The crème de la crème of standards management groups is [[ISO]], but I commonly run across a couple of other groups, too. If a group is included in this note, it's safe to say they are influential. ## ISO See [this pre-existing note for ISO](ISO). (They've done a lot) ## W3C The World Wide Web Consortium shepherds the internet, effectively. They help manage accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security on the web. Founded by [[Gods of CS#Tim Berners-Lee]], the group has basically codified what makes the web work, including: - [[HTML]] - [[HTML CSS and JavaScript|CSS]] - [[SVG]] - [[XML]] - [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]], [[Turtle]], [[N-Triples]] - [[OWL]] - [[SKOS]] - [[JSON-LD]] - [[EPUB]] - [[SPARQL]] - [[WebAssembly]] ## ECMA Formerly the *European Computer Manufacturers Association*, now **just ECMA**, they are the stewards of [[JavaScript]]. - [[JavaScript]] --- more formally "ECMAScript" ## Object Management Group (OMG) The **Object Management Group** is a standards-creation group responsible for creating & maintaining: - [[SysML]] - [[UAF]] - [[BPMN]] - [[BizBok]] ...and other stuff, obviouslyusly Their standards are, from my perspective, overly verbose and descriptive. It seems that, across the board, they err on the side of "*when in doubt, keep it in*". ## The Open Group **The Open Group** is a standards-creation group responsible for the creation and maintenance of: - UNIX - [[TOGAF]] - [[Archimate]] ...and other stuff, obviously ## OASIS I forgot about this one. They did: - [[DITA|Darwin Information Typing Architecture]] - OpenDocument - used by [[LibreOffice]]? - [[OData]] - [[OSLC]] ...and other stuff, obviously **** # More ## Source - https://www.opengroup.org/what-we-do-technology-standards - [https://www.w3.org](https://www.w3.org/)