The mission of the Social Web Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to understand the systems and technologies that permit the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, and user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting ways.
See the charter for more information.
W3C Advisory Committee Representatives may join this XG on behalf of their organizations by completing this online form. Non-Members may join W3C or ask the Chair of an Incubator Group to participate as an Invited Expert, subject to W3C's policy for approval of Invited Experts.
Participants are automatically subscribed to the Member list when they join the group. Participants should also subscribe to the public list. Non-Participants may also subscribe. Please read more about W3C mailing list and archive usage.
The Social Web XG is a public and open body, so anyone can join the Social Web XG as an Invited Expert as long as they can fulfill the W3C Royalty-Free Patent Policy requirements. While the Social Web XG is not creating or standardizing new technology, in our final report we are recommending technology for standardization by the W3C, and we only want to recommend technology that conforms to the W3C Royalty-Free Patent Policy.
in order to become an Invited Expert to the Social Web XG, just fill out the following two simple forms. The first gets you a W3C log-in, and the second is an agreement to W3C RF patent policy:
Wiki: Most of our work happens on our wiki. The wiki is readable by the public, but in order to make sure all contributions are royalty free, only members can edit the wiki.
For high-level updates: Check out the Last Week In W3C Social Web blog!
For aggregated updates: Visit the Planet Social.
Social Web Microblog: Just join the swxg! group on identi.ca.
2009-04-29: Social Web Camp held at WWW2009 (See W3C Announcement), see notes on wiki.
2009-04-06: Initial W3C news release announcing the formation of Social Web.