Civic Activity

Protocolo Semântico e de Dados

One of four canonical Civic.Social specifications, and the distribution layer of the model. Defines the standardized activity model that every Civic Process and Civic Space emits, designed for ActivityStreams 2.0 representability. This is the layer that makes civic activity legible across implementations and, by targeting ActivityStreams, positions Civic.Social output to interoperate with the wider fediverse rather than remaining internal to the ecosystem.

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Licença Documentation only under CC-BY 4.0 — free to reuse and adapt with attribution. No implementation code, licence for implementations, or reference implementation is present in this repository
Status de Dev 📝 Rascunho
Proprietário Civic.Social — 501(c)(3) nonprofit civic technology initiative; documentation published through the Mosaic Foundation GitHub organization. Individual specifications carry a named document owner in YAML frontmatter
Órgão de Governança Civic.Social (501(c)(3) nonprofit) — single-organization specification authorship; individual documents carry one named owner in frontmatter. No external standards body, multi-stakeholder process or independent editorial board
País United States (Civic.Social is a 501(c)(3), a US federal tax designation; specific location not published in the repository)
Stack Language-agnostic specification; no implementation stack defined in the documentation
Financiamento Nonprofit — Civic.Social is a 501(c)(3); no specific funder or grant disclosed in the repository. The repository contains case materials explicitly directed at funders and partners
Última Investigação 3 de ago. de 2026

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Formatos interoperáveis Federação de protocolos

Protocolo Semântico e de Dados Atributos

Origens Civic technology / federated social infrastructure — the distribution layer of an explicitly federated design, intended to make activity from civic spaces and processes portable and consumable beyond the emitting implementation
Banco de Dados N/A — a specification; defines no storage layer
Linguagem de Consulta N/A — no query language defined in the documentation reviewed
Formatos de Dados Activity objects designed for ActivityStreams 2.0 representability. Specific object types and property definitions not extracted, as the specification itself was not retrieved
Edição Colaborativa em Tempo Real N/A — specification, not an editing surface
Edição de Texto Rico N/A — specification
Suporte Móvel N/A — specification; client support is a matter for implementations
Suporte Web N/A — specification; no implementation exists to assess
Aplicativos Nativos N/A — specification
Termos Free / open documentation under CC-BY 4.0; no fees and no registration
Fundos Unknown — no figures published
Baseado Em ActivityStreams 2.0 (W3C Recommendation; the representability target); Civic.Social canonical specification set — receives emissions from Civic Space and Civic Process. Note ActivityPub, already on the Fed Pro tab, is the companion W3C protocol to ActivityStreams 2.0
Compatibilidade com a Web Semântica Likely Full via ActivityStreams 2.0 — AS2 is a W3C Recommendation with a JSON-LD serialization and a normative @context, so activities conforming to it are RDF-interpretable. The index states the model is 'designed for ActivityStreams 2.0 representability', which stops short of asserting strict conformance; confirm against the specification before treating this as Full
Maturidade / Padronização do Protocolo Working draft (v0.2) — single-organization specification with no standards-body involvement, no conformance suite and no independent implementation. RFC 2119 conformance language is used, which is more discipline than most early drafts show. Refinement is planned through pilot implementations rather than through a standards process
Tipo de Vocabulário / Ontologia Civic activity / event vocabulary — a domain-specific activity model layered on ActivityStreams 2.0, describing what civic spaces and processes emit rather than describing data meaning generally
Padrão de Uso Embedded in other protocols and applications — every Civic Process and Civic Space emits activities in this model, making it the common output format across the ecosystem rather than something used standalone