Current Contact Formats
This page documents current contact schemas, formats, and efforts.
Though the vCard format is by far the most popular/successful contact format in desktop applications and mobile devices, (with hCard being the most widely adopted contact format on the web), it is useful to document other formats as well, even those created after vCard/hCard, noting especially their differences / extensions. In particular, as we document vcard-suggestions, it will be helpful to note how other formats may have attempted to solve similar problems.
In particular, please help incorporate the content from the subsection "vcard-suggestions: Suggestions made elsewhere" into the sections below (create new sections for additional formats as necessary).
vCard
See vCard.
vCard in RDF
See:
hCard
See hCard.
FOAF
This section is a stub. Please expand by documenting the core/required schema, and in particular, additions/extensions beyond what is in vCard/hCard.
OpenID Attribute Exchange
See http://www.axschema.org/types/
This section is a stub. Please expand by documenting the core/required schema, and in particular, additions/extensions beyond what is in vCard/hCard.
Portable Contacts
See http://portablecontacts.net/
This section is a stub. Please expand by documenting the core/required schema, and in particular, additions/extensions beyond what is in vCard/hCard.
FB Open Graph Protocol
See:
largely based on adr/geo/hCard.
ContactsAPI
See:
largely based on vCard4/hCard
And alternatively:
appears to be based on older vCard3 with some extensions (e.g. ims)