https://semweb.graphy.ca/board/ What is on now across the problem threads: decision points coming up, open questions and how many answers each has, the latest signals, and where to join in. en https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ d:centralized-decentralized:Next Digital Markets Act review The Act requires a review every three years after May 2026; the first declined to cover social networks, and consumer groups say the door remains open. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-vouches/ d:who-vouches:Verifiable Credentials Working Group charter ends The W3C group maintaining Verifiable Credentials is chartered until this date. (Thread: Who vouches for it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/syntax-for-developers/ d:syntax-for-developers:JSON-LD Working Group charter ends The W3C group maintaining JSON-LD and drafting CBOR-LD is chartered until this date. (Thread: Rigour against developer taste) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ d:centralized-decentralized:Social Web Working Group charter ends The group maintaining ActivityPub is chartered until January 2028. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/identifier-registries/ d:identifier-registries:GS1 Sunrise 2027 Industry goal for retail point-of-sale systems to read 2D barcodes, such as those carrying GS1 Digital Link, by the end of 2027; voluntary, not law. (Thread: Who runs the registry?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/statements-about-statements/ d:statements-about-statements:RDF & SPARQL Working Group charter ends The W3C group finishing RDF 1.2 is chartered until this date. (Thread: Statements about statements) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-pays/ d:who-pays:Old Wikidata query endpoints may degrade From February 2027 the Blazegraph endpoints stay up but may degrade; users need to move to the new endpoints. (Thread: Who pays for public data infrastructure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-issues-your-name/ d:who-issues-your-name:DID Working Group charter ends The W3C group behind DID 1.1 and DID Resolution is chartered until this date. (Thread: Who issues your name online?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/privacy-and-consent/ d:privacy-and-consent:Linked Web Storage charter ends The W3C group standardizing Solid's storage protocol is chartered until this date. (Thread: Who controls data about me?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/open-closed-world/ d:open-closed-world:Data Shapes Working Group charter ends The W3C group writing SHACL 1.2 is chartered until the end of 2026; W3C members decide on an extension or a new charter. (Thread: Unknown or false?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-vouches/ d:who-vouches:EU digital identity wallets due Each EU member state must make at least one certified European Digital Identity Wallet available. (Thread: Who vouches for it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-vouches/ d:who-vouches:AI Act marking deadline for existing systems Generative AI systems already on the EU market before August 2026 must mark their output as AI-generated by this date. (Thread: Who vouches for it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-pays/ d:who-pays:NLnet funding deadline Next deadline for grant proposals to NLnet's open funds for open internet software. (Thread: Who pays for public data infrastructure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/querying-the-web-of-data/ d:querying-the-web-of-data:New Wikidata query endpoints open The QLever-based endpoints open to the community; the old Blazegraph endpoints may degrade from February 2027. (Thread: Querying a web, not a database) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/querying-the-web-of-data/ s:querying-the-web-of-data:2026-10-17 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Wikidata Query Service is migrating to QLever, with pilot endpoints in testing. (Thread: Querying a web, not a database) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-pays/ s:who-pays:2026-10-17 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Wikidata Query Service is migrating from the unmaintained Blazegraph to the QLever engine. (Thread: Who pays for public data infrastructure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/identifier-registries/ s:identifier-registries:2026-10-05 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Retailers in the US are piloting point-of-sale scanning of 2D barcodes that carry GS1 identifiers, ahead of the Sunrise 2027 goal. (Thread: Who runs the registry?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/why-publish-structure/ s:why-publish-structure:2026-09-16 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Schema.org 30.1 adds vocabulary for EU Digital Product Passports and retail product data. (Thread: Why would anyone add structure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/terms-of-reuse/ s:terms-of-reuse:2026-09-07 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The ODRL Community Group settles a draft charter for a W3C 'Digital Policy Working Group' to take ODRL to version 3. (Thread: On what terms may anyone reuse it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/agents-on-our-behalf/ s:agents-on-our-behalf:2026-08-17 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google's Agent2Agent protocol, for agents talking to one another, moves into the same foundation, which has grown to more than 250 members. (Thread: Agents acting for us) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/names-that-last/ s:names-that-last:2026-08-06 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 DID Resolution reaches Candidate Recommendation, defining how a DID is turned into its DID document. (Thread: Names that outlive their hosts) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-vouches/ s:who-vouches:2026-08-02 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The EU AI Act's transparency duties apply: AI-generated content must be marked in a machine-readable way. (Thread: Who vouches for it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/terms-of-reuse/ s:terms-of-reuse:2026-08 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The IETF's AI Preferences working group revises its vocabulary for stating how content may be used by AI, on track for a proposed standard. (Thread: On what terms may anyone reuse it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/privacy-and-consent/ s:privacy-and-consent:2026-06-18 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EU member states' compromise text drops the browser-signal article from the Digital Omnibus. (Thread: Who controls data about me?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-06-12 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 NLnet pauses new NGI Zero calls while it moves to a new Open Internet Stack programme. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-pays/ s:who-pays:2026-06-12 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 NLnet pauses new NGI Zero calls while EU open-internet funding moves to a new Open Internet Stack programme. (Thread: Who pays for public data infrastructure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-06 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bluesky's mobile app has 10.4 million monthly active users, down 27% on a year earlier, against about 46 million registered accounts. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-04-28 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The European Commission's first review of the Digital Markets Act declines to extend its interoperability duty from messaging to social networks. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/syntax-for-developers/ s:syntax-for-developers:2026-04-28 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The JSON-LD Working Group publishes a first draft of CBOR-LD, a compact binary form of JSON-LD. (Thread: Rigour against developer taste) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-03-31 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 First public working draft of the Linked Web Storage protocol, the standard behind Solid. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/one-vocabulary-or-many/ s:one-vocabulary-or-many:2026-03-19 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Schema.org 30.0 adds equivalence annotations that map its terms to GS1, Dublin Core and Open Graph. (Thread: One vocabulary or many) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/names-that-last/ s:names-that-last:2026-03-05 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 DID 1.1 becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation. (Thread: Names that outlive their hosts) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-03 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The IETF approves an Authenticated Transfer (ATP) Working Group, giving AT Protocol a standards home outside Bluesky; work on an independent organization for its identity directory continues. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-sets-standards/ s:who-sets-standards:2026-03 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The IETF approves a working group for AT Protocol, moving it from one company's control to a standards body. (Thread: Who sets the standard?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2026-01-15 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 W3C charters a new Social Web Working Group to maintain ActivityPub and Activity Streams. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/enclosure-or-commons/ s:enclosure-or-commons:2026-01-15 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity become paying partners of Wikimedia Enterprise, joining Google. (Thread: Who owns what the crowd built?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-pays/ s:who-pays:2026-01-15 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Five more AI and technology companies pay Wikimedia Enterprise for access to Wikipedia's content. (Thread: Who pays for public data infrastructure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-sets-standards/ s:who-sets-standards:2026-01-15 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 W3C charters a new Social Web Working Group to maintain ActivityPub. (Thread: Who sets the standard?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/agents-on-our-behalf/ s:agents-on-our-behalf:2025-12-09 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic gives the Model Context Protocol to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, co-founded with Block and OpenAI; it counts more than 10,000 active public MCP servers. (Thread: Agents acting for us) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-sets-standards/ s:who-sets-standards:2025-12-09 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic, Block and OpenAI found the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to host MCP and other agent protocols. (Thread: Who sets the standard?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/catalogue-to-web/ s:catalogue-to-web:2025-12-01 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Library of Congress releases version 3.0 of its MARC-to-BIBFRAME conversion. (Thread: From catalogue card to web data) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/privacy-and-consent/ s:privacy-and-consent:2025-11-19 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The European Commission proposes a Digital Omnibus that would move cookie rules into the GDPR and require sites to accept consent signals sent by the browser. (Thread: Who controls data about me?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/centralized-decentralized/ s:centralized-decentralized:2025-11-01 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Bluesky passes 40 million registered users. (Thread: Central against decentralized) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/why-publish-structure/ s:why-publish-structure:2025-11 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Google says it still supports about 30 structured-data features and drops the retired ones from Search Console from January 2026. (Thread: Why would anyone add structure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/enclosure-or-commons/ s:enclosure-or-commons:2025-10-17 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Wikimedia Foundation reports human pageviews down about 8% on a year earlier, and links the fall to AI answers in search. (Thread: Who owns what the crowd built?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/developer-usability/ s:developer-usability:2025-10-01 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Wikidata's new vector database lets AI applications reach its data through MCP rather than SPARQL. (Thread: Can ordinary developers use it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/symbols-or-statistics/ s:symbols-or-statistics:2025-10-01 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Wikimedia Deutschland opens a public vector database of Wikidata for AI applications, reachable through MCP. (Thread: Hand-built meaning or learned meaning) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-vouches/ s:who-vouches:2025-09 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Google's Pixel 10 attaches Content Credentials to every photo its camera takes and logs edits made in Google Photos. (Thread: Who vouches for it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/why-publish-structure/ s:why-publish-structure:2025-07-22 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Pew finds Google users click a result in 8% of visits when an AI summary appears, against 15% without one. (Thread: Why would anyone add structure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/enclosure-or-commons/ s:enclosure-or-commons:2025-07-01 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cloudflare starts blocking AI crawlers by default on new sites and offers publishers a way to charge them per crawl. (Thread: Who owns what the crowd built?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/terms-of-reuse/ s:terms-of-reuse:2025-07-01 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default on new sites, turning a site's terms into an enforced gate. (Thread: On what terms may anyone reuse it?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/why-publish-structure/ s:why-publish-structure:2025-06-12 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Google phases out several rich-result types, among them ClaimReview, Course Info and Vehicle Listing, saying they were rarely used. (Thread: Why would anyone add structure?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/one-way-links/ s:one-way-links:2024-05-17 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Pew finds 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 no longer load, and a quarter of all pages seen between 2013 and 2023 are gone. (Thread: One-way or two-way links) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-issues-your-name/ s:who-issues-your-name:2023-07 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Twitter is renamed X; its web address later moves from twitter.com to x.com. (Thread: Who issues your name online?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-issues-your-name/ s:who-issues-your-name:2023-02-02 Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Twitter announces the end of free access to its API from 9 February 2023. (Thread: Who issues your name online?) https://semweb.graphy.ca/threads/who-issues-your-name/ s:who-issues-your-name:2018-04-04 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook restricts what apps can read through its APIs. (Thread: Who issues your name online?)