Activity Streams (https://activitystrea.ms/) is a extension of the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web. This standard is still in Beta

but already adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft and others.

Why is this relevant to Community Equity ? Well – to calculate the social value of a content object, person, community or tag we need to capture all activities of a person on whatever site the activity happens. Activity Streams seems to be a perfect fit.

The article below explains the concept of the activity streams standard and provides a mapping between the activity streams verbs and the Community Equity activities.

List of Basic Activities (enclosed sections have been co-authored by Josef Holy and Max Wegmüller)

All activities are described with a user, a verb and object.
Applications implementing this standard, needs to map there specific activities to the verbs and objects defined through Activity Streams.

Let’s start with a listing of basic (general) set of activities which users perform on some Content Object (CO), in the context of the Social Web. Content object can be literally anything – document, file, another user, community etc. Simply put – on the Web, content objects correspond to resources and are identified by URLs (persistent identifiers, which can be accessed and their representation retrieved via HTTP).

The following table contains a very basic list of activities, which can occur between basic entities of the Social Web – People, Content and Groups. These entities and their relationships form a mesh, where people, groups and content are interconnected. Cross-application distribution of activities then means notifying of changes done trough this mesh.