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Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (All in Archives)

January 2004

22 January
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Die Zukunft des Web in 6 Punkten (The Future ofthe Web in 6 Points)" at the "Ausschusstreffen "Innovation und Umwelt" der IHK Köln (Workshop of the IHK Köln on Innovation and Environment)" on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
22 January
David Booth gives a talk entitled " W3C Web Services Architecture: An Overview and Update" and participates at a panel entitled "Web Services and XML Standards: Can we benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at the " OOP 2004" , on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Munich, Germany.

February 2004

11 February
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Verkkosisällön tekninen saavutettavuus soveltajan silmin (Developer's point of view: Web Content Accessibility)" at the "Finnish DfA forum" on Wednesday, 11 February 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.
18 February
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Machine Enforceable Policies" at the "4th Annual Privacy & Security Summit & Expo" on Wednesday, 18 February 2004, in Washington, DC, USA.
23, 24, 25, 26 February
Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth and Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C: Building the Mobile Web" on Monday, 23 February 2004 at the "3GSM World Congress 2004" , Cannes, France.
24 February
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML - mahdollisuudet ja kehitys (XML - the potential and development)" at the "3S Conference" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Espoo, Finland.
24 February
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML, standardointi ja kehitys (XML, standardisation and development)" at the "XML käytännössä (XML in Practice)" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.
26 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Hungarian Office entitled "Áttekintés a Szemantikus Webről (Overview of the Semantic Web)" at the "Ontológiák és metaadatok műhelykonferencia (Workshop on ontologies and metadata)" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.
26 February
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Layers of Responsibility: Perspectives on Internet Governance" at the " Workshop on Internet Governance" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland.

March 2004

9 March
Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "Standardization Activities in the World Wide Web Consortium" at the " International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2004)" on Tuesday, 9 March 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.
11 March
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Semanttinen Web ja Web-teknologiat (Semantic Web and Web Technologies)" at the "XML in software engineering meeting" on Thursday, 11 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
13 March
Wendy Chisholm , John Slatin, and Jeff Veen participate at a panel entitled "Accessibility is for Everybody" at the "SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival" on Saturday, 13 March 2004, in Austin, TX, USA.
16 March
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Tuesday, 16 March 2004, in Roma, Italy.
17, 18, 19, 20 March
at the "CSUN 19th Annual International Conference, Technology and Persons With Disabilities" , Northridge, CA, USA.
18 March
Hugo Haas gives a keynote entitled "Standardisation des Services Web : Où En Sommes-Nous ? (Standardaziation of Web Services: Where Are We?)" and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "2èmes Rencontres Web Services (2nd Web Services Meeting)" , on Thursday, 18 March 2004, in Paris, France.
19 March
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Dalle Literary Machines al Semantic Web (From Literary Machines to Semantic Web)" at the "Giornata di Studi ‘Confronti di metodo: saggi di interazione epistemologica’ (Workshop ‘confrontation of methods: testing epistemologic interaction’)" on Friday, 19 March 2004, in Varese, Italy.
24 March
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards für die Zukunft des Web (Standards for the Future of the Web)" at the "LogOn Briefing im Rahmen der CeBIT 2004 (LogOn Briefing at CeBIT 2004)" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Hannover, Germany.
24 March
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "WAI, Iniciativa de Accesibilidad Web (WAI, Web Accessibility Initiative)" at the "Tecnología y Discapacidad Visual (Technology and Visual Disabilities)" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
24, 25 March
Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "W3C Voice Browser Working Group\'s activities" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004 and Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled " Multimodal Standards: Activities in the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group" on Thursday, 25 March 2004 at the "AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring" , San Francisco, CA, USA.
24 March
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "A W3C Perspective" organized by the University of Melbourne, on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.
25, 31 March
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "W3C and Web-teknologiat (W3C and Web technologies)" on Thursday, 25 March 2004 and gives a talk entitled "W3C ja Web-teknologiat (W3C and Web Technologies)" on Wednesday, 31 March 2004 at "The 10th anniversary of the Web service of the University of Tampere" , Tampere, Finland.
25 March
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Interrogare collezioni di documenti XML: una interfaccia utente (Querying XML document collections: a user interface)" at the "XML per i Beni Culturali - Esperienze e prospettive per il trattamento di dati strutturati e semistrutturati (XML for cultural values - Experience and prospectives for the management of structural and semistructual data)" on Thursday, 25 March 2004, in Pisa, Italy.
25 March
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C & verkkojulkaisun standardit (W3C and Standards of Web Publishing)" at the "Web Publishers' Meeting at Tampere" on Thursday, 25 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
29 March
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Monday, 29 March 2004, in Milano, Italy.
31 March; 1, 2 April
at the "25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference" , Alexandria, VA, USA.

April 2004

1 April
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "W3C Technologies as a Key for Interoperability" at the "Workshop on: Web Enabling Technologies and Strategies for Scientific e-Learning" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Trieste, Italy.
1 April
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk entitled "XML and the WWW" at the "Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC) Scientific Advisory Board Meeting" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Vienna, Austria.
1 April
Brian Matthews gives a talk entitled "Deploying Trust Policies on the Semantic Web " at the "iTrust - 2nd International Trust Management Conference 2004" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Oxford, UK.
1 April
Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "W5: The Five W's of the World Wide Web" at the "2nd International Conference on Trust Management" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Oxford, UK.
2 April
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "EVA 2004 Florence - Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Friday, 2 April 2004, in Firenze, Italy.
5 April
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites" on Monday, 5 April 2004, in Torino, Italy.
6 April
László Kovács and Nóra Vásárhelyi give a talk entitled "Webhez kapcsolódó szabványosítás Magyarországon (Web Related Standardization in Hungary)" at the "Networkshop 2004" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in Győr, Hungary.
6 April
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Nessun escluso (Nobody is excluded)" at the "Donna è Web - Premio webitalia 2004 (Women and the Web - Webitalia 2004 Prize)" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in Viareggio, Italy.
6 April
Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "XForms: What and Why" at the " Industry XForms Briefing" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in London, UK.
7 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "Visualisation Ontology Workshop" on Wednesday, 7 April 2004, in Edinburgh, UK.
11 April
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "XML Schema - Perspectives" organized by the National Tax Administration, on Sunday, 11 April 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
17 April
Patrick Hung gives a talk on behalf of the Hong Kong Office entitled "Introduction to Web Services" at the "Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference" on Saturday, 17 April 2004, in Huangzhou, China.
19 April
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards für die Zukunft des Web (Standards for the Future of the Web)" organized by the Fachhochschule Rosenheim, on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Rosenheim, Germany.
19 April
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Technological Responses to Spyware" at the " FTC Spyware Workshop" on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Washington, DC, USA.
19 April
Liam Quin gives a keynote entitled "Lessons From an XML Query-Qriven SVG+XHTML Web Site" and Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "On the Design of Notations" at the "XML Europe 2004" , on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
19 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "Boundaryless Information Flow: Managing the Flow, OpenGroup" on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Brussels, Belgium.
22 April
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Trusted Computing" at the "14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP 2004) " on Thursday, 22 April 2004, in Berkeley, CA, USA.
22 April
Richard Ishida participates at a panel entitled "Barriers to Localization" at the "UK UPA (Usability Professionals Association) Monthly Event" on Thursday, 22 April 2004, in London, UK.
24 April
Deborah Dahl gives a keynote entitled "Speech and the Web" at the "4th annual SITE Tech Conference" on Saturday, 24 April 2004, in Springfield, IL, USA.
25 April
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience" at the "CHI2004" on Sunday, 25 April 2004, in Vienna, Austria.

May 2004

1 May
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)" organized by the Professional Development Seminars Series of the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, on Saturday, 1 May 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
1 May
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "World Wide Web Consortium: Enabling Technologies" at the "A DMI event for a visiting delegation from Italy" on Saturday, 1 May 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
6 May
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates at a panel entitled "Normes et standards ouverts de l'internet (Open norms and standards of the Internet)" organized by the Université de Printemps de la Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération, on Thursday, 6 May 2004, in Aix-en-Provence, France.
7 May; 3 June
at the "Webbit2004" , Padova, Italy.
7 May; 25 June
at the "W3C Workshops" , Canberra, Australia.
10 May
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Herramientas de validación y reparación de accesibilidad (Evaluation and Repair Tools for Web Accessibility)" at the "Bibliotecas Accesibles en la Web (Web Accessible Libraries)" on Monday, 10 May 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
12 May
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled " The changing Internet standards game" at the "INET 2004" on Wednesday, 12 May 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.
15 May
Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "Semantic Web and Web Architecture" at "The 7th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2004)" on Saturday, 15 May 2004, in Antwerpen, Belgium.
18 May
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "XML Schema & modellering - nu och i framtiden (XML Schema & modelling - today and tomorrow)" at the "XML Schema - praktik och erfarenhet (XML Schema - Best Practices and Experiences, W3C Swedish Office event)" on Tuesday, 18 May 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
19, 21 May
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Stima e misura della qualità di un sito web (Evaluating web sites quality)" on Wednesday, 19 May 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: principi, quadro internazionale e normativa italiana (Web Accessibility: principles, international context and Italian regulations)" on Friday, 21 May 2004 at the " CMG 2004 - XVII Convegno Annuale (17th Anual Convention)" , Pisa, Italy.
19, 20, 21 May
at the "W3C Track, The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)" , New York, USA.
19 May
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at "The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)" on Wednesday, 19 May 2004, in New York, USA.

June 2004

3 June
Jane Hunter gives a talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" on Thursday, 3 June 2004, in Darwin, Australia.
3 June
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "W3C and the Semantic Web" organized by the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation, on Thursday, 3 June 2004, in Venice, Italy.
4 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled " W3C/WAI/Education" at the " DeViNT'2004" on Friday, 4 June 2004, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
8 June
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Tutorial on Basic Semantic Web Technologies" at the "W3C DE/AT Office Tutorials" on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
8 June
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and Usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, in Napoli, Italy.
9 June
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "W3C e accessibilità (da WCAG 1.0 a WCAG 2.0) (W3C and accessibility (from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0))" at the "WWW e l' accessibilità all' informazione (The Web and the Accessibility to Information)" on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, in Pisa, Italy.
9 June
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C, Suomi ja verkkosisällön saavutettavuusohjeistus (W3C, Finland, and Web Content Accessibility)" at the "DfA network meeting day" on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
11 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Access to the Web" at the "IANIS Conference" on Friday, 11 June 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.
11, 12 June
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Spinning Threads for the Next Generation of the Web" on Friday, 11 June 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Weaving a Web for the Next Generation of Science" on Saturday, 12 June 2004 at the "16th Annual IRIS Workshop" , Tucson, AZ, USA.
13 June
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "Introducción al uso de la Web Semántica (Introduction to the use of the Semantic Web)" and José Kahan gives a tutorial entitled "Implementing Annotea in Amaya using Raptor and Redland" organized by the Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe), on Sunday, 13 June 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
16 June
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Web Services Standards Presence and Perspective" at the "International Web Services Conference and Exhibition 2004" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004, in Seoul, Korea.
16, 21 June
Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004 and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" on Monday, 21 June 2004 at the "W3C Workshops" , Brisbane, Australia.
16 June
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The History and Future of the World Wide Web" at the "Millennium Technology Conference, Finnish Technology Award Foundation" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004, in Espoo, Finland.
17 June
Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Thursday, 17 June 2004, in Adelaide, Australia.
18 June
Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" and Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Friday, 18 June 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.
22 June
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Querying Structured XML Document Collections" at the "SEBD 2004 - Dodicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (12th National Convention on Evolutionary Systems for Databases)" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in S.Margherita di Pula, Italy.
22 June
Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "Creating a Lingua Franca for the Web Out of SOAP" at the "Telco Web Services Conference" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in London, UK.
22 June
Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "Zakim - A Multimodal Software System for Large-Scale Teleconferencing " at the " Joint AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in Martigny, Switzerland.
23 June
Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Accesibilidad en e-administración (Web Accesibility for e-administration)" at the "I Foro Programa Ciudades Digitales (Digital Cities Programme Forum)" on Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in Logroño, Spain.
23 June
Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" and Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in Sydney, Australia.
24 June
Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "Current developments at W3C, and the Semantic Web" at the "KRTNET 2004 Conference" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Seoul, Korea.
24 June
Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Developments in XML Schema Languages" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.
24 June
Henry Thompson gives a talk on behalf of the United Kingdom and Ireland Office entitled "W3C XML Schema: Key features, plans and prospects" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Didcot, Oxon, UK.
25 June
Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "Développement et standardisation des technologies services web (Development and Standardization of the Web Service Technologies)" organized by the Bouygues Telecom, on Friday, 25 June 2004, in Vélizy, France.
27 June
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards und Visionen: Das World Wide Web Consortium (Standards and Visions: the World Wide Web Consortium)" at the "Annual Swiss IT Leadership Forum" on Sunday, 27 June 2004, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Switzerland.
29 June
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Typography and Graphic Design for Programmers" at the "GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developer European Conference) " on Tuesday, 29 June 2004, in Kristiansand, Norway.
30 June
Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 30 June 2004, in Hobart, Australia.
30 June
Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 30 June 2004, in Perth, Australia.

July 2004

6 July
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: il contesto per le applicazioni sul patrimonio culturale?" at the "Rappresentazione della conoscenza nel semantic web culturale (Representation of Knowledge in the Cultural Semantic Web)" on Tuesday, 6 July 2004, in Rome, Italy.
6 July
Shadi Abou-Zahra , Andrew Arch , Sylvie Duchateau, and Shawn Henry give a tutorial entitled "Web Accessibility Best Practices Evaluation Training" organized by the WAI-TIES Project, on Tuesday, 6 July 2004, in Paris, France.
8 July
Michael Wilson gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web?" at the "BNCOD 2004 - 21st Annual British National Conference on Databases" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Edinburgh, UK.
8 July
Tex Texin gives a tutorial entitled "Hitchhiker's Guide to Globalization" at the "IWIPS 2004" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Vancouver, Canada.
9 July
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Estándares Web del W3C (W3C Web Standards)" at the "Partyzipa " on Friday, 9 July 2004, in Monzón, Huesca, Spain.
25 July
Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (EMMA)" at the "4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004) " on Sunday, 25 July 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.
26 July
Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Device Independent Web" at the " Workshop on Device Independent Web Engineering (DIWE'04)" on Monday, 26 July 2004, in Munich, Germany.
30 July
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "A Systematic Approach Towards Museum Web Site Quality" and gives a talk entitled "Querying XML Document Collections" at the "EVA2004 London Conference" , on Friday, 30 July 2004, in London, UK.

August 2004

3 August
Eric Miller and Michael Sperberg-McQueen give a talk entitled "On mapping from colloquial XML to RDF using XSLT" at the "Extreme Markup Languages 2004" on Tuesday, 3 August 2004, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
5 August
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "The Transparency Paradox: Privacy design strategies for open information networks" at the " Location Privacy Workshop: Individual Autonomy as a Driver of Design" on Thursday, 5 August 2004, in Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
7 August
John Wilbanks gives a talk entitled "The Role of Semantic Technologies in the Emerging Grid" at the "PharmaGRID 2004 Retreat" on Saturday, 7 August 2004, in Diessenhofen, Switzerland.
11 August
Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web" at the "SIGGRAPH 2004" on Wednesday, 11 August 2004, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
14 August
Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "When does the Semantic Web take off?" at the " XML Consortium Seminar" on Saturday, 14 August 2004, in Shinagawa, Japan.
21 August
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "La Web Semántica por herramientas (Semantic Web for Tools)" at the "La Web Semántica en América Latina (The Semantic Web in Latin-America)" on Saturday, 21 August 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
27 August
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Towards Multimodal Web Interaction" at the "IFIP World Computer Congress 2004 (WCC) " on Friday, 27 August 2004, in Toulouse, France.
31 August
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" and Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Varför ontologier? En karta (Why ontologies? A map)" at the " Ontologier i arbete (Ontology at Work)" , on Tuesday, 31 August 2004, in Kista, Sweden.

September 2004

2 September
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Finnish Office entitled "Towards the Semantic Web" at the "Symposium on Web Intelligence, STeP2004" on Thursday, 2 September 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.
7, 8, 9 September
at the "26th Internationalization and Unicode Conference" , San Jose, CA, USA.
8 September
Eric Miller gives a keynote at the "Second Annual Semantic Technologies for eGovernment Conference" on Wednesday, 8 September 2004, in McLean, VA, USA.
14, 15, 16 September
  • Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Activities in Multimodal Standards" ; Jim Larson, Rob Marchand, and Dave Burke give a tutorial entitled "Introduction to VoiceXML 2.0" ; Matt Oshry and Jeff Kusnitz give a talk entitled "VoiceXML vs. SALT: What's the Same and What's Different" ; Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote on Tuesday, 14 September 2004;
  • Brandon Porter, Jim Larson, and Deborah Dahl participate at a panel entitled "Speech Standards: From Core Ideas to Key Details" ; Scott McGlashan gives a tutorial entitled "Advanced VoiceXML 2.0" on Wednesday, 15 September 2004;
  • Dave Burke gives a tutorial entitled "AM Grammars" ; Luc Van Tichelen gives a tutorial entitled "Semantic Interpretation" ; Scott McGlashan gives a talk entitled "Developing Call Control Applications with CCXML" and gives a talk entitled "MultiModal on Mobile Devices." ; Wu Chou and Michael Johnston give a talk entitled "EMMA: Extended Multimodal Annotation Markup" on Thursday, 16 September 2004;
at the "SpeechTEK 2004 10th Anniversary Conference and Exhibition" , New York, NY, USA.
15, 16 September
David Booth gives a talk entitled "What Is New in WSDL 2.0" on Wednesday, 15 September 2004 and gives a talk entitled "From Web Services to the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse" on Thursday, 16 September 2004 organized by the IBM, Toronto, Canada.
21 September
Kangchan Lee gives a tutorial entitled "RDF Tutorial" organized by the Hanbat University, on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Daejeon, Korea.
21 September
Robin Berjon gives a talk entitled "W3C XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group" at the "XML for Binary Interchange" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Hampton, VA, USA.
21 September
Massimo Marchiori gives a talk entitled " Towards a People's Web: Metalog" at the "IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004)" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Beijing, China.
21 September
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Web accessibility: principles, international context and italian regulations" at the "EuroCMG 2004" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Vienna, Austria.
23 September
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Web Standards that Link Scientists, Systems and Data" organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, on Thursday, 23 September 2004, in Woods Hole, MA, USA.
25 September
Najib Tounsi gives a talk entitled "Le Consortium W3C (The W3C Consortium)" and Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages" at the " La typographie entre les domaines de l'art et de l'informatique (Typography Between Art and Informatics)" , on Saturday, 25 September 2004, in Rabat, Morocco.
25 September
Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "Normes et formats de fichiers ouverts (Standards and Formats of Open Files)" at the "Informatique Libre (Open Computing)" on Saturday, 25 September 2004, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
28 September
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webbstandarder - mot framtiden (Standards for the web - a view towards the future)" at the "Networks Telecom 2004" on Tuesday, 28 September 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
29 September
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "What does XML have to do with Immanuel Kant?" at the "Net.Object Days 2004" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Erfurt, Germany.
29 September
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
29 September
Matthew May gives a tutorial entitled "Content and Interface Accessibility for your CMS" at the "OSCOM 4 (Fourth International Open Source Content Management Conference with Apache Track)" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Zürich, Switzerland.

October 2004

1 October
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "The Meaning and Interpretation of Markup" organized by the W3C German and Austrian Office, on Friday, 1 October 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
5 October
Yasuyuki Hirakawa gives a talk entitled "Overview of W3C’s Web Standardization" at the "9th Workshop: Overview of Web Standardization Organizations" on Tuesday, 5 October 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.
11 October
Marie-Claire Forgue and Bert Bos run a booth at the "Fête de la Science 2004 (Science Festivity 2004)" between Monday, 11 October, and Sunday, 17 October 2004, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
11 October
Shawn Henry gives a keynote, representing the Education & Outreach Working Group, entitled "A Web Revolution Through Higher Education" at the "HighEdWebDev 2004, eMergingVisions" on Monday, 11 October 2004, in Rochester, NY, USA.
12 October
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "The Cultural Semantic Web — Representation of Knowledge" at the "EVA 2004" on Tuesday, 12 October 2004, in Jerusalem, Israel.
13 October
Carine Bournez gives a talk entitled "Web Services" ; Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk entitled "Bericht über die aktuelle Arbeit in W3C (Report on the current works at W3C)"; Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Das mobile Web (The Mobile Web)" at the " W3C-Tag (W3C Day)" , on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Rosenheim, Germany.
13 October
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Tjänstearkitekturer, standarder och framtidssäkring (Service-Oriented Architectures and web standards)" at the "17th Sundsvall42 conference 2004" on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Sundsvall, Sweden.
13 October
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Appplications 2004" on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Shanghai, China.
20 October
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Information och kunskap i en distribuerad värld (Information and knowledge in a distributed world)" at the "Information Resource Management - trender (Information Resource Management - future trends)" on Wednesday, 20 October 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
20 October
Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "The Zero-Cost Semantic Web" at the "Symposium of the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA)" on Wednesday, 20 October 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.
21 October
Tim Berners-Lee gives a lunchtime talk organized by the British American Business Council of New England, on Thursday, 21 October 2004, in Boston, MA, USA.
21 October
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Presentación de la Oficina Española de W3C (Introducing the W3C Spanish Office)" at the "Jornada W3C: Hacia un Nuevo Web (W3C Date: a New Web)" on Thursday, 21 October 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
25 October
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den semantiska webben - vad som erbjuds, hur vi kan utnyttja det och vilka effekter vi kan uppnå (The Semantic Web - what it offers, how to use ít, and what benefits it can give)" at the "Den semantiska webben - kunskapslyft eller hype? (The Semantic Web - improved power or hype?)" on Monday, 25 October 2004, in Linköping, Sweden.
27 October
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences" on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
27 October
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C ja alueellinen standardointi (W3C and Regional Standardization)" at the "JHS Seminar (Planning and implementation of the Web services" on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

November 2004

2 November
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" organized by the School of Informatics Engineering, University of Oviedo, on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Oviedo, Spain.
2 November
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "Semanttinen Web (Semantic Web)" at the "Annual Finnish ADP Days" on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Lappeenranta, Finland.
3 November
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "What's on the Horizon?" at the "ERCIM Strategy Workshop" on Wednesday, 3 November 2004, in Malaga, Spain.
4, 6 November
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience" on Thursday, 4 November 2004 and gives a tutorial entitled "Styling the New Web Using CSS" on Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the "User Experience 2004" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
5 November
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Friday, 5 November 2004, in Bilbao, Spain.
9 November
Steve Bratt gives a keynote entitled "Weaving a Web for the Next Generation of Science" at the "Geological Society of America Annual Meeting" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Denver, USA.
9 November
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Patents, Standards and the Dynamics of Innovation on the World Wide Web" at the "First Annual JOLT Symposium: Patent Policy in the Context of Internet Open Standards Development" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Los Angeles, USA.
9 November
Eric Miller gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Initiative and its Implications for Publishing" at the "CrossRef Annual Member Meeting 2004" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Boston, USA.
10 November
Bert Bos gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Multiple Input Media, Multiple Output Media, but only One Web" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.
10 November
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "The Transparency Paradox: Privacy-enhancing architectures for open information networks" at the "Distinguished Lecture Series, UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems" on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in Berkeley, USA.
11 November
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "W3C Semantic Web Technologies in real life" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Thursday, 11 November 2004, in Valencia, Spain.
12 November
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "2D Web Graphics: SVG" at the "Media Elements 2004" on Friday, 12 November 2004, in Enschede, The Netherlands.
15, 16, 17 November
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to XML Schema" on Monday, 15 November 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Building a document delivery system from off-the-shelf standards-conformant parts" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004; Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "WSDL 2.0: what's new?" on Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at the "XML 2004" , Washington D.C., USA.
15 November
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" at the "American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) conference" on Monday, 15 November 2004, in Providence, RI, USA.
16 November
Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "W3C: SOAP to OWL, and hot Web schemas" at the "Localization World" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in San Francisco, USA.
16 November
Thomas Baker gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Introduction to Semantic Web" at the "Arbeitskreis Application Development & Integration Technologies (Application Development & Integration Technologies Working Group)" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in Berlin, Germany.
16 November
Eric Miller gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Initiative and Implications to Digital Preservation " at the "National Archive Partnerships in Innovation - Serving a Networked Nation" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in Washington D.C., USA.
17 November
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Developing Core Web Services Standards at the World Wide Web Consortium" at the "Application Integration and Web Services Summit" on Wednesday, 17 November 2004, in Orlando, FL, USA.
18 November
Judy Brewer gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: The Next Stage" at the "Techshare 2004" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in Birmingham, UK.
18 November
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web Services - Hopes and Fears" at the "2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in New York, NY, USA.
18 November
Max Froumentin gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Multimodal Interaction on the Web" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
20 November
Eric Miller gives a tutorial entitled "Weaving Meaning: An Overview of the Semantic Web" at the "Greater Boston Chapter / ACM Professional Development Seminar 2004" on Saturday, 20 November 2004, in Boston, USA.
24 November
Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "Next step of W3C Internationalization Activity" ; Masayasu Ishikawa gives a talk entitled "Compound Document Formats in XML" ; Yoshio Fukushige gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web enters on the Second Phase" at the "Open Research Forum (ORF) 2004" , on Wednesday, 24 November 2004, in Roppongi-Hills, Tokyo, Japan.
25 November
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Proteger l'innovation avec les standards (Protecting innovation with standards)" at the "Forum Integration" on Thursday, 25 November 2004, in Paris, France.
26 November
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C10, and W3C Overview" at the "Next Generation Web Technologies" on Friday, 26 November 2004, in Seoul, Korea.
30 November
Matthew May gives a talk entitled "“Open” Document Formats, XHTML vs. HTML, XSL vs. CSS & Other Industry Debates" at the "Gilbane Content Management Technologies Conference" on Tuesday, 30 November 2004, in Boston, USA.

December 2004

1 December
Alan Kotok participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" ; Dave Raggett participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" ; Tim Berners-Lee participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" at the "W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration" , on Wednesday, 1 December 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
7 December
Guus Schreiber gives a talk entitled "OWL: the W3C Web Ontology Language" and Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on Semantic Web" at the "W3C Day, Evolve Conference" , on Tuesday, 7 December 2004, in Brisbane, Australia.
7 December
Kishik Park gives a keynote on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "Web Standards in E-Business" at "The International Conference on e-Commerce 2004" on Tuesday, 7 December 2004, in Seoul, Korea.
8, 10 December
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Web Accessibility for Designers" on Wednesday, 8 December 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: A Foundation for International Cooperation and Local Implentation" on Friday, 10 December 2004 at the "Designing for the 21st Century III" , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
9 December
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Arkitektur för framtiden - katedral eller koloniområde? (Future architectures - Cathedral or Allotment Area?)" at the "Gårdagens och morgondagens plattformar (Platforms Yesterday and Tomorrow)" on Thursday, 9 December 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
9 December
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "XML to the Desktop: XForms" at the "XML Holland 2004" on Thursday, 9 December 2004, in Hilversum, The Netherlands.
19 December
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "The Internet and the World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future" at the "British University in Dubai Open Lecture" on Sunday, 19 December 2004, in Knowledge Village, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

January 2005

14 January
Liam Quin gives a talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "XML: Living on the edge" at the "XML Workshop" on Friday, 14 January 2005, in Brisbane, Australia.
20 January
Bert Bos and Stéphane Boyera give a lecture entitled "Device Independence and Multimodal Interaction on the Web" at the "Conception et Architecture d’interface Homme Machine (Man-Machine Interfaces)" on Thursday, 20 January 2005, in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
21 January
Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "Ineluctable Modality of the Visible" at the "A Decade of Webdesign" on Friday, 21 January 2005, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

February 2005

1, 2 February
Steve Ross-Talbot gives a talk entitled "Standards Bodies updates - W3C and Choreography to bind technology with business functions" on Tuesday, 1 February 2005 and participates at a panel entitled "Web Services Standards Update" on Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at the "Web Services on Wall Street" , New York, USA.
2 February
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Estándares del W3C en BPM (W3C Standards in BPM)" at the "Primer Congreso Nacional de BPMS 2005 (First National BPMS Conference 2005)" on Wednesday, 2 February 2005, in Madrid, Spain.
4 February
Masayasu Ishikawa participates at a panel entitled "XML文書技術の新展開 (New development in XML document technology)" at the "PAGE2005" on Friday, 4 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
9 February
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "The State of the Net – An Overview" at the "Internet Caucus State of the Net Conference" on Wednesday, 9 February 2005, in Washington, USA.
10 February
Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "セマンティックWebとW3Cの活動 (Semantic Web and W3C's activities)" at the "セマンティックWebコンファレンス2005 (Semantic Web Conference 2005)" on Thursday, 10 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
10 February
Hiroyuki Sato gives a talk entitled "Overview and Objectives of the Semantic Web Data Access Working Group" at the "INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2005" on Thursday, 10 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
14 February
Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "3GSM World Congress 2005" between Monday, 14 February, and Thursday, 17 February 2005, in Cannes, France.
16 February
Ossi Nykänen gives a lecture entitled "XML-tietojenkäsittely (XML data processing)", gives a lecture entitled "XML-pohjaiset rakennemäärittelyt (XML based structure/type definitions)" and gives a lecture entitled "XML - johdanto, uusimmat standardit ja kehitys (XML: introduction, the latest standards and development)" at the "XML tiedonhallinnan ja integraation tehostajana (XML as a method for enhancing information management and system integration)" , on Wednesday, 16 February 2005, in Helsinki, Finland.
16 February
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Benelux Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" at the "Semantic Web Seminarie (Semantic Web Presentations)" on Wednesday, 16 February 2005, in Antwerpen, Belgium.
21 February
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "Multimodal Standards For Automating Customer Support" and Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "W3C Standards for Automating customer Support" at the "Service Automation Expo and Conference" , on Monday, 21 February 2005, in San Francisco, USA.
22, 23 February
Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "Semantic Processing and Multimodal User Interfaces" on Tuesday, 22 February 2005; Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Activities" on Wednesday, 23 February 2005; Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "Beyond VoiceXML: New Standard Languages from the world Wide Web consortium" on Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at the "SpeechTEK West" , San Francisco, USA.

March 2005

2 March
Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "Is it possible to make mobile, accessible and skinnable client-side Web applications?" at the "W3C Technical Plenary" on Wednesday, 2 March 2005, in Boston, USA.
8 March
Daniel Dardailler gives an invited talk entitled "W3C/WAI overview and danger of fragmentation" at the "Workshop on eAccessibility Legislation and Policy, the Role of Standardisation" on Tuesday, 8 March 2005, in Florence, Italy.
8 March
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web is Here" at the "Semantic Technolgy Conference 2005" on Tuesday, 8 March 2005, in San Fransisco, CA, USA.
8 March
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "The Role of Web Standards in Technology Transfer " at the "AMI Technology Transfer Event" on Tuesday, 8 March 2005, in Brussels, Belgium.
8 March
Ossi Nykänen gives a keynote entitled "XML-pohjaisten standardien kehitystyö W3C:ssä: poimintoja tulevasta (Developing XML based standards at the W3C: selected topics of the near future)" at the "XML Finland 2005, "XML - the Enabling Technology for Integrating Business Processes"" on Tuesday, 8 March 2005, in Pori, Finland.
11 March
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Perspectives on Digital Transparency" at the "IAPP National Privacy Summit" on Friday, 11 March 2005, in Washington, USA.
12 March
Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: How to Get Your Organization on Track" organized by the American Foundation for the Blind, Jo Taylor Leadership Institute, on Saturday, 12 March 2005, in Boston, USA.
13 March
Matthew May and Wendy Chisholm participate at a panel entitled "How to use Accessibility Guidelines, Standards, and Testing Tools" at the "South by Southwest Interactive" on Sunday, 13 March 2005, in Austin, TX, USA.
14 March
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Estándares Web del W3C (W3C Web Standards)" at the "V Jornadas de Software Libre en Asturias (V Asturian Free Software Conference)" on Monday, 14 March 2005, in Oviedo, Spain.
14 March
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "The Evaluation and Repair Language (EARL)" at the "1st Int'l Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites (WWV'05)" on Monday, 14 March 2005, in Valencia, Spain.
14, 15, 16, 18, 19 March
  • Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Exploring Web Accessibility: A Hands-On Introduction" on Monday, 14 March 2005;
  • Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Accessible Web Design Beyond the Basics: CSS and Other Techniques, Tips, and Tricks" on Tuesday, 15 March 2005;
  • Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Transitioning Your Web Site" on Wednesday, 16 March 2005;
  • Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "A Vendor Neutral Reporting Language For Web Accessibility Evaluations" on Friday, 18 March 2005;
  • Matthew May gives a talk entitled "W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Test Suite Version 2.0 And Implementation Report" on Saturday, 19 March 2005;
at the "CSUN 2005 Technnology and Persons with Disabilities Conference" , Los Angeles, USA.
23 March
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Web Services Choreography" at the "e-Biz World 2005 Conference" on Wednesday, 23 March 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
30 March
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Web open standards, a critical factor for e-administration " at the "@METIS Kickoff Meeting" on Wednesday, 30 March 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
31 March
Máté Pataki and László Kovács give a talk entitled "Weblapok akadálymentesítése (Accessibility of Web Sites)" at the "Networkshop 2005" on Thursday, 31 March 2005, in Szeged, Hungary.

April 2005

5 April
David Booth gives a talk entitled "What's New in WSDL 2.0?" organized by the Agfa-Gevaert N. V, on Tuesday, 5 April 2005, in Waterloo, Canada.
5 April
David Booth gives a talk entitled "From Web Services to the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse" organized by the University of Waterloo, on Tuesday, 5 April 2005, in Waterloo, Canada.
5 April
Hoylen Sue gives a talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "Web Services" at the "Standards Australia Commitee IT-014 and HL7 Australia joint conference" on Tuesday, 5 April 2005, in Brisbane, Australia.
5 April
David Booth gives a talk entitled "From Web Services to the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse" organized by the University of Toronto, on Tuesday, 5 April 2005, in Toronto, Canada.
5 April
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C, Web-teknologiat ja yhteensopivuus (W3C, Web technologies, and interoperability)" at the "JHS-seminaari - yhteentoimivuus ja standardointi (JHS Seminar: Interoperability and Standardisation)" on Tuesday, 5 April 2005, in Helsinki, Finland.
10 April
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Healthcare Informatics, the Semantic Web and Public Policy: Balancing Wishful Thinking with Realism" at the "Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics" on Sunday, 10 April 2005, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
12 April
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "전자거래에서의 웹서비스 기술 활용 전망 (Web Services Perspectives for e-Business)" at the "ICAT 2005" on Tuesday, 12 April 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
12 April
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Perché Tim Bernes-Lee ha vinto il Millennium Technology Prize 2004 per la Tecnologia e le Scienze Appplicate? (Why Tim Berners-Lee received the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize)" at the "Perché Nobel? - Ciclo di incontri per conoscere i Nobel 2004 (Why Nobel? - A series of seminars to know more about Nobel Prizes 2004)" on Tuesday, 12 April 2005, in Pisa, Italy.
12 April
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" and Vincent Shen gives a talk entitled "Introduction to W3C" at the "Semantic Web Symposium" , on Tuesday, 12 April 2005, in Hong Kong, China.
13 April
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Standards Make the Web Work" organized by the Pennsylvania State University School of Information Sciences and Technology, on Wednesday, 13 April 2005, in University Park, PA, USA.
14 April
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" and Vincent Shen gives a talk entitled "Introduction to W3C" at the "国际万维网技术应用高层论坛 (W3C Technology Forum)" , on Thursday, 14 April 2005, in Guangzhou, China.
19 April; 21 October
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XHTML2 and XForms" on Tuesday, 19 April 2005, in Sankt Augustin, Germany and gives a tutorial entitled "XHTML2 and XForms" on Friday, 21 October 2005, in Munich, Germany organized by the German and Austrian Office, .
20 April
Jim Hendler gives a tutorial on behalf of the Israel Office entitled "Introducing the Semantic Web" organized by the W3C Israel Office, on Wednesday, 20 April 2005, in Jerusalem, Israel.
20 April
Steve Bratt gives a keynote entitled "Developing The Foundational Standards for Web Services" and Yves Lafon gives a talk entitled "SOAP1.2 and Beyond: A Practical Vision for Core Web Services Standards" at the "Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit" , on Wednesday, 20 April 2005, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
21 April
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "¿Debo utilizar estándares Web? (Should I use Web Standards?)" at the "III Encuentro de Responsables de Tecnología y Sistemas en los Medios de Comunicación (III Mass Media Systems and Technology Managers Meeting)" on Thursday, 21 April 2005, in Huesca, Spain.
27 April
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 (Web Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environment)" at the "IT Forum Korea 2005" on Wednesday, 27 April 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
28 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Introduction to SVG" and José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "Primer Premio W3C a la Estandarización Web (First W3C Spanish Office Price for Web Standardization)" at the "Acto de Entrega del Primer Premio W3C a la Estandarización Web (First W3C Spanish Office Prize Award Ceremony)" , on Thursday, 28 April 2005, in Oviedo, Spain.

May 2005

6 May
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C/I18N/WAI Overview" at the "Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in Cyberspace" on Friday, 6 May 2005, in Bamako, Mali.
9, 10 May
Oreste Signore , Franco Chesi, and Maurizio Pallotti give a talk entitled "A working e-government experience: the CiTel project" on Monday, 9 May 2005 and Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Towards a Quality Model for Web Sites" on Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at the "First CMG Poland Conference" , Warsaw, Poland.
10 May
Máté Pataki gives a talk entitled "Weblapok akadálymentesítése (Making Web Sites Accessible)" at the "Debreceni Egyetem — Gyires Béla Informatikai Napok (University of Debrecen — Béla Gyires IT Days)" on Tuesday, 10 May 2005, in Debrecen, Hungary.
10, 11 May
  • Dave Beckett, Steve Harris, Eric Prud'hommeaux , and Andy Seaborne give a tutorial entitled "Introduction to RDF query with SPARQL" ; Nobuo Saito , Kazuhiro Kitagawa, and Akio Kokubu give a tutorial entitled "Social Web Content Filtering and Semantic Web" ; Richard Ishida and Martin Dürst give a tutorial entitled "Internationalizing Web Content and Web Technology" on Tuesday, 10 May 2005;
  • Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "WWW at 15 years: looking forward" ; Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Hanako Onozuka run a booth on Wednesday, 11 May 2005;
at "The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005)" , Chiba, Japan.
11, 12, 13 May
at the "W3C Track, The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005)" , Chiba, Japan.
14 May
Steven Pemberton and TV Raman give a talk entitled "XHTML2 and XForms" at the "WWW 2005 Developers' Day" on Saturday, 14 May 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
17 May
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web concepts" at the "Bio-IT World" on Tuesday, 17 May 2005, in Boston, USA.
18 May
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The Economic Importance of Standards" at the "MIT CIO Symposium" on Wednesday, 18 May 2005, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
19 May
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "W3C의 차세대 웹 표준화 현황 및 전망 (W3C Overview and Prospects of Web Standards)" organized by the Yangsan University, on Thursday, 19 May 2005, in Busan, Korea.
19 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "El W3C ante la fragmentación de la Web (W3C facing the fragmentation of the Web)" at the "Foro de Normalización de las TIC en Salud (N+ISIS'05) (Normalization Forum of ICT in Health Systems (N+ISIS'05))" on Thursday, 19 May 2005, in Valencia, Spain.
24 May
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "RDF/OWL Semantic Technologies" and Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Metadata in XHTML2" at the "News Standards Summit 2005" , on Tuesday, 24 May 2005, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
24, 26, 27 May
at the "XTech 2005 Conference" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
25 May
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Ontology Driven Access to Museum Information" at the "CIDOC 2005 - Annual Conference of the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums ICOM-CIDOC" on Wednesday, 25 May 2005, in Zagreb, Croatia.
26 May
Daniel Dardailler gives an invited talk entitled "W3C Overview and its Patent Policy" at the "Standards, open standards" on Thursday, 26 May 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
27 May
Najib Tounsi gives a talk entitled "Les standards W3C du Web au service de l'accessibilité pour tous (The W3C Standards to an Accessibility for All)" and Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Components of Web Accessibility" at the "ICT & Disability" , on Friday, 27 May 2005, in Tunis, Tunisia.
31 May
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Le linee guida per l' accessibilità e il ruolo dell' Ufficio Italiano W3C (Accessibility guidelines and Italian Office role)" at the ""Entrata Libera" - Giornata di discussione, confronto, presentazione di progetti per l'accessibilità dei siti web ("Free entrance" - A workshop to discuss, confront and present web sites accessibility projects)" on Tuesday, 31 May 2005, in Firenze, Italy.

June 2005

3 June
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at the "W3C10 Europe" on Friday, 3 June 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
7 June
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk entitled "Metadata in XHTML2" at the "40th Annual General Meeting of the International Press Telecommunications Council" on Tuesday, 7 June 2005, in London, UK.
9 June
Oreste Signore , Franco Chesi, and Maurizio Pallotti give a talk entitled "E-Government: Challenges and Opportunities" at the "CMG Italia - XIX Convegno Annuale" on Thursday, 9 June 2005, in Firenze, Italy.
10 June
Steve Ross-Talbot gives a keynote entitled "A Declarative Compliance Systems Architecture" at the "Towards Regulatory Compliance with Standards and Open Architectures" on Friday, 10 June 2005, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
13 June
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a keynote on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Technologien für die Zukunft des Web (Technologies for the future web)" at the "Infopark Internet Congress (Infopark Internet Congress (iico - 10th anniversary event of W3C member Infopark AG))" on Monday, 13 June 2005, in Berlin, Germany.
13 June
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Lambda-XML, the ultimate indicative" organized by the Dept of Computer Science, Harvard University, on Monday, 13 June 2005, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
17 June
Franco Chesi , Oreste Signore , and Maurizio Pallotti give a talk entitled "E-Government Challenges and the CiTel Experience" at the " 2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies" on Friday, 17 June 2005, in Milano, Italy.
17 June
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Semanttinen Web (Semantic Web)" at the "Kirjastopäivät 2005 (Library Days 2005)" on Friday, 17 June 2005, in Tampere, Finland.
17 June
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Verso il Web of Trust (Towards Web of Trust)" at the "Etica di Internet - Euristica e semantica del Web: quali basi teoriche per un web di fiducia? (Ethics of Internet - Heuristic and semantics of the Web: which theoretic basis for a web of trust?)" on Friday, 17 June 2005, in Roma, Italy.
20 June
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" ; Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk entitled "The Work of W3C" ; Thomas Baker gives a talk entitled "Report from the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group" at the "W3C and Semantic Web" , on Monday, 20 June 2005, in Vienna, Austria.
23 June
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Toward a Web of Data and Programs" at the "Global Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies" on Thursday, 23 June 2005, in Sardinia, Italy.
23 June
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C 표준화 동향 및 대한민국 사무국 활동 (The Trend of W3C Standardization and Korean Office Activities)" at the "W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵 (W3C Korean Member Workshop)" on Thursday, 23 June 2005, in Daejeon, Korea.
25 June
Robin Berjon gives a talk entitled "Binary XML and its Characterization " at the "XML Prague 2005" on Saturday, 25 June 2005, in Prague, Czech Republic.
28 June
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Hypothesis: Programmers are Humans too" at the "EuroPython 2005" on Tuesday, 28 June 2005, in Göteborg, Sweden.
29 June
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Representing Knowledge in the Semantic Web" at the "Open Culture: accessing and sharing Knowledge" on Wednesday, 29 June 2005, in Milano, Italy.

July 2005

5 July
Shadi Abou-Zahra and Shawn Henry give a tutorial entitled "Best Practices Exchange Training" organized by the ACESSO - Program of the Knowledge Society Agency in the Ministry of Science, Technology & High Education, on Tuesday, 5 July 2005, in Lisbon, Portugal.
12 July
Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "W3C XForms: improving the user experience with accessible, device-independent e-forms" at "The First Euro Conference on Mobile Government " on Tuesday, 12 July 2005, in Brighton, UK.
19 July
Brian Matthews runs a booth at the " Workshop on Web Languages and Formal Methods" on Tuesday, 19 July 2005, in Newcastle, UK.
25 July
Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "XHTML, une famille: comment choisir ? (XHTML, a family: how to choose?)" at the "Rencontre W3QC publique mensuelle" on Monday, 25 July 2005, in Montréal, Canada.
27 July
Jim Larson gives a tutorial entitled "Speech Enabled Web Application" at the "11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction" on Wednesday, 27 July 2005, in Las Vegas, USA.

August 2005

2 August
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "W3C work relevant to remote user interfaces" at the "Remote UI BoF, IETF63" on Tuesday, 2 August 2005, in Paris, France.
4 August
Felix Sasaki , Christian Lieske, and Andreas Witt give a talk entitled "Schema Languages & Internationalization Issues: A survey" and Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Extreme Feedback: The Future of XML" at the "Extreme Markup Languages 2005" , on Thursday, 4 August 2005, in Montréal, Canada.
18 August
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 표준화 현황 (The Trends of Ubiquitous Web Services)" at the "제7회 정보통신표준화워크샵 (7th Information and Telecommunication Standardization Workshop)" on Thursday, 18 August 2005, in Gyeongju, Korea.
25 August
Jonghong Jeon gives a talk entitled "모바일 RFID와 유비쿼터스 웹 - 새로운 웹 접근 방식 (Mobile RFID and Ubiquitous Web - A New type of Ubiquitous Web Access)" at the "모바일 RFID 포럼 워크샵 (Mobile RFID Forum Workshop)" on Thursday, 25 August 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
30 August
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Benelux Office entitled "W3C and 2D Web Graphics: SVG" at the "Multimedia community: 2nd work meeting" on Tuesday, 30 August 2005, in Leuven, Belgium.
30 August
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C의 웹기술 표준화 이슈 (The Current Technical Issues at W3C)" at the "국제 표준화 기구의 핫이슈 및 ECIF 표준안 발표회 (ECIF Workshop on E-Business)" on Tuesday, 30 August 2005, in Seoul, Korea.

September 2005

7, 8 September
at the "28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference" , Orlando, Florida, USA.
14 September
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Die W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) (The W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI))" at the "W3C-Tag 2005 - Das Mobile Web (W3C-Day 2005 - The Mobile Web)" on Wednesday, 14 September 2005, in Berlin, Germany.
14 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "A Common Vocabulary to Facilitate the Exchange of Web Accessibility Evaluation Results" at the "Dublin Core 2005" on Wednesday, 14 September 2005, in Madrid, Spain.
14 September
Eric Miller gives a keynote on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Weaving Meaning: the Semantic Web" at the "Primeras Jornadas Científico-Técnicas en Servicios Web" on Wednesday, 14 September 2005, in Granada, Spain.
15 September
Eric Miller gives a keynote on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "The Semantic Web in Practice" at the "International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2005) " on Thursday, 15 September 2005, in Madrid, Spain.
16 September
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "The Future of Web Interfaces" at the "Interact 2005" on Friday, 16 September 2005, in Rome, Italy.
19 September
José Kahan and Stephen Farrell give a talk entitled "Using the XML Key Management Specification (and breaking X.509 rules as you go)" at the "CMS 2005" on Monday, 19 September 2005, in Salzburg, Austria.
21 September
Daniel Dardailler gives an invited talk entitled "W3C: Open Web Standards and eGovernment" at the "Your voice on eGovernment 2010" on Wednesday, 21 September 2005, in Brussels, Belgium.
23 September
Daniel Dardailler , Judy Brewer , and Richard Ishida give a lunchtime talk at the "PrepCom3 of the WSIS" on Friday, 23 September 2005, in Geneva, Switzerland.
29 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Die Bedeutung von Standards im barrierefreien Webdesign (The role of standards in accessible Web design)" at the "Hagenberger Web Entwicklertag (Hagenberger Web Developer Day)" on Thursday, 29 September 2005, in Hagenberg, Austria.

October 2005

3 October
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial on behalf of the Benelux Office entitled "XHTML2 and XForms" organized by the W3C Benelux and ISOC Belgium, on Monday, 3 October 2005, in Antwerp, Belgium.
4 October
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "¿Debería utilizar estándares Web? (Should I use Web standards?)" at the "Laboratorio Cadius (Cadius Laboratory)" on Tuesday, 4 October 2005, in Madrid, Spain.
6 October
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a tutorial on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards, Sprachen und Spezifikationen im Semantic Web (Standards, Languages, and Specifications for the Semantic Web)" organized by the Semantic Web School, on Thursday, 6 October 2005, in Vienna, Austria.
7 October
Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" at the "Semantic Web Days" on Friday, 7 October 2005, in Munich, Germany.
11 October
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "The W3C and its Patent Policy" at the "Standards Symposium" on Tuesday, 11 October 2005, in Schaumburg, IL, USA.
13 October
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C and the Grid" at the "Grids@work" on Thursday, 13 October 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
18 October
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Introducción a la Web Semántica (Introduction to the Semantic Web)" at the "V Workshop REBIUN sobre Proyectos Digitales (V REBIUN Workshop on Digital Projects)" on Tuesday, 18 October 2005, in Barcelona, Spain.
19 October
Klaus Birkenbihl and Philipp Hoschka give a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "W3C mobile Web initiative" at the "ISOC.DE Mitgliederversammlung (ISOC.DE membership Assembly)" on Wednesday, 19 October 2005, in Frankfurt, Germany.
19 October
Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Data as Knowledge: Applying the Semantic Web" at the "Working Knowledge Program" on Wednesday, 19 October 2005, in Wellesley, MA, USA.
23 October
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Web per chiunque, dovunque e con qualunque dispositivo (Web for everyone, anywhere and on everything)" at the "e-Academy 2005" on Sunday, 23 October 2005, in Milano, Italy.
26 October
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "Paikkatiedot ja Web-standardit (Location Information and Web Standards)" at the "JHS-seminaari - Paikkatiedot tietojärjestelmissä (Location Information in Information Systems)" on Wednesday, 26 October 2005, in Helsinki, Finland.
26 October
Dan Connolly gives an invited talk entitled "Web Architecture" organized by the ACM club of the Park University, on Wednesday, 26 October 2005, in Parkville, MO, USA.
27, 28 October
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "Styling the New Web Using CSS" on Thursday, 27 October 2005 and gives a tutorial entitled "Advanced CSS Design" on Friday, 28 October 2005 at the "User Experience 2005" , Boston, USA.

November 2005

2 November
Jonghong Jeon gives an invited talk entitled "WIPI 기반의 모바일 웹 표준화 동향 - W3C MWI 활동을 중심으로 (Standardization Activities for Mobile Web service - W3C MWI and MWS)" at the "무선인터넷표준화포럼 2005년도 기술 워크샵 (2005 KWIS Forum Technical Workshop)" on Wednesday, 2 November 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
3 November
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Mobile Web Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium" at the "MIT 2005 Research and Development Conference" on Thursday, 3 November 2005, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
9 November
Daniel J. Weitzner gives an invited talk entitled "Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges: Privacy, Provenance, Property and Personhood" at the "4th International Semantic Web Conference" on Wednesday, 9 November 2005, in Galway, Ireland.
9 November
Philipp Hoschka participates at a panel entitled "Too Many Technologies? Too Many Standards?" at the "Mobile Application Platforms and OSS" on Wednesday, 9 November 2005, in Vienna, Austria.
10, 11 November
at the "International Conference/Workshop on Web Technologies" , New Delhi, India.
10 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "SOA och standarder - existerande och kommande (SOA - existing and emerging standards)" at the "SOA, Griddteknik och Standarder (SOA, Grids and Standards)" on Thursday, 10 November 2005, in Stockholm, Sweden.
14, 15 November
Hugo Haas and Charlton Barreto, Adobe Systems give a tutorial entitled "Foundations and Future of Web Services" on Monday, 14 November 2005 and Hugo Haas gives a keynote entitled "Reconciling Web Services and REST Services" on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at the "European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS)" , Växjö, Sweden.
14, 16 November
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to XML Schema" on Monday, 14 November 2005 and gives a talk entitled "How schema-validation is different from being married" on Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at the "XML 2005" , Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
15 November
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "Mobile Web Initiative Event" on Tuesday, 15 November 2005, in London, UK.
15, 16 November
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Names, Namespaces, XML Languages and XML Definition Languages" on Tuesday, 15 November 2005; Dan Connolly gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web Data Integration with hCalendar and GRDDL" on Wednesday, 16 November 2005; Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Functional XML: An new approach to XML processing " on Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at the "XML 2005" , Atlanta, GA, USA.
17, 18 November
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "Styling the New Web Using CSS" on Thursday, 17 November 2005 and gives a tutorial entitled "Advanced CSS Design" on Friday, 18 November 2005 at the "User Experience 2005" , London, UK.
22 November
Felix Sasaki gives a talk entitled " 国境のない Web で IT ビジネスを勝ち抜くために — W3C 国際化活動 (Winning IT Business on the Web as the Borderless World - W3C Internationalization Activity)"; Kazuyuki Ashimura gives a talk entitled "Web と話してみませんか? — あなたも使える音声ブラウザ (Shall we talk to the Web ? - Voice Browser Easy to Use)"; Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Hanako Onozuka run a booth entitled "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - W3C標準最新動向 (W3C's Latest Trend)"; Yoshio Fukushige gives a talk entitled "つながる世界へ — セマンティック Web レシピ集 (Linking Together - Recipe for the Semantic Web)" at the "SFC Open Research Forum 2005" , on Tuesday, 22 November 2005, in Roppongi-Hills, Tokyo, Japan.
22, 23, 24 November
at the " Fundamentos Web 2005 (Web Foundations 2005)" , Gijón and Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
22 November
Shawn Henry gives a keynote entitled "Focusing on Web Accessibility Outside the Gray Area" at the "Fundamentos Web 2005 (Web Foundations 2005)" on Tuesday, 22 November 2005, in Gijón, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
25 November
Masayasu Ishikawa gives a tutorial entitled "ユビキタスを支える XML の最新動向 (The latest trend in XML which supports the ubiquitous society)" at the "デジタル・ドキュメント・シンポジウム2005 (Digital Document Symposium 2005)" on Friday, 25 November 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
25 November
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: il futuro è già qui? (Semantic Web: is it here?)" at the "Knowledge Management Forum" on Friday, 25 November 2005, in Siena, Italy.
25 November
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a keynote on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "SW: Are We There Yet?" at the "Semantics 2005" on Friday, 25 November 2005, in Vienna, Austria.
28 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Web 2.0 hype eller inte? Ett sätt att använda webben (Web 2.0 hype or not? A way of using the web)" at the "IT trender (IT Trends)" on Monday, 28 November 2005, in Stockholm, Sweden.
28 November
Najib Tounsi gives a talk entitled "Le Langage XML: Fondations pour les Plateformes eLearning (XML: a foundation for eLearning platforms)" at the "Normes, standards et plates-formes d’enseignement à distance par les NTIC (Standards and platforms for remote teaching)" on Monday, 28 November 2005, in Rabat, Morocco.
29 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Vad nytt i den mobila webben? (What's new in the mobile web)" organized by the W3C Sweden, on Tuesday, 29 November 2005, in Stockholm, Sweden.

December 2005

8 December
Shawn Henry gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility Beyond WCAG" at the "OzeWAI Web Adaptability Conference" on Thursday, 8 December 2005, in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
12 December
Felix Sasaki participates at a panel entitled "Overview of the W3C I18N ITS Working Group" at the "Language Standards for Global Business" on Monday, 12 December 2005, in Berlin, Germany.
12 December
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Nuevos lenguajes de modelado y estándares para la codificación de lenguajes documentales. OWL y SKOS Core (New Modelling Languages and Documentary Languages Coding Standards. OWL and SKOS Core)" at the "Uso de Lenguajes Documentales en la Web Semántica (Using Documentary Languages in Semantic Web)" on Monday, 12 December 2005, in Madrid, Spain.
13 December
Wonsuk Lee gives a talk entitled "웹 표준(W3C) 기술 동향 (The Trend of W3C Standardization Activity)" at the "교육정보사이트 웹표준(W3C) 적용 워크숍 (The Workshop for Adapting W3C Standards to Web Site for Education)" on Tuesday, 13 December 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
13 December
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled " World Wide Web Consortium: Overview and Emerging Technologies" at the "Seminar for Life Sciences Research Community in Seattle" on Tuesday, 13 December 2005, in Seattle, Washington, USA.
14 December
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Italian Office entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "2nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2005)," on Wednesday, 14 December 2005, in Trento, Italy.
27, 29 December
Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "The Web according to W3C - How to turn your idea into a standard" on Tuesday, 27 December 2005 and gives a talk entitled "The Web according to W3C" on Thursday, 29 December 2005 at the "22C3" , Berlin, Germany.

January 2006

20 January
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Interoperabilidad, accesibilidad y usabilidad en los servicios electrónicos de las administraciones públicas (Interoperability, Accessibility and Usability in eServices for Public Administrations)" at the "Jornadas Técnicas sobre Administración Electrónica "Abrimos 24 horas" (Electronic Administration Seminar - "24 Hours Open")" on Friday, 20 January 2006, in Gijón, Spain.
23 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "RFID-ed Things on the Web of Data and Services" at the "RFID Academic Convocation" on Monday, 23 January 2006, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
25 January
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: non solo teoria (Semantic Web: not just theory)" at the "KM, semantic web, e-learning (KM, semantic web, e-learning )" on Wednesday, 25 January 2006, in Prato, Italy.
27 January
Nobuo Saito gives a keynote entitled "主催者挨拶 (Welcome Message)"; Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "セマンティックWebの経緯と今後の方向 (Past and Future of Semantic Web)" and participates at a panel entitled "セマンティックWebのこれまで、今、そして未来 (Semantic Web, the Past, Today and Tomorrow)"; Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Yoshio Fukushige run a booth entitled "W3C活動紹介 (Introduction of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium))" at the " セマンティック Web コンファレンス 2006 (Semantic Web Conference 2006)" , on Friday, 27 January 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
28 January
Felix Sasaki gives an invited talk entitled "ITS タグセットについて (About the ITS tagset)" at the "翻訳支援環境に関するセミナー (JLA Open Source Documentation Seminar)" on Saturday, 28 January 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
30 January
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0: A Convergence Target" at the "Instruments pour faire de l'accessibilité du Web une réalité (Instruments for Making Web Accessibility a Reality)" on Monday, 30 January 2006, in Paris, France.
30, 31 January; 1 February
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "Multimodal Interaction Management" on Monday, 30 January 2006; Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Speech Enabling Web Browsers" on Tuesday, 31 January 2006; Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Standards" on Wednesday, 1 February 2006 at the "AVIOS/SpeechTek West 2006" , San Francisco, USA.

February 2006

2 February
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Det nya om webben (The buzz about the web)" at the "SITI-konferensen 2006 (The Annual SITI Conference 2006)" on Thursday, 2 February 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
3 February
Masayasu Ishikawa participates at a panel entitled "XML複合文書技術の動向 (The trend of XML compound document technology)" at the "PAGE2006" on Friday, 3 February 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
7 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Improving The Quality Of Web Information Systems By Implementing Accessibility Guidelines" at the "Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2006)" on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, in Santa Marta, Colombia.
7 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Introduction to Internationalization" at the "Open Road Conference" on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
8 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Internationalizing the Web" at the "Victoria Online Seminar Series" on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
8 February
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Is 'Net Neutrality' on the Internet a BIT Relative?" at the "Internet Caucus State of the Net Conference" on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Washington, DC, USA.
8 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Indian Office entitled "Overview of W3C Technologies" organized by the Delhi Chapter of the IEEE, on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Delhi, India.
9 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Internationalizing Web sites and applications" at the " February WSG Meeting (Melbourne)" on Thursday, 9 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
10 February
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " Evoluzione recente e sviluppi futuri nelle linee guida per l' accessibilità delle informazioni: il ruolo del W3C (Recent evolution and future developments of information accessibility guidelines: the role of W3C)" at the " VIII Congresso Nazionale SIE (8th SIE National Conference)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Milano, Italy.
10 February
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben idag - vad man bör hålla ögonen på (The web today -- major trends)" at the "Aktuella utmaningar (Current issues)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
10 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Indian Office entitled "W3C and Open Standards" at the "LinuxAsia Conference & Expo" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Delhi, India.
10 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "Internationalizing Web sites and applications" at the " February W3C/WSG Meeting (Canberra)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Canberra, Australia.
13 February
Marie-Claire Forgue , Philipp Hoschka , and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux run a booth at the "3GSM World Congress 2006" on Monday, 13 February 2006, in Barcelona, Spain.
15 February
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Interoperabilidad al cubo (Interoperability to Cube)" at the "II Congreso Nacional de BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) (II Business Process Management Systems National Congress)" on Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
15 February
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Web Standards and Usability" at the "North East Usability and Accessibility (NEUA) Group Meeting" on Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
16 February
Eric Miller gives an invited talk entitled "Weaving Meaning: The Semantic Web " at the "Bioinformatics Summit" on Thursday, 16 February 2006, in Bethesda, MD, USA.
21 February
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Beneficios de los Estándares Web (Benefits of Web Standards)" at the "Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones, Grupo de Trabajo, CRUE ("CRUE" ICT WG Meeting)" on Tuesday, 21 February 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.

March 2006

1 March; 22 October
Charlton Barreto gives a talk entitled "The Pi of Choreography" on Wednesday, 1 March 2006 and Matt Womer gives a talk entitled "Geolocation Lightning Talk, Mandelieu 2008" on Wednesday, 22 October 2008 at the "W3C Technical Plenary" , Mandelieu, France.
6, 7 March
Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Felix Sasaki , and Liam Quin give a talk entitled "Internationalization Features in XPath, XQuery and XSLT" on Monday, 6 March 2006; Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" on Monday, 6 March 2006; Felix Sasaki and Richard Ishida give a talk entitled "Information about Internationalization and Localization in XML" on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference 29" , San Francisco, USA.
8 March
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares del Consorcio para la Web (W3C) y accesibilidad web (Accessibility Web Standards)" at the "Sesión informativa sobre accesibilidad web y presentación del Plan de eAccesibilidad de la Universitat de València " on Wednesday, 8 March 2006, in Valencia, Spain.
12, 10, 15 March
Shawn Henry participates at a panel entitled "Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible" on Sunday, 12 March 2006 and participates at a panel entitled "Accessiblity: A Report From the Trenches" (see abstract) on Saturday, 10 March 2007; Matt Womer participates at a panel entitled "Breaking Boundaries: Mobile Web Access in Emerging Economies" (see abstract) on Sunday, 15 March 2009 at the "SXSW Interactive" , Austin, Texas, USA.
Abstract for “Accessiblity: A Report From the Trenches”:
The development of updated accessibility standards at W3C has been both applauded and criticized. An open discussion of truths, myths, and the state of the movement.
Abstract for “ Breaking Boundaries: Mobile Web Access in…”:
In many regions, the mobile phone is the primary tool for Web access. As mobile Web connections increase in developing nations the impact will be significant. This panel examines the differences between mobile Web access in developing and developed regions and how the mobile Web can affect social development.
13 March
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C 기술 개발 동향 (The Technical Trends of W3C)" at the "차세대 웹 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Dave Raggett gives an invited talk entitled "Web applications and the Ubiquitous Web" at the "Next Generation Web 2006" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Wonsuk Lee gives a talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 기술 표준 동향 (Technical Trend of Ubiquitous Web Services)" at the "차세대 웹 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Web Standards Project (WaSP): Open Meeting" and participates at a panel entitled "WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done" at the "South by Southwest (SXSW)" , on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA.
14 March
Jonghong Jeon gives a talk on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "W3C MWI와 모바일 웹 2.0 (W3C MWI and Mobile Web 2.0)" at the "차세대 웹 통합 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
14 March
Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "Multimedia Handsets conference" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
14 March
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The future of the Web" at the "e-Horizons Institute lecture" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Oxford, UK. (See also a video and an audio format.)
15 March
Chris Lilley gives a talk entitled "Using Web Multimedia Standards for Mobile Multimedia" at the "Multimedia Handsets" on Wednesday, 15 March 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
18 March
Felix Sasaki and Olivier Thereaux give an invited talk entitled "Open Source / Open Standards - W3C in the Open Source ecosystem" at the "オープンソースカンファレンス2006 (Open Source Conference)" on Saturday, 18 March 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
18 March
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Szemantikus háló: egy rövid bevezetés (Semantic Web: a Short Introduction)" and Máté Pataki gives a talk entitled "W3C WAI, avagy a Weblapok akadálymentesítése (W3C WAI, i.e., Making Web Sites Accessible)" at the " Magyarországi Web Konferencia (Web Conference Hungary)" , on Saturday, 18 March 2006, in Budapest, Hungary.
20 March
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Exploring Web Accessibility: A Hands-On Introduction" at the "CSUN (21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference)" on Monday, 20 March 2006, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
22 March
Oreste Signore participates at a panel entitled "Mobile Web Initiative: come migliorare interoperabilità e usabilità nel web mobile (Mobile Web Initiative: how to increase mobile web interoperability and usability)" at the "Broadcasting & Videoconferencing " on Wednesday, 22 March 2006, in Milano, Italy.
22 March
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C에서의 웹서비스와 시맨틱웹의 표준화 현황과 전망 (Foundations and Future Directions of Web Services and Semantic Web in W3C)" at the "INISIS 초청 세미나 (INISIS Internal Seminar)" on Wednesday, 22 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
27 March
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web: Building a Web of Data" at "The Semantic Web meets eGovernment: AAAI Spring Symposium" on Monday, 27 March 2006, in Stanford University, California, USA.
28 March
Tim Berners-Lee gives a lecture entitled "Web Design and Web Use: Hopes and Fears" at the "Richard Synder Presidential Lecture" on Tuesday, 28 March 2006, in Medford, MA , USA.

April 2006

4 April
Eric Miller participates at a panel entitled " The Semantic Web: Building a Web of Data" at the "Bio IT World" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Boston, MA, USA.
4 April
Steve Bratt gives a state of the art report entitled "One Web: Going Mobile" at the "CTIA Wireless 2006: Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
4 April
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Semantic Web: Building on what exists" at the " MIT Information Technology Conference" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
5 April
Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web" at the "Spencer Trask lecture " on Wednesday, 5 April 2006, in Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
6 April
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a keynote entitled "HTML and CSS does not Accessibility Make" at the "Knowbility Access U" on Thursday, 6 April 2006, in San Francisco, California, USA.
19 April
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled " The Web on the Move" at the ""Mobile Web Initiative" Analyst meeting" on Wednesday, 19 April 2006, in London, UK.
20 April
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Servicios en la Web (Services on the Web)" at the "CIO Summit 2006" on Thursday, 20 April 2006, in Madrid, Spain, Spain.
24 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Hong Kong Office entitled "W3C and the Mobile World" organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), on Monday, 24 April 2006, in Hong Kong, China.
26 April
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web: Overview of Strategy and Development at the W3C" at the "Semantiske dager 2006 (Norwegian Semantic Days 2006)" on Wednesday, 26 April 2006, in Stavanger, Norway.
27, 28 April
at the "Opening Ceremony of the W3C China Office" , Beijing, China.

May 2006

4 May
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Net Neutrality" at the "Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2006" on Thursday, 4 May 2006, in Washington, DC, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
At the heart of the net neutrality debate is whether the Internet, the Web, and associated technologies will continue to thrive as an open platform for innovation and free expression and what policies, if any, are necessary to ensure that they will. Our panelists will focus their discussion on several key scenarios of Internet usage in order to understand the most critical features that allow the Internet to remain open today and how the evolution of networks, technologies, and business models will impact the openness of the Internet tomorrow. The panelists will use scenarios involving web-based commerce, cached news delivery, voice over IP, and fully decentralized multimedia services to frame the discussion. The format for the plenary session is described below, but due to the ever-changing nature and uncertain future of the net neutrality issue, the precise plan for the program may be amended over the coming months.
7 May
Takayuki Watanabe and Makoto Ueki give a tutorial entitled "WCAG 2.0 ラストコール・ワーキングドラフト研究会 - JIS X 8341-3 と WCAG 2.0 の国際協調 - (Workshop on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft -Intl. Harmonization of JIS X 8341-3 and WCAG 2.0-)" at the "WCAG 2.0 ラストコール・ワーキングドラフト研究会 - JIS X 8341-3 と WCAG 2.0 の国際協調 - (Workshop on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft -Intl. Harmonization of JIS X 8341-3 and WCAG 2.0-)" on Sunday, 7 May 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
8 May
Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Testeo y evaluación de accesibilidad (Evaluation and Accesibility Testing)" at the "Jornada sobre Testeo de Software (Software Testing Day)" on Monday, 8 May 2006, in Valencia, Spain.
8 May
Michael Wilson runs a booth at "The 2006 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006)" between Monday, 8 May, and Thursday, 11 May 2006, in Glasgow, UK.
10 May
Allan Beaufour gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "XForms in Firefox" at the "Ciclo de Conferencias (Series of Talks)" on Wednesday, 10 May 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
12 May
Bert Bos gives a tutorial on behalf of the Benelux Office entitled "CSS principes / CSS geavanceerd (CSS principles / Advanced CSS)" at the "Tutorial Cascading Style Sheets" on Friday, 12 May 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12 May
Chris Lilley gives a talk entitled "SVG: where are we and why does it matter" at the "SVG European Workshop" on Friday, 12 May 2006, in Zurich, Switzerland.
15 May
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "CSS for the Institutional Web" at the "Los Alamos National Laboratories Web Design Conference" on Monday, 15 May 2006, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
16, 17, 18, 19 May
  • Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to XHTML2 and XForms" on Tuesday, 16 May 2006;
  • Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Efficient implementation of content models with numerical occurrence constraints" ; Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "The Power of Declarative Thinking" on Wednesday, 17 May 2006;
  • Erik Bruchez gives a talk entitled "XForms: an alternative to Ajax?" (see abstract); Felix Sasaki , Christian Lieske, and Sebastian Rahtz give a talk entitled "Internationalization and Localization of XML: Introducing "ITS"" (see abstract) on Thursday, 18 May 2006;
  • Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Slidy - an web based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint" (see abstract) on Friday, 19 May 2006;
at the "XTech 2006" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract for “XForms: an alternative to Ajax?”:

Last year, we introduced server-side XForms as the most promising way of making XForms a short-term reality on the web.

In this year’s presentation, we discuss how this promise has materialized with hybrid Ajax-based open source implementations, and we demonstrate the most exciting capabilities of XForms running on today’s deployed web browsers.

We not only show how XForms fulfils its initial promise of becoming the next generation web forms, but also how it serves as a general-purpose dynamic user interface technology.

Finally, we show that hybrid XForms implementations effectively offer an abstraction layer over Ajax technologies, thereby greatly simplifying the implementation of common Ajax use-cases and giving XForms a place of choice in the “Web 2.0” ecosystem.

Abstract for “ Internationalization and Localization of…”:
Description of a new markup vocabulary called "Internationalization Tag Set" (ITS), which is used for Internationalization and Localization of XML documents and schemas.
Abstract for “ Slidy - an web based alternative to…”:
HTML Slidy is an open source Web-based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint based upon XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, and which runs on a wide variety of browsers. I will introduce Slidy, and describe the challenges faced in developing an accessible cross platform browser-based editor for slide presentations.
19 May
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Da Enquire al Semantic Web (From Enquire to Semantic Web)" at the "Le Invasioni Tecnologiche - Come le nuove tecnologie cambiano il pensiero, la comunicazione e la scienza (Technological invasions - As new technologies are changing mind, communication and science)" on Friday, 19 May 2006, in Pisa, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Il World Wide Web, l’ invenzione che più ha rivoluzionato la nostra vita negli ultimi anni, nasce dall’ intuizione di Tim Berners-Lee, che peraltro ha sempre affermato che il Web è il frutto di un lavoro collettivo, e da un’ incredibile serie di sviluppi di ricerca e tecnologici. I principi ispiratori della proposta iniziale sono ancora vivi e attuali, e il Semantic Web è la realizzazione di un sogno che appariva impossibile.

Nella nascita e successiva travolgente diffusione del Web hanno giocato un ruolo fondamentale un’ impostazione tecnica e umana che ha privilegiato e valorizzato il lavoro collettivo e il rispetto reciproco, e una forte attenzione ai valori umani.

22 May
Rhys Lewis gives a keynote entitled "The Meaning of 'Life': Capturing Intent from Web Authors" at the "W4A2006 - Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?" on Monday, 22 May 2006, in Edinburgh, UK.
23 May
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "W3C's Technologies and e-Government" at the "Workshop on E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities" on Tuesday, 23 May 2006, in Edinburgh, UK.
23 May
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "WWW '06" between Tuesday, 23 May, and Friday, 26 May 2006, in Oxford, UK.
24, 26 May
at "The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)" , Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract for “Introduction to the Semantic Web”:
This tutorial gives an overview of the basic Semantic Web Technologies developed at W3C. Using practical examples, the fundamentals of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) are presented, together with the mapping of the general RDF principles on XML. Then a detailed overview of RDF Schemas (a.k.a. RDF Vocabulary Description Language) is given, followed by an overview of the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Finally, new technologies, like SPARQL, SKOS, are also presented. The tutorial also gives some guidelines on how Semantic Web programs are developed in practice, gives example for applications, and finally gives some ideas on the directions the technologies evolve at W3C in the coming years.
Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge on XML.
Abstract for “ Broken Links on the Web: Local Laws and…”:
Across the World Wide Web there is government censorship and monitoring of political messages and "morally-corrupting" material. Google have been in the news recently for capitulating to the Chinese government's demands to ban certain kinds of content, and also for refusing to pass logs of browsing habits to the US government (while Microsoft and Yahoo complied wth the request). How can the Web survive as a unified, global information environment in the face of government censorship? Can governments and the private sector come to an agreement on international legal standards for the free flow of information and privacy?
24, 25, 26 May
at the "W3C Track, The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)" , Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract for “ An XML based architecture for Web 2.0…”:
There is no agreed upon definition of what Web 2.0 is but everybody has a personal definition. This talk will describe our interpretation of how a new generation of applications on the Web will be built. It will look at the current architectures and see why they do not satisfy the requirements of Web 2.0 (as we understand them). It will explain why we believe that Web 2.0 applications will rely on XML not only for serialization but as a fundamental underlying information model. We believe that there will be no more (or very little) Java or SQL code in this new generation of applications. Unfortunately the existing XML stack of technologies isn't complete at this point. In the talk we will also list the extensions we think will be needed in order to fulfill the goal of an XML-based declarative information hub as a fundamental architecture for such applications.
Abstract for “Next steps: Ubiquitous Web”:
The Ubiquitous Web as a synthesis of the Web and ubiquitous computing that extends the Web out into the physical world: importance of context awareness, device coordination, role of Semantic Web, trust, identity and security.
Abstract for “Internationalizing Speech Synthesis”:
This presentation focuses on the recent activity of internationalizing speech synthesis and SSML, and will present the issues and requirements that have arisen from the recent workshops and the work of the Voice Browser Working Group.
Abstract for “ Semantic Empowerment of Health Care and…”:
Health care practices and bioinformatics have already succeeded in utilizing database management, workflow and information retrieval technologies, which have provided syntactic search, heterogeneous data access and sharing, and limited forms of integration. We can realize more exciting potential of health care and life science if we have more automated ways for analysis leading to insight and discovery.
Abstract for “Advanced Layout ”:
The status of CSS2 and a demo of layout in CSS3. After much work on the implementations and the specification, we are finally reaching a well-supported CSS level 2. About 70% of all pages now use CSS. Designers are becoming more confident and push CSS2 to its limits. After an overview of the status of CSS, we'll end with a preview of a new grid layout scheme for CSS3.
Abstract for “Writing CSS For Syndicated Content”:
As more and more sites syndicate small chunks of markup, the integration of "foreign" CSS is causing all kinds of headaches for developers and site owners. This presentation will cover strategies for both site owners and syndicators to make sure these modules don't cause any more headaches.
30 May
Wonsuk Lee gives a talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 (Ubiquitous Web Services)" at the "2006 웹코리아포럼 심포지엄 (2006 Web Korea Forum Symposium)" on Tuesday, 30 May 2006, in Seoul, Korea.

June 2006

1 June
Jesús García participates at a panel entitled "Taller de Accesibilidad (Accessibility Workshop)" at the "Tecnimap 2006 " on Thursday, 1 June 2006, in Sevilla, Spain.
1 June
Olle Olsson gives a keynote entitled "Metadata som hävstång (On the usefulness of meta data)" at the "Metadatas roll inom rättslig informationsförsörjning (The Role of Metadata in Legal Information Spaces)" on Thursday, 1 June 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
7 June
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Mikroformat, taggning och att spinna en väv (Micro-formats, tagging and weaving a web)" at the "Web 2.0 -- Nya mål och medel (Web 2.0 -- New Means and Objectives)" on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
7 June
Paolo Baggia gives an invited talk entitled "Speech Technologies and Standards" at the "DIT Seminars" on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in Povo, Trento, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
An overview of the evolution of speech technologies and speech applications in recent years and an in-depth evaluation of the impact of W3C and IETF standards on speech application development. The VoiceXML and other W3C standards will be briefly introduced and the recent evolutions of the standards towards multimodal and video services will be described.
8 June
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " L' accessibilità sul Web: indirizzi internazionali e legislazione nazionale (Web accessibility: international context and national legislation)" at the "L' informazione è di tutti?" on Thursday, 8 June 2006, in Fucecchio, Italy.
8 June
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Web 4.0: now's the time to plan" at "The Web and Beyond, 10th SIGCHI.NL Conference" on Thursday, 8 June 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12 June
Judy Brewer gives an invited talk entitled "Accessible ICT: Future-Proof Development Processes" at the "ICT for an Inclusive Society" on Monday, 12 June 2006, in Riga, Latvia.
13, 14 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Roles and Responsibilities in Web Accessibility" on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Managing Evaluation Results with EARL 1.0" on Wednesday, 14 June 2006 at the "Workshop on Web Accessibility and Metamodelling 2006" , Grimstad, Norway.
13, 15 June
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Evaluating for Accessibility, Usability Testing in Diverse Situations" on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Redesigning www.w3.org/WAI: A Tale of Two Sites" on Thursday, 15 June 2006 at the "UPA 2006" , Broomfield, Colorado, USA.
15 June
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Internationalisation: Awakening the Sleeping Giant" at the "@media 2006" on Thursday, 15 June 2006, in London, UK.
16 June
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "NET NEUTRALITY: What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers" at the "NET NEUTRALITY: What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers" on Friday, 16 June 2006, in Washington, DC, USA.
19 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Equal Access to the Web" at the "Euro-Southeast Asia ICT Forum 2006" on Monday, 19 June 2006, in Singapore, Singapore.
20 June
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Interaction Activities" at the "Midwest Speech Technology Association Monthly Meeting" on Tuesday, 20 June 2006, in Chicago, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This talk will describe the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces and EMMA (Extensible Multimodal Annotation) specifications. The MMI Architecture describes a loosely coupled architecture for integrating multiple modalities in an application and EMMA is a format for representing user inputs.
21 June
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "XML Summerschool" between Wednesday, 21 June, and Monday, 26 June 2006, in Oxford, UK.
22 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C Open Standard Development" at the "EGENI 2006" on Thursday, 22 June 2006, in Paris, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:

As one of the important provider of IST Standards, in the area of Web technologies (XML, http, HTML, CSS, WAI, etc), the international World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is well positionned to give its opinion on the matter of Open Standards definition.

W3C follows a process that promotes the development of high-quality standards. This process has evolved over a period of ten years, from a very rough consensus building approach of writing specifications, to a formal set of obligations that promote fairness, responsiveness, and progress: all facets of the W3C mission.

Using the W3C process as a model, we present the set of requirements that a provider of technical specification must follow to qualify for the adjective Open Standard.

26 June
Judy Brewer gives a keynote entitled "Web accessibility: How to Improve Policy and Practice" at the "RESNA Annual Conference" on Monday, 26 June 2006, in Atlanta, GA, USA.
28 June
Jonghong Jeon gives an invited talk entitled "모바일 웹 2.0 - 모바일 웹의 재발견 (Mobile Web 2.0 - Rediscovery of Mobile Web)" at the "KRNet 2006" on Wednesday, 28 June 2006, in Seoul, Korea.

July 2006

3 July
Ivan Herman gives a keynote on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "Why Web Standard are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions" at the "AusWeb06" on Monday, 3 July 2006, in Australis Noosa Lakes, Queensland, Australia.
6 July
Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web: prospects and challenges" at the "Baltic DB and IS Conference 2006" on Thursday, 6 July 2006, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
7 July
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Web n+1: The Future of Web Interfaces" at "The Next Web" on Friday, 7 July 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
10, 11 July
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World" (see abstract) on Monday, 10 July 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at the "Web Design World 2006" , Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract for “Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World”:
Web 2.0, Ajax, rich Web applications, blogs, wikis – the Web continues to develop. What are the accessibility issues in this next-generation Web? Scripting, once a no-no for accessibility, is a key aspect. Join us to get the latest on how the W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.
Abstract for “Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper”:
Accessibility is now a requirement in many Web development projects. Unfortunately, many designers are struggling and see accessibility as a heavy burden. This session will help you turn that around. Join us for tips on optimizing your accessibility efforts, such as focusing on the black and white areas of accessibility to avoid getting bogged down in the gray murk. Get specific guidance on demonstrating the business case for accessibility, and putting accessibility on a higher level within your organization. Learn how to collaborate with people with disabilities in order to better understand accessibility issues and be more efficient in implementing effective accessibility solutions.
12 July
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C의 웹서비스 표준화 활동 (Web Services Standardization Activities at W3C)" at the "KT 세미나 (KT(Korea Telecom) internal Seminar)" on Wednesday, 12 July 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
12 July
Martín Álvarez gives a talk entitled "Estándares: los fundamentos de la Web (Standards: the Web Foundations)" at the "I Jornada sobre Tecnologías Web y Software Libre (I Web Technologies and Free Software Day)" on Wednesday, 12 July 2006, in A Coruña, Spain.
18 July
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled " AI and Semantic Web" at "The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence" on Tuesday, 18 July 2006, in Boston, MA, USA.

August 2006

8 August
Eric Neumann gives a talk entitled "Enabling the Vision of Bench-to-Bedside with Semantic Web Technologies" ; Susie Stephens gives a talk entitled "How Semantic Web Technologies are Enabling the Bench to Bedside Vision" ; Tonya Hongsermeier gives a talk entitled "The Role of Semantic Web Technologies in Clinical and Translational Medicine" at the "SWHCLS Panel at IBC's Drug Discovery Conference" , on Tuesday, 8 August 2006, in Boston, USA.
10 August
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Microformat Definition Language" at the "Extreme Markup" on Thursday, 10 August 2006, in Montréal, Canada. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A talk to discuss with the Markup community some aspects of XHTML microformats.
10 August
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C 모바일OK 추진 동향 (The Development of mobileOK at W3C)" at the "모바일 웹 2.0 포럼 준비 회의 (Mobile Web 2.0 Preparation Meeting)" on Thursday, 10 August 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
11 August
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Emerging W3C Technologies, with Focus on Three" organized by the ENSCO, Inc., on Friday, 11 August 2006, in Endicott, New York, USA.

September 2006

6 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Accessible Web Development" at the "Internet für alle (Internet for All)" on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in Bern, Switzerland.
6 September
Kazuyuki Ashimura participates at a panel entitled "W3Cにおける音声・マルチモーダルインタフェースへの取り組み ( W3C's Standardization Activity on Multimodal Interaction & Voice Browser)" at the "FIT2006" on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in Fukuoka, Japan.
7 September
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C's Mobile Web Initiative - Improving the Mobile Web User Experience " at the "MapOS (Mobile Application Platforms & Operating Systems) 2006" on Thursday, 7 September 2006, in London, UK.
12 September
Dan Connolly participates at a panel entitled "The Implications of Digital Scholarship for Research Libraries. Challenges of Access and Preservation" at "The Research Library in the 21st Century" on Tuesday, 12 September 2006, in Austin, TX, USA.
12 September
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben -- vad vi har idag och var vi hamnar i framtiden (The Web - today and tomorrow)" at the "Seminar at Graduate School of Language Technology" on Tuesday, 12 September 2006, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
14 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: the Past, the Present, and the Future" at the "Design for All Conference" on Thursday, 14 September 2006, in Rovaniemi, Finland.
18 September
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben från igår till imorgon (The web -- past, present, and future)" at the "DFS-ITvet möte (DFS ITvet meeting)" on Monday, 18 September 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
19 September
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Evolving Web" at the "TerraFuture conference" on Tuesday, 19 September 2006, in Southampton, UK.
19 September
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "The Ubiquitous Web" at the "CE2006" on Tuesday, 19 September 2006, in Antibes, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:

The Ubiquitous Web aims to make it much easier to create distributed Web applications that work across a wide range of devices. It combines high level declarative application models and Web based approaches to accessing local and remote services and binding them as part of application sessions.

20 September
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" at the "Miniseminar om semantisk web (Mini-seminar on the Semantic Web)" on Wednesday, 20 September 2006, in Oslo, Norway. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation gives a general overview of what the Semantic Web is all about, what some of the main issues and application areas are. The main goal is to answer to some of the frequently asked questions and misconceptions about the Semantic Web. The presentation also shows how the Semantic Web technologies can be and are used in real world applications.
20 September
Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "Web 3.0 Invented Here" at the "Global Vision Conference" on Wednesday, 20 September 2006, in Pasadena, California, USA.
22 September
Daniel Glazman gives a talk entitled "Les standards HTML et CSS, des origines à mercredi dernier (HTML and CSS from the beginning until last wednesday)" (see abstract) and Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "Enrichissez vos liens : Des web sémantiques au Web Sémantique" at the " Paris Web 2006 " , on Friday, 22 September 2006, in Paris, France.
Abstract for “ Les standards HTML et CSS, des origines à…”:
HTML and CSS : where they come from, how they emerged and why you need expensive champagne to make them evolve; how works a W3C Working Group, what is a standardization process, and why you don't need cheap champagne to make it look like a battlefield... and finally the future of HTML and CSS, and why we need to switch from champagne to something stronger.
26 September
José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Web Semántica para e-Learning (Semantic Web for e-Learning)" at the "III Simposio Pluridisciplinar sobre Objetos y Diseños de Aprendizaje Apoyados en la Tecnología (od@06)" on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
26 September
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "XML Query: what is it, how do I use it and why?" and Michael Wilson runs a booth entitled "W3C" at the "XML Access Languages" , on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.
26 September
Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial entitled "Extreme Standards: Using markup and CSS to create detailed, aesthetic and progressive site designs" at the "Web Directions 2006" on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Sydney, Australia. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Extreme Standards: Using markup and CSS to create detailed, aesthetic and progressive site designs As Web designers and developers we are often challenged by the complexities of technology and the nuances of design. We want to create usable, useful and aesthetic sites and know how to implement it effectively across web browsers. We want to manage our documents and workflow efficiently, to implement best practices in markup and CSS, and to create designs that are extremely manageable, accessible, forward thinking and visually compelling. In this full day session, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag bring their respective experience and insight into the standards-based approach to client-side Web design. There will be plenty of visual and code examples as well as forays into other genres of design including the fine arts, architecture and multimedia design to demonstrate exactly what can be done with their more inclusive approach.
27, 24 September
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk entitled "Standards for machine to machine communication" on Wednesday, 27 September 2006 and Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman give a talk entitled "Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web (On the Way to the Semantic Web)" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 24 September 2008 at the " W3C-Tag (W3C Day)" , Berlin, Germany.
Abstract for “Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web”:
High level introduction on the benefits of complementing the Web of documents by a Web of data.
27 September
Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" at the "XML-Tage 2006 (XML Days)" on Wednesday, 27 September 2006, in Berlin, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation gives a general overview of what the Semantic Web is all about, what some of the main issues and application areas are. The main goal is to answer to some of the frequently asked questions and misconceptions about the Semantic Web. The presentation also shows how the Semantic Web technologies can be and are used in real world applications.

October 2006

1 October
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Form - Content - Essence: Designing Markup for Information Representation" at the "EUROIA 2006" on Sunday, 1 October 2006, in Berlin, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Considering that HTML is the world's most popular document format, it is seriously ill-fitted for information representation purposes.

After an enormous effort in the 90's to undo the damage caused by mixing content and presentation, it seems like that message is now coming through.

But there is still a long road to navigate. The tools you use for content delivery can greatly affect what you can achieve, and the amount of work you have to put in to achieve it.

Do we really want to re-author a site for each type of device that is likely to use it? What are the best ways to meet the challenges of multi-lingual environments and accessibility?

Work is ongoing at the World Wide Web Consortium W3C on producing markup languages that meet the needs of modern web content, and this talk describes the approach used, and in particular how XHTML2 and XForms meet the challenges of structured content, single authoring, accessibility, and device independence.

3 October
Richard Ishida gives a keynote on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Practical and Cultural Issues in Designing International Websites" at the "Fundamentos Web 2006" on Tuesday, 3 October 2006, in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. (see abstract)
Abstract:

If you are a designer, developer or author working on a website that may be translated or adapted for users in other countries or languages, you need to ensure that you don't build in substantial barriers to localization. If you think that the translation vendor or localization team can take care of things for you when the time comes, you really need to hear this talk. We will use examples to examine some of the things that must be designed into the site, rather than treated as an afterthought, if it is to be successfully deployed in more than one language or country.

11 October
Philippe Le Hégaret participates at a panel entitled "Innovations and New Directions in Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)" at the "FSTC’s 2006 Annual Conference: Financial Services in the 21st Century" on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, in New York City, NY, USA.
12 October
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0 im Entwicklungsprozess (WCAG 2.0 in the Development Process)" at the "Warum barrierefreies Internet (Why Barrier Free Internet)" on Thursday, 12 October 2006, in Vienna, Austria.
16 October
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" organized by the IBM China Research Lab, on Monday, 16 October 2006, in Beijing, China.
17 October
Bert Bos gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "CSS Paged Media" at the "W3C Print Symposium 2006" on Tuesday, 17 October 2006, in Heidelberg, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
An overview of various features in CSS that are important for printing and their current status of development and deployment.
18 October
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Analyzing the role of standards in Web 2.0" at the "Sixth Internet Next Generation Workshop" on Wednesday, 18 October 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
19 October
Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial entitled "CSS for Developers" at the "Carson Workshops: CSS for Developers" on Thursday, 19 October 2006, in London, UK. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A one-day workshop designed to cover technical aspects of CSS. It's aimed at developers but also anyone who wants to build highly flexible, easily manageable, standards-based websites with CSS and XHTML should attend. It's an in-depth course, taught by two of the most well-known advocates of standards and accessibility.
20 October; 8 January
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" on Friday, 20 October 2006 and gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 at the "Curso de Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Universidad Laboral) (Course in Application Developing )" , Gijón, Spain.
24 October
Sriganesh Madhvanath and Stephen Watt give a state of the art report entitled "Digital Ink Markup Language - Status Update IWFHR 2006" at the "10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recogition (IWFHR-10)" on Tuesday, 24 October 2006, in La Baule, France.
26 October
Jesús García gives a lecture entitled "Accesibilidad Web (Web Accessibility)" and José Manuel Alonso gives a lecture entitled "El W3C y la nueva Web (W3C and the new Web)" organized by the Escuela de Ingeniería Técnica Informática, Universidad de Oviedo, on Thursday, 26 October 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
26 October
Richard Ishida gives a keynote entitled " The Internationalisation Tag Set - What Happened Next" at the "LRC XI" on Thursday, 26 October 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. (see abstract)
Abstract:

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) work at the W3C, led by Yves Savourel, defines a standard to support better internationalisation and localisation of schemas and XML documents (both existing and new ones). The standard proposes a set of data categories, for which it then defines implementations as a set of elements and attributes. It also provides examples of how ITS can be used with popular existing markup schemes such as DocBook and DITA, and in three schema languages, XML DTDs, XML Schema, and RELAX NG.

The first version of the standard is nearing completion. It addresses how to identify translatable vs. non-translatable content, localisation notes, terminology references, directionality of text, language markup, inline elements, and ruby annotation.

The aim is to ensure that XML formats support features needed for international use and for efficient localisation. It should also make the job of vendors easier by standardising the format and processing expectations of localisation-related markup items, and allowing translation tools to more effectively identify how content should be handled.

The talk will use examples to acquaint you better with ITS and its relevance to the localisation community.

27 October
Marie-Claire Forgue gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web to Help Combine your Bio Data" at the "EuroBio 2006" on Friday, 27 October 2006, in Paris, France.

November 2006

1, 2 November
Daniel Dardailler and Shadi Abou-Zahra participate at a panel entitled "Equal Access on the Web" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 1 November 2006; Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C I18N Activity" on Wednesday, 1 November 2006 and participates at a panel entitled "W3C Open Standard " on Thursday, 2 November 2006 at the "UN Internet Governance Forum Workshop" , Athens, Greece.
Abstract for “Equal Access on the Web”:
W3C/WAI - The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) is an international, vendor-neutral, industry consortium with the commitment to lead the Web to its full potential. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops its work through W3C's consensus-based process, involving different stakeholders in Web accessibility from around the world. These include industry, disability organizations, government, accessibility research organizations, and more.
1 November
Shadi Abou-Zahra participates at a panel entitled "Equal Access on the Web" at the "Internet Governance Forum (IGF)" on Wednesday, 1 November 2006, in Athens, Greece.
5 November
Ivan Herman gives a keynote entitled "Uncertainty and the Semantic Web" at the "Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning on the Semantic Web" on Sunday, 5 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA.
6 November; 11 May
Marie-Claire Forgue gives a talk entitled "Your Web on the Move" on Monday, 6 November 2006 and Robin Berjon gives a talk entitled "Les Widgets W3C (W3C Widgets)" on Monday, 11 May 2009 at the "Mobile Monday Paris" , Paris, France.
6 November
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "From the Content Out: Creating Structured, Semantic Documents for the World Wide Web" at the "An Event Apart" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
How working with content to identify its meaning helps you properly mark that content up. Keeping markup lean and semantic. Improving workflow by separating the production of markup from the process of design.
6 November
Steve Bratt gives a keynote entitled "One Web: Going Mobile" at the "mobile2.0" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in San Francisco, California, USA.
6 November
Tim Berners-Lee , Dan Connolly , Yuhsin Chen, Lydia Chilton, Ruth Dhanaraj, James Hollenbach, Adam Lerer, and David Sheets give a talk entitled "Tabulator: Exploring and Analyzing linked data on the Semantic Web" at "The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA.
7 November
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Why Accessibility?" at the "WebTop100 Conference" on Tuesday, 7 November 2006, in Prague, Czech Republic.
9 November
Christian de Sainte Marie gives a talk entitled "Rules Interchange and the Semantic Web" at the "9th International Business Rules Forum" on Thursday, 9 November 2006, in Washington, DC, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
As part of its development of the Semantic Web, the W3C in 2005 chartered the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the mission to specify a format for rules that “will function as an interlingua into which established and new rule languages can be mapped, allowing rules written for one application to be published, shared, and re-used in other applications and other rule engines”. The group is scheduled to make its recommendation in May 2007.
9 November
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web @ W3C: Activities, Recommendations and State of Adoption" at the "Industrial Track of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006)" on Thursday, 9 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation presents the status of the Semantic Web from W3C’s perspective, referring to the finished and active works in terms of W3C groups, view of available tools, and ideas floating around for possible future work. References and examples of real Semantic Web applications will also show the widening adoption of the technology by the industrial community.
10 November
Jesús García gives a keynote entitled "web + accesibilidad = Web (web + accessibility = Web)" and José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote entitled "El papel de los estándares en la Web de hoy... y en la del mañana (The role of standards in today's Web... and in tomorrow's)" organized by the Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, on Friday, 10 November 2006, in León, Spain.
14 November
Shawn Henry gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Web Accessibility: What’s New and WCAG 2" (see abstract) and gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Accessibility Throughout the Design Process" (see abstract) at the "World Usability Day" , on Tuesday, 14 November 2006.
Abstract for “ Web Accessibility: What’s New and WCAG 2”:
This session walks through differences between Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 and WCAG 2.0, highlighting advancements in Web accessibility. It introduces recent materials from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) that address key issues and answer common questions on how Web accessibility standards are developed, roles in making the Web accessible, and more.
Abstract for “ Accessibility Throughout the Design…”:
A guide to integrating accessibility and involving people with disabilities throughout the design process, for all types of products.
15 November
Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Internationalizing Style on the Web: What's Planned for CSS3" (see abstract), participates at a panel entitled "Where Would We Be Without Unicode?" (see abstract) and gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" (see abstract) at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference" , on Wednesday, 15 November 2006, in Washington DC, USA.
Abstract for “ Internationalizing Style on the Web:…”:
Work on CSS3 is getting nearer to completion and will provide a huge leap forward for rendering and styling non-Western text. Many of the innovations are focused specifically on the needs of Asia and include such things as vertical text, grid layout, auto spacing, sophisticated white-space handling and text wrapping, justification, advanced list styling, styling for ruby, emphasis, kumimoji, and more. This presentation will show you examples of a number of these developments, and discuss how we need help to move the work forward.
Abstract for “Where Would We Be Without Unicode?”:
At last count, there are somewhere north of 1,000 software industry standardization organizations, all established at least in part to guarantee some sort of interoperability and portability between systems. And most places you turn, Unicode is the standard that drives that interoperability -- from readable documents outlining the standard specification, to runtime compatibility on-the-wire or across the API. In this keynote panel, leaders of standards organizations will explain how they rely on the Unicode standard to forge ahead with their own standards, and how the future of Unicode, in internationalization, localization and globalization, will support their own standards programs. Other industry experts will detail how Unicode is key to enabling new capabilities and relate the business reality of supporting additional languages. Finally, trends in upcoming standards with respect to the emerging markets and new scripts in Unicode as well as when and how they will be leveraged will be discussed.
Abstract for “ An Introduction to Writing Systems &…”:
The tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.
16 November
Andrea Rus gives a talk entitled "Embracing Device Diversity" ; Andrew Bovingdon gives a talk entitled "Life on the Mobile Web - 2006/2007" ; Daniel Appelquist gives a talk entitled "Mobile Completes the Web" ; Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "Best Practices for a MobileOK Web" ; Donald Francis gives a talk entitled "Enabling Web Access on Feature Phones" ; Michael Smith gives a talk entitled "The Web, Mobile" ; Philippe Lucas gives a talk entitled "FTGroup perspective: towards a mobile Web" ; Ronan Cremin gives a talk entitled "dotMobi - W3C standards in action" ; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide" at the "W3C Mobile Web Seminar" , on Thursday, 16 November 2006, in Paris, France.
20 November; 17 July
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk via Webcast entitled "An Introduction to the Mobile Web Best Practices" on Monday, 20 November 2006 and Philipp Hoschka gives a talk via Webcast entitled "W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 at the "W3C Webinar" .
Abstract for “W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web”:
W3C organizes a free webinar in German entitled "W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web" on Tuesday 17 July 2007. Philipp Hoschka will show how you can benefit from the expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Registration is now open .
21 November
Olle Olsson gives a keynote entitled "Vart är webben på väg? (Whereto goes the Web?)" at the "Beyond IT" on Tuesday, 21 November 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
23 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben - från forntiden till framtiden (The Web -- From Ancient Times to the Future)" at the "DFS-seminarium (DFS Seminar)" on Thursday, 23 November 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
27 November
Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "W3Cが進めるWebアクセシビリティ (W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI))"; Michael Cooper gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0の技術解説 (WCAG 2.0 Technical Overview)"; Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0入門 (WCAG 2.0 Introduction)" at the "Information Accessibility International Standardization Seminar 2006 - Harmonization of JIS X8341-3 (Web Contents) and W3C WCAG 2.0" , on Monday, 27 November 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.

December 2006

4, 6 December
at the "3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006" , Hong Kong, China.
5 December
John Boyer gives a talk entitled "Applying XML Signatures to XForms-based Documents" (see abstract) and Paul Downey gives a talk entitled "W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding" (see abstract) at the "XML 2006" , on Tuesday, 5 December 2006, in Boston, USA.
Abstract for “ Applying XML Signatures to XForms-based…”:
The W3C XForms Recommendation provides a standard markup language for documents that allow content creation into the XML data structures that drive business-oriented web applications. The XForms architecture provides an open platform for expressing the core processing model and view of XML data while delegating presentation to a host language most suited to application-specific requirements. This architecture presents an interesting security challenge for digital signatures, which must protect not only data but also its presentation. The W3C XML Signatures Recommendation provides a standardized markup language for expressing digital signatures in XML that secure both XML and binary resources. The usage patterns and features of this language are designed to support the full range of security requirements, so it is important for all features of XML Signatures to be available to XForms-based document authors. Prior researchers have presented an integration of XML Signatures and XForms in which the XForms processor generated an enveloping signature containing the XML data and references to all external resources used to present the data. The solution is good at creating a single signature that follows the XML Signatures maxim "What you see is what you sign." However, due to validating signature only on the server, the non-repudiable nature of the signatures is not well-preserved when later users view the signed information. In essence, the system does not adhere to the corollary of the above maxim: "What you validate is what you see." On the client-side, core validation must not only occur, but it must be augmented to ensure that signed resources are the ones being used to present the document. One challenging aspect of this unification stems from the design of XForms, in which XML instance data is separated from the document and processed independently. Since the signatures must be added to the data, the XML signature processing model uses the separated data as the resolution to same-document references, not the XForms document containing the data. This paper includes an answer for this problem, which enables document-centric XForms host languages to consume the signature solution. Client-side validation flushes out another issue: multiple signer scenarios. In these cases, the XForms author needs the flexibility to author the references and transforms of the XML signature, which is not possible if the XForms processor generates the references and transforms. Finally, there should be strong encapsulation that separates the XForms processor, the host language processor and the user agent. The above prior solution assumed that XForms processor has access to the resources at all of these levels. Instead, due to the XForms design principle of host language independence, the containing document and user agent must be allowed to participate in the sign and validate operations initiated by the XForms processor. This paper presents an architectural framework that fully unifies XForms and XML signatures while allowing for host language independence. Moreover, the form author is given control over the type of signature, what it signs, and how it selects the signed content.
Abstract for “W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding”:
This talk charts the progress of the W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group which aims to improve the interoperability of XML Schema 1.0, particularly when used as a description language for Web services.
6 December
Eric Prud'hommeaux and Philippe Le Hégaret give a talk entitled "Web Services Policy Expression Alternatives" at the "XML 2006" on Wednesday, 6 December 2006, in Boston, MA, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:

The demand for automated or assisted Web service discovery and invocation prompted the development of the Web Services Policy framework (WS-Policy), a general purpose framework for expressing requirements, capabilities, and general characteristics for invoking a particular Web service, such as security or reliability requirements. The WS-Policy language is limited to AND and OR and functions named by QNames. Simple boolean logic allows one to discover equivalent policies and to test whether a particular connection conforms to a given policy.

While any language with AND, OR and named functions subsumes WS-Policy's expressiveness, the most interesting are those that are, intuitive, sound, and extensible. A variety of current schema (W3C XML Schema and OWL) and query languages (XQuery and SPARQL) meet these requirements to varying degrees. This paper will demonstrate and contrast expressions of Web service policies in these languages.

SPARQL and XQuery are query languages for two data different models. The current definition of WS-Policy does not presume any particular expression of service or library capabilities into any data model. All that's required is that some mechanism be able to recognize a policy and verify compliance of the available software modules. For example, this could be hard coded into an agent. Query languages like SPARQL and XQuery are designed to intuitively expression boolean logic. Using, for instance, SPARQL to express policies implies a mapping of agent capabilities into an RDF graph. Likewise, expressing agent capabilities in XML allows one to query them with XQuery.

We will describe the ways in which these languages all exceed this simple AND, OR, named function expressivity and discuss the applicability of this extra expressivity to describing Web service policies, or Web services in general. Importing this expertise from other domains informs us about potential policy expressivity. We will identify additional use cases met by adopting this additional expressivity.

7 December
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk entitled "Web 4.0: Start Planning Now!" at the "Séminaire X/Aristote "Du Web 2.0 au Web 3.0 et au-delà" (From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond)" on Thursday, 7 December 2006, in Paris, France.
8 December
Klaus Birkenbihl participates at a panel entitled "WEB 2.0 for Portals (Panel)" at the "Bildungsportale: Potenziale und Perspektiven (Educational Portals: potentials and perspectives)" on Friday, 8 December 2006, in Tübingen, Germany.
11 December
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World" (see abstract) and gives a talk entitled "Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper" (see abstract) at the "Web Design World 2006 Boston" , on Monday, 11 December 2006, in Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract for “Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World”:
Web 2.0, Ajax, rich Web applications, blogs, wikis — the Web continues to develop. What are the accessibility issues in this next-generation Web? Scripting, once a no-no for accessibility, is a key aspect. Join us to get the latest on how the W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.
Abstract for “Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper”:
Accessibility is now a requirement in many Web development projects. Unfortunately, many designers are struggling and see accessibility as a heavy burden. This session will help you turn that around. Join us for tips on optimizing your accessibility efforts, such as focusing on the black and white areas of accessibility to avoid getting bogged down in the gray murk. Get specific guidance on demonstrating the business case for accessibility, and putting accessibility on a higher level within your organization. Learn how to collaborate with people with disabilities in order to better understand accessibility issues and be more efficient in implementing effective accessibility solutions.

January 2007

15 January
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "HTML5" at the "Tokyo 2.0" on Monday, 15 January 2007, in Tokyo, Japan.
23 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Web 3.0 Emerging" at the "Briefings to the Financial Services Sector" on Tuesday, 23 January 2007, in New York, USA.
29 January
Michael Cooper gives an invited talk entitled "Le futur de l'accessibilité du Web (Web Accessibility in the Future)" at the "Premier Forum européen de l'accessibilité numérique : Les services en ligne accessibles, pour le bénéfice de tous (First European e-Accessibility Forum: Accessible on-line services, a benefit for all)" on Monday, 29 January 2007, in Paris, France.
29 January
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "Le Web Mobile, partout et pour tous ? (The Mobile Web: everywhere and for everyone?)" at the "Premier Forum européen de l'accessibilité numérique (First European e-Accessibility Forum Accessible on-line services, a benefit for all)" on Monday, 29 January 2007, in Paris, France.
30 January
Ross Ackland gives an invited talk entitled "Where the Web is Heading" at the "Information Online 2007" on Tuesday, 30 January 2007, in Sydney, Australia.
30 January
Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "The evolution of the Web to Web 2.0" at the "Web 2.0 : Business Opportunities & Legal Challenges" on Tuesday, 30 January 2007, in London, UK.
30 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Semantic Web, and Other Technologies to Watch" at the "2007 INCOSE International Workshop" on Tuesday, 30 January 2007, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Talk and slides presented remotely, via the Web.

February 2007

1, 2 February
at the "European W3C Symposium on eGovernment" , Gijón, Spain.
Abstract for “W3C: Open Web Standards and eGovernment”:
An overview of W3C, with some words about eGov importance. See http://www.w3.org/2005/09/dd-egov.html
1 February
Erik Bruchez gives a talk entitled "Gérer les formulaires web de manière interactive avec XForms (Handling interactive web forms with XForms)" at the "Solutions Linux - Solutions Open Source " on Thursday, 1 February 2007, in Paris, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:

When talking about Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax, not many think about XForms. However XForms, a W3C recommendation since 2003, is gathering momentum as the same technology that enables Google Maps also allows deploying complex but user-friendly enterprise forms to the majority of deployed web browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera) without the need for plugins or other client installation.

In this presentation, we introduce XForms technology, explain the basics of Ajax-based XForms, and show how you can use open-source software to implement end-to-end forms solutions based on standards such as XForms and XML, while using cutting-edge technology like Ajax to make your forms user-friendly and easy to deploy.

The presentation will conclude with a series of demonstrations based on open source software.

7 February
Olle Olsson participates at a panel entitled "Öppenhet och innovation -- standarder (Opnenness and Innovation -- standards)" at the "Utsikt 2007 (Perspectives 1007)" on Wednesday, 7 February 2007, in Stockholm, Sweden.
12 February
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Mobile Web" at the "3GSM 2007" on Monday, 12 February 2007, in Barcelona, Spain.
12 February
Marie-Claire Forgue , Philipp Hoschka , and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux run a booth at the "3GSM World Congress 2007 (booth 7D56 in Hall 7)" between Monday, 12 February, and Thursday, 15 February 2007, in Barcelona, Spain.
18 February
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "The Future of Mobile Browsing" at the "Mobile Monday Tokyo: Mobile Browser UI Designs & Standards" on Sunday, 18 February 2007, in Tokyo, Japan.
20 February
Martín Álvarez gives a talk entitled "La Web de los Servicios y los Datos (The Web of Services and Data)" at the "III Congreso Nacional de BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) (III National Conference on BPMS (Business Process Management Systems))" on Tuesday, 20 February 2007, in Madrid, Spain.
21, 23 February
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 21 February 2007 and gives a keynote entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Friday, 23 February 2007 at the "International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries" , Bangalore, India.
Abstract for “Introduction to the Semantic Web”:
This tutorial gives an overview of the basic Semantic Web Technologies developed at W3C. Using practical examples, the fundamentals of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) are presented, together with the mapping of the general RDF principles on XML. Then a detailed overview of RDF Schemas (a.k.a. RDF Vocabulary Description Language) is given, followed by an overview of the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Finally, new technologies, like SPARQL, SKOS, GRDDL, etc, are also presented. The tutorial also gives some guidelines on how Semantic Web programs are developed in practice, gives example for applications, and finally gives some ideas on the directions the technologies evolve at W3C in the coming years. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge on XML.

March 2007

1 March
Martín Álvarez gives a lecture entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" at the "Creación de sitios Web mediante Hojas de Estilo. Usabilidad y Accesibilidad (Creating Web sites using StyleSheets. Usability and Accessibility)" on Thursday, 1 March 2007, in Mieres, Spain.
5 March
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "HTML Forms - the Next Generation" at the "Google Tech Talk" on Monday, 5 March 2007, in Mountain View, USA.
6 March
Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman give a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Semantic Web" at the "ZKI Frühjahrstreffen" on Tuesday, 6 March 2007, in Dortmund, Germany.
14 March
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "The Vision of the Semantic Web" at the "Infotech for Pharma & Biotech Europe 2007" on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, in London, UK. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This presentation will give an overview of the basic philosophy, vision, and the fundamental technologies of the Semantic Web. A particular attention will be paid on data integration problems, which is of a great importance for the Health Care and Life Sciences domain. The presentation will also give examples on where we are today in terms of available tools, systems, and specific applications.
16 March
Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "Web Open Standards and Open Source" at the "Colloque sur les Logiciels Libres (Free Software Colloqium)" on Friday, 16 March 2007, in Sophia Antipolis, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:
General presentation of W3C/PatentPolicy and comparison between Open Standard and Open Source
18 March
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Hvor er weben på vei? (The web and where it is moving)" at the "Software Innovation Annual Conference 2007" on Sunday, 18 March 2007, in Lisboa, Portugal.
18 March
Eric Neumann gives a tutorial entitled "Semantic Web Applications in Clinical Data Management" at the "DIA Clinical Data Menegement Conference" on Sunday, 18 March 2007, in Orlando, FL, USA.
21 March
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Testing For WCAG 2.0" at the " Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference" on Wednesday, 21 March 2007, in Los Angeles, USA.
21 March
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Transitioning Your Web Accessibility Project from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0" (see abstract) and gives a talk entitled "Promoting Web Accessibility: Basic Approaches and Introductory Resources" (see abstract) at the "CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference" , on Wednesday, 21 March 2007, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract for “ Transitioning Your Web Accessibility…”:
Presentation highlights key advancements in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0; covers recent updates; and provides practical guidance on transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0.
Abstract for “ Promoting Web Accessibility: Basic…”:
This presentation provides: Material to help revitalize advocacy efforts; update on recent Web accessibility activities; & guidance for approaching different types of organizations and situations.
22 March; 20 June
Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C and Internet Governance" (see abstract) on Thursday, 22 March 2007 and gives a talk entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards" on Friday, 20 June 2008 at the " EGENI " , Paris, France.
Abstract for “W3C and Internet Governance”:
General presentation of W3C activities, in particilar in this area.
22 March
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den förändrade webben" at the "GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT" on Thursday, 22 March 2007, in Jönköping, Sweden.
26 March
Judy Brewer participates at a panel entitled "Web Accessibility Strategies" at the "G3ICT Forum" on Monday, 26 March 2007, in NYC, USA.
26 March
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "The Web: From Fixed to Mobile to Ubiquitous, Progress Report 2007 " at the "CTIA Wireless 2007: : Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council" on Monday, 26 March 2007, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
27 March
Philipp Hoschka gives a keynote entitled "The Web on the Move - W3C's Mobile Web Initiative" at the "Mobile Web 20 Forum Opening Ceremony" on Tuesday, 27 March 2007, in Seoul, Korea.
31 March
Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai give a talk entitled "A W3C és a mobil Web (W3C and Mobile Web)" and Thomas Roessler gives an invited talk entitled "What do they think they are doing? When Usability and Security Meet on the Web" at the " Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2007 (Webconference in Hungary 2007)" , on Saturday, 31 March 2007, in Budapest, Hungary.

April 2007

3 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Finland Office entitled "State of the Semantic Web" organized by the Tampere University of Technology and the W3C Finnish Office, on Tuesday, 3 April 2007, in Tampere, Finland.
11 April
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives an invited talk entitled "Markup Languages and Schema Languages for Linguistic, Textual, Documentary Resources" at the "Datenstrukturen für linguistische Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen (GLDV Frühjahrstagung) (Data structures for linguistic resources and their applications)" on Wednesday, 11 April 2007, in Tübingen, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Markup Languages and Schema Languages for Linguistic, Textual, Documentary Resources

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

This paper will consider design issues in the construction of schemas and schema languages for textual resources intended for linguistic computing, computational linguistics, and computer philology. The emphasis will be on SGML and XML vocabularies and schema languages for specifying them, with occasional reference to other systems.

Like any good metalanguage, a good schema language must support good design at the language level. Good language design practices should be encouraged, bad practices should be discouraged or (if the metalanguage designer is ambitious) made impossible. (As Orwell writes, "The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.") And to be useful, the metalanguage must allow the language designer to express their design decisions, preferably clearly, preferably concisely.

Some design issues of importance for markup languages will be outlined.

Over- and under-generation

In the ideal case, the schema for a language provides a formal recognition criterion which recognizes every sequence which we wish to accept as a sentence in our language, and does not recognize any other sequence. In less ideal cases, it may be necessary to live with some discrepancy between the language as we imagine it and the formal definition we work with. Is it better to under-generate? Then we can be sure that every sequence recognized by the schema is truly acceptable, at the cost of having some intuitively plausible utterances fail to be recognized by the schema. Or is it better to overgenerate? Then every acceptable sequence will be recognized, as will some number of non-sensical, unacceptable sequences. Which is preferable depends on the purpose of the schema: schemas serving as a contract between data producers and data exchange partners have one role; schemas used primarily to provide automatic annotation of the data have another; schemas which express our understanding of a corpus, in the form of a document grammar, have yet another. The notions of descriptive and prescriptive grammar also play a role.

Concrete vs. abstract structures

The feel of a markup language depends, more than anything else, on the designer's choice of element types. Will there be chapter, section, and subsection elements, or a single generic 'div' element with an attribute to distinguish the kind of textual division involved? Some aspects of this fact are obvious. Will element types be chosen to reflect typographic distinctions? Rhetorical and compositional distinctions? Linguistic phenomena? Equally important - and far more difficult to resolve satisfactorily - is the desire to capture both concrete details of the document (leading often to fine-grained distinctions among element types) and regularities visible only at a more abstract level. If the markup language provides a wide variety of phrase-level element types (as conventional document-oriented language often do), how can we capture generalizations true for all phrase-level types (e. g., in a stylesheet, or in a scholarly annotation). If the markup language were to provide only a single phrase-level element (with an attribute, perhaps, to allow us to distinguish different kinds of phrases), then such generalizations would be easier to capture. But the details of the text would be somewhat more cumbersome to capture. The choice of concrete or abstract structures has serious implications for validation of the data, at least with current validation technologies. Microformats, as currently used in some HTML, provide a useful concrete illustration both of the design issues involved and of the validation issues.

Ontological commitments

One of the issues most keenly felt by some designers and users of markup languages is that of ontological commitment. Providing names for things can be, and usually is, interpreted as entailing a claim that the things named actually exist, or can exist. It is not always easy to reach agreement, within a design team, about the nature of the ontological commitment involved in defining a particular element type, or a particular attribute value. And vocabularies intended for wide use must reckon with the possibility that different members of the target user community will have different and conflicting ontological leanings; sometimes the ontological commitments of a vocabulary are left intentionally vague.

Variability in the material

When existing material is digitized, an interesting pattern of variability in the material is sometimes found. In a given dictionary, for example, or in a collection of dictionaries, most articles may follow a fairly simple pattern; some will be more complex; a few will be simply anomalous. What should the schema author do? We can write a document grammar that captures the regularities in the vast majority of cases, at the cost of declaring some small portion of the material invalid. We can write a more forgiving document grammar that accepts everything in the corpus, at the expense of failing to capture the regularities which dominate the material in practice; the problems of over- and under-generation recur here in different guise.

Data Structures

SGML and XML are readily interpreted as describing trees; other markup systems are most conveniently understood as serializations of other data structures. What is to be done when the 'natural' data structure for our material doesn't seem to match the data structure of the markup system? Also - can we perform schema validation without trees? Is it possible for a schema to be incorrect? Is it desirable for it to be falsifiable in principle? Some errors of schema design are worth noting and warning against:

  1. the Waterloo error (extreme over-generation; may take the form of deciding not to define a schema at all and relying instead only on the material being well-formed)
  2. the tag-everything error (systematic overkill in the vocabulary, often proceeding from a desire to "tag everything that might be important", lest useful information be lost through not being marked up; reflects a failure to engage with the practical impossibility of marking everything)
  3. the insignificant-order error (a technical issue involving the interleave operator of some schema languages)

Design issues at the language level are only half the problem, though. There are also design issues at the metalanguage level. Metalanguage designers continually trade off expressive power against tractability of validation and other processes. Convenience features for schema authors compete for attention with the simplicity and regularity that make a schema language easier to implement. Should the schema language (and by extension most schema-informed processes) be monolithic or modular? If modular, do the modules form a sequence of layers or are there interactions more complex? How does one best serve the maintainability of the schema? What operations on schemas would it be useful to support? How should the schema language go about supporting openness and extensibility in schema-defined vocabularies? How do we suport extensibility in the schema vocabulary itself? Examples will be drawn largely from the experience of the last decade in the design, implementation, and use of XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1.

12 April
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility – It’s not Magic, it’s Art" at the "Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility" on Thursday, 12 April 2007, in Hammamet, Tunisia.
14 April
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Taking Action as an AC Representative" at the "W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵 (W3C Korean Members Workshop)" on Saturday, 14 April 2007, in Busan, Korea.
19 April
Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman give a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Semantic Web: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (Semantic Web: Claims and reality)" at the "Handlungsschemata als Grundlage visueller und begrifflicher Strukturierung in der Wissensrepräsentation (Visual and Conceptual Structuring of Action-dependent Knowledge Representation)" on Thursday, 19 April 2007, in Paderborn, Germany.
20 April
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Ubiquitous Web Applications" at the "W3C Japan Members Meeting" on Friday, 20 April 2007, in Tokyo, Japan.
20 April
Dan Connolly gives a talk entitled "How the W3C Process got its Stripes" at the "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" on Friday, 20 April 2007, in Durham, NC, USA.
23, 24 April
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" on Monday, 23 April 2007 and gives an invited talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Tuesday, 24 April 2007 at the "Semantic Days 2007" , Stavanger, Norway.
24 April
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Informationsstandarder - mervärde eller förutsättning (Information Standards -- added-value or precondition)" at the "Workshop Informationsstandarder och rättslig informationsförsörjning (Workshop Information standards and Provisioning of Legal Information)" on Tuesday, 24 April 2007, in Stockholm, Sweden. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation provides an overview of the concept of standards for information representation and access. The objective is to highlight the value of using standards, what kinds of standards one might encounter, costs and benefits of standards, and how standards can contribute to strategic business objectives.
29 April
Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C and A2K" at the "Yale A2K Conference" on Sunday, 29 April 2007, in New Haven, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A general presentation of W3C with a focus of our effort for access to knowledge.

May 2007

1 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk entitled "Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web" at the "SOA for eGovernment 2007" on Tuesday, 1 May 2007, in McLean, VA, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Internet-connected computers and the World Wide Web are revolutionizing the ways in which citizens and governments interact. The Web has become the main channel for Governments to deliver electronic Services to citizens; Web technologies are also playing a crucial role in the relationships between Governments, and between Governments and Industry. The World Wide Web Consortium is an international consortium where over 400 Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. As part of its long-range planning, W3C staff are currently engaged in organizing a series of discussions to understand better the needs of Government in deploying current Web standards and the directions that future Web standards should take to best address delivery of Government services. The first of these discussions was a European symposium organized to identify common problems, discuss about possible solutions, and promote sharing and cooperation. Many of the preliminary findings there are applicable outside Europe. These findings will be reviewed during this talk along with near-term plans for additional W3C focus on eGovernment needs.
2 May
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Abstraction and extraction: in praise of" at the "ApacheCon 07" on Wednesday, 2 May 2007, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
5, 6 May
Richard Ishida gives a keynote entitled "W3C" on Saturday, 5 May 2007 and gives an invited talk entitled "Practical & Cultural Issues in Designing International Web Sites" on Sunday, 6 May 2007 at the "SOFTEC 2007" , Lahore, Pakistan.
7 May
Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Designing for International Users: Practical Tips" at the "@media07 Europe" on Monday, 7 May 2007, in London, United Kingdom.
8 May
Michael Cooper gives a keynote entitled "Accessibility of Emerging Rich Web Technologies: Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web" at the "International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)" on Tuesday, 8 May 2007, in Banff, AB, Canada. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Web 2.0 is a new approach to Web content, making it more interactive and allowing sites to combine features in new ways. This change in paradigm brings new challenges to people with disabilities. Accessibility advocates must develop solutions rapidly. Semantic Web technologies address some of these requirements, and accessibility innovation may be part of a convergence of the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web.
9 May
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Mot web 2.0, och bortom (To Web 2.0 and beyond)" at the "TelekomDagarna (The Telecom Days)" on Wednesday, 9 May 2007, in Stockholm, Sweden.
9, 10, 11 May
Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth entitled "W3C booth" and Amith Seth and Susie Stephens give a tutorial entitled "Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications for the Real-World" (see abstract) on Friday, 11 May 2007 at "The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)" , Banff, Canada.
Abstract for “ Semantic Web: Technologies and…”:

The Semantic Web has now reached a level of maturity that allows large enterprises to adopt the technology. The standards landscape is increasingly well developed, with RDF and OWL already being W3C standard recommendations, and GRDDL, SPARQL and SAWSDL looking likely to follow shortly. There is also an increasing array of robust software products that use Semantic Web technology, which greatly assists with any implementations.

This tutorial will focus on three areas. Firstly, it will provide a brief introduction to the core Semantic Web standards, including RDF, OWL, SPARQL and SAWSDL. It will then provide a comprehensive survey of the many Semantic Web tools that are currently available. The final section and the primary component of the tutorial will describe several real world implementations of applications enabled by the Semantic Web technologies.

Examples of real world implementations will focus on specific examples selected from the domains of life sciences, health care, GIS, government, technology, and financial services. They will describe the use of Semantic Web technology to support a number of key capabilities including data integration, search, and analysis. The presenters will describe why Semantic Web technology was chosen for the implementations, and the resulting benefits including empirical observations and analysis when available. They will also highlight some of the valuable lessons and development patterns that were learnt while working on Semantic Web implementations.

9, 10, 11 May
  • Art Barstow gives a talk entitled "Widgets and Web Applications" ; Arun Ranganathan gives a talk entitled "Enriching the Web Application Model?" ; Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "CSS, 10 Years After" ; Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide" ; Chris Lilley gives a talk entitled "HTML Reloaded" ; Chris Lilley , Dave Raggett , Bert Bos , Michael Cooper , Arun Ranganathan, and Steph Troeth participate at a panel entitled "The Future of the Web Page" ; Daniel Appelquist gives a talk entitled "Towards a mobileOK Web" ; Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Next steps for HTML Forms" , gives a talk entitled "WICD and Ubiquitous Web Applications" , and gives a talk entitled "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)" ; Kevin Kelly gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web Applications" ; Michael Cooper gives a talk entitled "Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0" ; Michael Smith, Daniel Appelquist, Shadi Abou-Zahra , Charles McCathieNeville, Rhys Lewis, Art Barstow, and James Pearce participate at a panel entitled " Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead" ; Michael Smith gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories" ; Rhys Lewis gives a talk entitled "Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need your Participation" ; Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results" on Wednesday, 9 May 2007;
  • Charlton Barreto gives a talk entitled "Web Services Policy Language" ; Harry Halpin and Fabien Gandon give a talk entitled "Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and RDFa" ; Jacek Kopecky gives a talk entitled "Semantic Annotations for WSDL" ; Mary Ellen Zurko gives a talk entitled "Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards Work" ; Mike Beltzner gives a talk entitled "Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open Source Projects" ; Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk entitled "Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language 2.0?" and gives a talk entitled "Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop" ; Rachna Dhamija gives a talk entitled "Usability Design and Testing for Security" ; Sandro Hawke gives a talk entitled "Rule Interchange Format Work Report" ; Susie Stephens and Alan Ruttenberg give a talk entitled "Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A HCLS IG Demo" on Thursday, 10 May 2007;
  • Jerry Carter gives a talk entitled "Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges" ; John Boyer gives a talk entitled "The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane" ; Kazuyuki Ashimura gives a talk entitled "How to Author Multimodal Web Applications" ; Mark Birbeck gives a talk entitled "xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming Language" ; Mary Holstege gives a talk entitled "Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers" ; Mike Cokus gives a talk entitled "Efficient XML Interchange" ; Rafah Hosn gives a talk entitled "State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web Applications" and gives a talk entitled "XML Application Components and Controllers" ; Sharon Adler and Liam Quin give a talk entitled "XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language" on Friday, 11 May 2007;
at the "W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)" , Banff, Canada.
10 May
Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "The Mobile Web to bridge the Digital Divide" at the "IST Africa" on Thursday, 10 May 2007, in Maputo, Mozambique.
10 May
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "W3C/WAI: la cultura dell' accessibilità (W3C/WAI: the culture of accessibility)" at the "Accesso libero perché nessuno resti escluso (Free access, so noboby will be excluded)" on Thursday, 10 May 2007, in Roma, Italy.
14 May
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "XML vocabulary design and specification using XML Schema 1.0" at the "XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web" on Monday, 14 May 2007, in Paris, France.
14 May
Daniel Dardailler gives a keynote on behalf of the Southern Africa Office entitled "W3C Open Standards " at the "W3C Southern Africa Office Opening " on Monday, 14 May 2007, in Pretoria, South Africa.
14 May
Stéphane Boyera gives a talk on behalf of the Southern Africa Office entitled "The W3C Mobile Web Initiative" at the "Southern Africa Office Opening" on Monday, 14 May 2007, in Pretoria, South Africa.
15, 17 May
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 15 May 2007 and gives a talk entitled "W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 15 May 2007; Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL" (see abstract) on Thursday, 17 May 2007 at the "XTech 2007" , Paris, France.
Abstract for “W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity”:
The recently formed W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications activity aims to make it easier to create distributed Web applications involving a wide diversity of networked devices, with applications in home monitoring/control, home entertainment, offices, mobile and automotive. This talk is opens a day of presentations focusing on the Ubiquitous Web.
Abstract for “W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity”:

The theme for this year’s XTech conference is “The Ubiquitous Web”. As the web reaches further into our lives, we will consider the increasing ubiquity of connectivity, what it means for real world objects to connect to the web, and the increasing blurring of the lines between virtual worlds and our own. Dave Raggett will chair the Ubiquitous Web Day. XTech 2007 is co-hosted by W3C.

Abstract for “ Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML…”:
Many XML languages are defined in two steps, the first in terms of a mapping from XML documents to an abstract data model, the second by defining the meaning of the constituents of the abstract data model with respect to some domain. This paper describes a novel approach to stating what it calls the “proximate semantics” of an XML language, that is, the mapping from XML information sets to language-specific (abstract) data models.
15 May
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms 1.1" at the "XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web”" on Tuesday, 15 May 2007, in Paris, France.
17 May
Stéphane Boyera gives an invited talk entitled "The Mobile Web to bridge the Digital Divide" at the "GSM>3G East and Central Africa" on Thursday, 17 May 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya.
21 May
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Accesibilidad y estándares Web" at the "USID07 4ª Jornada de Usabilidad en Sistemas de Información Digital " on Monday, 21 May 2007, in Barcelona, Spain.
23 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "La Administración Electrónica y la Web: una historia de amor? (eGovernment and the Web: an ongoing love story?)" at the "Día W3C en España 2007 (W3C Day in Spain 2007)" on Wednesday, 23 May 2007, in Madrid, Spain.
24 May
Mauro Nunez gives a talk entitled "The World Wide Web Consortium" at the "W3C HTML Mail Workshop" on Thursday, 24 May 2007, in Paris, France.
24 May
Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Designing for International Users: Practical Tips" at the "@media07 America" on Thursday, 24 May 2007, in San Francisco, USA.
24 May
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den mobila webben (The Mobile Web)" at the "Internet i mobilen (Internet in the mobile phone)" on Thursday, 24 May 2007, in Stockholm, Sweden.
28 May
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk entitled "Global eStandards and Web Architectures for eGovernment projects" at the "13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum" on Monday, 28 May 2007, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
30 May
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk on behalf of the China Office entitled "Web Open Standards" at the "U.S. – China Symposium on Active Industry Participation in Standardization" on Wednesday, 30 May 2007, in Beijing, China.
31 May
Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled " Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità (W3C and the culture of accessibility)" at the " Web senza barriere. Il passato, il presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità (No barriers in the Web. Past, present and future of accessibility)" on Thursday, 31 May 2007, in Roma, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The talk will point as the Web is mainly a social creation, and will briefly summarize the WAI activity, the upcoming Recommendations and the recently published WAI-ARIA suite.

June 2007

5 June
Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "Loading the Silver Bullet" at the "W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications" on Tuesday, 5 June 2007, in Dublin, Ireland.
5 June
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "What's New, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues" at the "Web Accessibility Update" on Tuesday, 5 June 2007, in London, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Speaker: Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and author of Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design

Description: In this session Shawn will highlight recent developments in accessibility guidelines for Web sites, Web applications, evaluation tools, authoring tools, and browsers. Learn how these impact your Web projects now and how they provide flexibility for the future.

Shawn will answer your questions about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG), and the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA). She'll talk about how WAI develops accessibility guidelines through the W3C process, upcoming milestones for 2.0 versions, and how you can contribute to W3C's work.

She’ll also touch on the relationship between accessibility and usability, the role of accessibility standards, and designing positive user experiences for people with disabilities.

7 June
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Advancing Web Accessiblity" at the "@media07 Europe" on Thursday, 7 June 2007, in London, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This session looks beyond the debates; it provides best practices for making the Web work better for people with disabilities and for everyone. Find out how recent developments in W3C WAI’s WCAG 2.0 impacts your Web projects now, and provides flexibility for the future. For example, scripting was once frowned upon from an accessibility point of view, but is now a key aspect of accessibility advancements. Shawn will highlight changes, clarify new concepts, demo techniques, and provide tips to give you a jump-start on this new wave of Web accessibility.
12 June
Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "SOA Standards - What's News?" at the "Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit" on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, in Nashville, USA.
12, 13 June
Shawn Henry participates at a panel entitled "New Guidelines and Standards for Web Accessibility" and "Including Accessibility throughout the Design Process" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 12 June 2007 and participates at a panel entitled "SIG: What's New in Standards for Usability and Accessibility?" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 13 June 2007 at the "UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability)" , Austin, Texas, USA.
Abstract for “ New Guidelines and Standards for Web…”:
Abstract for “ SIG: What's New in Standards for Usability…”:
12 June
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity - reaching out into the physical world of sensors and effectors" organized by the HP Laboratories, on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, in Bristol, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Mobile phones are now commonplace, and Moore's law is slashing the cost for adding connectivity to device microcontrollers. This is opening up opportunities for applications in homes, offices, shops, mobile and automotive etc. The challenge is how to develop applications involving a diversity of devices, product generations and networking technologies, whilst preserving security and privacy.

W3C is applying technologies such as markup, event-driven scripting, and the Semantic Web to enable an ecosystem of developers, device vendors, network operators and websites. This talk will explain how W3C intends to reduce the cost for delivering an effective user experience across a wide variety of devices and browsers, and how to fulfill the promise of ubiquitous networked devices through standards for device coordination and remote user interfaces.

19 June
José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel entitled "Improving the delivery of eGovernment services through the use of Web technologies" at the "Toward More Transparent Government. Workshop on eGovernment and the Web" on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, in Washington DC, USA.
20 June
Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "Strategy for Serving the World" at the "2007 Open Forum for Standards Developers: Global Standard Setting, an Interactive Discussion" on Wednesday, 20 June 2007, in Boston, USA.
21 June
Oreste Signore gives a tutorial entitled "Costruire un' ontologia: perché e come farlo (Building an ontology: why and how)" at the "Knowledge Management University" on Thursday, 21 June 2007, in Olbia, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The tutorial will explain what is an ontology and will show some examples and tools to build ontologies.
21 June
Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C Open Standard and WAI/QA" at the "Workshop on Standards and Conformity Assessment Activities" on Thursday, 21 June 2007, in Bangkok, Thailand.
21 June
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Getting Real with Accessibility" at the "An Event Apart Seattle 2007" on Thursday, 21 June 2007, in Seattle, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Accessibility isn’t about checklists, it’s about making your site more usable to more people in more situations. This session puts standards and guidelines in perspective, and shows you a new approach for developing effective accessibility solutions efficiently. Get hands-on screening techniques that anyone can use, and guidance on including people with disabilities in your project to learn how they really interact with your site.
27 June
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk entitled "La Web como canal principal para la Administración Electrónica (The Web as the main delivery channel for eGovernment)" at the "Foro TIC Dintel (Dintel ICT Forum)" on Wednesday, 27 June 2007, in Madrid, Spain.
27 June
Matt Womer participates at a panel entitled "How Can We Most Effectively Use the Browser to Achieve Web 2.0 - Like Experiences and Services on Mobile?" at the "Mobile Applications Platforms and OS, USA" on Wednesday, 27 June 2007, in San Francisco, CA, USA.

July 2007

4 July
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "An Open Platform for Standardisation: WWW" at the "Workshop zur Verbesserung der Informationsmöglichkeiten und Erhöhung der Transparenz in der IKT-Standardisierung (Informationsplattform)" on Wednesday, 4 July 2007, in Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
W3C has rules and tools in place to standardize in an open and transparent way.
11 July
Addison Phillips gives a talk entitled "Making Sense of Language Identification: How changes in ISO 639 and IETF BCP 47 affect language tagging and selection" at the "10th Open Metadata Forum" on Wednesday, 11 July 2007, in New York, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The recent addition of ISO 639-3, reorganization of ISO 639 in general, and the adoption of RFC 4646 and RFC 4647 as the latest version of IETF BCP 47 (language tagging and language tag matching) has resulted in a proliferation of new choices when identifying the language of content and for the selection of content according to language. This presentation, by one of the editors of BCP 47, details what the changes are, what options are available, how to work with the new standards, and how to choose among them for your application.
15, 16 July
Karl Dubost and Olivier Thereaux give a talk entitled "従うのは面倒だがWeb標準はイケてる (通訳付) (Conformance is boring. Web standards are cool!)" (see abstract) on Sunday, 15 July 2007; Tatsuya Hagino gives a lunchtime talk entitled "W3C のこと、本当にご存知ですか? ~ Web標準を語る前に、今こそ知っておきたいW3C (Do you really know W3C? You should know W3C before talking about Web standards.)" (see abstract) on Sunday, 15 July 2007; Yasuyuki Hirakawa runs a booth at the " Web標準の日々 (The Days of Web Standards 2007)" , 東京 秋葉原, Japan.
Abstract for “…”:

Web サイトを構築するにあたり、標準に準拠しているかどうかを、制作の最終段階での確認のみに頼ることがしばしば見受けられます。しかし最終段階での確認だけでは、エラーが頻発した場合など、標準に準拠させるための修正作業が膨大になり、うんざりしてしまうことこの上ありません。

本セッションでは、W3C の専任スタッフ自らが、Web サイトを構築する際に求められる品質確保の方法について焦点を当てます。クールな Web サイトの構築にも一役買う、実践的な技術手法や利用可能なツールについてご紹介いたします。

When developing a Web site, we often rely on checking standards at the end of the creation and development process. Web standards are then perceived as a burden. During this session, we will focus on how to introduce quality in your Web projects. We will focus on practical techniques and tools that will help you to build cool Web sites.

Abstract for “ W3C…”:
皆さんは World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)のことをあまりよく知らないまま、Web 標準について語っていませんか? W3C のことを知らなくても Web 標準は使えます。しかし、Web 技術の国際標準化は、何も一部の標準化の専門家だけが取り扱うものではありません。むしろ、世界中の Web 技術者や Web デザイナーの皆様にこそ、知っていただきたいものなのです。本セッションでは、W3C の専任スタッフ自らが、W3C とは何か、という問いにお答えいたします。W3C 設立の経緯や参加形態、W3C における標準化手続きを知ることによって、「W3C 勧告」と呼ばれる Web 標準の本当の意味や、Web 技術の国際標準化に参画することの意義が、自ずと見えてくるはずです。
20 July
Felix Sasaki gives a lecture on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Offene Standards im Internet (Open Standards in the Internet)" organized by the Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, on Friday, 20 July 2007, in Gießen, Germany.
23 July
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Das Neueste vom W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) (The Latest from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI))" at the "2. Accessibility-Stammtisch (2. Accessibility Get-Together)" on Monday, 23 July 2007, in Vienna, Austria.
25 July
Daniel Dardailler gives an invited talk on behalf of the Israel Office entitled "W3C and MWI" at the "MOBILIZING THE WEB - IMA TECH CONFERENCE" on Wednesday, 25 July 2007, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
25 July
Dan Connolly gives an invited talk entitled "Microformats: what are they, and why should we use them?" at the "XML Summer School" on Wednesday, 25 July 2007, in Oxford, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Copying yet another soccer schedule or flight itinerary into a computer's calendar by hand, one field at a time, will eventually drive anyone insane. The Web made exchanging documents easier, but there's been little progress for data.

There is hope - with the emerging hCard and hCalendar microformats, data can flow seamlessly from web pages into my calendar and contact tools. The trick is to encode the data in HTML, using the class attribute to say what it is. But wait... why encode this in HTML? Why not use an XML vocabulary for contacts and calendar information? Or Semantic Web technologies like RDF and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)?

In fact, all of these have been tried. In this session, we'll explore what works and why, looking at both the social and the technical factors that will determine what we use in the future and how we use it.

August 2007

7, 8, 9, 10 August
  • Jirka Kosek and Petr Nalevka give a talk entitled "Advanced approaches to XML document validation" (see abstract); Michael Kay gives a talk entitled "Writing an XSLT optimizer in XSLT" (see abstract); Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk entitled "Representation of overlapping structures" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 7 August 2007;
  • Felix Sasaki gives a talk entitled "Localization of schema languages" (see abstract); Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Localization of schema languagesCharacterizing XQuery implementations: Categories and key features" (see abstract); Paolo Marinelli, Fabio Vitali, and Stefano Zacchiroli give a talk entitled "Streaming validation of schemata: The lazy typing discipline" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 8 August 2007;
  • Chris Lilley , James David Mason, and Mary McRae participate at a panel entitled "Mind the Gap: Seeking holes in the markup-related standards suite" (see abstract); Fabio Vitali, Antonina Dattolo, Angelo Di Iorio, Silvia Duca, and Antonio Angelo Feliziani give a talk entitled "Converting into pattern-based schemas: A formal approach" (see abstract) on Thursday, 9 August 2007;
  • Henry Thompson participates at a panel entitled "Declarative specification of XML document fixup" (see abstract) on Friday, 10 August 2007;
at the "Extreme Markup Languages" , Montréal, Canada.
Abstract for “ Advanced approaches to XML document…”:
Relaxed is an open-source automated tool that provides support for validation of XML documents using predefined or custom compound languages. For example, it can validate documents that use combinations such as XHTML 1.0 + MathML 2.0 + SVG 1.1, testing for conformance with constraints expressed in Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages, under the control of NVDL (Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language). In addition to the maintenance of these schemas, the Relaxed project also includes an extensible validation engine written in Java. Examples that demonstrate the usefulness and practicality of combining multiple kinds of validation and constraint expressions in a convenient automated framework are discussed.
Abstract for “Writing an XSLT optimizer in XSLT”:
In principle, XSLT is ideally suited to the task of writing an XSLT or XQuery optimizer. After all, optimizers consist of a set of rules for rewriting a tree representation of the query or stylesheet, and XSLT is specifically designed as a language for rule-based tree rewriting. The paper illustrates how the abstract syntax tree representing a query or stylesheet can be expressed as an XML data structure making it amenable to XSLT processing, and shows how a selection of rewrites can be programmed in XSLT. The key question determining whether the approach is viable in practice is performance. Some simple measurements suffice to demonstrate that there is a significant performance penalty, but not an insurmountable one: further work is needed to see whether it can be reduced to an acceptable level.
Abstract for “Representation of overlapping structures”:
Markup of overlapping structures is, depending on your point of view, either a perpetual hot topic or a trivial edge case in the study of markup. Starting from the belief that overlapping structures are not just common but important, not only in the analysis of literary works but also in the management of changing content, we explore ways to represent overlapping structures in tractable ways. The requirements for representing overlapping structures differ from those for storing simple tree-structured information. An exploration of these requirements is followed by a detailed description of one way to represent Goddag structures in relational form.
Abstract for “Localization of schema languages”:
Internationalization is the process of making a product ready for global use. Localization is the adaptation of a product to a specific locale (e.g., country, region, or market). Localization of XML schemas (XSD, DTD, Relax NG) can include translation of element and attribute names, modification of data types, and content or locale-specific modifications such as currency and dates. Combining the TEI ODD (One Document Does it all) approach for renaming and adaptation of documentation, the Common Locale Data Registry (CLDR) for the modification of data types, and the new Internationalization Tag Set (W3C 2007), the authors have produced an implementation that will take as input a schema without any localization and some external localization parameters (such as the locale, the schema language, any localization annotations, and the CLDR data) and produce a localized schema for XSD and Relax NG. For a DTD, the implementation produces a Schematron document for validation of the modified data types that can be used with a separate renaming stylesheet to generate a localized DTD.
Abstract for “ Localization of schema…”:
XQuery 1.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation in January 2007, and there are fifty or more XQuery implementations. The XQuery Public Web page at W3C lists them but gives little or no guidance about choosing among them. The author proposes a simple ontology (taxonomy) to characterize XQuery implementations based on emergent patterns of the features appearing in implementations and suggests some ways to choose among those implementations. The result is a clearer view of how XQuery is being used and also provides insights that will help in designing system architectures that incorporate XQuery engines. Although specific products are not endorsed in this paper, actual examples are given. With XML in use in places as diverse as automobile engines and encyclopedias, the most important part of investigating an XML tool’s suitability to task is often the tool’s intended usage environment. It is not unreasonable to suppose that most XQuery implementations are useful for something. Let's see!
Abstract for “ Streaming validation of schemata: The lazy…”:
Assertions, identity constraints, and conditional type assignments are (planned) features of XML Schema which rely on XPath evaluation. The XPath subset exploitable in those features is limited, for several reasons, including (apparently) to avoid buffering in evaluation of an expression. We divide XPath into subsets with varying streamability characteristics. We also identify the larger XPath subset which is compatible with the typing discipline we believe underlies some of the choices currently present in the XML Schema specification. Such a discipline requires that the type of an element be decided when its start tag is encountered and its validity when its end tag is encountered. An alternative “lazy typing” discipline is proposed in which both type assignment and validity assessment are fired as soon as they are available. Our approach is more flexible, giving schema authors control over the trade-off between using larger XPath subsets (and thus increasing buffering requirements) and expeditiousness.
Abstract for “ Mind the Gap: Seeking holes in the…”:
The XML 1.0 specification was admired for many things, among them its simplicity and brevity. The XML spec has since been joined by many other associated specifications and standards, not all of them simple, few of them short. There are specifications for vocabularies, constraint languages, transformation and formatting languages, data models and functions, packaging and encrypting specifications, and for a wide variety of other things one can do with, to, or about XML. Many of us think there are too many XML-related specifications. However, we continue to identify holes in the markup-related suite of standards: areas in which new specifications would be useful. In this session the audience will suggest (to representatives or members of several organizations that develop and/or promulgate XML-related specifications) areas in which new specifications would be useful. This will be an information gathering activity, not an evaluative process; all suggestions and heresies welcome.
Abstract for “ Converting into pattern-based schemas: A…”:
A traditional distinction among markup languages is how descriptive or prescriptive they are. We identify six levels along the descriptive/prescriptive spectrum. Schemas at a specific level of descriptiveness that we call "Descriptive No Order" (DNO) specify a list of allowable elements, their number and requiredness, but do not impose any order upon them. We have defined a pattern-based model based on a set of named patterns, each of which is an object and its composition rule (content model); we show that any schema can be converted into a pattern-based schema without loss of information at the DNO level. We present a formal analysis of lossless conversions of arbitrary schemas as a demonstration of the correctness and completeness of our pattern model. Although all examples are given in DTD syntax, the results should apply equality to XSD, Relax NG, or other schema languages.
Abstract for “ Declarative specification of XML document…”:
The historical and social complications of the development of the HTML family of languages defy easy analysis. In the recent discussion of the future of the family, one question has stood out: should ‘the next HTML’ have a schema or indeed any form of formal definition? One major constituency has vocally rejected the use of any form of schema, maintaining that the current behavior of deployed HTML browsers cannot usefully be described in any declarative notation. But a declarative approach, based on the Tag Soup work of John Cowan, proves capable of specifying the repair of ill-formed HTML and XHTML in a way that approximates the behavior of existing HTML browsers. A prototype implementation named PYXup demonstrates the capability; it operates on the PYX output produced by the Tag Soup scanner and fixes up well-formedness errors and some structural problems commonly found in HTML in the wild based on an easily understood declarative specification.
31 August
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications" on Friday, 31 August 2007, in Singapore, Singapore.

September 2007

4 September
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Ubiquitous Web Applications" at the "Invited talk" on Tuesday, 4 September 2007, in Bucaramanga, Colombia. (see abstract)
Abstract:
In introduction to W3C's work on ubiquitous Web applications and presented to the Facility of Engineering, UNAB University, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
9 September
Michael(tm) Smith participates at a panel entitled "Best Practices: Making Mobile Browsing Better" at the "Workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience" on Sunday, 9 September 2007, in Singapore, Singapore.
10 September
Michael(tm) Smith participates at a panel entitled "The W3C and Widgets" at the "MobileHCI 2007" on Monday, 10 September 2007, in Singapore, Singapore.
10 September
Stéphane Boyera gives an invited talk entitled "Opportunities and Challenges of Web Technologies on Mobile Platform" at the "Datamatix Gitex Conference 2007" on Monday, 10 September 2007, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
11 September
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk entitled "Los retos del gobierno electrónico (eGovernment Challenges)" at the "Evento de Interoperabilidad de Gobierno electrónico (eGovernment Interoperability Meeting)" on Tuesday, 11 September 2007, in Santiago, Chile.
17 September
Yves Lafon gives a keynote entitled "Web Services: Building Blocks and Beyond" at the "First International Workshop on Telecom Service Oriented Architectures" on Monday, 17 September 2007, in Vienna, Austria.
19 September
Philipp Hoschka participates at a panel entitled "Will W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Help End Fragmentation of Standards and Enable a Coherent Web Experience?" at the "Informa Mobile Web 2.0 Conference" on Wednesday, 19 September 2007, in London, United Kingdom.
19 September
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "W3C und W3C World Offices (W3C and W3C World Offices)" at the "Deutschland und China - Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie (Germany and China - an Innovative Partnership in Information Technology)" on Wednesday, 19 September 2007, in Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
General talk about W3C with some focus on offices esp. introducing our offices in China and Germany
20 September
Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "HTML 5 - l'édition des draveurs (HTML 5 - Draftmen Edition)" at the "Rencontre autour de HTML 5 (Discussion about HTML 5)" on Thursday, 20 September 2007, in Québec, Canada. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The practical side of HTML 5: why, when and how?
21 September
José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote entitled "The Future of the World Wide Web" at the "4th EU Ministerial eGovernment Conference" on Friday, 21 September 2007, in Lisbon, Portugal. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Internet-connected computers and the World Wide Web are revolutionizing the ways in which citizens and governments interact. The Web has become the main channel for Governments to deliver electronic Services to citizens; Web technologies are also playing a crucial role in the relationships between Governments and between Governments and Industry, but are Governments taking as much advantage as possible of the Web? This talk reviews a number of topics about the future of the World Wide Web that could help Governments to make better use of their resources and improve the whole eGovernment experience.
24, 25 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Neues vom W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (What's new at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative)" on Monday, 24 September 2007 and gives a talk entitled "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0" on Tuesday, 25 September 2007; Shadi Abou-Zahra and Gerhard Nussbaum give a tutorial entitled "Barrierefreies Webdesign (Accessible Web Design)" on Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at the " IKT Forum 2007 (ICT Forum 2007)" , Linz, Austria.
24 September
Stephen M. Watt and Birendra Keshari give a talk entitled "Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion" (see abstract) and Stephen M. Watt gives a talk entitled "New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing" (see abstract) at the "International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)" , on Monday, 24 September 2007, in Curitiba, Brazil.
Abstract for “Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion”:
Ink Markup Language (InkML) provides a platform-neutral data format that can be used to represent, store and transmit digital ink data. Both streaming and archival applications are supported through different uses of InkML's primitives. While streaming ink and archival ink data can represent the same information, each supports certain operations more directly. Indeed, certain applications can benefit from access to both representations of the same digital ink data. In this paper we present an efficient method to convert archival style InkML to streaming style and vice-versa.
Abstract for “ New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based…”:
As pen-based computing becomes more prevalent, it is increasingly important to be able to share ink across applications and across platforms. The emerging standard Ink Markup Language (InkML) is intended for this purpose. Four drafts of the proposed standard have been produced since 2003, resulting in a specification with broad input from industry and invited experts. The last working draft has simplified and generalized the specification in some important ways and the specification is now in "last call" status. This paper presents an overview of the main features of InkML, with an emphasis on the rationale for what has changed for the last call version.
26 September
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Towards the Web of things" at the "Web Developers Conference" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, in Bristol, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A look at the origins of the Web, how it has evolved, and the challenges in extending it to the Web of things as the number and variety of networked devices explodes. Changing the way we conceive of the Web. Why today's hacks will give way to more structured approaches to developing applications that allow developers to focus on what the application should do rather than the details of exactly how.
26 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Barrierefreiheit in Rich Internet Applications (Accessibility in Rich Internet Applications)" at the "W3C-Tag 2007 (W3C-Day 2007)" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, in Berlin, Germany.
26 September
Bert Bos gives a lecture on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "CSS" at the "Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, in Sydney, Australia.
26 September
Thomas Tikwinski gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Jahresbericht des Deutsch-Österreichischen W3C-Büros (W3C.DE/AT Annual Office Report)" at the "W3C Tag 2007 (W3C Day 2007)" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, in Berlin, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Activities of W3C in general and of the W3C Germany and Austria Office in 2006/07.
26 September
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Open Standards Rich Internet Applications" at the "W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications (W3C Day 2007 - Rich Internet Applications)" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, in Berlin, Germany.
27 September
Bert Bos gives a lunchtime talk entitled "Web Directions breakfast" and gives a talk entitled "A new life for old standards" at the "Web Directions South" , on Thursday, 27 September 2007, in Sydney, Australia.
28 September
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "The W3C and Mobile Ajax" at the "Workshop on Mobile Ajax" on Friday, 28 September 2007, in Mountain View, USA.

October 2007

2 October
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "The World Wide Web Consortium and its Mobile Web In Developing Countries Effort" at the "13th ASTAP Forum" on Tuesday, 2 October 2007, in Chiang-Mai, Thailand.
2 October
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Web Open Standards" at the "SITOP 2007" between Tuesday, 2 October, and Thursday, 4 October 2007, in Moscow, Russia.
3 October
Bert Bos participates at a panel entitled "Browser panel" at the "Fundamentos Web 2007 " on Wednesday, 3 October 2007, in Gijón, Spain.
3 October
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "The W3C and the Next Generation Web" at the "13th ASTAP Forum, Next Generation Web expert group" on Wednesday, 3 October 2007, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
3 October
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Web Demand: How Financial Services Can Leverage Emerging Web Technologies" at the "IT/Networking Trends & Technology and Solutions" on Wednesday, 3 October 2007, in New York, New York, USA.
3 October
Matt Womer gives a talk entitled "Mobilize Your Web Content In 10 steps" at the "Mobile Web Americas" on Wednesday, 3 October 2007, in Orlando, Florida, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This session is designed to give you an understanding of developing for the mobile Web, and how the use of Web standards and best practices can help create effective Web sites and applications that work well on mobile devices. These slides represent the same content as the MWI Best Practices flipcards.
5 October
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "How Web Accesibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population" at the "AAATE Conference" on Friday, 5 October 2007, in San Sebastian, Spain.
8 October
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C Mobile Web Initiative" at the "Mobile Monday London" on Monday, 8 October 2007, in London, United Kingdom.
10 October
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "The increasing importance of Open Web Standards to improve eGovernment" at the "eGovInterop '07" on Wednesday, 10 October 2007, in Paris, France.
12 October
Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "W3C 표준화 동향 (The Trends of W3C Standardization)" at the "e-Biz 표준화 컨퍼런스 (e-Biz Standardization Conference)" on Friday, 12 October 2007, in Seoul, Korea.
12 October
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "The Business Value of Open Standards" at the "2007 E-Biz Conference" on Friday, 12 October 2007, in Seoul, Korea.
13 October
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "L'initiative pour le Web Mobile (The Mobile Web Initiative)" at the "MobileWeb BarCamp Paris " on Saturday, 13 October 2007, in Paris, France.
15 October
Jim Melton gives an invited talk entitled "Semi-structured data and XML Query " and Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives an invited talk entitled "XML Schema 1.1 and the versioning of XML vocabularies" (see abstract) at the "XML @ Boeing 2007" , on Monday, 15 October 2007, in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract for “ XML Schema 1.1 and the versioning of XML…”:

XML offers several advantages over competing formats for data interchange. XML vocabularies can be defined formally, using schema languages (DTDs, XSDL, Relax NG, ...), which in turn makes it possible to find large classes of errors by purely mechanical means. Software to consume valid XML data can be simpler and cheaper to write and maintain, because defensive programming is less necessary.

And XML's explicit start- and end-tags make it much easier to detect and ignore material not needed by a particular process. As new processes are added, new information can be added to an XML message format without disturbing existing software.

At least, that's the theory. In practice, combining validation and easy versioning of your XML vocabularies has proven hard.

This talk outlines some basic problems involved in versioning XML vocabularies and talks about ways to address them. Particular attention will be paid to several features of XML Schema 1.1 which make it easier to define XML vocabularies which can in fact be revised while preserving backwards and forwards compatibility: weakened wildcards, open content, not-in-schema wildcards, multiple substitution-group heads, extension of all-groups, default attribute groups, and conditional inclusion of elements in schema documents.

15, 17 October; 8, 9 September
at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference" , San Jose, USA.
Abstract for “ An Introduction to Writing Systems &…”:
The tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.
Abstract for “ Hints for Designing International Web…”:
his presentation will look a number of practical issues for people who develop web pages for a multilingual audience. Topics will include the dangers of composing sentences in content using scripting, strategies for designing layout so that text expansion during translation will not destroy your efforts, and the use of pull-down lists when navigating to localized content. We will explore some of the potential difficulties that can be encountered in these areas and pull together some best practices to help you avoid them.
Abstract for “ An Introduction to Writing Systems &…”:
The tutorial provides you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrates the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.
Abstract for “ Creating XHTML/HTML Pages with…”:
This short tutorial explains how to go about creating XHTML and HTML pages containing text written in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts. The tutorial examines how best to achieve the correct effect for these bi-directional scripts using appropriate markup, CSS properties and Unicode code points or entities. It covers the basics, and goes beyond to provide recommended techniques for some of the tricky situations that even native speakers can struggle with. The tutorial assumes a basic familiarity with the bi-directional characteristics of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Abstract for “New Work on Japanese Layout Requirements ”:
The W3C has been gathering requirements for Japanese text layout from in-country experts, including the original authors of JIS X 4051 via its Japanese Layout Task Force. The task force also includes representatives from the CSS, XSL-FO and SVG Working Groups. The end result will be a detailed set of requirements that will build on and extend beyond JIS X 4051, and will be published as a W3C Note in English and Japanese. The work has revealed some interesting new insights on Japanese layout for the Western experts involved. This talk describes these and some of the key points of the proposed document, referring to rules for such things as page set up using kihon hanmen, the amount of blank space associated with punctuation and parentheses, text justification and line breaking, conversion between horizontal and vertical text, etc.
17 October
Felix Sasaki gives a talk entitled "Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 – A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of XML" at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference 31" on Wednesday, 17 October 2007, in San Jose, CA, USA.
17 October
Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "IRIs and IDNs: Testing, Implementations, and Specification Evolvement" at the "31st Internationalization & Unicode Conference" on Wednesday, 17 October 2007, in San Jose, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) are the internationalized version of Web addresses. The IRI specification has been available since 2005, and the specifications for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) since 2003. Implementations of IRIs and IDNs in the major browsers are well advanced, but implementations for toolkits and APIs currently still leave quite a bit to be desired. This presentation will give a short general introduction to the topics of IRIs and IDNs, stressing the role of Unicode and UTF-8. It will report on an implementation effort by the author and his group for IRIs and IDNs in the widely used Web toolkit Curl, and on progress with automatic testing and automatic generation of tests for IRIs and IDNs.
17 October
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: a Short Introduction" (see abstract) and José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "How to make the most out of eGovernment" (see abstract) at the "“Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference" , on Wednesday, 17 October 2007, in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract for “Semantic Web: a Short Introduction”:
Through a simple example, a brief overview of the goals and methodologies of the Semantic Web will be presented. The example will concentrate on one of the major areas of Semantic Web usage, namely data integration. The presentation will also include a number of examples of how the Semantic Web is used in various application, both in academia and in industry.
Abstract for “How to make the most out of eGovernment”:
This talk will review some common problems related to eGovernment on the citizen, government and industry sides and will suggest how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through the use of Open Web Standards and specially Semantic Web technologies improving the overall eGovernment experience
18 October
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Wege zum Semantischen Web (Ways to the Semantic Web)" at the "4. Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien " on Thursday, 18 October 2007, in Darmstadt, Germany.
19 October
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Making the Future Web Accessible to People with Disabilities" at the ""I Invent the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007" on Friday, 19 October 2007, in Orlando, FL, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
It is vital that the Web is accessible for people with disabilities and older people with changing abilities, given its increasingly key role in education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. This presentation discusses the current state of Web accessibility and explores how we can each play a role in ensuring that the future Web enables greater participation in society instead of creating additional barriers.
20 October
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "The Web is more a "social" creation than a technical one..." at the "e-Academy SMAU 2007" on Saturday, 20 October 2007, in Milano, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Basics of accessibility (with reference to upcoming WCAG 2.0) and of Semantic Web are explained. The emphasis is on "access for all" and "share the knowledge"
20 October
Thomas Roessler gives a talk entitled "Cross-site access for XMLHttpRequest()" at the "hack.lu" on Saturday, 20 October 2007, in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
23 October
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, 3GWeb and NEM" at the " 5th NEM General Assembly" on Tuesday, 23 October 2007, in Brussels, Belgium.
29 October
Matt Womer participates at a panel entitled "The Ubiquitous Web: Making It Happen…" at the "Mobile Monday New York" on Monday, 29 October 2007, in New York City, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A round table discussion with Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group; Carl Taylor, Director of Applications & Services, Hutchison Whampoa Europe; Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software; Sean Owen, Software Engineer, Google; Matt Womer, Mobile Web Initiative Lead Americas, W3C; and Vance P. Hedderel, Director, PR and Communications, dotMobi, moderated by Lubna Dajani, co-founder MobileMonday New York, CEO Stratemerge.
29 October
Matt Womer participates at a panel entitled "The Ubiquitous Web: Making It Happen…" at the "Mobile Monday NY" on Monday, 29 October 2007, in New York City, MA, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
"A round table discussion with Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group; Carl Taylor, Director of Applications & Services, Hutchison Whampoa Europe; Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software; Sean Owen, Software Engineer, Google; Matt Womer, Mobile Web Initiative Lead Americas, W3C; and Vance P. Hedderel, Director, PR and Communications, dotMobi, moderated by Lubna Dajani, co-founder MobileMonday New York, CEO Stratemerge."
31 October
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)" and gives an invited talk entitled "RDF and SPARQL" at the "Service Oriented Architecture/Web Service/Web 2.0" , on Wednesday, 31 October 2007, in Tampere, Finland.

November 2007

13 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den semantiska webben - en översikt (The Semantic Web - an overview)" at the "Oredev2007" on Tuesday, 13 November 2007, in Malmö, Sweden.
13 November
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "The Mobile Web Takes Off" at the "Mobile Internet World" on Tuesday, 13 November 2007, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
13 November
Arthur Barstow gives a talk entitled "Standards and Mobile Applications, Services and Widgets" ; Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "The Web Everywhere" ; Daniel Appelquist gives a talk entitled "Future of the Mobile Web" ; Ed Mitukiewicz gives a talk entitled "Standards-based Approach to Mobilizing the Web: An Integrated Operator Perspective" ; James Pearce gives a talk entitled "dotMobi - case studies of implementing W3C activities" ; Rotan Hanrahan gives a talk entitled "Diversity in a World Gone Mobile" ; Sean Owen gives a talk entitled "Are You MobileOk?" at the "Mobile Internet World" , on Tuesday, 13 November 2007, in Boston, USA.
14 November
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at the "http://www.mobilenetx.com" on Wednesday, 14 November 2007, in Boston, MA, USA.
14 November
Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C Process" at the "IGF, Internet Governance Forum 2nd meeting" on Wednesday, 14 November 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Presentation of W3C process in the Multi-stakeholder Policy Development: Lessons from Actors Engaged in Existing Institutional Processes See http://www.intgovforum.org/wks_session_info.php?numes=28
15 November
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk entitled "A Declarative Approach to Services" at the "Service Oriented Computing Platform Seminar" on Thursday, 15 November 2007, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (see abstract)
Abstract:
XForms is a recent technology from W3C. It arises from a redesign of HTML Forms, but despite that history, and its name, it can in fact do much more than just forms. Since it has a memory model, input, output and a calculation engine it is a declarative calculation engine, with direct access to documents and services over the network, making it ideally suited for service-oriented processing. This talk will introduce XForms and its architecture, show its applicability to services, demonstrate XForms in action, and discuss the effect on productivity that declarative approaches have compared with procedural approaches.
16 November
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile (Mobile Web Best Practices)" at the "ParisWeb 2007 " on Friday, 16 November 2007, in Paris, France.
19 November
Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the China Office entitled "Semantic Web Adoption" at the "首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007) (First China Semantic Web Symposium)" on Monday, 19 November 2007, in Beijing, China.
21, 22 November
Stéphane Boyera participates at a panel entitled "Determining the Right Technology Mix to Maximise Internet Coverage (3G, HSPA, WiMAX, CDMA)" on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 and gives a talk entitled "Leveraging Web access for rural communities and under-privileged populations" on Thursday, 22 November 2007 at the "AfricaCom 2007" , Cape Town, South Africa.
21 November
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled " What is the Semantic Web?" and Mauro Nunez gives an invited talk entitled "The World Wide Web Consortium" organized by the Zheijiang University, on Wednesday, 21 November 2007, in Hangzhou, China.
27 November
Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman give a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Wege zum Semantischen Web (Ways to the Semantic Web)" at the "ISOC German Chapter Mitgliederversammlung" on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, in Frankfurt, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
repetition of the talk given on 18 October 2007, in Darmstadt, Germany.
27 November
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " Knowledge creation: integrazione di HTML e Semantic Web ( Knowledge creation: integrating HTML and Semantic Web)" at the " The 12th KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FORUM" on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, in Milano, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Information available on the web can be integrated and merged to create new knowledge. After a brief recall of Semantic Web basic principles, we will show how GRDDL can be used to extract knowledge from web pages containing structured data.
28 November
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Emerging Technologies" and gives a talk entitled "The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards" (see abstract) at the "Open Standards International Conference 2007" , on Wednesday, 28 November 2007, in Beijing, China.
Abstract for “ The World Wide Web Needs World Wide…”:
The World Wide Web is a universal medium, which has already demonstrated an enormous potential to link people and information across a large and expanding portion the globe. Over 1 billion people now browse the Web through their computers, while close to 2 billion have the potential to browse the Web through their mobile phones. The fastest growth in Web usage is within emerging economies. To ensure that there be a single, universal Web, it is imperative that the diverse requirements of the world's citizens are supported by Web technologies. And to ensure that the requirements are supported, it is imperative that the world's experts are involved in the development of Web standards. This presentation will summarize (1) the World Wide Web Consortium's experience in developing the open, royalty-free standards that are the foundation of the Web, and (2) the great opportunities that we see as the Web standards development community expands across the globe.
29 November
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "Estándares Abiertos al rescate (Open Standards to the rescue)" at the "Taller de Interoperabilidad e Intercambio de Datos, Tecnimap 2007 (Interoprability and Data Exchange Workshop, Tecnimap 2007)" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Gijón, Spain.
29 November
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Converging Parallels" at "The Infinity Initiative" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
29 November
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Web Open Standards and WAI" at the "World Usability Day Sophia" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
30 November
Steve Bratt gives a lecture on behalf of the China Office entitled "Now and Future Web Technologies" organized by the Beihang University, on Friday, 30 November 2007, in Beijing, China.

December 2007

3 December
Encarnación Quesada Ruiz gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "El W3C en España" at the "Webmasters Meeting Point 2008" on Monday, 3 December 2007, in Madrid, Spain.
10 December
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web Past and Future" at the "World Healthcare Innovation and Technology (WHIT 3.0) Congress 2007" on Monday, 10 December 2007, in Washington, DC, USA.
11 December
Philippe Le Hégaret participates at a panel entitled "Video Search Engines" at the "WebVideo Summit 2007" on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in New York, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
It don't mean a thing if they can't find your work! An extraordinary percentage of your viewers will come from search engines, and you have to help them find you. Early video search relied on keywords and metadata. Now voice recognition and even scene selection will allow tighter searches, including to a specific part of your video. How do you work with the search engines for great results? How can you plan your project to connect with new viewers? Bring your questions to this session, featuring some of the world's top experts on the panel.
14 December
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Le nuove linee guida internazionali per l'accessibilità del Web (New Web accessibility international guidelines)" at the "L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica (Evolution of accessibility)" on Friday, 14 December 2007, in Venezia, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The talk will address the most recent WAI activity, give highlights on upcoming WCAG 2.0 and the recently published WAI-ARIA suite.
20 December
Martín Álvarez participates at a panel entitled "El W3C en el desarrollo de la Web (W3C in the the Development of the Web)" at the "II Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática en Asturias (II Day on Engineering in Computer Science in Asturias)" on Thursday, 20 December 2007, in Gijón, Spain.

January 2008

11 January
Steven Pemberton gives an invited talk entitled "Why you need a Web Site (and other Web 3.0 issues)" at the "Freelance Friday" on Friday, 11 January 2008, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
23 January
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Overview of W3C activities" ; Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Video en la Web (Video on the Web)"; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Mobile Web in Developing Countries" at the "W3C Spain Office Seminar" , on Wednesday, 23 January 2008.
23 January
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk via Webcast on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "eGovernment and the Web" at the "Virtual W3C Seminar" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008.
23 January
Matt Womer gives a talk entitled "Unifying a Fragmenting Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry Development" at the "Mobile Web USA" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008, in San Francisco, CA, USA.
24 January
José Manuel Alonso gives a lecture entitled "Hacia una mejor Administración mediante el uso de la Web (Improving Government through better use of the Web)" at the "Entrega de Insignias de Oro del CITIPA (CITIPA Awarding Ceremony)" on Thursday, 24 January 2008, in Oviedo, Spain.
28 January
Seungyun Lee gives a lecture entitled "IPTV Web Platform Technology" at the "IPTV 기술 (IPTV Technology)" between Monday, 28 January, and Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Daejeon, Korea.
28 January
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Making the Web Accessible to All" organized by the University at Albany, on Monday, 28 January 2008, in Albany, NY, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:

It is vital that the Web is accessible given its increasingly key role in education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. Accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web, and accessibility also makes websites more usable to older people with changing abilities due to aging, people with low bandwidth connections and older technologies, and people using mobile devices and new technologies.

This presentation discusses the current state of web accessibility and explores how we can each play a role in ensuring that the future Web enables greater participation in society instead of creating additional barriers. We'll look at responsibilities in several areas, including: higher education - from incorporating web standards and accessibility in curriculum, to providing effective technical systems to support education for all, to researching solutions to improve the future of the Web; government; and industry, along with the opportunities for positive return on investment (ROI) in accessibility efforts.

Through real-world examples, Shawn will demo specific accessibility barriers and solutions, provide an update on Web accessibility standards and regulations, and provide resources for more information. Come learn how to make your website more usable to more people in more situations.

29 January
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Toward the Mobile Web 2.0" at the "Future of the Internet Economy Conference 2008 " on Tuesday, 29 January 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
30 January
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "JFokus 2008 " on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
30 January
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" at the "Curso Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Course in Application Developing)" on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.
31 January
José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel entitled "TIC y Gobernabilidad" at the "Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0 (Development Cooperation 2.0)" on Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.
31 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "World Wide Web Consoritum: Semantic Web and Opportunities for the Oil and Gas Industry" at the "PCA Member Meeting" on Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Houston, Texas, USA.

February 2008

4 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: International Standards for Local Users" at the "Techshare India 2008" on Monday, 4 February 2008, in New Delhi, India. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The Web offers unprecedented opportunities for people with disabilities to participate equally in the information society. At the same time, there are many avoidable barriers that exclude people from using the Web for education, at the workplace, for civil participation, and other day-to-day activities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. This presentation introduces the international W3C standards for Web accessibility and describes how your organization can benefit from implementing these standards to better reach your local audience.
5 February
Michael(tm) Smith gives a talk entitled "HTML 5" organized by the Jagat, on Tuesday, 5 February 2008, in Tokyo, Japan.
11 February
Marie-Claire Forgue , Dominique Hazaël-Massieux , and François Daoust run a booth at "The Mobile World Congress" between Monday, 11 February, and Thursday, 14 February 2008, in Barcelona, Spain.
11 February
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Achieving Web for All: Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your Website" at the "Webstock 2008" on Monday, 11 February 2008, in Wellington, New Zealand. (see abstract)
Abstract:

This workshop provides approaches for making your website more usable to more people in more situations -- especially people with disabilities, seniors, and people using the web on their mobile phone. Shawn will put standards and guidelines in perspective, and show you a new method for developing effective accessibility solutions efficiently.

We'll go through:

  • Understanding the fundamental issues first
  • How to get the most quickly from standards, guidelines, and best practices guides on accessibility and design for mobile phones, including WCAG 2.0
  • Tools and techniques for testing
  • Tips for evaluating prototypes/drafts as you go along
  • Guidance on including people with disabilities in your project to learn how they really interact with your site

Along the way we'll look at specifics, such as providing scalable text (and we'll answer, "What about a text size widget?"); marking up headings, lists, and such; wording headings and links; forms; data tables; linearization (that is, reading order) issues; and JavaScript/Ajax issues.

Who's it for

This is a beginners to intermediate level workshop for anyone involved in web creation.

12 February
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스 (Mobile Web 2.0 & Mobile Convergence)" at the "제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내" on Tuesday, 12 February 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
13 February
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "(not yet determined)" at the "Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders in Government (ITSL) workshop" on Wednesday, 13 February 2008, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
18 February
Seungyun Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies" at "The 10th International Conference On Advanced Communication Technology" on Monday, 18 February 2008, in Phoenix Park, Korea.
20 February
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Interoperabilidad Semántica en la Web (Semantic Interoperability on the Web)" at the "IV Congreso Nacional de BPMS (National Congress on BPMS (Business Process Management Systems))" on Wednesday, 20 February 2008, in Madrid, Spain.
21 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives an invited talk entitled "Web Accessibility - Hochglanz und Qualität (Web Accessibility - Polishing and Quality)" at the "SAE Workshop" on Thursday, 21 February 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

March 2008

3 March
Judy Brewer participates at a panel entitled "Accessibility of the Web: Strategies and Resources" at the "Foro G3ICT" on Monday, 3 March 2008, in Quito, Ecuador.
5 March
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Towards the Web of Things" (see abstract) and Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web 2.0 Forum Standardization Activities" at the "Mobile Wednesday Workshop" , on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
Abstract for “Towards the Web of Things”:
A look at the origins of the Web and the challenges and opportunities presented by an increasing variety of networked devices. How Web technologies will enable device coordination and reduce the costs for authoring distributed applications of ubiquitous devices.
5 March
Eric Prud'hommeaux and Lee Feigenbaum give a tutorial entitled "W3C Semantic Web Tutorial" at the "Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences (C-SHALS)" on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, in Boston, USA.
7 March
Karl Dubost and Ivan Herman give a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" at the "INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008" on Friday, 7 March 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation will give a short review on the state of adoption of the Semantic Web today, as well as some of the latest developments. Technologies and developments such as linking open data, RDFa, role of SPARQL, OWL1.1, rules will all be addressed. The presentation will also provide examples of how the Semantic Web is used in practice by major companies or public institutions.
8 March
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly" at the "SXSW Interactive 2008 Conference" on Saturday, 8 March 2008, in Austin, TX, USA.
10 March
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "New W3C Standards For Speech and Multimodal Applications" at the "Voice Search Conference" on Monday, 10 March 2008, in San Diego, CA, USA.
10 March
Phil Archer and Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "An Introduction to POWDER (tentative)" at the "Web 2.0 Telecoms" on Monday, 10 March 2008, in Berlin, Germany.
12 March
Vagner Diniz gives a talk entitled "A importância dos padrões na evolução da Web (The importance of standards in the web evolution)" at the "Forum de Líderes de TI do Poder Judiciário (High Courts IT Leaders Meeting)" on Wednesday, 12 March 2008, in Brasilia, Brazil.
15 March
Shadi Abou-Zahra and Andrew Arch give a talk entitled "How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population" at the "CSUN 2008" on Saturday, 15 March 2008, in Los Angeles, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The W3C WAI-AGE Project researches and develops resources to better explain the relevance of Web accessibility guidelines to the needs of the ageing population.
17 March
Philippe Le Hégaret gives an invited talk entitled "Video on the Web at W3C" at the "Media Distribution over Open Internet" on Monday, 17 March 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland.
25 March; 7 April
Vagner Diniz gives a talk entitled "A importância dos padrões na evolução da Web (The importance of standards in the web evolution)" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 and gives a talk entitled "A importância dos padrões na evolução da Web (The importance of standards in the web evolution)" (see abstract) on Monday, 7 April 2008 at the "SENAC\'s Web Design Trainning the Trainners Program " , São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract for “ A importância dos padrões na evolução…”:
This talk was added into the Web Design Trainning the Trainners Program carried out by SENAC a well known technical school in Sao Paulo.
Abstract for “ A importância dos padrões na evolução…”:
Talk given to the second group attending the Web Design Trainning the Trainners Program carried out by SENAC a well known technical school in Sao Paulo.
27 March
Felix Sasaki gives an invited talk entitled "Identifying Resources on the Web and Beyond" at the "MPG eScience Seminar on "Unique and persistent identifiers"" on Thursday, 27 March 2008, in Munich, Germany.
27 March
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "The Web of Things" at the "Internet of Things 2008" on Thursday, 27 March 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland.

April 2008

1 April
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "Web 2.0 Meets the Handset" at the "Roundtable at CTIA" on Tuesday, 1 April 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
2 April
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Standards for Crossing the Mobile Web Chasm" at the "Mobile Internet" on Wednesday, 2 April 2008, in Berlin, Germany.
3 April
Vagner Diniz gives a talk entitled "W3C, padrões abertos e a participação brasileira (W3C, open web standards and how to participate)" at the "Riosoft Jornadas de Conhecimento (Riosoft Journey of Knowledge)" on Thursday, 3 April 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This talk is the same as the many others we use to introduce W3C and web standards and to present how to be a member.
3, 4 April
Shawn Henry gives an invited talk entitled "Designing the Web for All of Society Benefits Us All", "International Web Accessibility Guidelines and Standards", and "Web Accessibility Basics" on Thursday, 3 April 2008 and gives an invited talk entitled "Integrating Accessibility in the Development Process" and "Accessible Ajax" on Friday, 4 April 2008 at the "Web Accessibility: Bridging the Digital Divide" , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
4 April
François Daoust gives a talk entitled "mobileOK Basic for Developers" at the "Over The Air" on Friday, 4 April 2008, in London, United Kingdom. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Using a badly-designed web page that still is displayed correctly on most desktop browsers:

  • Show that it doesn't work on most mobile browsers
  • Introduce the mobileOK checker as a way to know what needs to be improved and why
  • Fix the web page
  • Show that the resulting page now works in both worlds

The message:

  • Mobile Best Practices are not constraints
  • No need to know Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 doc by heart to start using it, the mobileOK checker is here to help
  • Think Mobile even if that's not your initial target
7 April
Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Prospects of Mobile Web 2.0 in Korea" at the "Mobile Monday Seoul" on Monday, 7 April 2008, in Seoul, Korea, Korea.
17 April
Olle Olsson runs a booth entitled "Vad nytt under webben? (What's new in the web?)" and gives a talk entitled "HTML 5 - kommande HTML-standard (HTML 5 - future HTML standard)" at the "SICS Open House 2008" , on Thursday, 17 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
17 April
Vagner Diniz gives a talk entitled "W3C, padrões abertos e a participação brasileira (W3C, open web standards and how to participate)" at the "ABEP Reunião de Diretores Técnicos (ABEP\'s COOs Meeting)" on Thursday, 17 April 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (see abstract)
Abstract:
ABEP is the association of State IT Agencies. This talk is the same as the many others we use to introduce W3C and web standards and to present how to be a member, eventhough we used a different approach to underline the importance of webstandards for e-government applications and how government may contribute to evolve webstandards.
18 April
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Framtidsspaning (Looking into the Future)" at the "ITARC2008" on Friday, 18 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
18 April
Daniel Dardailler gives a lecture entitled "Internet and Web Nice Sophia University public lecture" at the "Master of Information System/Ergonomy. WAI link as well" on Friday, 18 April 2008, in Nice, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:
I