SMIL and related tutorials at WWW 2002 May 7 in Hawaii

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
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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
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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
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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


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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
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