I need you help please. Can you please just follow this link https://philarcher.github.io/received-info-demo/scan.html. I promise it's safe! I'm making a little very simple demo to show the kind of info any web page can see whenever someone visits it. Thank you.
Phil Archer
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Making GS1 IDs part of the Web: every barcode can be a gateway to multiple sources of info. Formerly at W3C. Radios 3 & 4 and LBC listener, bibliophile.
RE: https://w3c.social/@w3c/116487548981700098
This is really good news.
As a young boy, I was gripped by Apollo. I was 6 when Neil and Buzz walked on the moon, and, yes, I can remember it and back to Apollo 8 the previous year. I was so excited! I remained excited for the shuttle. So why am I less excited today? I think it's because the motivation is now almost entirely commercial. Artemis is sucking money out of other research, largely for the commercial gain of billionaires. Maybe that's why. But hey, fingers crossed for a fantastic & successful flight.
World Wide Web Consortium📆 1 April 2026 - tomorrow!
@p20n will present: "Unlocking Value with Emerging Technologies in Freight Forwarding" at the 2026 Intl Federation of Freight Forwarders Assoc meeting in Geneva 🇨ðŸ‡
He will present W3C's Verifiable Credentials family of specification, including the upcoming work of the newly rechartered Working Group in domains related to this event (such as the vocabularies for Digital Product Passports and for Business Wallets).
#VerifiableCredentials
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/unlocking-value-with-emerging-technologies-in-freight-forwarding/
Setting up a new laptop. Is there a more frustrating waste of an entire day than fighting Microsoft's determined efforts to force me to use "features" I absolutely, for the 17 hundredth time, do not want.
Wo hoo! New W3C VC Working Group Charter just approved and we're ready for people to sign up https://www.w3.org/2026/03/vc-wg-charter.html. There is a *lot* of work to do over the next couple of years.
In the image below, there are two QR Codes. Both contain the same URL. However, the one on the left has the scheme written in upper case (HTTPS) and the other has it in lower case (https).
Both should work in exactly the same way and redirect to the GS1 homepage. However, I hear that some phones, especially older Android phones, try to launch an app, rather than just open the URL in the browser. Can you check with your phone please?
AIUI, the folks behind JSON schema have resisted the idea of it becoming a formal standard anywhere. I'm not in the community so I don't know whether that's fully true or what the background might be, even so, it does seem that the first steps along the path to an RFC have been taken https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dusseault-json-schema
JSON Schema
JSON Schema defines the media type "application/schema+json", a JSON- based format for describing the structure of JSON data. JSON Schema asserts what a JSON document must look like, ways to extract information from it, and how to interact with it. The "application/ schema-instance+json" media type provides additional feature-rich integration with "application/schema+json" beyond what can be offered for "application/json" documents.
Not a trial, not a pilot. This is a real product on sale at my local Tesco with a future-looking barcode (QR). 12 years from concept to real life. I have been part of tjis journey for the last 8.5 of those years. #GS1 #DigitalLink
