Humanitarian-Activity-Streams

Humanitarian Activity Streams (HAS) is external vocabulary for Activity Streams schema which includes object definitions specific to crisis response. An open source, community developed standard that will allow web and mobile applications to share humanitarian worker's activities to improvbe coordiation and accountability.

Activity Streams

Activity Streams is a format for representing events or activities in a social network or in collaborative software. It's being written in JSON format.

Activity Streams data includes a few different kinds of things:

objects: These represent real or digital objects. Every object has an objectType property; some common object types are "person", "note", "image", "place". There are some standard properties that all object types support, like displayName for an easy-to-use short text name, or content for HTML content representing the object. Some types have unique properties, like a "place", which has a position and an address. Every object has a unique id, which is a URI that identifies that object globally.
activities: An activity is something that happened. It's like a sentence; it has an actor, who did the thing, a verb that is what happened, and an object which is what it happened to. Activities can also have some other properties, like a location or a target. Activities also have an id property that uniquely identifies the activity.
collections: These are ordered lists of activities.

Humanitarian Activity Streams (examples)

Objects Types	Objects Types	Description
Disaster	disaster	$1600
Assesment	assessment	$1600
Beneficiary	centered	$12
Distribution	are neat	$1
Office	centered	$12
Warehouse	are neat	$1
Security Incident	centered	$12
Training	are neat	$1
IDP Camp	centered	$12
Shelter	are neat	$1

An example of an Activity Streams activity:

{
    "id": "c1kj334jii",
    "actor": {
        "id": "acct:finan@reliefcloud.example",
        "displayName": "Dan Finan",
        "objectType": "person",
        "url": "http://reliefcloud.example/finan"
    },
    "verb": "read",
    "object": {
        "id": "http://reliefweb.int/disaster/tc-2013-000139-phl",
        "name": "Typhoon Haiyan - Nov 2013"
        "objectType": "disaster"
    },
    "target": {
        "id": "http://reliefweb.int/",
        "name": "ReliefWeb"
        "objectType": "page"
    },
    "published": "1973-01-01T00:00:00"
}

The activity would read: 'Dan Finan read about Typhoon Haiyan on RelifWeb'

This activity has an id to uniquely identify it, an actor, a verb, and an object. It also has a publication timestamp, published. The actor is a "person" with a name and an id that is an "acct:" URI, as well as an url of a profile page. The object is a "disaster", as defined on RelifWebs API and the

The activity streams specification is long; there are also several extensions that pump.io supports. The Activity Base Schema lists some common object types and verbs.

It's possible to make new object types and new verbs by using full URIs for the objectType or verb property. Unknown object types or verbs will be stored but won't cause side-effects.

ReliefCloud/Humanitarian-Activity-Streams

Humanitarian-Activity-Streams

Activity Streams

Humanitarian Activity Streams (examples)