Web services interoperability
Speaker: Dr Michael Sperberg-McQueen, W3C Architecture Domain Leader, W3C
When: 2003-08-21 14:00:00
Venue: Level 3, 80 George Street, Brisbane
Host: (seminar host unavailable)
Abstract:Web Services are the next step in the evolution of the World Wide
Web. The Web of today is, for the most part, a network of documents
intended to be read by human beings; they can be read by non-human
agents like Web spiders, but for the most part such non-human agents
cannot do much with them. Web Services promise to make the Web much
more hospitable for information suited for machine processing.
This talk will give an introduction to Web Services, and an account
of why W3C is active in the area and what we hope to accomplish.
The talk will provide an overview of the Web Services
standardization landscape, beginning with an account of where the
fundamental ideas of Web Services come from and what is meant by the
term. Some sample use cases and usage scenarios will help clarify
the kinds of problems people hope to solve with Web Services; an
introduction to the core specifications in the area will help show
how the problems are to be solved. Some basic design principles and
problems in Web Services will be identified.
Biography:Michael Sperberg-McQueen is the W3C Architecture Domain Leader. He
serves as co-chair of the XML Schema Working Group, which is part of
the W3C XML Activity, and of the XML Coordination Group. Before the
XML Schema work started, he served as co-editor of the first edition
of the W3C Recommendation XML 1.0. He works full-time for W3C from
his home in Española, New Mexico. From 1988 to 2001, Michael served
as editor in chief of the Text Encoding Initiative, an international
cooperative project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the
encoding and interchange of electronic texts for research
purposes. He also serves as co-coordinator of the Model Editions
Partnership, a project to apply the TEI guidelines to the creation
of electronic historical documentary editions. Michael holds a
Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University.
Type: DSTC seminar
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or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)