ITEMInformation Transmission Evolution MapA visual history of human information
Organisation

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium coordinates technical standards intended to keep the Web interoperable across browsers, devices, publishers and users.

Type
governmental or standards institution
Founded
1994
Location
International consortium
Known for
World Wide Web, Digital Provenance and Authenticity Systems, Text-to-Speech and Voice Synthesis
Historical role

What the organisation contributed

W3C and IETF Develop and publish Web architecture, URI, HTTP and related standards. W3C PROV provides a general data model for describing entities, activities and agents. W3C standardisation exposed controls for pronunciation, rate, pitch, volume and related speech output properties.

Why it mattered

Makes independently hosted information globally addressable, linkable, retrievable and publishable through interoperable clients and servers. Reduces uncertainty about a digital object’s claimed origin, custody and transformation history.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

World Wide WebDigital Provenance and Authenticity SystemsText-to-Speech and Voice Synthesis
Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. A Little History of the World Wide Web

    W3C

    Open source ↗

  2. Activity Vocabulary / ActivityStreams 2.0, 2017

    W3C · 2017

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  3. Micropub Recommendation, 2017

    W3C · 2017

    Open source ↗

  4. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1

    W3C · 2010

    Open source ↗

  5. ActivityPub Recommendation, 2018

    W3C · 2018

    Open source ↗

  6. PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model

    W3C · 2013

    Open source ↗

  7. PROV-O: The PROV Ontology

    W3C · 2013

    Open source ↗