Civic Activity
Semantic & Data Protocol
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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
Semantic & Data Protocol Atributos
Origins 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
Database N/A — a specification; defines no storage layer
Query Language N/A — no query language defined in the documentation reviewed
Data Formats Activity objects designed for ActivityStreams 2.0 representability. Specific object types and property definitions not extracted, as the specification itself was not retrieved
Collaborative Live Editing N/A — specification, not an editing surface
Rich Text Editing N/A — specification
Mobile Support N/A — specification; client support is a matter for implementations
Web Support N/A — specification; no implementation exists to assess
Native Apps N/A — specification
Terms Free / open documentation under CC-BY 4.0; no fees and no registration
Funds Unknown — no figures published
Based On 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
Semantic Web Compatibility 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
Protocol Maturity / Standardization 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
Vocabulary / Ontology Type 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
Usage Pattern 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