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| • | vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web. They can contain name and address information, phone numbers, URLs, logos, photographs, and even audio clips. The vCard or Versitcard was originally proposed in 1995 by the Versit consortium, which consisted of Apple Computer, AT&T (later Lucent), IBM and Siemens. In December 1996 ownership of the format was handed over to the Internet Mail Consortium, a trade association for companies with an interest in Internet e-mail. vCard is accompanied by a proposed standard for exchanging data about forthcoming appointments called vCalendar since superseded by iCalendar; the Internet Mail Consortium has issued a statement that it "hopes that all vCalendar developers take advantage of these new open standards and make their software compatible with both vCalendar 1.0 and iCalendar." Version 2.1 of the vCard standard is widely supported by e-mail clients. Version 3.0 of the vCard format is an IETF standards-track proposal contained in RFCs 2425 and 2426. The commonly-used filename extension for vCards is .vcf. A VCard format has been defined by the Jabber Software Foundation and is in use with technologies such as Jabber and Light-Weight Identity. hCard is a 1:1 representation of vCard in semantic XHTML. W3C has another XML based vCard specification called RDF/XML. Source: [wikipedia: vcard] |
personal_information:data_formats
| RFC 2425 - A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information | ||
| defines a mime content-type for holding directory information. the definition is independent of any particular directory service or protocol. the text/directory content-type is defined for holding a variety of directory information, for example, name, or email address, or logo. | ||
| RFC 2426 - vCard MIME Directory Profile | ||
| defines the profile of the mime content-type for directory information for a white-pages person object, based on a vcard electronic business card. the profile is defined for representing and exchanging a variety of information about an individual. | ||
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