World Wide Web Consortium

main international standards organization for the World Wide Web
Organization standards_organization Q37033
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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]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . unesdoc.unesco.org. unesdoc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . w3.org. w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . w3.org. w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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