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Hadley Beeman

@hadleybeeman@w3c.social
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Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

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Joined November 07, 2017

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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Apr 10, 2026
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social

We had a W3C @tag@w3c.social face-to-face meeting recently. @sphcow@mas.to wrote about what we’re up to:

https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/the-w3c-tag-meeting-in-london-march-2026/

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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Mar 09, 2026
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social

I’m honoured to have been re-elected as a co-chair of the @w3c@w3c.social Technical Architecture Group, for a second year.

I’ve enjoyed serving together with @lolaodelola@mastodon.social and @jyasskin@hachyderm.io , my fellow co-chairs, and am constantly learning from our colleagues across the @tag@w3c.social. I hope we can continue to do good for the Web community, the Web itself, and for the world.

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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @gwire@mastodon.social
@gwire@mastodon.social Tell me more? What’s the issue with single authority registries? I don’t know that much about blood and tissue identifiers (yet?), but I’m interested to learn.
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Oo, very cool! I love the projects that you get into.
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @dhwthompson@mastodon.social
@dhwthompson@mastodon.social There’s my business card, right there. Thanks for sorting that for me. 😁 Lovely to hear from you — I hope you’re well!
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk
@nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk Hello! Thanks, and it’s fun to hear from you. How is the world of satellites and space data?
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk That’s kind of you — and it’s good to hear from you! What is filling your time these days?
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk
@summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk Thanks, Liz — that’s kind of you to say. :)
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @mhp@mastodon.social
@mhp@mastodon.social Thanks. Lots to get stuck into!
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @stevemarshall@mastodon.social
@stevemarshall@mastodon.social Thank you! I’m also still doing W3C stuff — I hope our paths will cross again before too long. :)
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @semanticfire@mastodon.social
@semanticfire@mastodon.social @PhilA@mastodon.social Most definitely… one of my favourite people to scheme with!
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
I’m based in GS1’s Global Office, the standards body for barcodes. And I’m working with a phenomenal community of working groups, experts, and industry leaders. It’s an honour to be joining them. 6/6
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
And it’s not just the way things work now. The future we’re all working on, where AI safely revolutionises our daily lives… that’s only possible when we can identify — in our software and algorithms — each of the things we’re talking about. The products, the parcels, the prescriptions. And we can learn how to optimise our pharmacy stock, or our shipping routes, or the flow of people through our hospitals. So that’s what we’re doing. 5/
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
And it includes how the numbers in the code can be turned into a web address, linking the physical world with the virtual. It’s not just healthcare, it’s shopping at the supermarket, it’s buying clothes online, it’s shipping stuff around the world. Supply chains. Logistics. And how this stuff gets written into laws and regulations. And it’s not just linear, “zebra-striped” barcodes — it’s also 2D barcodes like QR codes and GS1 DataMatrix, RFID tags and NFC. And globally unique identifiers. 4/
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

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Replying to @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
And I know everything is going to be okay. The people and things in the real world are connected to the electronic records by those barcodes. It gives me a massive sense of relief. So that’s my new job. I’m the system architect for the standards around barcodes, which means that everything from how they get encoded (how a number becomes those zebra stripes or QR code etc) through to what info goes in them so it can go beep at the bedside or cash register. 3/
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

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Replying to @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
I have. And I have wondered all those things. And thought about the consequences if they go wrong. It’s a scary moment, easy to feel powerless. And the stakes feel high. But then the nurse comes to take observations, and scans the wrist band. Beep! Medications are scanned before they’re put in that tiny paper cup. Beep! The phlebotomist takes blood, and attaches barcodes to the vial. (That will beep in the lab.) 2/
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 10, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social

I have a new job.

To explain it, let me tell you a story.

Have you ever been in the hospital, or with a family member in the hospital, when all the chaos is surrounding you — the busy nurses, the other patients talking, the machines going beep-beep-beep, the occasional sirens outside — and wondered, “How will we get the right medication? Are we sure those are our test results? How will they know who it is in this bed?”
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Oct 07, 2025
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social

Starting day 1 of the @w3c@w3c.social/@ietf@mastodon.online TAG & IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access.

Adult content, alcohol, social media restrictions, advertising/tracking…We’re looking at the technical and architectural choices in solutions.

https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/iab-w3c-workshop-on-age-based-restrictions-on-content-access/

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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Dec 12, 2024
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @hdv@front-end.social
@hdv@front-end.social @torgo@mastodon.social @rhiaro@toot.cat @tag@w3c.social It is indeed. We’ve all been learning as we go!
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Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social · Dec 12, 2024
Hadley Beeman
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social

Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. Views mine.

w3c.social
Replying to @csarven@w3c.social
@csarven@w3c.social @torgo@mastodon.social @rhiaro@toot.cat @tag@w3c.social That’s brilliant — it’s good to see the Ethical Web Principles having such a tangible impact!
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