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W3C Web of Things Thing Description

Information Model IoT openly published

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W3C, from their own opening paragraph

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Model Details
Steward W3C
Origin International United States
Layer Information Model
Domain IoT
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 5/5. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
78.4 Current
Access Open
Assessed 88.0% of the rubric

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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