ActivityStreams Proposal

Owned by Eric Woods
Last updated: Mar 25, 2011Version comment

Scope of change: Major
Champion Name: Eric Woods (IBM)
Spec Editors: Eric Woods
Ref implementation: Apache Shindig 3.0

Proposal Vote: (Revision 1349)

Background

ActivityStreams offer a more comprehensive view of activities on the web than the existing Activity construct in OpenSocial.  ActivityStreams are also more widely adopted than the existing Activity construct.

Proposal

I propose the following support for ActivityStreams in OpenSocial:

  • Support ActivityStreams JSON data model: http://activitystrea.ms/head/json-activity.html
  • Support REST end-points to interact with ActivityStream services
  • Support JavaScript APIs for OpenSocial gadgets
    • osapi calls (e.g. osapi.activitystreams.create(...))
    • OSML
    • Templating

Links

ActivityStreams JSON specification

ActivityStreams drafted into OpenSocial 2.0 spec

Reference implementation (Apache Shindig 3.0)

Old proposal from wiki.opensocial.org