Social Media Standards

Directory

Compiled by Venessa Miemis:

Users should be able to link directly to people, locations, or items, to track social media back to its source, to vet and verify the accuracy or reputation of the information, to know how the content is licensed, and be aware if consuming it would lead to a monetary fine or if usage would violate its copyright.

1. Tagging – TagCommons, rel:tag, NiceTag, CommonTag
2. Microformats
3. Open Graph Protocol
4. Payswarm
5. OExchange
6. The Semantic Web
7. SIOC

(http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/04/11/88-projects-standards-for-data-ownership-identity-a-federated-social-web/)