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World Wide Web consortium

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W3C is an international consortium for development of World Wide Web protocols and guidelines to ensure long-term growth of the Web.

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W3C was founded in 1994 by the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee as a vendor-neutral forum for building consensus around Web technologies. The consortium consists of member organization and dedicated staff of technical experts. Membership is open to any organization or individual whose application is reviewed and approved by the W3C. Usually W3C members invest significant resources into the Web technologies.

W3C fulfils its mission by creation of recommendations enjoying status of international standards. In the first 10 years of existence, it produced over eighty W3C recommendations. W3C is responsible for such technologies as HTML, XHTML, XML, XML Schema, CSS, SOAP, WSDL and others. W3C members play a leading role in the development of the recommendations.

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  1. CA Labs, CA, Inc., Thornhill, ON, Canada

    Serguei Mankovskii

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Mankovskii, S. (2009). W3C. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1185

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