Podcast - Reflections on WWW2005
On 23 May 2005 Brian Kelly was interviewed by Derek Morisson for a Auricle podcast
on the subject of "Reflections on WWW2005".
- Abstract
- In the Podcast described in the
Auricle Blog
Brian Kelly was interviewed by Derek Morrison, head of
CDNTL
at the University of Bath.
- Resources
- Auricle Blog entry:
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog_comments.php?id=P440_0_4_0>
Auricle Podcast summary:
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/e-learning/Download/podcasts/auriclepodcasts.xml>
MP3 File:
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/e-learning/download/podcasts/20050523-brian-kelly.mp3>
- Topics
- In this 17 minute Podcast Brian Kelly gave a report on his recent trip
to the 14th World Wide Web conference.
The planned structure of the interview is given below (note that this does
not necessarily reflect the interview which was carried out).
- What were you doing in Japan?
- Attending the 14th International WWW conference
and speaking at an accompanying workshop on
Engineering Accessible Design.
- Tell me about your paper
- The paper on
Forcing Standardization
or Accommodating Diversity? A Framework for Applying the WCAG in the Real World
builds on work in elearning & accessibility (with TechDis and Elaine Swift, CDNTL).
The paperr decsribes some of the limitations of the WAI guidelines and describes
an alternative approach.
- Tell me about Tim Berners-Lee's keynote
- Tim gave the
opening keynote talk.
Tim highlighted some of the dangers faced by users of networked sevices (spamming,
security infrigments, privacy concerns, etc. In addition Tim announced the
launch of the Mobile Web Initiative.
This has the goal of making mobile Web content development and access as seamless,
uncomplicated and reliable as desktop/laptop Web access.
- What were your impressions of the conference itself
- This year several of the sessions expressed concerns over complexity of today's
Web infrastructure:
- Web Services specs are large and complex
- Uncertainty as to how we get users to make use of the Semantic Web
- How has the community responded?
- A number of alternative approaches are being developed (typically by the grass
roots development community rather than from within W3C:
- Grass-roots appeal of standards such as RSS
- Development of the 'lowercase semantic web' and 'microformats'
providing semantics though, for example, use of <span>s and
<div>s
and <a href="..." rel="structured relationship"> in XHTML.
- Tell me about the infrastructure at the conference
- Pervasive WiFi and broadband, not only in conference venue but also
free broadband in hotel. Interestingly there very few (if any) PCs availabkle
for general use in the conference venue - you had to bring your own.
People were Blogging and Podcasting talks at the conference
- for example see Blogging workshop
and the
WWW 2005 Podcast.
(Note that at the WWW 2005 conference delegates were clearly very keen on using
networked computers during the conference. However at less techie events there
would be issues about disruption, equality of access, privacy, copyright, etc.
that would need to be addressed.)
- Next year:
- WWW 2006 will be held in Edinburgh next May.
Opportunity for greater involvement by the UK HE community.
- Technical Details
- In the interview Brian Kelly and Derek Morrison both used the
Skype Internet telephony application.
Brian and Derek were both in their offices, located in Wessex House, University of Bath.
Derek used the open source Audacity
application for recording, editing and processing the sound file.
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