Typically this would be an area administrator, assistant, or secretary for the individual. Information about another person who will act on behalf of the vCard object. Otherwise, properties can be defined in any order.Ī structured representation of the physical delivery address for the vCard object.ĪDR TYPE=home: 123 Main St. VERSION must come immediately after BEGIN, except in the vCard 2.1 standard, which allows it to be anywhere in the vCard. All vCards must contain the VERSION property, which specifies the vCard version. VCard defines the following property types.Īll vCards begin with BEGIN:VCARD and end with END:VCARD.
#X VCARD APPLICATION UPDATE#
h-card is the microformats2 update to hCard. Normal HTML markup and CSS styling can be used alongside the hCard class names without affecting the webpage's ability to be parsed by a hCard parser. It makes use of CSS class names to identify each vCard property. HCard is a microformat that allows a vCard to be embedded inside an HTML page. The RFC 7095 does not use real JSON objects, but rather uses arrays of sequence-dependent tag-value pairs (like an XML file). This proposal has not yet become a widely used standard. JCard, "The JSON Format for vCard" is a standard proposal of 2014 in RFC 7095. RDFa with the vCard Ontology can be used in HTML and various XML-family languages e.g. As technologies evolve, the "free text" ( HTML) was adapting to be also machine-readable. VCard information is common in web pages : the "free text" content is human-readable but not machine-readable.
The standard Internet media type (MIME type) for a vCard has varied with each version of the specification: This can also be saved as a contact file on smartphones. vCard Plus, an elevated vCard, makes use of a customized landing page with all the basic information along with a profile photo, maps location and other fields. To accomplish these data interchange applications, other "vCard variants" have been used and proposed as "variant standards", each for its specific niche: XML representation, JSON representation, or web pages. VCard is used as data interchange format in smartphone contacts, personal digital assistants (PDAs), personal information managers (PIMs) and customer relationship management (CRMs).
They can contain name and address information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, and audio clips. vCards can be attached to e-mail messages, sent via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), on the World Wide Web, instant messaging or through QR code. VCard, also known as VCF (Virtual Contact File), is a file format standard for electronic business cards. Created by Versit Consortium, all rights transferred in 1996 to Internet Mail Consortium, all rights transferred in 2004 to CalConnect