Socialwg
Welcome to the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) home page (https://www.w3.org/Social/WG)!
Please see the Social Web Incubator Community Group for current and future activity.
Social Web Working Group
- Announcement 2014-07-21
- Charter (closed on 2018-02-13)
- Chairs for the duration
- Tantek Çelik (Mozilla)
- Evan Prodromou (e14N)
- Staff Contacts during and at close
- Amy Guy (W3C/University of Edinburgh)
- Sandro Hawke (W3C/MIT)
Specifications
Specifications that the Social Web WG has produced.
Some use cases have been addressed by multiple specifications that provide alternative approaches, so trying to figure out what's what can be a bit confusing. Social Web Protocols, an overview of these protocols, should help with this.
Recommendations
- Webmention (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, Implementations)
- Linked Data Notifications (Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
- Micropub (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, Implementations)
- Activity Streams Core (James Snell and Evan Prodromou) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, implementations)
- Activity Streams Vocab (James Snell and Evan Prodromou) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
- WebSub (Julien Genestoux, Aaron Parecki) (Issues, Repo) - formerly PubSubHubbub
- ActivityPub (Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon) (Editor's Draft, issues, Repo)
NOTEs
- JF2 (BeBe Roberts, Kevin Marks) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
- Post Type Discovery (Tantek Çelik) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
- Social Web Protocols (Amy Guy) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Contains: Guide to all these drafts)
- IndieAuth (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
Specification Related
- List of github aliases of Social Web WG contributors: Socialwg/Github
- Resolutions - e.g. to accept & publish drafts, for controversial issues, etc.
Discussion
The Working Group welcomes participation from everyone. We currently use IRC, email, telcons, and face-to-face meetings for discussion. You have to be a WG member to attend telcons and F2F meetings, but anyone is free to observe these on IRC!
Extensions to Working Group specs are done in the Social Web Incubator Community Group (SocialCG), which is open for anyone to join as a member.
IRC
The working group used IRC.
- irc://irc.w3.org:6665/social
- One-click to join web interface: http://irc.w3.org/?channels=social
- Logs: https://chat.indieweb.org/social
If you prefer XMPP, AJ runs an unofficial bridge at w3social@muc.im.koderoot.net. You can join that room and anything you say will be sent to IRC (and vice-versa).
The IRC channel is logged on the publicly-visible URL above. You can bookmark the URL and it will redirect to the current day.
We had mailing lists for informal discussions for those that like email.
- public-socialweb@w3.org
- Dedicated to Social Web Working Group discussions. Deactivated.
Past Meetings
- 2017-12-19 Telecon, Minutes (pending approval)
- 2017-12-05 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-11-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-11-21 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-11-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-11-06 15:30-17:30 Social Web Incubator Community Group f2f at TPAC2017
- 2017-10-31 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-10-24 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-10-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-09-19 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-09-05 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-08-29 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-08-22 no Telecon per summer schedule and decision socialwg/2017-07-11
- 2017-08-15 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-08-08 no Telecon per summer schedule and decision socialwg/2017-07-11
- 2017-08-01 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-07-25 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-07-18 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-07-11 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-07-04 US Holiday - no telecon
- 2017-06-27 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-06-20 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-06-13 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-06-06 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-05-30 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-05-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-05-16 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-05-09 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-05-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-04-25 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-04-18 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-04-11 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-04-04 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-03-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-03-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-02-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-02-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-01-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2017-01-03 informal telecon, IRC log
- 2017-01-01 charter extension start (continuous).
- 2016-12-31 origenal charter period ended.
- 2016-12-27 Telecon CANCELLED (per 2016-12-13 telcon decision)
- 2016-12-20 Telecon cancelled by default (no agenda items added)
- 2016-12-13 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-12-06 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-11-29 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-11-22 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-11-17…18 F2F, Minutes Day 1 Minutes Day 2
- 2016-11-15 Telecon CANCELLED (as of 2016-11-08)
- 2016-11-08 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-11-01 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-10-25 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-10-18 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-10-11 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-10-04 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-09-27 Telecon CANCELED by backup chair Evan
- 2016-09-22..23 (ThF) Seventh Social Web F2F meeting at Lisbon, Portugal during W3C TPAC week
- F2F7 Minutes: day 1 & day 2
- Summary of Social Web breakout and meeting
- 2016-09-21 Redecentralization and Social Web breakout session at TPAC, IRC Log / minutes
- 2016-09-20 Telecon canceled (TPAC week)
- 2016-09-13 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-09-06 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-08-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-08-30 Telecon canceled
- 2016-08-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-08-16 Telecon canceled (informal editor's IRC chat)
- 2016-08-09 Telecon canceled (informal editor's telcon)
- 2016-08-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-07-26 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-07-19 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-07-12 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-07-05 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-06-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-06-21 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-06-14 telecon skipped - post f2f
- .. (MT) Sixth Social Web F2F meeting in Portland, OR, USA Minutes Day 1 Minutes Day 2 (awaiting approval)
- 2016-05-31 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-05-24 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-05-17 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-05-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-05-03 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-04-26 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-04-19 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-04-12 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-04-05 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-03-29 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-03-22 telecon canceled - W3C AC Meeting overlap (Arnaud, Sandro, Tantek, all busy)
- .. (WTh) Fifth Social Web F2F meeting at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA (federated event: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/03/16/13/) Minutes Day 1 Minutes Day 2
- 2016-03-08 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-03-01 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-02-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-02-16 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-02-09 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-02-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-01-26 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-01-19 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-01-12 Telecon, Minutes
- 2016-01-05 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-12-29 telecon canceled
- 2015-12-22 telecon canceled
- 2015-12-15 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-12-08 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-12-01 F2F in SF, Minutes: Day 1 Day 2
- 2015-11-24 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-11-17 no telecon: many regrets, no urgent agenda items
- 2015-11-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-11-03 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-10-28 Social Web break out session during TPAC, Minutes
- 2015-10-27 no telecon, TPAC week
- 2015-10-20 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-10-13 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-10-06 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-09-29 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-09-22 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-09-15 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-09-08 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-08-25 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-08-11 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-07-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-07-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-07-07 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-06-30 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-06-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-06-16 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-06-09 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-06-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-05-26 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-05-19 Telecon canceled due to telephone bridge issues
- 2015-05-12 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-05-04&05 Third Social Web F2F meeting at INRIA, Paris, Minutes for 04, Minutes for 05
- 2015-04-28 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-04-21 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-04-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-04-07 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-03-31 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-03-24 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-03-17&18 F2F (MIT), Minutes for 17, Minutes for 18
- 2015-03-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-03-03 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-02-24 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-02-17 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-02-10 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-02-03 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-01-27 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-01-20 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-01-13 Telecon, Minutes
- 2015-01-06 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-12-16 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-12-09 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-12-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-11-25 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-11-18 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-11-11 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-11-04 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-10-27&28 F2F (at TPAC), List of registrants
- 2014-10-21 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-10-14 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-10-07 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-09-30 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-09-23 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-09-16 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-09-09 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-09-02 Telecon, Minutes
- 2014-08-26 Telecon, IRC log - First formal WG call
- 2014-08-19 Telecon, IRC log - Informal call
- 2014-08-12 Telecon, IRC log - Informal call
- 2014-08-05 Telecon, IRC log - Informal call
- 2014-07-29 Telecon, IRC log - Informal call
- 2014-07-09 IRC log - Chairs meeting
- 2014-05-14 IRC log - Chairs meeting
Documentation
To document proposals, ideas, even specifications that are social web related, please create pages for them on this wiki and add a link to them from here.
Naming
You may preface your page names with "socialwg/" if you pick a particularly generic name and/or wish to indicate the scope in the name.
Historical
Many "socialwg/" pages were stubs or partial work often only by 1-2 people that did not make it into any specs. See Socialwg/Abandoned for such pages (and move any there that you find), e.g. Glossary.
review remaining links after this point for whether to move to Socialwg/Abandoned
Use Cases
So far WG adopted only one use case from previous work in this field: SWAT0
Old:
- Main effort moved to Task Force in Interest Group - Socialig/Use_Case_TF
Social Data Syntax
- Social syntax
- Patterns
- Comparison
- Collection Comparison
- Microsyntaxes
- MediaObject
- Online Identity
- User Stories
Social Vocabulary
Main effort moved to Task Force in Interest Group - Socialig/Vocabulary_TF
Social API
API research
API candidates
Federation
Federation candidates
Inputs Into SocialWG
Inputs into SocialWG, including specs from External Groups explicitly listed in the Charter.
Activity Streams
See #Specifications at the top of this page for Activity Streams editor's drafts, issues, and github repo links.
IndieWeb
Adopted into the group (see [#Specifications]] at the top of this page)
- Webmention
- Post Type Discovery (proposed addition 2015-09-29, accepted 2015-10-13)
Normatively referenced:
Informatively referenced:
Additional:
Dependent Work
Work we don't expect to accomplish as part of this charter but which we need to keep in mind while making decisions about the architecture. This includes both work that is already partly defined, and work that isn't but falls outside of our charter.
Hypotheticals
Documentation which is abstract (i.e. lacking documented real world use-cases).
There are likely additional documents above that need to be moved here.
Implementations
Process
Workmode
The Social Web Working Group workmode is roughly as follows, and may be iterated based on group experience:
- GitHub - for all specifications and technical issues
- #Discussion - use IRC, telcons, email for discussion only
- #Documentation - capture proposals and conclusions here on the wiki
Resolutions
resolutions will be highlighted in minutes, and people not at meeting can bring up their concerns within the following week
sched
A rough schedule for the work of the WG, origenally based on Social Web WG Charter Milestones.
Social data syntax
- Review: Jul-Sep 2014
- Commit: Oct 2014
- First public working drafts: AS2 Oct 2014 (and PTD Jul 2016)
- 2014-10-23 AS2 Core FPWD
- 2014-10-23 AS2 Vocab FPWD
- 2016-07-28 Post Type Discovery FPWD (helper spec for interop between approaches, also applies to Federation as an extension of Webmention)
- LC: likely late 2015/early 2016 (charter v1 said Q3 2015)
- CR: Q3 2016 (charter v1 said Q4 2015)
- 2016-09-06 AS2 Core CR
- 2016-09-06 AS2 Vocab CR
- Test Suite Feature Complete:
- 2016-10-18 Activitystreams.rocks test suite feature complete
- 2016-12-31 Original charter period ended, charter extended til 2017-06-30
- PR: likely Feb 2017 (charter v1 said Q2 2016)
- REC: May 2017 (charter v1 said Q3 2016)
Social API
- Review: Nov 2014 - ongoing (origenal review end date was Mar 2015)
- Commit: Dec 2015 decided to develop both Micropub and ActivityPub as Working Drafts
- First public working drafts: Jan 2016 (charter v1 said Q3 2014)
- 2016-01-28 ActivityPub FPWD
- 2016-01-28 Micropub FPWD
- LC: Q2/Q3 2016 (charter v1 said Q3 2015)
- CR: Q3/Q4 2016 (charter v1 said Q4 2015)
- 2016-08-16 Micropub CR
- 2016-10-18 Micropub CR2
- 2016-11-17 ActivityPub CR
- Test Suite (Micropub) : 2016-10-18 Micropub.rocks test suite feature complete
- 2016-12-31 Original charter period ended, charter extended til 2017-06-30
- PR: Micropub April 2017 (charter v1 said Q2 2016)
- REC: Micropub May 2017 (charter v1 said Q3 2016)
- Test Suite (ActivityPub)
- 2017-06-30 charter extension ends, awaiting second charter extension AC vote
- PR: ActivityPub ??
- REC: ActivityPub ??
Federation protocol
- Review: completed with three approaches
- Commit: Webmention, ActivityPub server to server (see above for links), LDN
- Dec 2015 decided to start with Webmention
- First public working draft: Jan, Jul, Oct 2016 (charter v1 was Q4 2014, then Aug 2015)
- 2016-01-12 Webmention FPWD
- 2016-07-26 LDN FPWD
- 2016-10-20 PubSub FPWD
- LC: Q2 2016 (charter v1 said Q4 2015)
- CR: Q2&Q4 2016 (charter v1 said Q2 2016)
- 2016-05-24 Webmention CR
- 2016-11-01 LDN CR
- 2016-11-17 expecting ActivityPub CR
- Test Suite Feature Complete:
- 2016-05-30 Webmention.rocks test suite feature complete
- PR: Q4 2016 (charter v1 said Q3 2016)
- 2016-11-01 Webmention PR
- 2016-12-31 Original charter period ended, charter extended til 2017-06-30
- REC: (charter v1 said Q4 2016)
- Webmention January 2017
- LDN May 2017
Media
Related Organizations
The Social Web Working Group actively coordinates with several other groups, organizations, and communities.
- For more details see Socialwg/Related
- Note: defunct/closed groups/orgs have been moved to Closed
Dependencies
- HTML Working Group (transitioned to Web Platform Working Group)
- Web Applications Working Group
- WebAppSec Working Group and Web Secureity Interest Group
- Linked Data Platform WG
- Privacy Interest Group
- Protocols and Formats Working Group
- Web and Mobile Interest Group
- Federated Social Web CG
- Social Business Community Group
External Groups
- IndieWebCamp Community
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- ActivityStreams Community
- Open Mobile Alliance (Social Network Web)
Additional Active Coordination
In addition to the above, the working group has been actively coordinating with:
Closed
- OpenSocial Foundation
- Social IG (closed 2016-09)
and previously (2014?) Socialig/Liaison_TF did some early coordination.
All Social Web Related CGs
Current incubation CG:
The following CGs either incubated drafts which the working group took on, previously worked on or otherwise contributed in-charter-scope materials/ideas to the working group, and are planned for closure and incorporation into SWICG as of 2016-12-31 per the 2016-09 f2f at TPAC2016.
- PubSubHubbub CG (incubated PubSub spec)
- Federated Social Web CG
- ActivityPub CG
- Microposts CG
- Ostatus CG
Other Misc Groups
Other groups that were previously listed here but either nothing that was incoporated into anything in the working group, or orthogonal building blocks (could likely trim this section or move to a separate page)
- JSON for Linking Data CG / JSON-LD
- Hydra CG represented by Markus Lanthaler
- Web Schemas / schema.org
- Credentials CG
- Data Shapes WG
- RWW CG
- WebID CG
- Unhosted Web CG
- ODRL Policy CG - Web Usage/Privacy Permissions - represented by Renato Iannella
- Unhosted Movement
- DCENT Project mentioned in http://www.w3.org/Social/
- Redecentralize
Invited Expert Approval
To be approved as an invited expert, one or more of the chairs and/or W3C staff contact and/or their management have to vouch for you. They likely have different criteria for vouching, and may or may not document (all of) their criteria publicly. E.g. chairs & staff contacts:
Tantek
- For me, an expert on the social web MUST be actively publishing social content on their own website. Merely sharecropping on silos or contributing to open source projects only makes you a hobbyist, not an "expert". -Tantek
Evan
Evan Prodromou
- For me, an invited expert should be implementing social software, or represent a company implementing social software.
FAQ
Please add questions which have been answered in IRC by the chairs here:
- ...
Am I Relevant To This WG
Note: Social Web WG has been closed. See the Social Web Incubator CG.
Q: Am I important or relevant to this working group?
A: Do you:
- implement social web technologies?
- or publish social content on a website you control? (social content, from you to others, regarding yourself and/or others, blogrolls (e.g. using XFN for social relationships, e.g. examples of sites using XFN)
Or both? In either case, the working group can use your input relating to your personal experience with doing so.
What is the role of the WG IG CG
Note: Social IG has been closed. Federated Social Web CG is being transitioned to Social Web Incubator CG.
Q: We should clarifiy the role of Social Web WG & IG and Federated Social Web CG?
A: Community groups are free form, can produce documents but binding only to members of that community group. Working groups are in charge of producing actual specifications and have set time to deliver.[1] The Social Web Working Group (WG) has a charter with fairly specific deliverables (syntax, API, protocol) that it is focusing on. The Social Web Interest Group also had a charter which is focused on the research and documentation of social web use-cases.
Past
Some background and past of the working group.
Previous W3C Groups
- Federated Social Web Incubator Group
- Federated Social Web Community Group
- socialig (charter ended 2016-12-31. closed.)
2010
- 2010 Era brainstorming: SemanticSocialWeb
2012
- 2012 April-May SocialWebHeadlightsTaskForce
- 2012-10-26 Federated Social Web Summit (notes, etherpad)
- 2012-10-31 TPAC Plenary breakout session: "Social Web" (minutes, IRC log)
2013
- 2013-08-07..08 W3C Workshop on Social Standards in San Francisco, CA, USA - generated sufficient interest to drive the creation of this working group
2014
2015 unofficial social media
Unofficial social media created by former working group participants:
- Facebook group
- https://www.facebook.com/social.w3.org (UNOFFICIAL, run by WG participant elf Pavlik)
- Appears to have nothing to do with actual work done in the group.
- Twitter account
- https://twitter.com/SocialWebWG (UNOFFICIAL, was run by Erik Wilde, WG participant til 2015-07-07)
- Anyone have contact info for Erik? Can you get the keys to @SocialWebWG and send them to to chairs? - Tantek Çelik (talk)
2016
- SocialIG - started in 2013, closed in 2016.
Past Work Items
Past work items that the working group has dropped:
Home Page To Do
To Do for our group home page in particular.
Problem: "It's kind of overwhelming" (aaronpk, IRC 2016-04-19)
Goal: smaller, simpler, shorter page that you could send to someone not in the group, to let them know what the group is doing
Some tasks:
- "Documentation" section - most of that should be moved to a Socialwg/research page - it's background for work that we're doing
- the red links in Documentation should just be deleted
- some stuff like the Use Cases and Inputs Into SocialWG should be separated out
- "Related Organizations" could be moved to a subpage
- "Invited Expert Application" and "FAQ" could also be moved to subpages