Description

The actor is the entity who did the activity. It will be conveyed via the atom/author element. The actor properties are placed inside the author element.

• ID: atom:id within author, otherwise default to author:uri
• Name: atom:name
• Url to profile page: atom:link rel="alternate"
• Profile photo: atom:link rel="photo"
• Object-type: if not present, defaults to .../person 
• Additional Fields: See Portable Contacts

Example

<author>

  <uri>http://myspace.com/ciberch</uri>

  <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person</activity:object-type>

  <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Person/4859568</id>

  <title>Monica Keller</title>

  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.myspace.com/ciberch" />

  <link rel="photo" type="image/jpeg" href="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/151/s_88bcd3986d104044888e07298a5180d6.jpg" />

 <poco:name>

  <poco:givenName>Monica</poco:givenName>

  <poco:familyName>Keller</poco:familyName>

 </poco:name>

 <poco:displayName>Monica Keller</poco:displayName>

 <poco:preferredUsername>ciberch</poco:preferredUsername>

</author>

Shortened example, taking advantage of intelligent defaults:

<author>

  <uri>http://myspace.com/ciberch</uri>

  <name>Monica</name>

  <poco:name>

     <poco:givenName>Monica</poco:givenName>

     <poco:familyName>Keller</poco:familyName>

  <poco:name>

<author>

Note

In the early ActivityStreams spec, the <actor> element was separate from the <author> element. In March 2010 these elements were merged as it became clear that extending the Atom author element was allowed.

See Also

• Person
• From the mailing list: Another modest proposal: Actors and authors for Atom format