hcard-examples-in-wild-with-problems

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hCard examples in the wild, with problems

This page is an informative section of the hCard specification.

The following sites have published hCards, which are either invalid or problematic.

Guidelines for use

Entries may be moved here, from hcard-examples-in-wild, if there's a problem with the way hCards are used on the page concerned. If the page is yours, and you want to improve it, see the hCard FAQ, or raise any queries on hCard Issues or the mailing list, where people will be happy to help you.

Please consider distinguishing problems as:

  • invalid - the hCard is invalid and cannot be parsed by a parser for any information due to the problem.
  • suboptimal - the hCard is technically valid, yet either has one or more properties that have no data due to a markup problem (e.g. adr without children), and/or there is data inside the hCard markup which could be marked up with an hCard (sub)property but isn't.
  • hidden - one or more of the hCard's (sub)properties are hidden via CSS or other mechanism and are thus potentially out-of-date or vulnerable to being labelled as spam by search engines.

Examples with problems

  • INGV Bologna implemented hCards for staff-members, marked-up as HTML table-rows (include-pattern also used to add organization-name and fax-number to each hcard).
    • suboptimal: missing includes. Andy Mabbett 13:53, 3 Oct 2007 (PDT)
  • Sylphen is a IT-solutions-provider and uses hCards on the Contact
    • invalid two of the three examples lack the required fn or fn org property
  • Airfix Stockists and Distributors, e.g. [1]
    • suboptimal: street-address contains street address, locality and region (e.g. "99 Hobs Moat Rd, Solihull, W. Midlands")
    • suboptimal: postal-code and country-name include preprended commas
    • suboptimal: fn is used; should be fn org
    • Andy Mabbett 16:22, 19 Sep 2007 (PDT)
  • Rosebleed supports hCard user profiles - your profile URL is http://rosebleed.net/users/profile.php/ followed by your username, e.g. silvermoon82.
    • invalid The "n" property is empty, that is, it has no explicit sub-properties, which is not allowed. Possible fixes to the content: explicitly markup 'given-name' and 'family-name', or just remove 'n' property from the markup and let 'fn' implied 'n' rule take effect.
      • Fixed profiles now explicitly mark up 'n' where possible, otherwise omits it
  • LazyLibrary uses author hCard's on every book page. Example: [2]
    • suboptimal Example has fn=Dorling Kindersley, David West Reynolds (would also benefit from hReview). Andy Mabbett 02:57, 4 Sep 2007 (PDT)
  • Wikipedia templates generating Geo
  • Mapquest now supports hCards for business and places in the search results (e.g. search for Whole Foods in San Francisco)
  • Bolton Museum and Archive Service uses hCard on its
  • reefscape.net Personal blog page that has a hidden hCard in the about section on every page. A vCard can be downloaded using the Technorati service.
    • Hidden.
  • www.cosmotourist.com and www.cosmotourist.de A new German and English portal around travel tips. Using hidden hCard for hotel listings, wherever address data is available.
    • Hidden.
  • Venn Communications System uses a hidden hCard sitewide.
    • Hidden.
  • Last FM has hCards hidden on their profile pages e.g. [3].
    • Hidden.
  • Kriss Watt has hidden an hCard his blog footer.
    • Hidden.
  • Frances Berriman has a hidden vCard in the footers of her website.
    • Hidden.
  • CandleScience Candle Supply added a hidden hcard sitewide.
    • Hidden.
  • Meryl K. Evans has a hidden hCard on her homepage.
    • Hidden.
  • High Flyers Careers, India's first flight-crew placement agency uses microformats for their corporate information page. Using standards couldn't be easier or better.
    • Has honorific prefixes as part of "fn", rather than marked up separatley.
  • Spotstor.com eg - [4] uses hCard on profile pages (where user has elected to show contact information).
  • Stanford Online Accessibility Program has implemented hCard on every page
    • positioned off screen via CSS Andy Mabbett 15:09, 9 Apr 2007 (PDT)
  • Belkin Press Release - All Belkin press releases since October 2006 use hCard and vCard for company contact info.
    • One of the three hCards in invalid (no "fn") Andy Mabbett 16:50, 2 Apr 2007 (PDT)
  • Ray & Berndtson, a global recruitment firm, are listing all of their offices worldwide as hCards, e.g UK offices.
  • The imprint of Hohenstaufen Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
  • Alexa Internet marked up its managers' page with hCard.
  • Natural England (new UK government agency, formed 2006-10-01).
    • No "fn" - which makes it invalid.
  • G3:2 uses hCard with geo tags in the copyright and on the about me page
    • Address data is hidden using CSS.
  • ZDnet Contact Us Page supports hCard.
  • Gerard Braad has published an example on his profile page that is almost consistent with his original vCard file. Also progress is made for transforming his FoaF file to a hCard encoded representation (also done for my spouse:Yong Yuan)
    • (2005-09-27) PASSED, PASSED
    • WARNINGS
      • uses 'n given-name' and 'n family-name' instead of nesting the given- and family- names inside the 'n'
      • has one 'tel' value with a bunch of values stuffed in
      • probably more problems --RyanKing 17:19, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
  • Cori Schlegel discusses how he has updated his contact page with hCard
    • INVALID - using 'prefix' instead of 'honorific-prefix' and type's in classnames (in both adr and tel) and has two photo's (the second could be 'logo') --RyanKing 15:15, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
  • Landsbanki Føroya
    • INVALID - using embedded RDF/XML invalidly
  • University of Bath Person Finder results are encoded with hCards so you can easily create a vCard from any result.
    • ERROR - attempt to use Implied-N optimization where that's not possible. --RyanKing 14:29, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
    • Error appears for external users only. Won't be fixed any time soon. -- PhilWilson 00:03, 28 Jan 2006 (GMT)
    • suboptimal - has honorific-prefix as part of fn -- Andy Mabbett 09:00, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)
  • Yellow Pencil Using microformats to present company contact information
    • First hcard has empty "fn" and no "n". "fn" should be with "org" -- ScottReynen 21:29, 19 Jun 2006 (CST)

Related Pages

The hCard specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. These thoughts, issues, and questions are kept in separate pages.

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