Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the September '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, Amaya, CSS and Libwww.
# Slides Available
Slides from the following events are now available:
Querying XML Documents - Mr Paul Cotton
http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/presentations/Querying_XML_Documents_2003_08_14.pdf
Overview of W3C and intro to 2D Web Graphics: SVG - Dr Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0818-SydneySVG-IH/
# European Electronic Signatures in XML - Sydney
The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with the University of Technology, Sydney and DSTC Pty Ltd is pleased to present a free W3C seminar by Rigo Wenning, W3C's second lawyer. Rigo will be talking for 2 hours on European Electronic Signatures in XML. The presentation will include a discussion of the European directive on electronic signatures and its legal impacts and requirements. Following the legal framework, the main standardization efforts in the framework of the new 'co-regulation' - approach will be outlined and discussed. Goal is that participants get a first rough understanding of the legal implications and the underlying requirements and technologies.
To attend this workshop please complete the following and send to: Jody Treloar
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Rigo Wenning will also participate in a panel at the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Sydney on 11 September.
Conference: http://www.privacyconference2003.org/home.asp
Web Services Choreography - Canberra
This free presentation is a repeat of a talk given at this year's W3C Day. The talk is tentative scheduled for Wednesday 24th September in Canberra (full details will soon be available: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html). This talk will provide a brief discussion of the current web service interface layer (WSDL), web services architecture (WSA) and the related standards for underlying transaction (WS-TRANS) and resource coordination (WS-COORD) provisions. It will then position choreography in this setting and sketch how it might function next to orchestration (WS-BPEL) languages. The open issues being addressed by W3C choreography group will be highlighted.
To attend this workshop please complete the following and send to: Jody Treloar
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I wish to attend the free W3C short workshop - Web Services Choreography to be held in Canberra on the 24th September 2003
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Web and Online Accessibility Workshop - Sydney, Tuesday 23 September
This workshop is organised by The National Information and Library Service (NILS). NILS is a joint venture of Vision Australia Foundation, Royal Blind Society of NSW and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
These full-day workshops are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers.
Details and registration forms are at: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/
The RDF Core Working Group has released six Working Drafts in response to Last Call comments. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Also published as a Working Group Note is LBase, a framework for specifying the meaning of Semantic Web languages.
RDF homepage: Lbase:http://www.w3.org/RDF/
RDF Primer: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-concepts-20030905/
RDF Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030905/
RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised): http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030905/
RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema: RDF Test Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-schema-20030905/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-testcases-20030905/
The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the CSS3 module: Paged Media, part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language level 3. The module adds pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with page numbers.
CSS Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
CSS3 module: Paged Media: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-page-20030909/
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.1b has editing enhancements and bug fixes for XHTML, HTML, CSS and SVG. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available.
Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Download Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Source code: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
Amaya Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
The Device Independence Working Group completed work on two Working Drafts and has published them as W3C Working Group Notes. Device Independence Principles describes Web access "anytime and anyhow" from user, authoring and delivery perspectives. Authoring Challenges for Device Independence are considerations and implications for building universally accessible Web content and applications.
Device Independence Principles: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-di-princ-20030901/
Authoring Challenges: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-acdi-20030901/
Device Independence Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
W3C has stopped work on Libwww and invites the Libwww user community to participate in a Future of Libwww Survey that will help to determine its future. Libwww is a free, highly modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. A W3C account is required to complete the survey.
Libwww: http://www.w3.org/Library/
Survey: http://www.w3.org/Library/Survey2.html
W3C Open Source/Free software: http://www.w3.org/Status
W3C invited its Members as well as other key commercial and open source software interests to attend an ad hoc meeting hosted by Macromedia on Tuesday 19 August in San Francisco, CA, USA. Participants discussed Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906. W3C has created the public-web-plugins@w3.org archived public mailing list for discussion. Please refer to the report from Steven R Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer.
public-web-plugins@w3.org: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-plugins/
Report from Steven R Bratt: http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent
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