World Wide Web Consortium

International standards body for the Web, founded at MIT in 1994. It publishes the specifications it calls Recommendations, including RDF, OWL and SPARQL.

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founded by

• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 (1994) [src]

people

• Dan Brickley person [src]
• Eric Miller person [src]
  Semantic Web Activity Lead
• Eric Prud'hommeaux person [src1][src2]
• Ian Jacobs person [src]
• Ivan Herman person b. 1955 [src]
  Semantic Web Activity Lead
• Philippe Le Hégaret person [src]
• Ralph Swick person [src]

publishes

• Activity Streams 2.0 standard 2017 [src]
• ActivityPub standard 2018 [src]
• Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One standard 2004 [src]
• Call for proposals to amend the httpRange-14 resolution writing 2012 [src]
• CBOR-LD standard 2026 [src]
• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web writing 2008 [src]
• DCAT standard 2014 [src]
• Decentralized Identifiers standard 2022 [src]
• JSON-LD standard 2014 [src]
• Linked Data Platform standard 2015 [src]
• Linked Web Storage Protocol standard 2026 [src]
• Meta Content Framework Using XML writing 1997 [src]
• ODRL standard 2018 [src]
• OWL standard 2004 [src1][src2]
• OWL 2 standard 2009 [src]
• PICS standard 1996 [src]
• Platform for Privacy Preferences standard 2002–2018 [src]
• PROV standard 2013 [src]
• RDF standard 1999 [src1][src2]
• RDF 1.2 standard 2026 [src]
• RDF Dataset Canonicalization standard 2024 [src]
• RDF Schema standard 2004 [src]
• RDFa standard 2008 [src]
• Report of the W3C RDF Validation Workshop writing 2013 [src]
• Report of the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data writing 2019 [src]
• Semantic Sensor Network Ontology standard 2017 [src]
• SHACL standard 2017 [src]
• SHACL 1.2 standard 2025 [src]
• SKOS standard 2009 [src]
• SPARQL standard 2008 [src]
• SPARQL 1.1 standard 2013 [src]
• Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices standard 2017 [src]
• Turtle standard 2014 [src]
• Verifiable Credential Data Integrity standard 2025 [src]
• Verifiable Credentials Data Model standard 2019 [src]
• W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era writing 2026 [src]
• W3C Patent Policy writing 2004 [src]
• W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL writing 2026 [src]
• Web Annotation Data Model standard 2017 [src]
• Web of Things Thing Description standard 2020 [src]
• Webmention standard 2017 [src]
• XML standard 1998 [src]

maintains

• Annotea project 2001 [src]
• W3C Data Activity project 2013 [src]
• W3C Semantic Web Activity project 2001–2013 [src]