- From: Lloyd Rutledge <Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl>
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:09:37 +0100
- To: www-smil@w3.org
Tutorials on SMIL 2.0 and SVG are among the tutorials offered at WWW 2002 on May 7th in Hawaii. Below are descriptions of these two tutorials and information for the conference as a whole. See you there! -Lloyd Rutledge SMIL 2.0 -------- SMIL 2.0 specifies interactive multimedia on the Web. It has just been released as a W3C recommendation. It already enjoys substantial support, implemented in such Web browsers as RealNetworks' RealOne and Internet Explorer 6.0. This version of SMIL extends SMIL 1.0, a W3C recommendation since June 1998. SMIL 2.0 is 15 times as large as SMIL 1.0, and defines a family of languages rather than just one language. This tutorial presents SMIL 2.0, tools for it, how to create presentations in it, and how it has currently been adopted by the community at large. The goal of the tutorial is to explain the concepts that form the basis of the SMIL language and to provide sufficient detail on the language itself so that participants can create their own simple presentations. Participants will also understand the underlying issues of temporal and spatial layout and the complexity of creating links within multimedia. They will also be able to use available tools to play and create SMIL presentations. Before describing the details of the SMIL 2.0 language, the tutorial first presents an overview of the components required in a hypermedia document description language. The SMIL language includes features for specifying the media items included in a document, referred to with URL's, how these are temporally and spatially related to one another, and how links can be specified within the multimedia environment. Alternates for different data formats for the heterogeneous web environment are also provided. The tutorial is intended for content developers who have created HTML documents or have used tools such as Macromedia Director or Authorware. Multimedia designers, web-page creators, creators of interface prototypes such as user interface designers, human factors practitioners and industrial designers will also benefit from this course. Presenter: Lloyd Rutledge is a researcher at CWI, the Dutch national center for computer and mathematics research. His research involves adaptable hypermedia, and standards for it such as SMIL. He received his Sc.D. from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he worked with the Distributed Multimedia Systems Laboratory (DMSL). Dr. Rutledge is a member of the W3C working group that developed SMIL. He is also co-author of "SMIL: Interactive Multimedia on the Web", to be published in May by Pearson Education. SVG --- Until recently, the way to add schematic drawings to a web page was to define the drawing as an image (in GIF, PNG, JPEG or some other format) and insert the image into the web page using the <IMG> element. This has the following major drawbacks: 1. Image size: The size of an image is defined by the width and height of the image (in pixels) and the number of bits allocated to each pixel in the image. 2. Fixed resolution: Once the image has been defined at a specific resolution, that is the only resolution available. 3. Binary format: Image formats store the image data in some binary format which makes it difficult to embed rich metadata about the graphic to help search engines. 4. Minimal animation: The GIF format allows several images to be defined in one image file ("animated gifs"), but each image is essentially static. 5. No inherent hyperlinking: Web pages depend on hyperlinking. To do this is with images requires the use of image maps defined as part of the enclosing HTML page. Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, is the World Wide Web Consortium's Recommendation for defining 2-dimensional schematic drawings such that the size is more directly dependent on the content in the drawing and the resolution is whatever the user requires. Zooming in on an SVG drawing allows greater and greater detail to be seen if the drawing is complex. This tutorial will include SVG attributes for: * Coordinates and Rendering * SVG Drawing Elements * Grouping * Filling * Stroking * Text * Animation * Linking and Templates * Interaction Presenter: Bob Hopgood was the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's W3C Advisory Committee representative where he was active in getting a Web profile for the Computer Graphics Metafile agreed and helped establish W3C's Offices in Europe. He was also Programme Chair for WWW5 in Paris. On his retirement, he worked for the World Wide Web Consortium for a year as Head of Offices. He is now a visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University. He has over 35 years experience in computer graphics, especially in standardization activities and has lectured internationally on emerging web standards. He has given a number of seminars and tutorials on SVG to international audiences during 2000 and 2001. WWW2002 - 11th International WWW Conference ------------------------------------------- Sheraton Waikiki Hotel - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA May 7-11, 2002 http://www2002.org/ Beginning with the first International WWW Conference in 1994, this prestigious series of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) provides a refereed forum for WWW research. It also provides a public forum for the WWW Consortium (W3C) through the annual W3C track. TUTORIALS (http://www2002.org/halfdaytutorials.html and http://www2002.org/fulldaytutorials.html) * Meeting the Challenges of Web Applications Development: The Web Engineering Approach * Web Service Composition * Developing Wireless Applications with Java * Security * Experience Design * Managing the Growth, Maintainability and Quality of Web Applications: The Web Engineering Approach * Service Composition Techniques * Web Services Security * Capacity Planning * XML and Data Management * SVG * SMIL 2.0 * XTM - XML Topic Maps WORKSHOPS (http://www2002.org/fulldayworkshops.html) Workshops and tutorials take place on the first day before the conference. * Semantic Web Workshop * Workshop On Mobile Search * Second International Workshop on Web Dynamics * E-Learning : Learning Objects & Standards * Real world RDF and Semantic Web applications * Web Content Accessibility Summit * DNS I18N (IDN) Implementors' Workshop 2002 DEVELOPERS DAY (http://www2002.org/devday.html) Developers Day takes place on the last day of the conference. It is devoted to the interests of Web developers, offering in-depth discussions of technologies and tools at the forefront of the Web. Tracks: * Protocols, the Web, and Web Services * The Semantic Web * Security * Device-Independent Web CONFERENCE PROGRAM (http://www2002.org/program.html) The conference has a formal refereed papers track, as well as several alternate tracks. Papers presented in the alternate tracks are also refereed. Alternate Tracks: * W3C Track (Prepared by the World Wide Web Consortium) * Education * Global Community (includes culture & society and internationalization) * Practice & Experience * Web Engineering * Telehealth * Vendors Track -- Lloyd Rutledge vox: +31 20 592 40 93 fax: +31 20 592 43 12 CWI net: Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl Web: http://www.cwi.nl/~lloyd Post: PO Box 94079 | NL-1090 GB Amsterdam | The Netherlands Street: Kruislaan 413/C | NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam | The Netherlands
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