VCard
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General information [1][edit]
vCard is an electronical business card. It is a means of Personal Data Interchange (PDI) that is automating the traditional business card. It is intended to be used for exchanging information about people and resources.
vCard Specification (Version 2.1) [2][edit]
1. Identification Properties
- FN (Formatted Name, optional)
- The way that the name is to be displayed
- N (Name, mandatory)
- Concatenation of the Family Name (first field), Given Name (second field), Additional Names (third field), Name Prefix (fourth field) and Name Suffix (fifth field)
- PHOTO (Photograph, optional)
- BDAY (Birthdate, optional)
2. Delivery Addressing Properties
- ADR (Delivery Address, optional)
- Concatenation of the Post Office Address (first field), Extended Address (second field), Street (third field), Locality (fourth field), Region (fifth field), Postal Code (six field) and country (seventh field)
- LABEL (Delivery Label, optional)
- The information which is necessary to create a formatted delivery address label
3. Telecommunications Addressing Properties
- TEL (Telephone Number, optional)
- The type of the phone number (e.g. fax work) will be specified by the Telephone Type property parameter
- EMAIL (Electronic Mail, optional)
- MAILER (optional)
- The type of electronic mail software that is in use by the individual
4. Geographical Properties
- TZ (Time Zone, optional)
- Information related to the standard time zone of the individual
- GEO (Geographic Position, optional)
- Information related to the global positioning of the vCard object in the form of longitude and latitude
5. Organizational Properties
- TITLE (optional)
- Information about the job title, the functional position or function of an individual
- ROLE (Business Category, optional)
- Information about the role, occupation or business category of the individual
- LOGO (optional)
- An image or graphic of the logo of the organization
- AGENT (optional)
- Information about another person who will act on behalf of the individual (e.g. an assistant or a secretary)
- ORG (Organization Name and Organizational Unit, optional)
- Concatenation of the Organization Name (first field) and Organizational Unit
6. Explanatory Properties
- NOTE (Comment, description, optional)
- REV (Last Revision, optional)
- SOUND (optional)
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator that represents the individual, optional)
- UID (Unique Identifier, optional)
- VERSION (mandatory)
- The highest version number of the vCard Specification supported by the implementation
7. Security Properties
- KEY (Public Encryption Key, optional)
Encoding vCard Information[edit]
- in RDF: see http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf
- in HTML or XHTML: see http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.imc.org/pdi/ - vCard: Your Electronic Business Card
- ↑ http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiproddev.html - vCard Specification (Version 2.1)