A wide range of tutorial topics are being offered at WWW8.
There are full-day tutorials on the Extensible Markup Language
XML, the Extensible Stylesheet Language XSLT, Web metadata, and
information retrieval and search engines. Half-day tutorials
include E-commerce, security, Web engineering, the Resource Description
Framework RDF, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMIL, Java, Web collaboration using distributed authoring and
versioning (WebDAV), JavaScript/ECMA, and Web internationalization.
The Tuesday registration fee covers one full-day or two half-day
tutorials.
WWW8 workshops provide an opportunity to explore current
Web issues in small, focused group settings. This year's workshop
topics include the advancement of virtual documents and hypertext
functionality, online learning,
adaptive user modeling, the advancement of Web engineering
techniques, and methods for managing intellectual content on
the Web. Most of the workshops are open to anyone wishing to
sign up for them, although total attendance at each workshop
will be limited to encourage a high degree of interaction. All
tutorials are full-day.
