Michael Wilson from the UK and Ireland Office of W3C will be speaking on at IEE Web Futures for your business event on 12th May 2003 in London on Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the "roadmap" for the Web, covering Web services and the Semantic Web.
XML UK are arranging a day event on the topic of XSL FO to be held at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the 16th May 2003 which the W3C UK and Ireland Office is sponsoring.
Michael Wilson from the UK and Ireland Office of W3C will be speaking on at OnLine Help Conference Europe 2003 on 2nd June 2003 in London on Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the "roadmap" for the Web, covering 1. UI and accessibility 2. Web services 3. Semantic Web.
W3C will be organising a Tour of one day events on the Semantic Web around European cities during June 2003. The UK and Ireland regional event is planned for June 12th in London. Speakers will include W3C staff as well as UK adn Ireland industrial organisations who can present the benefits of Semantic Web technology. The event will be free.
The First Latin American web congress will be held in Santiago on November 10-12 2003.
International researchers, technologists, and leaders from academia, industry, and government will gather at LA-WEB to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest developments of the Web and how they can be used to empower the Latin American Web.
The technical programme will include refereed paper presentations, alternate track presentations (see below), plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials will precede the main program.
During the past years, Chile has been the most stable growing economy in the region, and is one of the regional leaders in information technology and telecommunications. Santiago, with more than 5 million inhabitants, is not only the capital of Chile, but also its financial and administrative heart. The city was founded in 1541 and is located at the foot of the Andes Mountains and only one hour away from the Pacific Ocean, thus being the ideal point to start tours to the north (desert), south (lakes and glaciers) or west (Easter island).
24 March 2003: Registration is open through 1 May for the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting to be held 18-20 May 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. AC Reps, please inform the planners if you are or are not coming using the new Web-based straw-poll and balloting system (WBS).
1 April 2003: The W3C Track has been announced for the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) in Budapest, Hungary. On 21-23 May, W3C presents three days of presentations on the Web, future Web browsers, W3C architectural principles, the XML family, Web services, the Semantic Web, new devices, and horizontal essentials. Registration is open.
2 April 2003: W3C holds a series of one day events in Rome, London, Munich, Athens and Brussels from 10-24 June. The W3C Semantic Tour promotes W3C technologies that bring to the Web more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse of data. Organizers come from the W3C Italy, UK and Ireland, Germany, Greece and Benelux Offices. All events are open to the public and free of charge.
25 March 2003: The World Wide Web
Consortium released XPointer as a three-part W3C Recommendation. The XPointer
Framework is an extensible system for identifying regions in XML
documents which provides for multiple addressing schemes. The
element()
scheme allows basic addressing of XML
elements in terms of a document's tree structure. The
xmlns()
scheme is used to interpret namespace
prefixes in scheme names and pointers. See press release and visit the XML home page.
28 March 2003: The XML Protocol Working Group has released SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization as a W3C Note. The document defines a transformation algorithm that renders all semantically equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Visit the Web Services home page.
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