Socialwg/Social syntax requirements

Requirements for a social syntax

Represent entities such as
- People
- Groups / Organizations
- Projects
- Events
- Places
- Applications
- Relationships / Affiliations (interpersonal, organizational)
- Roles (social, organizational)
- Activity / Action ( "{agent} {verb} {object}" )
  - Completed / On-going Activity ("John uploaded a photo", "Sally is watching a movie")
  - Potential Actions (like, share, pin, save, approve, reject )
Ability to Represent a wide range of content such as
- Text
- Images
- Video
- Sound
Ability to Represent "semantic content" such as
- Articles
- Badges
- Status Updates
- Albums
- etc..
Represent a wide range of social activities, such as
- CRUD for content (create, upload, update, delete)
- Response-To/Promotion-of content (comments, likes, recommends, shares)
- Relationship management (follow, friend, join/leave group)
- Workflow (submit, approve, reject, review)
- Event RSVP
- Abuse/inappropriate reporting
Extensible for
- new types / specializations of agents
- new types / specializations of content
- new types / specializations of activities
- domain or application specific requirements
Universal identifiers
- Preferably URIs/IRIs
Use JSON primarily or have a JSON encoding
Re-use of existing "paved roads" (leveraging existing work)
Support for both Syntax and Semantics-based processing
Geosocial support
- Location of objects
- Location of agents
- Location of activity
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