Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the March newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, XML, SPARQL, CSS and URI activities.
1. Regional Events
2. W3C Hosts Fifth Annual Technical Plenary Week
3. Internationalization Articles Published
4. Working Drafts: XML Schema 1.1
5. Working Drafts: XML Binary Characterization
6. Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML
Content
7. Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
8. Working Draft: CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders
9. W3C Launches URI Interest Group
10. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Rule Languages
for Interoperability
11. WWW2005 W3C Track
12. About this newsletter
# Web and Online Accessibility Workshops
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running "Web
and Online Accessibility Workshops" in Sydney on 15 March and in Brisbane
on 5
April 2005. These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian
policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. (NILS is a
subsidiary of RBS.RVIB.VAF Ltd, formerly Royal Blind Society of NSW, Royal
Victorian Institute for the Blind and Vision Australia Foundation).
Sydney - http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0503-syd.html
Brisbane - http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0508-brisb.html
# AusWeb - 2005
AusWeb05 the 11th Australasian Web conference is on 2nd to 6th July 2005 at Royal Pines Resort on Australia's Gold Coast. AusWeb is a multi-track conference that gives attendees the chance to present their latest research findings and showcase work-in-progress. The major track is Web-based education and training.
Call for Papers and Posters: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/index.html
Early Bird Registration: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/register/index.html
Workshops: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/conf/workshops.html
W3C is holding its Technical Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend the plenary day for talks and demos on extensibility and versioning, XML, test suites, Web applications, Web site usability and design, multimodal interaction and voice.
Technical Plenary Week: http://www.w3.org/2004/12/allgroupoverview.html
Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining
About W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Recent articles are An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses and Language Tags in HTML and XML.
Introduction: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
Language Tags: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
RSS Feeds and News Filters: http://www.w3.org/International/log/description
Internationalization Homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/
The XML Schema Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. Please see the status section of each document for changes since the First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them.
Part 1: Structures: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema11-1-20050224/
Part 2: Datatypes: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema11-2-20050224/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies and updates to XML Binary Characterization Use Cases and XML Binary Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data.
Measurement Methodologies: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-measurement-20050224/
Use Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-use-cases-20050224/
Characterization Properties: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-properties-20050224/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome.
Specifying the Language of Content: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/
Internationalization Homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources.
SPARQL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Replacing two separate CSS3 modules, the draft proposes CSS Level 3 functionality including borders consisting of images and backgrounds with multiple images.
Backgrounds and Borders Module: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-background-20050216/
CSS Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the URI Activity. The new URI Interest Group, chaired by Dan Connolly (W3C) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems), is chartered through 28 February 2007. The group reviews ongoing work related to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and helps to deploy quality implementations by maintaining testing materials. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public.
URI Activity: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
URIs: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
IRIs: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
Position papers are due 18 March for the W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability to be held 27-28 April in Washington, DC, USA. This workshop will bring together rule system vendors, rule users with a need for interoperability, and others to work toward developing a standard rule language, a key next step in promoting data exchange on the Web.
Workshop: http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp
W3C Workshops: http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Every year, W3C reports on the range of past achievements at the World Wide Web Conference series. At WWW2005's W3C Track, attendees can expect substantive reports on the variety of technologies that bring the Web to its full potential, as well as insights on future work developments. The W3C Track will feature new types of sessions, such as State of the Art Reports (STAR). We invite you to come and participate.
WWW2005: http://www2005.org/
CFP Developer’s Day: http://www2005.org/dday/cfp.html
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