World Wide Web Consortium

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World Wide Web Consortium

information retrieval standards organization

Also known as: W3 Consortium, W3C

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Tim Berners-Lee
…United States he established the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science. The consortium, in consultation with others, lends oversight to the Web and the development of standards. In 1999 Berners-Lee became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair at the…
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…United States he established the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science. The consortium, in consultation with others, lends oversight to the Web and the development of standards. In 1999 Berners-Lee became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair at the…
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Semantic Web
…and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees standards for the project.
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…and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees standards for the project.
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