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The Open Collaboration Services (OCS) is an open and vendor independent modern REST based API for integration of web communities and web based services into desktop and mobile applications. It allows to exchange relevant data from a Social Network between the site and clients such as other websites and applications or widgets running locally on the user's machine or mobile device. The protocol has been designed so that all applications can access multiple services providing OCS APIs.

The API was designed by openDesktop.org as part of the Social Desktop especially as a cross desktop backend provider.^[1] The API got standardised by freedesktop.org so that third party provider are able to implement OCS API.

Non-KDE environments using the API include the Maemo Downloads application store^[2] and Apps for MeeGo^[3].

Modules

OCS consists of multiple modules, of which both servers and clients are free to choose which to implement. In the 1.6 version^[4] of the OCS specification the modules are:

Person user data
Friend social graph
Message in-site messaging between users
Activity activity streaming
Content downloadable content
Fan content favoriting
Knowledgebase access to FAQ items
Event calendaring
Comments content commenting
Private data private key-value store
Forum discussion topic structure
Buildservice application software building

References

^ "Presentation of the Open Collaboration Services and of the Social Desktop on dot.kde.org".
^ "Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue". KDE. 2010-07-23.
^ "Apps for MeeGo service". 2012-02-13.
^ "Open Collaboration Services v1.6". Freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2010-11-19.

External links

[1] "Presentation of the Open Collaboration Services and of the Social Desktop on dot.kde.org".

[2] "Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue". KDE. 2010-07-23.

[3] "Apps for MeeGo service". 2012-02-13.

[4] "Open Collaboration Services v1.6". Freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2010-11-19.

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 The [[API]] was designed by [[openDesktop.org]] as part of the [[Social Desktop]] especially as a cross desktop [[backend]] provider.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dot.kde.org/2009/05/01/social-desktop-starts-arrive |title=Presentation of the Open Collaboration Services and of the Social Desktop on dot.kde.org}}</ref> The API got standardised by [[freedesktop.org]] so that third party provider are able to implement OCS API.
-Non-KDE environments using the API include the [[Maemo]] Downloads application store<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kdenews.org/2010/07/23/henri-bergius-akademy-midgard-open-collaboration-services-and-geoclue|title=Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue|publisher=KDE|date=2010-07-23}}</ref>.
+Non-KDE environments using the API include the [[Maemo]] Downloads application store<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kdenews.org/2010/07/23/henri-bergius-akademy-midgard-open-collaboration-services-and-geoclue|title=Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue|publisher=KDE|date=2010-07-23}}</ref> and Apps for [[MeeGo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.formeego.org/applications/|title=Apps for MeeGo service|date=2012-02-13}}</ref>.
 ==Modules==