YarcData announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is an international community that develops open web standards.

The W3C’s mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the web. As a W3C member, YarcData will join working groups for Linked Data and RDF in support of W3C’s goal to provide a semantic web environment that is available in a standard, reachable, and manageable format. YarcData’s graph analytics appliance, uRiKA, utilizes RDF and SPARQL in its graph database.

“We are excited to have YarcData on board as W3C members,” said Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the Worldwide Web Consortium. “SPARQL and RDF are key technologies for the analysis of Big Data available on the World Wide Web and we are pleased to see YarcData’s commitment to the next generation of the web of data.”

Shoaib Mufti, vice president of research and development at YarcData, recently attended the W3C’s annual Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) meeting, which brought together more than 450 W3C members from around the world. Held in Lyon, France, this year’s meeting featured a variety of breakout sessions on the future of the web and how it is disrupting and impacting many diverse industries.

“We believe that RDF and SPARQL are quickly becoming leading standards for graph analytics, and that they will become to graph analytics what SQL is to relational databases,” said Mufti. “We are very pleased to be a part of the community supporting the W3C, and we look forward to collaborating with fellow technology innovators to encourage and assist in developing web standards that are important for enabling previously intractable discovery in Big Data.”