◆ Semantic Web Catalogue

Timeline

  1. 1800s

    1. 1800 Library of Congress founded organization

  2. 1850s

    1. 18 Sep 1851 The New York Times founded organization
    2. 10 Dec 1851 Melvil Dewey born person
    3. 22 Apr 1854 Henri La Fontaine born person

  3. 1860s

    1. 1862 University of Southampton founded organization
    2. 23 Aug 1868 Paul Otlet born person

  4. 1870s

    1. 1876 Dewey Decimal Classification first published standard

  5. 1880s

    1. 1885 Stanford University founded organization

  6. 1890s

    1. 11 Mar 1890 Vannevar Bush born person
    2. 9 Aug 1892 S.R. Ranganathan born person [?]

  7. 1900s

    1. 1905 Universal Decimal Classification first published standard
    2. 1907 University of Mannheim founded organization

  8. 1910s

    1. 1910 Mundaneum founded organization
    2. 7 Oct 1919 Henriette Avram born person

  9. 1920s

    1. 3 Feb 1920 George A. Miller born person
    2. 6 Sep 1921 Norman Joseph Woodland born person
    3. 1922 BBC founded organization
    4. 19 Aug 1923 Edgar F. Codd born person [?]
    5. 21 Sep 1924 Bernard Silver born person
    6. 30 Jan 1925 Douglas Engelbart born person
    7. 23 Sep 1925 George Laurer born person
    8. 29 Apr 1926 Paul Baran born person
    9. 9 Aug 1927 Marvin Minsky born person
    10. 4 Sep 1927 John McCarthy born person

  10. 1930s

    1. 16 Nov 1930 Waldo Tobler born person
    2. 26 Dec 1931 Melvil Dewey died person
    3. 1933 Colon Classification first published standard
    4. 7 Aug 1933 Elinor Ostrom born person
    5. 17 Nov 1933 Roger Tomlinson born person
    6. 1934 Traité de documentation published writing
    7. 17 Jun 1937 Ted Nelson born person
    8. 12 Jun 1939 Raymond Reiter born person

  11. 1940s

    1. 1940 Donald J. Kessler born person [?]
    2. 17 Jun 1942 William A. Woods born person
    3. 14 May 1943 Henri La Fontaine died person
    4. 21 Aug 1944 Pat Hayes born person
    5. 10 Dec 1944 Paul Otlet died person
    6. Jul 1945 As We May Think published writing
    7. Jul 1945 Memex first described concept
    8. 1946 International Council of Museums founded organization
    9. 1946 Lou Burnard born person
    10. 1946 SRI International founded organization
    11. 1947 ISO founded organization
    12. 3 Jan 1947 Peter Chen born person
    13. 26 Jan 1947 Robert Cailliau born person
    14. 8 Feb 1947 Gerald Jay Sussman born person
    15. 1949 Ronald J. Brachman born person
    16. 20 Oct 1949 Barcode first described concept

  12. 1950s

    1. 13 Sep 1950 Doug Lenat born person
    2. 18 Dec 1950 Christiane Fellbaum born person
    3. 1951 Hector Levesque born person
    4. 17 Mar 1951 Bill Atkinson born person
    5. 25 Oct 1952 Wendy Hall born person
    6. 12 Feb 1954 Phil Zimmermann born person
    7. 29 Sep 1954 CERN founded organization
    8. 24 Feb 1955 Ivan Herman born person
    9. 8 Jun 1955 Tim Berners-Lee born person
    10. 21 Jun 1955 Tim Bray born person
    11. 11 Dec 1955 Mark Sandler born person
    12. 1956 Mark Musen born person
    13. 1956 Peter Norvig born person
    14. 1956 Semantic network first described concept
    15. 9 Apr 1956 Nigel Shadbolt born person
    16. 25 Sep 1956 Danny Hillis born person
    17. 1957 Gerhard Weikum born person
    18. 2 Apr 1957 Jim Hendler born person
    19. Oct 1957 Satellite Catalog Number first published standard
    20. 1958 DARPA founded organization
    21. 1958 Joan Feigenbaum born person
    22. 11 Mar 1958 Ian Horrocks born person
    23. 1959 Programs with Common Sense published writing
    24. 1959 Tom Gruber born person
    25. 30 May 1959 Bruce Gilliat born person

  13. 1960s

    1. 1960 Deborah McGuinness born person
    2. 1960 Frank van Harmelen born person
    3. 1960 Jan Wielemaker born person
    4. 1960 Project Xanadu started project
    5. 22 Oct 1960 Brewster Kahle born person
    6. 3 Jun 1961 Lawrence Lessig born person
    7. 1962 NLS started project
    8. 1962 UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space started project [?]
    9. Oct 1962 Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework published writing
    10. c. 1963 Canada Geographic Information System started project [?]
    11. 1963 International Designator first published standard
    12. 1963 Ti Kan born person [?]
    13. 28 Aug 1963 Bernard Silver died person
    14. 1964 Clay Shirky born person
    15. Aug 1964 On Distributed Communications: Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks published writing
    16. 26 Dec 1964 Veda Hlubinka-Cook born person
    17. 1965 A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate published writing
    18. 1965 Hypertext first described concept
    19. 1965 John Giannandrea born person
    20. 1965 MARC first published standard
    21. 1965 R.V. Guha born person
    22. Sep 1965 Roy Fielding born person
    23. 18 Nov 1965 Kingsley Idehen born person
    24. 7 Aug 1966 Jimmy Wales born person [?]
    25. 13 Sep 1966 Kevin Marks born person
    26. 26 Jan 1967 Col Needham born person
    27. Jul 1967 OCLC founded organization
    28. 1968 Kevin Ashton born person [?]
    29. 1968 Marc Wick born person [?]
    30. 1968 Semantic Information Processing published writing
    31. 1968 Semantic Memory published writing [?]
    32. 16 Jul 1968 Larry Sanger born person
    33. Sep 1968 Amit Singhal born person
    34. 14 Oct 1968 Evan Prodromou born person
    35. 1969 José Emilio Labra Gayo born person
    36. 1969 Relational model first described concept [?]

  14. 1970s

    1. 1970 Robert Kaye born person [?]
    2. 1970 Tobler's first law of geography first described concept
    3. Jun 1970 A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region published writing
    4. Jun 1970 A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks published writing
    5. Aug 1970 Jeff Heflin born person
    6. 25 Feb 1971 Lorrie Cranor born person
    7. 17 Jul 1971 Cory Doctorow born person
    8. 27 Sep 1972 S.R. Ranganathan died person
    9. 1973 Christian Bizer born person
    10. 26 Mar 1973 Larry Page born person
    11. 3 Apr 1973 Universal Product Code first published standard
    12. 21 Aug 1973 Sergey Brin born person
    13. 1974 Computer Lib / Dream Machines published writing
    14. 1974 Frames first described concept
    15. 1974 Pierre-Antoine Champin born person
    16. 1974 Zachary Ives born person
    17. 26 Apr 1974 GS1 founded organization [?]
    18. Jun 1974 A Framework for Representing Knowledge published writing
    19. 28 Jun 1974 Vannevar Bush died person
    20. 1975 Microsoft founded organization
    21. 1975 Sören Auer born person
    22. 1975 What's in a Link: Foundations for Semantic Networks published writing
    23. Mar 1976 Entity–relationship model first described concept
    24. Mar 1976 The Entity-Relationship Model: Toward a Unified View of Data published writing
    25. 1 Apr 1976 Apple founded organization
    26. 1977 Global Trade Item Number first published standard [?]
    27. 1978 Kessler syndrome first described concept
    28. 1978 On Closed World Data Bases published writing
    29. 27 Feb 1978 Denny Vrandečić born person
    30. Jun 1978 Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt published writing

  15. 1980s

    1. 1980 Transclusion first described concept
    2. 2 Aug 1980 Rufus Pollock born person
    3. Dec 1980 Two-line element set first published standard [?]
    4. 20 Dec 1980 Steve Coast born person
    5. 1981 Getty Vocabularies started project [?]
    6. 1981 International Securities Identification Number first published standard
    7. 6 May 1981 Markus Krötzsch born person
    8. 1982 Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation founded organization
    9. 1983 Thinking Machines Corporation founded organization
    10. 1984 Cyc started project
    11. 1984 EuroVoc started project
    12. 1984 WGS 84 first published standard
    13. 20 Jul 1984 Lydia Pintscher born person
    14. 26 Sep 1984 Christine Lemmer-Webber born person
    15. 1985 CelesTrak started project
    16. 1985 Getty Research Institute founded organization
    17. 1985 WordNet started project
    18. Apr 1985 An Overview of the KL-ONE Knowledge Representation System published writing
    19. 8 Nov 1986 Aaron Swartz born person
    20. 1987 HyperCard started project
    21. 1987 Protégé started project
    22. 1987 Text Encoding Initiative first published standard
    23. 1987 UN/EDIFACT first published standard
    24. Feb 1987 Expressiveness and Tractability in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning published writing
    25. 28 Feb 1987 Ruben Verborgh born person
    26. 16 Mar 1988 Juan Benet born person
    27. c. 1989 Canada Geographic Information System ended project [?]
    28. Mar 1989 Information Management: A Proposal published writing

  16. 1990s

    1. 1990 Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems published writing [?]
    2. 1990 World Wide Web started project
    3. 17 Oct 1990 IMDb started project
    4. 1991 HTML first published standard
    5. 1991 HTTP first published standard
    6. 1991 Jay Graber born person
    7. 1991 Pretty Good Privacy started project
    8. 1992 OpenLink Software founded organization
    9. 1992 Web of trust first described concept
    10. c. 1993 CDDB started project [?]
    11. Jun 1993 A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications published writing
    12. 1994 Cycorp founded organization
    13. 1994 Handle System first published standard [?]
    14. 1994 Open Geospatial Consortium founded organization
    15. 1994 STEP first published standard
    16. 4 Apr 1994 Netscape founded organization
    17. Jun 1994 URI first described concept
    18. 5 Jul 1994 Amazon founded organization
    19. Oct 1994 World Wide Web Consortium founded organization
    20. 1995 Meta Content Framework first published standard
    21. 1995 PURL first published standard
    22. Mar 1995 Dublin Core first published standard
    23. 1996 Internet Archive founded organization
    24. c. 1996 SHOE first published standard
    25. 11 Mar 1996 Database Directive started project
    26. 31 Oct 1996 PICS first published standard
    27. 1997 International DOI Foundation founded organization
    28. 6 Jun 1997 Meta Content Framework Using XML published writing
    29. 1998 Cool URIs don't change published writing
    30. 1998 Encoded Archival Description first published standard
    31. 1998 FRBR first published standard
    32. 1998 Gene Ontology started project
    33. 1998 Virtuoso started project
    34. 1998 XBRL first published standard
    35. 10 Feb 1998 XML first published standard
    36. Apr 1998 The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine published writing
    37. Apr 1998 VIAF started project
    38. Sep 1998 Semantic Web first described concept [?]
    39. Sep 1998 Semantic Web Road Map published writing
    40. 4 Sep 1998 Google founded organization
    41. 1999 Auto-ID Center founded organization
    42. 1999 CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model first published standard
    43. 1999 Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace published writing
    44. 1999 DAML started project
    45. 1999 Internet of Things first described concept
    46. 1999 Weaving the Web published writing
    47. 1999 XBRL International founded organization
    48. 22 Feb 1999 RDF first published standard
    49. Mar 1999 RSS first published standard

  17. 2000s

    1. 2000 Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures published writing
    2. 2000 Crossref founded organization
    3. 2000 DOI first published standard
    4. 2000 FOAF first published standard
    5. 2000 Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation dissolved organization
    6. 2000 Topic Maps first published standard [?]
    7. 17 Jul 2000 MusicBrainz started project
    8. Nov 2000 Discogs started project
    9. Dec 2000 Semantic Web layer cake first described concept [?]
    10. 2001 DAML+OIL first published standard
    11. 2001 Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology published writing
    12. 15 Jan 2001 Creative Commons founded organization
    13. 15 Jan 2001 Wikipedia started project
    14. Feb 2001 W3C Semantic Web Activity started project
    15. May 2001 Annotea started project
    16. May 2001 Annotea: An Open RDF Infrastructure for Shared Web Annotations published writing
    17. May 2001 The Semantic Web published writing
    18. 26 Aug 2001 Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia published writing
    19. 25 Oct 2001 Wayback Machine started project
    20. 2002 International Semantic Web Conference started project
    21. 2002 UniProt started project
    22. Jan 2002 SNOMED CT first published standard
    23. 25 Mar 2002 httpRange-14 first described concept
    24. 16 Apr 2002 Platform for Privacy Preferences first published standard
    25. 16 Sep 2002 Raymond Reiter died person
    26. 2003 ISO 15926 first published standard
    27. 2003 XFN first published standard
    28. Jan 2003 Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary first published standard
    29. 18 Apr 2003 Edgar F. Codd died person
    30. 20 Jun 2003 Wikimedia Foundation founded organization
    31. 15 Jul 2003 Netscape dissolved organization
    32. Aug 2003 Myspace started project
    33. Sep 2003 Delicious started project
    34. 7 Nov 2003 The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview published writing
    35. 17 Nov 2003 PSI Directive started project
    36. Dec 2003 From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The Making of a Web Ontology Language published writing
    37. 2004 Akoma Ntoso first published standard
    38. 2004 Folksonomy first described concept
    39. 2004 HyperCard ended project
    40. 2004 Meta Platforms founded organization
    41. 2004 MetaBrainz Foundation founded organization [?]
    42. 2004 Space-Track started project
    43. 4 Feb 2004 Facebook started project
    44. 5 Feb 2004 W3C Patent Policy published writing
    45. 10 Feb 2004 OWL first published standard
    46. 10 Feb 2004 RDF Schema first published standard
    47. Apr 2004 TV Tropes started project
    48. 20 May 2004 Open Knowledge Foundation founded organization
    49. 4 Jun 2004 WHATWG founded organization
    50. 13 Jun 2004 Wikimedia Deutschland founded organization
    51. 9 Aug 2004 OpenStreetMap started project
    52. Dec 2004 MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters published writing
    53. 15 Dec 2004 Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One first published standard
    54. 2005 GeoNames started project
    55. 2005 Metaweb founded organization
    56. 2005 Microformats first published standard
    57. 2005 Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags published writing
    58. 2005 Semantic MediaWiki started project
    59. May 2005 Named graph first described concept [?]
    60. May 2005 Named Graphs, Provenance and Trust published writing
    61. May 2005 OpenID first published standard
    62. 18 Jun 2005 httpRange-14 resolution published writing
    63. Oct 2005 Open Definition first published standard [?]
    64. 2006 FRBRoo first published standard
    65. 2006 Semantic MediaWiki published writing
    66. 27 Feb 2006 James G. Schmolze died person
    67. 21 Mar 2006 Twitter started project
    68. Apr 2006 OpenStreetMap Foundation founded organization
    69. 1 Apr 2006 Apache Hadoop started project
    70. 22 Apr 2006 Henriette Avram died person
    71. May 2006 The Semantic Web Revisited published writing
    72. Jul 2006 Linked Data first described concept
    73. 27 Jul 2006 Linked Data (Design Issues) published writing
    74. Dec 2006 Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice published writing
    75. 2007 DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data published writing
    76. 2007 Neo4j started project
    77. 2007 OBO Foundry started project
    78. 2007 Ontology Matching published writing
    79. 2007 PRISM started project
    80. 2007 YAGO started project [?]
    81. 10 Jan 2007 DBpedia started project
    82. Feb 2007 Music Ontology first published standard
    83. Mar 2007 Freebase started project
    84. 14 Mar 2007 INSPIRE started project
    85. Apr 2007 EPCIS first published standard
    86. May 2007 Where Are All the Intelligent Agents? published writing
    87. 1 May 2007 Linked Open Data cloud diagram started project
    88. 8 May 2007 YAGO: A Core of Semantic Knowledge Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia published writing
    89. 17 May 2007 Organization for Transformative Works founded organization
    90. 12 Jun 2007 SIOC first published standard
    91. 16 Jul 2007 Open Library started project [?]
    92. 17 Aug 2007 Thoughts on the Social Graph published writing
    93. 23 Aug 2007 Hashtag first described concept
    94. Sep 2007 The Music Ontology published writing [?]
    95. Oct 2007 BBC Music and Programmes linked data started project
    96. 8 Dec 2007 8 Principles of Open Government Data published writing
    97. 2008 Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database for Structuring Human Knowledge published writing
    98. 2008 GeoJSON first published standard
    99. 2008 GoodRelations first published standard [?]
    100. 2008 GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web published writing
    101. 2008 The Movie Database started project
    102. 15 Jan 2008 SPARQL first published standard
    103. 1 Feb 2008 Google Social Graph API started project
    104. 31 Mar 2008 Cool URIs for the Semantic Web published writing
    105. Apr 2008 In Defense of Ambiguity published writing
    106. May 2008 Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist published writing
    107. 1 May 2008 ccREL first published standard
    108. Jun 2008 Information Accountability published writing
    109. 14 Oct 2008 RDFa first published standard
    110. 20 Nov 2008 Europeana started project
    111. Dec 2008 Log in with Facebook started project
    112. 19 Dec 2008 ENTSO-E founded organization [?]
    113. 2009 CC0 first published standard
    114. 2009 Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age published writing
    115. 2009 HTML microdata first published standard [?]
    116. 2009 Linked Data – The Story So Far published writing
    117. 2009 Linked Movie Database started project [?]
    118. 2009 Media Meets Semantic Web – How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections published writing
    119. Mar 2009 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data published writing
    120. Apr 2009 id.loc.gov started project
    121. 20 Apr 2009 Linked Movie Data Base published writing
    122. May 2009 Data.gov started project
    123. 12 May 2009 Rich Snippets started project
    124. Aug 2009 Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL published writing
    125. 18 Aug 2009 SKOS first published standard
    126. Oct 2009 Executing SPARQL Queries over the Web of Linked Data published writing
    127. 27 Oct 2009 OWL 2 first published standard
    128. 30 Oct 2009 New York Times linked open data started project
    129. 14 Nov 2009 Archive of Our Own started project
    130. Dec 2009 DBTropes started project

  18. 2010s

    1. 2010 BBC dynamic semantic publishing started project
    2. 2010 Linked Open Data first described concept
    3. 2010 Nanopublication first described concept
    4. 2010 Open Graph protocol first published standard
    5. 2010 The Anatomy of a Nanopublication published writing
    6. Jan 2010 data.gov.uk started project
    7. 16 Jul 2010 Metaweb dissolved organization
    8. 29 Jul 2010 legislation.gov.uk started project [?]
    9. Oct 2010 EIDR first published standard
    10. Nov 2010 When owl:sameAs Isn't the Same: An Analysis of Identity in Linked Data published writing
    11. Dec 2010 Long Live the Web published writing
    12. 2011 Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space published writing
    13. 26 Mar 2011 Paul Baran died person
    14. 29 Apr 2011 European Case Law Identifier first published standard
    15. Jun 2011 IndieWeb started project
    16. 2 Jun 2011 Schema.org first published standard
    17. 1 Jul 2011 Hypothesis founded organization
    18. 24 Oct 2011 John McCarthy died person
    19. 2012 BIBFRAME first published standard
    20. 2012 GeoSPARQL first published standard [?]
    21. 2012 International Image Interoperability Framework first published standard
    22. 2012 Open Data Institute founded organization
    23. 2012 X Cards first published standard
    24. 29 Feb 2012 Call for proposals to amend the httpRange-14 resolution published writing
    25. 13 Mar 2012 Web Data Commons started project
    26. 20 Apr 2012 Google Social Graph API ended project
    27. 16 May 2012 Google Knowledge Graph started project
    28. 16 May 2012 Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings published writing
    29. 12 Jun 2012 Elinor Ostrom died person
    30. 22 Jul 2012 George A. Miller died person
    31. Oct 2012 European Legislation Identifier first published standard
    32. 29 Oct 2012 Wikidata started project
    33. Dec 2012 ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks published writing
    34. Dec 2012 Legal Entity Identifier first published standard
    35. 9 Dec 2012 Norman Joseph Woodland died person
    36. 2013 Report of the W3C RDF Validation Workshop published writing [?]
    37. 2013 Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data published writing
    38. 2013 w3id.org started project
    39. 11 Jan 2013 Aaron Swartz died person
    40. 16 Jan 2013 Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space published writing
    41. 28 Feb 2013 A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work published writing
    42. 21 Mar 2013 SPARQL 1.1 first published standard
    43. 30 Apr 2013 PROV first published standard
    44. Jun 2013 NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others published writing
    45. Jul 2013 what3words started project
    46. 2 Jul 2013 Douglas Engelbart died person
    47. Oct 2013 CBOR first published standard
    48. Oct 2013 SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action? published writing
    49. Dec 2013 W3C Data Activity started project
    50. Dec 2013 W3C Semantic Web Activity ended project
    51. 2014 Financial Industry Business Ontology first published standard [?]
    52. 2014 Financial Instrument Global Identifier first published standard
    53. 2014 Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation founded organization
    54. 16 Jan 2014 DCAT first published standard
    55. 16 Jan 2014 JSON-LD first published standard
    56. 21 Jan 2014 JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web published writing
    57. Feb 2014 Roger Tomlinson died person [?]
    58. 25 Feb 2014 Turtle first published standard
    59. May 2014 Protocol Labs founded organization
    60. 13 May 2014 Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González published writing
    61. 14 Jul 2014 IPFS – Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System published writing
    62. Aug 2014 Knowledge Vault: A Web-Scale Approach to Probabilistic Knowledge Fusion published writing
    63. 4 Sep 2014 Shape Expressions: An RDF Validation and Transformation Language published writing
    64. Oct 2014 Open Location Code first published standard
    65. Oct 2014 Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase published writing
    66. 26 Dec 2014 Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot published writing
    67. 2015 Rebooting the Web of Trust started project
    68. 2015 SAREF first published standard [?]
    69. c. 2015 Solid started project [?]
    70. Feb 2015 IPFS started project
    71. 11 Feb 2015 Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Decentralized Web published writing
    72. 26 Feb 2015 Linked Data Platform first published standard
    73. May 2015 Towards Making Systems Forget with Machine Unlearning published writing
    74. 6 Aug 2015 An Ontological Architecture for Orbital Debris Data published writing
    75. 7 Sep 2015 Wikidata Query Service started project
    76. 14 Sep 2015 GraphQL first published standard
    77. 2016 Linked Art first published standard
    78. 2016 Records in Contexts first published standard
    79. 2016 Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure published writing
    80. 24 Jan 2016 Marvin Minsky died person
    81. Feb 2016 Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web published writing
    82. Mar 2016 FAIR data principles first described concept
    83. Mar 2016 Triple Pattern Fragments: A Low-cost Knowledge Graph Interface for the Web published writing
    84. 11 Apr 2016 From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration published writing
    85. 14 Apr 2016 General Data Protection Regulation started project
    86. 26 Apr 2016 The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity published writing
    87. 2 May 2016 Freebase ended project
    88. Jun 2016 DWeb started project
    89. 6 Dec 2016 Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV): A Gateway to Reusable Semantic Vocabularies on the Web published writing
    90. 2017 Foundations of RDF* and SPARQL* published writing
    91. 2017 IFLA Library Reference Model first published standard
    92. 12 Jan 2017 Webmention first published standard
    93. 23 Feb 2017 Web Annotation Data Model first published standard
    94. 23 May 2017 Activity Streams 2.0 first published standard
    95. 12 Jun 2017 Attention Is All You Need published writing
    96. 20 Jul 2017 SHACL first published standard
    97. 28 Sep 2017 Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices first published standard
    98. 19 Oct 2017 Semantic Sensor Network Ontology first published standard
    99. 2018 Curated Folksonomies: Three Implementations of Structure through Human Judgment published writing [?]
    100. 2018 Curated folksonomy first described concept [?]
    101. 2018 Inrupt founded organization
    102. 2018 sameAs.cc: The Closure of 500M owl:sameAs Statements published writing
    103. 23 Jan 2018 ActivityPub first published standard
    104. 15 Feb 2018 ODRL first published standard
    105. 20 Feb 2018 Waldo Tobler died person
    106. 17 Mar 2018 Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach published writing
    107. Aug 2018 GS1 Digital Link first published standard
    108. 30 Aug 2018 Platform for Privacy Preferences superseded standard
    109. 5 Sep 2018 Google Dataset Search started project
    110. 11 Oct 2018 BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding published writing
    111. 21 Nov 2018 Toward easier RDF: a proposal published writing
    112. 2019 Bluesky started project
    113. 2019 Report of the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data published writing [?]
    114. Apr 2019 Local-first software first described concept
    115. Apr 2019 Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud published writing
    116. 13 May 2019 Google Dataset Search: Building a search engine for datasets in an open Web ecosystem published writing
    117. 24 Jul 2019 Industry-scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and Challenges published writing
    118. 19 Nov 2019 Verifiable Credentials Data Model first published standard
    119. 5 Dec 2019 George Laurer died person

  19. 2020s

    1. 9 Apr 2020 Web of Things Thing Description first published standard
    2. 2021 Anthropic founded organization
    3. 2021 Knowledge Graphs published writing
    4. Feb 2021 Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity founded organization
    5. Feb 2021 DWeb Principles published writing
    6. Oct 2021 Bluesky Social PBC founded organization
    7. 21 Dec 2021 Content Credentials first published standard
    8. 4 May 2022 AT Protocol first published standard [?]
    9. 19 Jul 2022 Decentralized Identifiers first published standard
    10. 5 Dec 2022 Data Privacy Vocabulary first published standard
    11. 14 Jun 2023 Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap published writing
    12. 31 Aug 2023 Doug Lenat died person
    13. Sep 2023 Rebooting the Web of Trust ended project [?]
    14. 5 Feb 2024 Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media published writing
    15. Apr 2024 GraphRAG first described concept
    16. 12 Apr 2024 GQL first published standard
    17. 24 Apr 2024 From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization published writing
    18. 21 May 2024 RDF Dataset Canonicalization first published standard
    19. 16 Jul 2024 SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions published writing
    20. 18 Jul 2024 Digital Product Passport started project
    21. Sep 2024 TraCSS started project
    22. 25 Nov 2024 Model Context Protocol first published standard
    23. 18 Mar 2025 SHACL 1.2 first published standard [?]
    24. 15 May 2025 Verifiable Credential Data Integrity first published standard
    25. 5 Jun 2025 Bill Atkinson died person
    26. 25 Jun 2025 CC signals first described concept
    27. 6 Sep 2025 Gregg Kellogg died person
    28. Feb 2026 Robert Kaye died person [?]
    29. 31 Mar 2026 Linked Web Storage Protocol first published standard
    30. 7 Apr 2026 RDF 1.2 first published standard [?]
    31. 28 Apr 2026 CBOR-LD first published standard
    32. 24 Sep 2026 W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL published writing
    33. 20 Oct 2026 W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era published writing