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Issue 46: October 2001

Introducing Steve Bratt, W3C COO

On 3 October, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee introduced Dr. Steven R. Bratt, W3C's first Chief Operating Officer (COO). His start day is 1 January 2002. Steve comes to W3C from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria, where he served as Coordinator of the International Data Centre (IDC). Please take a moment to introduce yourself at the November AC Meeting in Nice which Steve plans to attend.

AC Meeting in Nice for Members: Logistics, Agenda, Call for Issues

On 5 October, W3C Chairman Jean-François Abramatic sent information on the November Advisory Committee Meeting to be held 5-7 November in Nice, France. The deadline for reservations at the Plaza Hotel in Nice has been extended until 15 October. The deadline for registering for the AC meeting itself is 22 October. There are a number of changes this year, including an "Introduction to W3C" which replaces the "New Member Orientation" of past years. The new meeting structure also allocates more time to focused discussion. Please send issues for discussion to w3c-ac-issues@w3.org.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION WWW2002

WWW2002 Conference will be held at Honolulu, Hawaii USA, during May 7-11, 2002. Eleventh in the series of prestigious international WWW conferences, WWW2002 will be the year's premier conference related to the Web with significant participation from both academia and industry. The International WWW Conference Series is managed by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) which is organizing WWW2002 with the University of Hawaii and the Pacific Telecommunications Council. The WWW Consortium (W3C) and IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering are WWW2002 conference partners.

This conference covers key technical areas related to the Web. The main refereed paper section of the conference consists of ten tracks including applications, browsers and user interfaces, electronic commerce and security, hypermedia, languages, mobility and wireless access, multimedia, performance, searching, querying, indexing, and crawling, and semantic Web. The semantic Web track is new for this year and highlights the growing importance of this field.

In addition to the main refereed paper tracks, there are a set of alternate tracks covering a variety of areas including education, global community, telehealth, practice and experience, and Web engineering. The conference also includes Poster presentations of breaking work, preconference Tutorials and Workshops, and a post-conference Developers Day specially for web developers. The W3C Advisory Committee will meet just before WWW2002, and W3C will participate actively in the conference through the informative and timely W3C Track.

Dublin Core Metatdata Element Set Approved

Bethesda, Md., USA - (October 5, 2001) NISO, the National Information Standards Organization and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announce the approval by ANSI of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (Z39.85-2001). DCMI began in 1995 with an invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio that brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content providers, and text-markup experts to improve discovery standards for information resources. The original Dublin Core emerged as a small set of descriptors that quickly drew global interest from a wide variety of information providers in the arts, sciences, education, business, and government sectors. Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource. The Dublin Core was originally developed to be simple and concise, and to describe Web-based documents. The current standard defines fifteen metadata elements for resource description in a cross-disciplinary information environment. These elements are: title, subject, description, source, language, relation, coverage, creator, publisher, contributor, rights, date, type, format, and identifier. Commenting on the approval, Stuart Weibel, Executive Director of DCMI, said: "The approval of Z39.85 formalizes a long period of consensus building representing the efforts of hundreds of people, and all participants can take pride in what this community has built." The NISO committee was chaired by John Kunze (University of California/National Library of Medicine) and included Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations, Inc.), Clifford Morgan (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) and John Perkins (CIMI Consortium). The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems. DCMI will act as the maintenance agency for the Dublin Core Metadata Element set standard.

Semantic Web Symposium proceedings

The complete proceedings as well as slides from invited talks and tutorials from the Semantic Web Working Symposium are available online. The Symposium, held in July 2001 at Stanford University covered all aspects relating to concept of the semantic web. According to its proponents, the semantic web provides the key to a truly automated and integrated web-based information infrastructure.

W3C Morocco Office Launches Arabic Home Page

18 September 2001: The home page of the W3C Morocco Office is now available as Unicode encoded Arabic. The Office is hosted by the Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, in Rabat, Morocco. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.

W3C Team Presentations in October

On 1 October, Henry Thompson gave a keynote at XML Days in Budapest, Hungary. On 4-5 October, Rigo Wenning participated in the JRC-Workshop on Privacy and Security in Brussels, Belgium. On 13 October, Ivan Herman presents Overview of W3C Technologies at Day of the Greek W3C Office in Thessaloniki, Greece. Philipp Hoschka presents Future Web Interface Technologies at SBMIDIA 2001 to be held 15-19 October in Florianopolis, Brazil. On 16 October, Charles McCathieNevile speaks on the Semantic Web and use cases for the British Computer Society's Specialist Group. On 26 October, Charles presents Formación para las autores del Web at V Jornadas del SID@R in Mar del Plata, Argentina. On 29 October, Nobuo Saito presents Standardization Activities by W3C and Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk on the Current Situation and Perspective of Semantic Web and XML at the INTAP Semantic Web Conference in Tokyo, Japan.

New W3C Members

Please welcome:

Technical Reports and Publications

Members are encouraged to review current technical documents produced by the W3C. Non-members can see from the list of titles the work that is currently active in W3C. If you join W3C you could contribute to this work. Publications since the last Newsletter are:

Candidate Recommendations

Working Drafts

Current Software Releases

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