With the successful conclusion of WWW9 in Amsterdam, it is time to start thinking about
writing those papers and attending the next WWW Conference in Hong Kong.
The dates are 1-5 May, 2001. WWW10 will be organized by an international
committee including participants from Hong Kong's academia and industrial sectors.
The Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, established in July 1988, will be the
venue for WWW10. Paper submission deadline is 13 November, 2000.
There is likely to be a strong participation from Japan including the exhibition.
On 8 June, W3C launched its Australian Office, based at the Australian government's
Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC).
Bob Hopgood, Head of W3C Offices, and Jim Elder, Queensland Deputy Premier and
Minister for State Development opened the Office at DTSC headquarters at the University of
Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Australia is the 6th largest country in the world in terms of Internet usage.
Seven million people, or over 35% of the population, is online, surpassed only by
the United States, Sweden, and Finland. With a strong history of innovation and early
adoption of new technologies, Australia is a natural choice for the creation of a W3C Office.
This specification defines the XML Pointer Language (XPointer), the language to be used as the basis for a fragment identifier for any URI reference that locates a resource of Internet media type text/xml or application/xml.
XPointer, which is based on the XML Path Language (XPath), supports addressing into the internal structures of XML documents. It allows for examination of a hierarchical document structure and choice of its internal parts based on various properties, such as element types, attribute values, character content, and relative position.
It is expected that at the end of the Candidate Recommendation period,
the following will be available:
A test suite defining the following:
A test document
A set of XPointers, including all examples from the
specification and at least an example resulting in
multiple ranges being returned
The description of the expected output from the processing
of those XPointer for the test document
Existence of two correct XPointer implementations for each
expression in the test suite
At least one implementation providing an user interface for
the rendering of the expression returning multiple ranges
Membership of W3C Continues to Rise
The total number of W3C Members has risen to 426. Recent new Members are:
Avogadro, Inc: Seattle-based Avogadro is building products and technologies to enable a superior Internet experience for wireless devices and the PC.
Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC): The company offers bibliographic and technical solutions to libraries. DBC Media sells non-printed materials for lending purposes in libraries. It has a number of projects concerned with library metadata.
Digital Channel Partners: this Dublin-based e-business company caters for companies wishing to build digital enterprises using the internet, GSM and digital TV. It has recently opened an office in New York.
Enosys Markets, Inc: a San Diego-based B2B marketplace startup. Some of the staff were key members of the team that implemented the pioneering TSIMMIS online integration system at Stanford University and initiated the "Mediation In Xml" (MIX) research project at UCSD. Enosys uses XML infomediary technology to integrate catalogue and non-catalogue product information from multiple suppliers into eMarketplaces. Customers are able to submit goal-oriented queries that find and rank products or product bundles according to their suitability to the customer's goal.
Lernout & Hauspie: recently voted by Time Magazine as one of Europe's top 50 hottest tech firms. Their speciality is advanced speech and language solutions for vertical markets, computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer goods and the Internet. The company is making the speech user interface (SUI) the keystone of simple, convenient interaction between humans and technology, and is using advanced translation technology to break down language barriers. The company provides customized solutions for corporations, core speech technologies marketed to OEMs, end user and retail applications for continuous speech products in horizontal and vertical markets, document creation, human and machine translation services, Internet translation offerings, and linguistic tools. The four basic areas they work in are automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), digital speech and music compression (SMC) and text-to-text (translation).
QuadraMed: uses technology to transform disparate healthcare data into valuable, enterprise-wide information. Their aim is to deliver web-enabled, secure solutions, which link the USA's hospitals to their diverse constituents. QuadraMed has implemented its solutions in more than 4,000 provider sites across the USA, representing over 60% of the USA's hospitals. QuadraMed's AFFINITY solution integrates a hospital's clinical, financial and patient information systems from a single patient-centred database to provide a content-rich, longitudinal view of the enterprise's data and reports. This patient-centric approach enables healthcare providers, physicians and other authorized users instant access to crucial patient information in real time.