Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the June '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on XML, OWL, events, DOM and WSDL.

1. Events
2. Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Republished
3. OWL XML Presentation Syntax Published
4. CCXML Working Draft Updated
5. WSDL 1.2 Working Drafts Published
6. DOM Level 3 Core Last Call Published
7. New W3C Members
8. About this newsletter

1. Events

# Australian W3C Office - W3C Day - 18 August, Four Points Sheraton, Sydney

International experts at this year’s W3C Day include Dr Ivan Herman (W3C Head of Offices), Dr Paul Cotton (W3C Technical Architecture Group and Microsoft), Dr Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C Architecture Domain Lead). The W3C Day is an annual opportunity for Australian IT professionals to hear from, and meet some of the driving forces in web standards today. Topics to be covered at the event include, XML Query, semantic web and web services.

# AusWeb

AusWeb Conference - 5th to 9th July 2003, Hyatt Regency Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast. More information is available at: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au

# Web and Online Accessibility Workshop

The full-day workshop is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. Vision Australia Foundation will hold the Workshop in Brisbane on Thursday 3 July 2003.

URI:

Vision Australia: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/

2. Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Republished

Updated for The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0, Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages has been republished as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C Note. These guidelines cover the use of Unicode with markup languages such as XML. They are published jointly by the Unicode Technical Committee and the W3C Internationalisation Working Group and Interest Group.

URIs:

Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/
Internationalisation Activity: http://www.w3.org/International/

3. OWL XML Presentation Syntax Published

The Web Ontology Working Group has released XML Presentation Syntax for the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a W3C Note. The Note suggests one possible XML presentation syntax and includes XML schemas for OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.

URIs:

XML Presentation Syntax: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-owl-xmlsyntax-20030611/
Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

4. CCXML Working Draft Updated

The Voice Browser Working Group has published the third public Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0 including some major updates. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome.

URIs:

Voice Browser Call Control: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ccxml-20030612/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/

5. WSDL 1.2 Working Drafts Published

The Web Services Description Working Group has released three Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2. Core Language and Bindings are updates and Message Patterns is a first public Working Draft. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages.

URIs:

Core Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030611/
Bindings: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-bindings-20030611/
Message patterns: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-patterns-20030611/
Web Services: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

6. DOM Level 3 Core Last Call Published

The DOM Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification. Comments are welcome through 31 July. The draft defines objects and interfaces that allow software developers and Web script authors to access and manipulate HTML and XML content.

URIs:

DOM Level 3 Core Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20030609/
DOM Homepage: http://www.w3.org/DOM/

7. New W3C Members

KOPINT-DATORG Economic Research, Marketing and Computing Company Ltd., Budapest, Hungary Mondeca, Paris, France US Department of the Navy, Washington, DC USA

URI:

Joining W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

8. About this newsletter

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