World Wide Web Consortium
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World Wide Web Consortium is a standards organization.[1] It was founded on October 1, 1994.[2]
Its headquarters are in Cambridge.[3] Its legal form is a consortium.
It had 61 employees in 2018.[4].
World Wide Web Consortium
Summary
World Wide Web Consortium is a standards organization[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of standards_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (353 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- World Wide Web Consortium's field of work was standardization[3].
- World Wide Web Consortium is in the country of United States[4].
- World Wide Web Consortium's instance of is recorded as standards organization[5].
- World Wide Web Consortium's instance of is recorded as voluntary association[6].
- World Wide Web Consortium's instance of is recorded as academic publisher[7].
- World Wide Web Consortium's founder is recorded as Tim Berners-Lee[8].
- World Wide Web Consortium's operator is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[9].
- World Wide Web Consortium's operator is recorded as European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics[10].
- World Wide Web Consortium's operator is recorded as Keio University[11].
- World Wide Web Consortium's operator is recorded as Beihang University[12].
- World Wide Web Consortium's logo image is recorded as W3C® Icon 2025.svg[13].
- World Wide Web Consortium's headquarters location is recorded as Cambridge[14].
- World Wide Web Consortium's ISNI is recorded as 0000000081907712[15].
- World Wide Web Consortium's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 122285539[16].
- World Wide Web Consortium's GND ID is recorded as 6011098-3[17].
- World Wide Web Consortium's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no96041976[18].
- World Wide Web Consortium's IdRef ID is recorded as 244205647[19].
- World Wide Web Consortium's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 001111916[20].
- World Wide Web Consortium's child organization or unit is recorded as Improving Web Advertising Business Group[21].
- World Wide Web Consortium's child organization or unit is recorded as WebAssembly[22].
- World Wide Web Consortium's child organization or unit is recorded as Schema.org[23].
- World Wide Web Consortium's Commons category is recorded as W3C[24].
- World Wide Web Consortium's industry is recorded as World Wide Web[25].
- World Wide Web Consortium's chairperson is recorded as Tim Berners-Lee[26].
- +1994-10-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of World Wide Web Consortium[27].
Body
Founding
World Wide Web Consortium's founder is recorded as Tim Berners-Lee[8]. +1994-10-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[27].
Identity
World Wide Web Consortium's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'W3C'}[28].
Leadership
World Wide Web Consortium's chairperson is recorded as Tim Berners-Lee[26].
Operations
World Wide Web Consortium's headquarters location is recorded as Cambridge[14]. Subsidiaries include Improving Web Advertising Business Group[21], an organization[29]; WebAssembly[22], a bytecode[30], founded in 2015[31]; and Schema.org[23], a technical standard[32], founded in 2011[33]. Operators include Massachusetts Institute of Technology[9], European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics[10], Keio University[11], and Beihang University[12].
Industry
World Wide Web Consortium's industry is recorded as World Wide Web[25]. Its field of work was standardization[3].
Why It Matters
World Wide Web Consortium ranks in the top 9% of standards_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (353 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]