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University of Bristol and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international body which seeks:

Its primary route for pursuing this goal is through the creation and development of Web standards and guidelines, and W3C has published more than 90 of these such standards since 1994.

It is comprised of member organisations as well as a full-time staff, and the University of Bristol has held member status since 1997. This membership has been based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), part of Information Services.

Benefits of membership

The benefits of membership for University staff and students include:

• The opportunity to work with the leading lights of the web world.
• The right to create incubator groups, part of a lightweight process for rapidly developing new web-related concepts.
• The right to submit proposals to be considered for future consortium work.
• The right to participate in W3C working groups, interest groups and workshops.
• Weekly and monthly members-only W3C news.

The W3C provides a fuller list of potential benefits.

Accessing W3C information

• W3C public site. This includes the public W3C weekly news.
• Member site. This site is restricted to W3C member organisations. For access please contact the University's W3C Advisory Committee representative or apply online by following the advice given after a failed login at the Member site.
• Member news service. The W3C distributes member-only news both weekly (W3C NewsWire) and monthly (W3C Newsletter). As members, the University is entitled to redistribute these within our organisation. If you would like to receive these mailings please send an email to majordomo@bristol.ac.uk with the words subscribe w3c-members in the message body. The contents of the subject line don't matter. Similarly, to unsubscribe, please send an email to majordomo@bristol.ac.uk with the words unsubscribe w3c-members in the message body.

For any further information please contact the University's W3C Advisory Committee representative.

University W3C activity

Members of the University have been, or currently are, involved in the following W3C activities:

• W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group
• Semantic Web Coordination Group
• Research and Development Interest Group