W3C European Interoperability Tour 2002
30
May 2002
Dublin - Ireland
The
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will be holding a series of one day events around
Europe this spring to promote W3C technology Recommendations and show how they
facilitate interoperability on the World Wide Web.
The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) is to "lead the Web to its full potential" by evolving the Web
as a "robust, scaleable, adaptive infrastructure". W3C's main
deliverables are its Recommendations (specifications) that evolve the Web
protocols plus timely conversion tools, validation systems and checklists.
The most popular Recommendations by W3C define HTML and XML, although there are now over 40
separate Recommendations that define how the World Wide Web works today, as well as many
more under development to define how it will work tomorrow.
W3C is an a consortium of over 500 organisations world wide who contribute to
creating the technology recommendations. The members not only include the
large multinational computer and software companies, but also telecoms companies,
small software houses, publishers, government organisations and many other developers and users
of the World Wide Web.
W3C is hosted by three organizations in three
countries: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United
States, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and
Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan.
W3C has also developed a programme to partner with regional organisations,
referred to as W3C Offices, which act as local points of contact, and which
make sure that W3C and its specifications are known in their region. This event
marks the inauguration of the W3C regional Office in the UK and Ireland.
In addition to speakers from W3C itself, the
event will also feature a local W3C member who will
provide a case study of the benefits of W3C technologies. The event will also
include a panel discussion lead by the chair of the local W3C Office on W3C
recommendations and how they facilitate interoperability.
Timetable |
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| 09:30 | Registration (with coffee) | ||
| 10:00 | Introduction and Launch of the W3C Regional Office for UK and Ireland | W3C UK and Ireland Regional Chair | Michael Wilson |
| 10:30 | Overview and Future of W3C | Director of W3C Europe | Daniel Dardailler |
| 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:30 | Interoperability of W3C XML Recommendations | W3C UK and Ireland Regional Chair | Michael Wilson |
| 12:15 | Discussion | ||
| 12:45 | Buffet Lunch | exhibits invited from 6 local members | |
| 13:45 | XSLT and XML for Content Management | W3C Document Formats Domain | Max Froumentin |
| 14:30 | XML and Web Services | Iona Technologies Inc. | Oisin Hurley |
| 15:15 | Tea | ||
| 15:45 | Panel Discussion | chaired by W3C UK & Ireland Regional Chair | Michael Wilson |
| 17:00 | Close of Day |
Exhibitors - W3C members in Ireland
Location
Central Hotel Dublin
Exchequer Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
About the Speakers
Daniel Dardailler
Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C team in July 1996 and is now Deputy Director for Europe. He is also involved in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the QA activity of W3C.
Prior to that, he was acting as a Software Architect for the X Window System Consortium, responsible for the Motif toolkit and others CDE (Unix Desktop) components.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89).
Ivan Herman
Ivan graduated as a mathematician at the University of Budapest, in Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Universite Paris VI he joined a Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked 6 years (and turned into a computer scientist...). He then spent three years at a software house in Mnich, Germany, before joining the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Amsterdam in 1989, where he holds a tenure position. He received a PhD degree in computer science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Although Ivan worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming) he spend most of these years in computer graphics and visualization. He also participated in various related ISO standardization activities.
Ivan has been active in the Eurographics Association since 1985. He is now vice-chair of the Association. His activities in EG also provided him with his first active encounter with the Web: he created and maintained the Web site of the Association back in 1994 (or thereabouts) and he was the head of the online activities until the end of 2000.
He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, in May 2000. He was also the AC Rep for CWI, and head of the W3C Dutch Office until he joined the W3C team.
Max Froumentin
Max joined W3C at INRIA in July 2000. Prior to that, he completed a PhD in computer graphics in 1996 at University of Lille, France, and has worked for three years as a research assistant at University of Bath, UK. His interests are 2D and 3D graphics, styling and typography.
Oisin Hurley
Oisin is a Principal Engineer at IONA Technologies and directs IONA's involvement in the W3C as the company's Advisory Committee representative. He is also involved in the current work being done by the XML Protocol Working Group that is standardizing SOAP 1.2. When not doing W3C-related work, Oisin works with the Orbix E2A Application Server Platform product team in Dublin.
Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson is Chair of the W3C Regional Office in the UK and Ireland. He is a full time researcher at the UK's CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory with a research history in computing stretching back 20 years. He was a member of the W3C working group that developed the SMIL W3C recommendation for synchronising multimedia, and has lead the intelligent user interface, virtual reality and advanced hypermedia groups at RAL.
Registration
A fee of 50 Euro will be charged to cover expenses only. To register, please print out the registration form, and return it by post with your payment.
Press Contacts
Michael Wilson - W3C UK Office Manager
Email: m.d.wilson@rl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 44 6619
Marie-Claire Forgue - W3C Communication Officer
Email: mcf@w3.org
Tel: +33 4 92 38 75 94
Further information
Mrs Pat Athawes
Email: ctrain@rl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 44 6188
