W3C Track @ WWW2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

11:00 - 12:30

Session 1 - S1

Session chair: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C)

• W3C Mobile Web Initative (MWI) by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C)
• MWI Best Practices by Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone)
• MWI Device Description by James Pearce (Argogroup)
• Panel: 'What will the Mobile Web 2.0 be?'
  Panelists: Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone), Roland Geisler (Nokia) [slides], Charles McCathieNeville (Opera), James Pearce (Argogroup), Arun Ranganathan (AOL) [slides], Paul Walsh (Segala) [slides]

W3C launched the Mobile Web Initiative a year ago to gather momentum around making the Web on mobile devices a better experience for the users. This session will present what achievements have been accomplished during this year, and what the future holds for the initiative.

Session chair: Max Froumentin (W3C)

• W3C Speech Standards by Max Froumentin (W3C)
  The W3C speech interface framework languages (including VoiceXML 2.0/2.1) have been widely deployed. The focus is now on CCXML, VoiceXML 3.0, and SCXML, a state-transition language for managing the control flow of applications, especially voice and multimodal applications. These languages will enable new and exciting speech and multiple applications.
• Internationalizing Speech Synthesis by Kazuyuki Ashimura (W3C)
  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.
• Next Steps: Ubiquitous Web by Dave Raggett (W3C)
  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.

Session chair: Eric Miller (W3C)

• Building a Web of Data by Eric Miller (W3C)
• How does the Semantic Web Enable Drug Discovery? by Eric Neumann (Teranode)
• Integrating Life Sciences Data on the Web using SPARQL Lee Feigenbaum (IBM)
• BioRDF: Seeding the Semantic Web by Susie Stephens (Oracle Corp.)
• Semantic Empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications by Amit Sheth (Semagix and Univ. of Georgia)
  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.
• Bridging the Hypertext and Semantic Webs by Ben Adida (Creative Commons)

14:00- 15:30

Session 2 - S2

Session chair: Dean Jackson (W3C)

• Web Scripting APIs - Current and Future by Dean Jackson (W3C)
• Declarative Formats for Web Applications by Art Barstow (Nokia)
• The Power of Declarative Thinking by Steven Pemberton (W3C)

Heard the buzz about Web 2.0, AJAX and Rich Web Applications?

This session will discuss the standards that these technologies are built on as well as new standards such as Compound Documents, Binding Languages and Web APIs that will improve the Web.

Session chair: Hugo Haas (W3C) [Introduction slides]

• Web Services Addressing 1.0: Testing Implementations of an Interoperable Technology by Paul Downey (BT)
• WSDL 2.0 by Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck)
• Semantic Annotations by Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck)
• XML Schema Patterns for Databinding by Paul Downey (BT)

After SOAP 1.2 and MTOM standards, WS Addressing 1.0 is now a W3C Recommendation and the work on WSDL 2.0 has also progressed (implementation testing stage). Web services infrastructure work has therefore started on next steps: facilitating the work of developers by defining a set of XML Schema patterns efficiently implementable by the broad community who use XML databindings, and building a simple and generic support for semantics in Web services.

Session chair: Bert Bos (W3C)

• CSS Advanced Layout by Bert Bos (W3C) and César F. Acebal
  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 will end with a preview of a new grid layout scheme for CSS3.
• The WaSP and CSS by Molly Holzschlag and Andy Clarke (WaSP Group)
• Writing CSS for Syndicated Content by Kevin Lawver (AOL)
  As more and more sites syndicate small chunks of markup, the integration of "foreign" CSS is causing all kinds of headaches fordevelopers 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.

Session 3 - S3

Session chair: Shawn Henry (W3C)

• Moving to WCAG 2.0 and Revealing the Power of ATAG 2.0 by Shawn Henry (W3C/WAI)
• Panel: 'Understanding Accessibility Issues in the Interactive Web'
  Panelists: Ben Caldwell (Trace R&D Center) [WCAG 2.0 and the Interactive Web], Becky Gibson [JavaScript and Ajax Accessibility] (IBM), Shadi About-Zahra [Role of Tools] (W3C/WAI), Shawn Henry (W3C/WAI)

Web 2.0, Mobile Web, AJAX, rich Web applications, blogs -- the Web continues to develop. This session addresses accessibility issues in the next-generation Web. For example, scripting, once a significant accessibility barrier, is now a key aspect of many Web applications. Join us to get the latest on how the recently-released Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Last Call and Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0) Working Drafts address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.

Session chair: Liam Quin (W3C)

• Introduction by Liam Quin (W3C)
• Choosing Between XSLT 2.0 and XML Query 1.0 by Mike Kay (Saxonica)
• An XML based architecture for Web 2.0 applications by Daniela Florescu (Oracle Corp.)
  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.

Session chair: Thomas Roessler (W3C)

• Web Security at W3C by Thomas Roessler (W3C)
• Web APIs and Cross-Site Data Access by Charles McCathieNeville (Opera Software)
• Ubiquitous Web Requirements by Dave Raggett (W3C)
• Discussion and questions from the audience.

Presenters at the session will look at the challenges to Web security that emerge as the Web's potential as a platform for applications and services is explored: How do we make Web authentication usable -- and what does that mean? How do today's approaches to mutual authentication mix with the ubiquitous web's requirements? How does today's browser security model mix with the needs of rich Web applications?