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Existing Format Descriptions describes the individual standards
Authentication Standards
- User authentication - openID
- API authentication - oAuth
Data Transfer, Interchange, and Exchange Standards
These standards enable data dumps via import and export across data spaces on the Web. They also aid publish and subscribe methods of data exchange. The list includes:
- Messaging - XMPP
- Syndication - Atom and RSS
- Attention - APML
- Services and Service Discovery - YADISand XRDS
- Subscriptions - OPML
- Personal details - hCard
- Relationships - XFN
- Personal Profile Data & Social Networks - FOAF
- Online Communities - SIOC (discussed at SIOC-DEV)
- Publishing data - AtomPub
- User-controlled data interchange - XDI(emerging)
Linked Data or Data Referencing Standards
These standards enable access to data by reference via HTTP based data object identifiers called URIs. The list includes:
- HTTP based URIs (for Location, Value, and Structure independent Object / Resource Identifiers)
- Personal Profile Data & Social Networks - FOAF
- Online Communities - SIOC (discussed at SIOC-DEV)
- Other Schemas and Vocabularies in the Semantic Web realm
Other standards
Other standards, groups, and initiatives that may not yet have a place in the Blueprint, but still deserve help and support!
