 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.

Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…
Events
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1. W3C Australia - Building the semantic web

Last calls
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2. Last Call: XHTML Access Module
3. Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
4. Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Requirements

New Activities
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5. New eGovernment Activity to Help Improve Government through Better Use
of the Web
6. Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats
rechartered
7. Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats
rechartered
8. Incubator Group to Evaluate Common Web Language (CWL) in Practice

Reports & Working Drafts
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9. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference Draft Published
10.Two Group Notes Published About Semantic Web and Life Sciences
11.Offline Web Applications Published as W3C Note
12.XHTML 1.1 Basic; Modularization Are Proposed Recommendations
13.XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition) Is a W3C
Recommendation
14. Three HTML 5 Related Drafts Published
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