W3C Holds Web Services and Semantics Seminar; W3C Member Companies,
Technical Staff Demonstrate Real World Web Services Solutions in Paris
Using Web Services: From Infrastructure to Semantics
http://www.w3.org/--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2006--W3C invites the
public to a Web Services Seminar entitled "Using Web services: from
infrastructure to semantics" on 6 March 2006 at the Palais Brongniart
in Paris, France.


Focusing on semantic enhancements to Web services applications, this
free event provides concrete examples of business challenges and how
they have been resolved through the use of Web Services. W3C Member
organizations including Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, and Nokia, are
to demonstrate solutions already implemented in enterprise
environments.

Web Services Are Changing the Way IT Problems Are Approached and Resolved

Web services provide a standard means for software applications
running on a variety of platforms and frameworks to interoperate.
W3C's Web Services Activity is designing the infrastructure, defining
the architecture and creating the core technologies for Web services:

-- A messaging framework with SOAP 1.2, WS-Addressing 1.0 and SOAP
Message Transmission Optimization (MTOM)

-- Description of services through Web Services Description Language
2.0 and Web Services Choreography Description Language

-- Addressing larger architectural topics and issues

W3C tested and standardized the essential components of the Web
services model, ensuring a stable foundation for applications
development. Now as industry desires more elaborate description
capabilities, new work at W3C uses semantics on top of these core
technologies.

Use Cases and Applications Experience Serve as Starting Point for
Integrating Semantics

The Web Services and Semantics Seminar demonstrates uses of Web
services in real world scenarios and promises a look at the use of
semantics. Presentations on Web services applications are currently
planned from industry leaders, developers and customers, and from W3C
technical staff. The event is free to all, including members of the
press, but requires registration. For your convenience, an online
registration form is available and is linked from the Seminar home
page.

About the Web Services and Semantics (WS2) project

The Web Services and Semantics (WS2) Project (IST-FP6-004308) is a
specific support action in IST's FP6 framework (financed by European
Commission's IST Programme) running for 2 years, from July 2004 to
June 2006, in order to promote Web services and work on integration of
semantics. The goals of the project are to increase European awareness
of Web services and Web services standards, to increase participation
in their development, and to start the integration of semantics in Web
services. The WS2 project, led by the W3C European host, ERCIM, is
supporting the work of outreach and technical work for Web Services
and Semantic Web Services.

About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium
where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work
together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission
through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to
ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are
Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA,
the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
(ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and has
additional Offices worldwide. For more information see
http://www.w3.org/