Civic Space

Semantic & Data Protocol

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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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

Domínios de Caso de Uso

Group Formation & Governance

Capacidades

Composable groups Consent-based governance

Semantic & Data Protocol Atributos

Origins 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
Database N/A — a specification; defines no storage layer
Query Language N/A — no query language defined in the documentation reviewed
Data Formats 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
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 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
Semantic Web Compatibility 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
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 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
Usage Pattern 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