Social Web Working Group - Publications
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- Social Web Working Group
The ActivityPub protocol is a social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. It is based upon experience gained from implementing and working with the OStatus and Pump.io protocols.
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- Social Web Working Group
An open, simple, web-scale and decentralized HTTP-based pubsub protocol. Publishers register a hub, and subscribers make a subscription request to their desired publisher's hub. Hubs manage subscription requests and distribution of new content to subscribers.
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- Social Web Working Group
This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format.
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- Social Web Working Group
Micropub is an open API standard that is used to create posts on one's own domain using third-party clients. Web apps and native apps (e.g. iPhone, Android) can use Micropub to post short notes, photos, events or other posts to your own site.
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- Social Web Working Group
- Translation for Linked Data Notifications
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Linked Data Notifications is a protocol to facilitate exchanging messages between applications which serve as senders, receivers and/or consumers of RDF data.
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- Social Web Working Group
- Translation for Webmention
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Webmention is a simple way to notify any URL when you link to it on your site. From the receiver's perspective, it's a way to request notifications when other sites link to it.
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- Social Web Working Group
IndieAuth is an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0 [RFC6749], primarily used to obtain an OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token [RFC6750] for use by [Micropub] clients. End-Users and Clients are all represented by URLs. IndieAuth enables Clients to verify the identity of an End-User, as well as to obtain an access token that can be used to access resources under the control of the End-User.
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- Social Web Working Group
Post Type Discovery specifies an algorithm for determining the type of a post by what properties it has and potentially what value(s) they have, which helps avoid the need for explicit post types that are being abandoned by modern post creation UIs.
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- Social Web Working Group
This document describes a JSON serialization format to describe simple streams of data as well as single objects of data for data transfer and processing.
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- Social Web Working Group
The Social Web Protocols are a collection of standards which enable various aspects of decentralised social interaction on the Web. This document describes the purposes of each, and how they fit together.