Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the April newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, XML activities, Web Services, RDF/Topic Maps and JeromeDL.

1. Events
2. Minutes: W3C Technical Plenary
3. Last Call: XQuery, XPath and XSLT
4. Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements
5. Last Call: Web Services Addressing
6. XML Binary Characterization Notes Published
7. Last Call: XML Schema Component Designators
8. Working Draft: RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
9. Request for Contacts in China, India and Brazil
10. Call for papers for the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)
11. The Semantic Web Services Week 2005
12. JeromeDL - a Digital Library with Semantics - to provide Semantic Web related content.
13. About this newsletter

1. Regional Events

# WWW2005 Conference, May 10th -15th, Japan
In 1995 Robert Cailliau ran the world's first Web conference in Geneva. This year the 14th conference in the series will be held at the Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center) in Chiba (30 minutes from Narita International Airport). The opening address will be by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the program will include referred papers, posters, panels, tutorials and workshops and a W3C track.

URL:

WWW2005: http://www2005.org

# AusWeb05 Conference
AusWeb, Australia's premier national Web conference is on again from 2nd to 6th July, Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland. It offers a program focused around tracks on the Web and education and training, marketing and ebusiness, standards and technical issues and society, information systems. There are a range of pre and post conference tutorials and workshops on offer plus a core program of keynotes, refereed papers and posters. Please note the tutorial and workshops can be attended separately as professional development activities. A partners package including the Conference Dinner and BBQ and all other meals is also available.

URL:

AusWeb05: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html

# Web Accessibility Workshops
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running Web and Online Accessibility Workshops in Hobart (18 May) and Canberra (31 May). 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). These full-day workshops are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals, business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers and web contract managers.

URIs:

Hobart: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0505-hob.html
Canberra: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0505-canb.html

2. Minutes: W3C Technical Plenary

The minutes from W3C's 2005 Technical Plenary are available. The day included sessions on extensibility and versioning (DSTC senior researcher and the Australian W3C's Technical Manager, Dr Hoylen Sue, participated in this panel discussion); XML; developing multiple specification test suites; future web application; and Web Spaces.

URI:

http://www.w3.org/2005/03/plenary-minutes

3. Last Call: XQuery, XPath and XSLT

The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group released twelve Working Drafts for the XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Seven are in last call through 13 May. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. Both XQuery and XSLT 2 use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances.

URIs:

XML homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

XML Query Use Cases: The motivations of XML Query explained in examples
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-use-cases-20050404/

XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0: Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20-20050404/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model: For both XML and non-XML sources - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-datamodel-20050404/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators: The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you can perform on XPath data types - Last call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050404/

XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization: Defines how to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML, HTML or as text - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20050404/

XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0: Using XML schemas, transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents including into XSL-FO for printing - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt20-20050404/

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: A non-XML, Perl-like syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-20050404/

XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX): A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for machine processing and introspection - Last Call
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xqueryx-20050404/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases: Examples for full-text search over data model collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20050404/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text: A full-text retrieval facility for XPath, XSLT and XML Query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-full-text-20050404/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics: The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for implementers
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-semantics-20050404/

Building a Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery: Strategies for writing an XPath parser
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-xpath-parsing-20050404/

4. Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements

The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0. A compound document combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This draft introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase.

URIs:

Compound document by Reference … V1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDRReqs-20050404/
Compound Document homepage: http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/

5. Last Call: Web Services Addressing

The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released two Last Call Working Drafts. Web Services Addressing - Core enables messaging systems to support transmission through networks that include processing nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways. SOAP Binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP messages.

URIs:

Web Services Addressing – Core: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-core-20050331/
SOAP Binding: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-soap-20050331/
SOAP messages: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Web Services homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

6. XML Binary Characterization Notes Published

The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released its evaluation, recommending that W3C produce a standard for binary interchange of XML. Published today as a Working Group Note, XML Binary Characterization is supported by use cases, properties and measurement methodologies. Optimized serialization can improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data.

URIs:

XML Binary Characterization: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xbc-characterization-20050331/
Use cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xbc-use-cases-20050331/
Properties: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xbc-properties-20050331/
Measurement methodologies: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xbc-measurement-20050331/
XML homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

7. Last Call: XML Schema Component Designators

The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema: Component Designators. Comments are welcome through 26 April. The document defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2.

URIs:

Component Designators: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema-ref-20050329/
Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
XML homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

8. Working Draft: RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals. The document is a starting point for establishing standard guidelines for combined usage of the W3C RDF/OWL family and the ISO family of Topic Maps standards. The group expects to publish Survey and Guidelines Working Group Notes based on this draft.

URIs:

Survey: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdftm-survey-20050329/
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

9. Request for Contacts in China, India and Brazil

W3C seeks your help to identify points of contact worldwide as W3C broadens its international participation. Team members will be travelling to China and India in the near future. Information you can provide for prospective W3C Offices, prospective W3C Members and other contacts in the next three weeks would be most helpful. Please send your recommendations to Ivan Herman (ivan@w3.org) and cc: Steve Bratt (steve@w3.org).

URIs:

International participation: http://www.w3.org/2005/02/W3C-Global-Focus.html
W3C Offices: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

10. Call for papers for the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)

Professor Dr Christoph Bussler, Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) has announced the call for papers for the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005). The conference takes place in Galway, Ireland from 6-10 November this year. ISWC 2005 deals with all aspects of Semantic Web Technology. The deadline for submission of papers is 30 April 2005.

URIs:

Conference: http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/index.html
Semantic Web homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

11. The Semantic Web Services Week 2005

The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (at the Leopold-Franzens University Austria) is organising "The Semantic Web Services Week 2005". This brings together people from industry and research from all around the world in order to provide a platform for mutual exchange of ideas and the possibilities of setting the ground for industrial impact of Semantic Web Services technologies. The W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services will take place at the end of the week long programme.

URIs:

Semantic Web Services Week: http://www.deri.at/events/swsw/
Semantic Web Services Interest Group homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/

12. JeromeDL - a Digital Library with Semantics - to provide Semantic Web related content.

DERI together with Gdansk University of Technology has created and deployed its own semantically enhanced digital library JeromeDL. JeromeDL will provide resources like technical papers, presentations, position papers related to the Semantic Web, created by DERI researchers. JeromeDL itself is Semantic Web enabled - it uses semantically enhanced information processing for resources retrieval. A user can make use of a semantically enabled search engine, exploiting RDF metadata, as well as social collaborative filtering features provided by this digital libraries based on FOAF.

The Semantic Digital Library has been deployed at several other universities already - among them, at the Main Library of the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. JeromeDL is available under an Open Source BSD license.

URIs:

Digital library JeromeDL: http://library.deri.org/
Open Source BSD licence: http://www.jeromedl.org/
Further information - Sebastian Ryszard Kruk: Sebastian.Kruk@DERI.org

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