Re: Mandatory N and FN in version 3

[krauss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Citando Phil Barker <philb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> Hello all, I wonder if you can help a group of people interested in
> educational metadata? In short, how can we get around providing N and FN
> values when creating vCards for organizations?
>

vCard stand (~) for "Personal visit card", for "physical person",
  not for "juridical person" or "organisation".
"creating vCards for organizations" is not a 100% correct use for
  vcard... I think the vCard Work was incomplete, we need a
  "orgCard" but it not exist (?)...  Many systems need both types of persons,
  and an (unified) entry for the "generic person".

> vCard version 3.0 is mandated by the IEEE Learning Object Metadata
> standard, which we use to describe contributers to an educational
> resource (the authors, publishers etc.). The problem is that in many
> cases these contributors are corporate entities or organizations, and
> the vCard 3.0 spec, being intended for people, mandates we provide N and
> FN values.
>

I sugest Orgname and Orgunit ...

> We seem to have three broad options:
>

... and your option (3).


> 1) ignore the fact that vCard 3.0 mandates N and FN and leave them out
> all together
>
> 2) Put in empty values i.e.:
> FN
> N;;;;
>
> 3) Put in some values which make sense, e.g. for "Some Publisher, Inc."
> we would have
> FN Some Publisher\, Inc.
> N none
> Which would provide a suitable "display name" in FN and something in N.
>
> My concern is the effect that each of these might have on applications
> which receive such a vCard and any processing tools (perl / PHP modules
> etc) which might be used to parse and when building an application. (I'm
> especially concerned about the latter.)
>
> So, if you know of any problems which might be caused by any of these
> approaches, I would be grateful if you let me know.
>
> Many thanks, and, if you've read this far, please excuse the verbose email!
>
> Phil.
>
>
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>        Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
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