Welcome to the March 2006 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity 3. Internationalization Activity 4. Web Services Activity 5. XForms Activity 6. Semantic Web Activity 1. Events CeBIT Australia 2006, 9-11 May 2006 Australia's leading ICT event[1] for the business marketplace is on again at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour. The Australian W3C Office will be colocated with the CSIRO ICT Centre at Stand G12 so please drop by and pay us a visit. [1] http://www.cebit.com.au/ WWW2006 Scotland. 22-26 May 2006. The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference[2] will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22-26 May 2006. The conference is one of the leading forums for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web. [2] http://www2006.org/ Seminar: "The second coming of WSDL - what's new in WSDL 2.0", CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra. 1 June 2006 Tony Rogers from CA will present an Australian W3C Office-hosted seminar on the impending new WSDL standard, WSDL 2.0, at the CSIRO ICT Centre at ANU. Tony is co-chair of the W3C Web Services Description Working Group and co-chair of the UDDI Technical Committee at OASIS. Check for more details in the April newsletter. To express your interest in attending the seminar, email us at w3c-australia@w3.org. AusWeb06, Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa. 1-5 July 2006. The 12th Australasian World Wide Web Conference[3] will again offer a program of pre-conference tutorials and workshops, a core program of national and international keynotes, refereed papers, a poster session and several post conference Special Interest Group (SIG) sessions. Ivan Herman[4], W3C's Head of Offices, will deliver a keynote presentation on behalf of the Australian W3C Office entitled "Why Web Standards Are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions". The Australian W3C Office will facilitate one of the SIG sessions. AusWeb is an IW3C2 Endorsed Regional Conference. AusWeb'06 is still accepting late submissions for papers so if you are interested in submitting a paper, please contact Andrew Treloar at andrew.treloar@its.monash.edu.au. And if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of AusWeb06, contact the Conference Chair, Allan Ellis, at aellis@scu.edu.au. [3] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au [4] http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ 2. Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity XSL 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1[5] to Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation[6] for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the XML Activity[7]. [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xsl11-20060220/ [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/ [7] http://www.w3.org/XML/ Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes[8]. Comments are welcome through 31 March. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the XML home page[9]. [8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060217/ [9] http://www.w3.org/XML/ 3. Internationalization Activity Working Draft: Internationalization Tag Set The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)[10]. Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page[11]. [10] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060222/ [11] http://www.w3.org/International/ 4. Web Services Activity Last Call: Web Services Addressing WSDL Binding The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding[12]. Comments are welcome through 31 March. The document defines how the properties in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core[13] are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL[14]). Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0. Read about Web services[15] at W3C. [12] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20060216/ [13] http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-addr-core/ [14] http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/ [15] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 5. XForms Activity XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation W3C released XForms 1.0 Second Edition[16] as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents. * [17]XForms 1.0 Second Edition * [18]XForms for HTML Authors: Part 2 * [19]XForms Quick Reference * [20]XHTML to XForms Converter (XSLT) * [21]Revised XForms Test Suite [16] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/ [17] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/ [18] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html [19] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-qr.html [20] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms.xsl [21] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Test/XForms1.0/Edition2/ 6. Semantic Web Activity Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF[22]. 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. Visit the Semantic Web home page[23]. [22] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20060220/ [23] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Note: Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers[24] as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page[25]. [24] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-sw-oosd-primer-20060309/ [25] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Working Draft: RDF/A Primer The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0[26]. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification[27]. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity[28] and the Semantic Web[29]. [26] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310/ [27] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/ [28] http://www.w3.org/Markup/ [29] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies[30]. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Visit the Semantic Web home page[31]. [30] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/ [31] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ________________________________________________________________________ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au