hCard microformat; and related suggestions for changes to vCard

[Andy Mabbett <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

My first post here!

Some of you may be interested in microformats:

        <http://microformats.org/>

which are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items
such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the
information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched
for, saved, cross-referenced or combined. More technically, they are
items of semantic markup, using just standard (X)HTML with a set of
common class-names. They are open and available, freely, for anyone to
use.

In particular, the hCard microformat:

        <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard>

maps to vCard. there are a number of tools, listed via the above URL,
for extracting data which is marked up as an hCard, and saving it as a
vCard.


The microformat 'wiki' aslo has a vCard suggestions page:

        <http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard-suggestions>

where possible additions to hCard, which may require a corresponding
change to vCard, are listed.

Currently listed are requests for a gender identifier, a date-of-death
property, and a "textphone" type for telephone numbers.

-- 
Andy Mabbett