Civic Space

Protocolo Semántico y de Datos

One of four canonical Civic.Social specifications. Defines the group primitive: community-governed civic spaces — hubs, representative spaces and dashboards — specifying their scopes, governance model and interoperability contract. Civic Spaces are the containers within which Civic Processes run and from which Civic Activities are emitted, making this the membership and boundary layer of the Civic.Social model.

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Licencia 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
Estado de Desarrollo 📝 Borrador
Propietario 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
Órgano de Gobierno 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
Financiamiento 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 Investigación 3 ago 2026

Dominios de Caso de Uso

Formación de Grupos y Gobernanza

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Grupos combinables Gobernanza basada en consentimiento

Protocolo Semántico y de Datos Atributos

Orígenes Civic technology / pro-democracy infrastructure — part of Civic.Social's stated aim of building open federated infrastructure to connect and amplify the pro-democracy ecosystem, on the premise that infrastructure should precede platform
Base de Datos N/A — a specification; defines no storage layer
Lenguaje de Consulta N/A — no query language defined in the documentation reviewed
Formatos de Datos Not determined from the documents reviewed — the specifications index describes an interoperability contract for spaces but the specification itself was not retrieved. Sibling specifications target ActivityStreams 2.0 representability
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A — specification, not an editing surface
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A — specification
Soporte Móvil N/A — specification; client support is a matter for implementations
Soporte Web N/A — specification; no implementation exists to assess
Aplicaciones Nativas N/A — specification
Términos Free / open documentation under CC-BY 4.0; no fees and no registration
Fondos Unknown — no figures published
Basado En Civic.Social canonical specification set — companion to Civic Process, Civic Activity and Civic Identity, which together govern all other documents in the repository. Specific external standards not determined from the documents reviewed
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica Not determined from the documents reviewed. The companion Civic Activity specification targets ActivityStreams 2.0 representability, which is JSON-LD based, so RDF compatibility is plausible at the activity layer; whether the space model itself is RDF-expressible was not established
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización 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 Vocabulario / Ontología Civic group / community governance — a domain-specific vocabulary for civic space types (hubs, representative spaces, dashboards), their scopes and their governance arrangements. Not a general-purpose vocabulary
Patrón de Uso Embedded in other protocols and applications — defines a contract that host implementations satisfy, with Civic Processes running inside spaces and Civic Activities emitted from them. Not usable standalone