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2008-04-06T01:13:08Z

DougRansom: The Core Whisperer hCard

<h1>hCard Examples in the wild, pending review</h1>
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This page is an '''informative''' section of the [[hcard|hCard specification]].

The following sites have published [[hcard|hCards]], but those hCards have not yet been reviewed. Once checked, they may be moved to [[hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed]]; a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If people or organizations on your site are marked up with hCard (even just your own contact information), feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL to a page on your site that includes actual [[hcard|hCard]] mark-up. Examples added without a URL to a page with hCard mark-up may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an [[hcard|hCard]]? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator] to write up some contact information and publish it, or follow the [[hcard-authoring|hCard authoring tips]] to add hCard mark-up to your current contact page.

==New Examples==
Please add new examples to the '''top''' of this section so they can be reviewed! Please check back after a few days, to see if anyone has found any problems with the examples supplied.

===Added in 2008===
* [http://www.corewhisperer.com/ The Core Whisperer] (Paul Ransom) Geological Services uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://chairmanship.mfa.md/en/ The regional presidencies] of Republic of Moldova to the SEECP, CEI, MAG-RACVIAC, SEEHN, CEFTA uses hCard on [http://chairmanship.mfa.md/seecp-contacts/ contacts pages]
* [http://www.viget.com/about/team Viget Labs] - Team page and Individuals' Pages.
* [http://www.re3elstance.com RE3EL STANCE] - Entrepreneurship: Rebel Style.
* [http://www.worldeventsguide.com World Events Guide] - Events occuring around the world marked up with hCard.
* [http://www.amaliahotel.eu/en/contact.html Amalia Hotel Apartments] uses hCard in the contact-info page.
* [http://www.sslcertificaten.nl/contact.php Xolphin SSL Certificaten] uses hCard for their contact details
* [http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/hcard hCard + RDFa Example] - raising the bar for parsers...
* [http://competitiondiva.com/ Competition Diva] uses hCard in its page footer (and plans on it for the upcoming profile pages).
* [http://sanisoft.com/ SANIsoft] uses hCard in its page footer
* [http://www.bossalive.com BossaLive] uses [[hcard|hCard]] on user profile pages.
** Example: [http://www.bossalive.com/user/barry Barry's Profile]
** Also uses rel-tag microformat for tagging music. Publishes rel-tags for album, artist and genre.
* [http://hillhursthardware.com/ Hillhurst Hardware's] contact info w.logo uses hcard.
* Birmingham's [http://bigcityplan.org.uk/ Big City Plan] (England)
* Producer [http://www.sun-treader.com/contact.html Christopher Davis] uses hCard markup on his contact page.
* [http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/Liverpool08-Capital-of-Culture/ First TransPennine Express - Liverpool 08, Capital of Culture] - uses hCard to markup suggested venues.
* [http://anand.ws/ Anand's Musings] uses hCard to mark up authors for comments and posts.
* [http://www.onyomo.com/ OnYoMo] uses hCard markup for all addresses listed in their local search results.
* [http://www.dctalks.org/design/ DC Design Talks] used hCard to mark up the speakers for this one-day event.
* [http://www.entidi.it eNTiDi software] provides a basic hCard sample.
* [http://quickbase.intuit.com QuickBase] uses hCard markup on our contact us page.
* [http://www.pixsense.com/contact_us.html PixSense.com] uses hCard markup for addresses across the PixSense website.
* [http://www.areaguides.net areaguides.net] uses hCard markup for all addresses across the site.
** Examples: http://chicagoil.areaguides.net/ypcyellowpg/restaurants.html, http://newyorkny.areaguides.net/hotels.html
* [http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ Georgetown University Law Library] in Washington, D.C. now uses hCard for our address on all pages. Also, library staff biography pages use hCard such as [http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/staff/bio.cfm?id_no=105 here] and [http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/staff/bio.cfm?id_no=32 here].

===Added in 2007===
* [http://www.mtgd.gov.md/ Ministry of Transport and Road Industry] of Republic of Moldova. First Moldavian governmental site using hCards on [http://www.mtgd.gov.md/ministrul/ staff pages], [http://www.mtgd.gov.md/subdiviziunile-ministerului/ subdivisions page] and in the footer of each page (contact information)
**Only [http://www.mtgd.gov.md/ Romanian] and [http://www.mtgd.gov.md/ru/ Russian] versions available yet
* [http://www.auctionlink.com.au/ AuctionLink] uses hCard for Auctioneer records like [http://www.auctionlink.com.au/Auctioneers/Auctioneer/Cam_Brown_Auctions/ Cam Brown Auctions] (also uses hCalendar)
* [[User:WebOrganics|User WebOrganics]] The Microformats wiki has hcards on its user pages.
* [http://www.ontwerpkliniek.nl Ontwerpkliniek - Bureau voor Visuele Identiteit] uses the hCard contact information at the frontpage and the contact page.
* [http://www.instantdes.com L'instant des...] uses the hCard format for all photographers published on this collective photoblog.
* the mediadesigner groupblog [http://www.pixeltapete.de Pixeltapete] uses the hCard for the contactinformation of the authorpages of [http://www.pixeltapete.de/alex Alex] and [http://www.pixeltapete.de/carsten Carsten] and also for the [http://www.pixeltapete.de/kontakt imprint]. [http://www.pixeltapete.de Pixeltapete] uses its own [http://www.pixeltapete.de/2007/11/hcard-sidebarwidget-fuer-wordpress/ hcard widget] for wordpress sidebars.
* [http://www.thorsten-ott.de Thorsten Ott] uses hCard format for the contact section of his online resume.
* [http://rosebleed.net/ Rosebleed] supports [[hCard user profiles]] - your profile URL is <nowiki>http://rosebleed.net/users/profile.php/</nowiki> followed by your username, e.g. [http://rosebleed.net/users/profile.php/silvermoon82 silvermoon82].
**'''Fixed''' profiles now explicitly mark up 'n' where possible, otherwise omits it
* [http://www.whitepages.com WhitePages.com] Now WhitePages.com main implemented hCard on all its listings. Over 120 million hCards! Includes work information.
* [http://www.warmoth.com Warmoth Guitar Products] features hCard contact information in two places, [http://www.warmoth.com/customerservice/customer.cfm?fuseaction=order How To Order] and all of the [http://www.warmoth.com/catalog Warmoth E-Store]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat BBC World Service Bangladesh River Journey] a social network mashup, with hCard & other microformats. See [http://dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat Dharmafly blog discussion].
* [http://www.amants-du-chocolat.net/ ACCP:Les Amants du Chocolat de la Couronne Parisienne] uses hCard on their contact page and in the chocolate maker they've reviewed.
* [http://www.accountviewsoftware.nl/ AccountviewSoftware.nl] makes use of hCards for the dealer directory [http://www.accountviewsoftware.nl/dir/ (directory)]
* [http://www.crystalvision.co.il/ CrystalVision] uses hCard on their contact page and in the footer throughout the site.
* [http://www.indigoclothing.com/ Indigo Clothing] a London based t-shirt company uses hCard with Technorati's Add to Address Book throughout the site in the footer
* [http://www.joshuamcginnis.com Joshua McGinnis] uses hCard to display his contact information to potential clients.
* [http://www.myaffordablemarketing.com/contact.php Affordable Marketing Solutions' contact page] uses hCard with Technorati "Add to Address Book".
* [http://www.bo.ingv.it/contents/INGV-Bologna/Staff.html 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).
* [http://www.lefora.com Lefora] is a free forum hosting site (using custom forum software). Every user's profile contains an hCard. (Example forum for testing: [http://funstuff.lefora.com funstuff.lefora.com])
* [http://www.handlairsystems.com H&L Air Systems] uses hCard with Technorati link Add to Address Book on all contact pages.
* [http://theultimates.whitepages.com WhitePages.com] A special version of whitepages.com has all its listings marked up in hCard.
* [http://piermontweb.com/contact/ Piermont Web Design] uses hCard on its contact page.
* [http://www.ie.asm.md/en/ The Institute of Power Engineering] of the Academy of Science of Moldova. First Moldavian site using hCards on staff pages, e.g [http://www.ie.asm.md/employees/oleschuk-valentin/]
**Also in Russian: [http://www.ie.asm.md/employees-ru/sit-michail-lvovich/] and Romanian: [http://www.ie.asm.md/angajati/chiorsac-mihail/]
* The good ship [http://styrheim.com/test/leonid.html Leonid Miloslavskiy] spotted in the North Atlantic
* [http://richi.co.uk/blog/2005/12/structured-blogging.html Richi Jennings] has put up his attempt
*[http://oberrycavanaugh.com O'Berry|Cavanaugh] has an organization hCard in the footer on every page as while as individual hCards on the [http://oberrycavanaugh.com/team.php Team] page.
* [http://fortisgc.com Fortis General Counsel], e. g. [http://fortisgc.com/joyce_lan_kim.html Joyce Kim's profile], uses hCard for profile and contact information.
* [http://peryplo.com Peryplo.com], e. g. [http://peryplo.com/personal/7e6786e711c6d051a39a1b7085f34955 Sample Page], uses hCard for Hotels, Gastronomy Places and services for tourists.
* [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/ NaviTraveler], e. g. [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/Lincoln_Memorial.html Lincoln Memorial], including [[geo|Geo]].
** Response in under 12 hours, to advocacy request - [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://corewar.atspace.com/about.html sfghoul] has marked her contact info with [[hcard|hCard]]
* [http://www.zaadz.com Zaadz] uses [[hcard|hCard]] and [http://gmpg.org/xfn XFN] for friends on a user's profile page.
*[http://www.xoxiety.com/about.html Xoxiety] uses hCards on its about page, linking data from a within a block of text.
*[http://yedda.com Yedda] - Yedda provides hcard based identities on all of the people's profiles
*[http://openid.ne.jp OpenID.ne.jp] First OpenID provider service in Japan(日本語). Each personal OpenID page (ex:[http://eouia.openid.ne.jp http://eouia.openid.ne.jp]) is marked up as his hCard. And there is a company hCard on every page, too.
* [http://www.goldenglovepromotions.com/ Golden Glove Promotions] used hcards on the footer of every page to store contact information.
* Australian national news sites The Australian and Australian IT use hCard on their contact pages: [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/contactus The Australian (contact us)] and [http://www.australianit.news.com.au/contactus Australian IT (contact us)]
* [http://www.thekiwiholiday.com/ The Kiwi Holiday] uses hCards for [http://www.thekiwiholiday.com/view-hostels New Zealand Hostels], [http://www.thekiwiholiday.com/view-restaurants New Zealand Restaurants], and [http://www.thekiwiholiday.com/view-activities New Zealand Activities]. Also provides hCard "download to address book" functionality on listing detail pages, e.g. [http://www.thekiwiholiday.com/restaurant/tonys-steak Tonys Steak Restaurant]
* [http://www.serviceworksglobal.com/pages/contact-us.php Service Works Global] uses hcards on the contact us page and in the site footer
* [http://www.qcindustries.com/ QC Industries Conveyors] uses hcards to store contact information in the site footer and in their [http://www.qcindustries.com/news/press-releases/ press releases].
* [http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/ The Confucius Institute for Scotland at the University of Edinburgh] has their used a hcard to store contact information in the footer of the page.
* [http://admnj.com/ Affiliated Direct Mail] is a New Jersey based direct mail company that has their contact information and footer in hCard format.
* [http://www.golfdigest.com/ Golf Digest] now supports hCard in its [http://www.golfdigest.com/courses/places Course Finder] detail pages. [http://www.golfdigest.com/courses/places/2483 example]
* [http://dev.opera.com/authors/ Dev Opera] Opera's developer site uses hCards on the author details pages.
* [http://chrischerry.name/ Chris Cherry's contact page with his hCard]
* [http://www.kiteboarder.com.au/php/search.php www.kiteboarder.com.au] A new Australian kiteboarding portal. Microformats have been used so that users can export the shops <s>directly to outlook</s>. I was able to learn microformats through the Media 2007 conference in London. Author: Damien King
* [http://krevi.dk/ KREVI] A Danish research institute. Using hCard in the footer of each page and on staff list. This is the first known danish website from the public sector of Denmark using microformats.[http://krevi.dk/om-krevi/organisation/medarbejdere example staff list]
* [http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/web-team/ College of Humanities and Social Science Web Team's site], University of Edinburgh uses a hCard in the footer of each page.
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ globeandmail.com] Canada's National Newspaper uses an hCard for their contact information.
* [http://www.logisteam.pl/ Krzysztof Rucinski] uses an hCard for his contact details on [http://www.logisteam.pl/keylogger.kontakt.html Logisteam keylogger contact] page.
* Creation design & marketing has hCards throughout the site, including the [http://www.creation.uk.com/contact/ contact page], the [http://www.creation.uk.com/company/leigh-scott/ company profile pages] and on the [http://www.creation.uk.com/news/2007/06/06/easy-money/#comments-view comments on articles]
*<s> Wikipedia now has a template, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hcard-geo hcard-geo], for in-line hCards with coordinates, such as that on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Arm Engine Arm]</s>
* [http://www.thomsonlocal.com/ ThomsonLocal.com], major UK business directory publisher, use hcard on the search results and company information pages.
* [http://www.corissia.com Corissia Group Hotels in Crete Greece] have included contact information as a hCard on the footer of every page of the website. There is a multilingual implementation as well.
* [http://zucchetti.co.uk/2007/03/06/simple-address-formatting-solution/ Laura Zucchetti] illustrates a simple address formatting solution as a hCard and marked up in a definition list.
* [http://www.feike.de/Kontakt.html Feike Contact] has a hCard on to top of the page.
* [http://www.londondrum.com/ London Drum] uses a whole host of microformats - there are hcards and geo's on the hotel pages, events are written up in hcalendar format on the cityguide page, and you can also find some hreviews as well (like on the [http://www.londondrum.com/hotels/athenaeum.php Athenaeum Hotel page])
* [http://www.regels-stadskanaal.nl/ Regelingenbank Stadskanaal] has a hCard on each page, containing Geo-information too.
* [http://www.tomstone.se Tom Stone - Trollkarl] has a hCard in the footer of each page of the site.
* [http://www.rolandinsh.lv/ Rolands Umbrovskis]'s home page has hCard in [http://www.rolandinsh.lv/?ro=contacts contact page] and all other pages with contact information.
* [http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/ Epiphany Solutions Ltd] use a hCard on their contact us page. We intend to use the hCard on everypage if successfully implemented, along with a link to the Technorati vCard generator.
* [http://twitter.com Twitter] uses hCard for user information (along with [http://ihack.us/2007/05/14/twitter-gets-microformatted/ several other microformats])
*[http://www.pats.ua.ac.be/group PATS Group Members] uses hCard to mark up member contact information.
*[http://couchsurfing.com CouchSurfing] has limited information in hCard available on members' profiles (such as [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/guaka Guaka's]).
*Wikipedia-UK (Ukranian)
**Starting to roll out on biographies e.g. [http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Vadym Hetman]
* [http://christophertcressman.com Christopher T. Cressman] uses an hCard on the home page of his blog, [http://christophertcressman.com christopher t cressman].
* [http://kpumuk.info Dmytro Shteflyuk] uses an hCard on his [http://kpumuk.info/contact/ contact] and [http://kpumuk.info/curriculum-vitae/ curriculum vitae] pages.
*Wikipedia-EN
**starting to roll-out on articles about people, for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein Albert Einstein]. The nature of Wikipedia means that there are a large number of templates to update (Albert's is "infobox scientist; there's also "infobox military people", "infobox musician" and so on, almost ad infinitum). DoB is only included if it's entered using a birth-date template, not as raw text.
**starting to roll-out on articles about places, for example on UK Railway station template, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street Birmingham New Street station] (includes Geo); and cities, for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York]. See above for note on Wikipedia templates.
**Any Wikipedia editors willing to assist with updating templates should see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats Wikipedia's microformat project]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_hCards Wikipedia templates generating hCards]
**Unfortunately, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Protected_area&diff=prev&oldid=152308153 other editors are already breaking some of the implementations on Wikipedia]; e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park Grand Canyon National Park]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Argentina&diff=prev&oldid=155590535 removal of "region" attributes]
* The [http://www.bayofislands.net/ Bay of Islands] site has implemented hCard on all listing pages, eg: [http://www.bayofislands.net/accommodation/backpackers/saltwater-lodge/ Saltwater Lodge]
* [http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mpschaef/index.html Merrick Schaefer] is psyched to use hCard on his homepage for his contact info.
* Christian Hess (from San José, Costa Rica) has an hCard in his [http://www.hess-cr.com home page], [http://www.hess-cr.com/utilidades/correo.shtml#postal contact] and [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/curriculum/datos.shtml personal résumé] pages (all in Spanish). He also recommends using the [https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/4106 Operator] extension in Firefox to check them out.
* [http://www.JamPlanet.com Jam Planet] uses hCard in Contact Us page; application can generate hCard for a contact.
* [http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/ The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards], designated specifically to recognize works addressing issues of racism and diversity, uses hCard for the author bios of [http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Winners/PastWinners/ past winners].
* [http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/ Buy Our Honeymoon], a [http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/usa honeymoon registry] service, uses hCard in their [http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/contact Contact Us] page.
* '''W3C webmaster''' [http://www.w3.org/People/Jean-Gui/ Jean-Guilhem Rouel] now has an hCard.
* [http://source.ibegin.com/ iBegin Source] - All 10.8+ million business listings have their information marked up in hCard. Example: [http://source.ibegin.com/california/adelanto/aeronautical-supplies/general-atomics-9779-yucca-rd-1.html General Atomics]
* [http://david.weekly.org/ David Weekly] has added an hCard to his home page for himself.
* [http://ficlets.com/stories/12 Ficlets] story page uses hCard for author bio.
* [http://redmonk.com/contact/ RedMonk Contact page] uses hCard for RedMonk firm as well as each analysts.
* [http://source.ibegin.com/ iBegin Source] uses hCard to identify business information for all 10.5+ million businesses listed.
* [http://www.lounews.com/ The Louisville News Company] uses hCard for site-wide contact information for the company and for the site developer.
* [http://cloudislands.com/contact.php Cloud Islands] uses hCard for our Contact Info.
* [http://www.international.unt.edu UNT International] uses hCard to mark up contact information sitewide (see esp. [http://www.international.unt.edu/offices/ieli/people/instructors/profiles the IELI instructor profile listing])
* [http://www.giraffo.de giraffo.de] has different hCards on every page (+ geo in "kontakt")
* [http://www.enap.com ENAP, Inc.] lists the HR Contact in hCard format on the [http://www.enap.com/career.aspx Career Opportunities] page.
* [http://sxsw07.conferenceer.com/people Conferenceer] lists panelists and participants to the 2007 South by Southwest interactive conference in hCard format
* [http://news.stanford.edu Stanford News] (Redesign) hCard in the footer on every page as well as markup for every staff member on the Staff page.
* [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/EveMoreau Valérie-Eve Moreau] has an hCard on her wiki-homepage.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Minster%2C_Doncaster St George's Minster, Doncaster, on Wikipedia]
* AOL Journals publishes hCards for authors. [http://journals.aol.com/carowill/whats-happening Example]
* Ian McKellar's [http://ian.mckellar.org/ home page] is an hCard that's styled to look like a business card.
* [[Christophe Ducamp]]'s hCard based on [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/MicroFormats/ChristopheDucamp wiki personal page] of a wiki-branch which could be dedicated to seed a french group to support microformats. Thanks to Laurent Lunati for the CSS. You can [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?action=edit&id=FR/MicroFormats/ChristopheDucamp edit it]. Any suggestions welcome.
* [http://www.matthewwest.co.uk Matthew West] has an hCard on his [http://www.matthewwest.co.uk/email contact] page.
*[http://www.webmaster.waw.pl Paweł Wrzosek] Freelance webdeveloper`s portfolio
*[http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford.edu] hCard markup is included in the footer of the homepage and all subsequent pages within the /home directory.
*[http://openid.ne.jp OpenID.ne.jp] First OpenID provider service in Japan(日本語). Each personal OpenID page (ex:[http://eouia.openid.ne.jp http://eouia.openid.ne.jp]) is marked up as his hCard. And there is a company hCard on every page, too.
* [http://www.qwertycars.co.uk/garages/mechanics-near-tadworth-kt20.aspx UK Car Garages] Address of car mechanics in the UK, in hCard format.
* [http://www.columbiaautomation.com/sub/contact.php Columbia Automation]'s About Us page every employee marked up as an hCard, as well as having a company hCard with geo information.
* [http://www.pointermix.com Pointermix Design] uses the hCard format.
* [http://eight6.com/contact/ eight6]'s contact page uses the hCard format.
* [http://www.raveaboutit.com.au Rave About It]'s business listings use the hCard format.
* [http://optics.org/cws/Contact/OurTeam.do optics.org]'s team page.
* [http://www.robcottingham.ca/contact Rob Cottingham]'s first foray into microformats is an hCard on the contact page of his personal blog. (He was inspired by Tantek Çelik's presentation at Web Directions North 2007.)
* [http://redmonk.net/about-this-site Steve Ivy] - hcard about page, includes the usual suspects + XFN on 'url's, photo, amd geo.
* [http://seattleu.edu Seattle University] uses hCard on it's front page and most pages that share an official template.
* [http://www.josemarti.waw.pl Jose Marti XXII Secondary School in Warsaw] includes hCard on Contact and About Author sections
* [http://www.jaama.co.uk Jaama] have their company details as a vCard download on their [http://www.jaama.co.uk/Contact.aspx contact] page.
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has company details marked up as hCard all across the site and particularly for [http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason] and [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gilbert]
* [http://jc-development.co.uk/ JC's Development] has company contact details as hCard.
* [http://berlin.barwick.de/index.html Berlin Guide] is converting their address markup to hcard, e.g. [http://berlin.barwick.de/shopping/kadewe-kaufhaus-des-westens.html KaDeWe]
* [http://www.xlntads.com XLNTads] has their contact information marked up in hCard, as well as their development schedule/timeline in hCalendar
* [http://derrick.pallas.us Derrick Pallas] tells people to look for him here.
* [http://bluemonkcreative.com/contact/ Bill Turner] adds an hCard to the contact page of his freelance business' website.
* [http://www.oppenheim.com.au/ James Oppenheim's blog] includes an inline author hCard in the footer of each page and also on the contact page.
* [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ NYU Steinhardt] has [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/list/Faculty 240+ faculty bios marked up], e.g. [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Susan_Murray].
* [http://www.boogdesign.com/aboutus.html boogdesign.com] has added hCard markup on the contact page.
* [http://www.gptg.org/ Great Places To Golf], hCards for golf clubs around the world, e.g. [http://www.gptg.org/club/12/]
*[http://www.travellerspoint.com/ The Travellerspoint Travel Community] has added hCards to all of their member profiles (e.g. [http://www.travellerspoint.com/member_profile.cfm?user=jax_07]). Details include name, photo, location, notes and url.
* The [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ West Midland Bird Club] in the English Midlands uses hCard on its [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ home page], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/ events diary], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/contact.htm contact pages], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/site/links.htm links page], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/older.htm list of the world's oldest bird clubs] and in a page footer which is gradually being rolled out across the whole site. {{UpdateMarker}} Page-footer's hCard now has logo, using [[include-pattern]].
*[http://wizardishungry.com/blog/ wizardishungry/blog] has the author's hCard in the footer of every page with a link to X2V.
* [http://www.walkerfineart.com Walker Fine Art Gallery] Most pages contain an hCard in the footer.
* [http://www.brdatasystems.com.au/contact-us.html B&R Data Systems] is an organisation hCard. We have also used the technorati tool to download as a vCard, which I think is useful for a business.
* [http://chewbittel.com/contact.php Chew Bittel Assoc., Inc.] is an organization hCard. It's got abbr's in there, and a duplicate telephone field, and some hidden things. I'm really pushing things to the limit here. This should be a great test for your parser.
* [[User:Steve Ivy|Steve Ivy]]'s [http://redmonk.net/about-this-site/ about page] has his hcard, including a link to Technorati's contacts feed to let visitors download his contact information.
* Scott Allan Wallick's hCard is [[User:ScottWallick|his user page]] and on his blog, [http://www.plaintxt.org/about/2/ plaintxt.org]
* [[User:Bob_Jonkman|Bob Jonkman's hCard]] '''on this 'wiki''''

===Added pre 2007===
* [http://thetenwordreview.com The Ten Word Review] simply contains ten word long reviews. All reviews are marked up as [[hreview|hReviews]], and user information is marked up as hCards.
*OffshoreAgile.com, a subsite of Starsoft Development Labs, uses hCard in the [http://www.offshoreagile.com/company/contact/ Starsoft Contacts] and Media Inquiries sections
*T-Mobile uses hCard for the [http://t-mobilepressoffice.co.uk/press/contact-details/ T-Mobile UK Press Contact Details page], as well as for some of the latest press releases
* Psychology Press and Routledge's Behavioral Sciences' publishing division have implemented hCard on their contact pages on 17 of their websites (example on the contact page on their [http://www.clinicalpsychologyarena.com/contact/ Clinical Psychology Arena])
*[http://72ppi.us 72ppi], uses hCard in the footer.
*[http://www.csarven.ca Sarven Capadisli] uses hCard throughout the site (including user comments in articles).
* [https://www.urbanbody.com/information/contact-us Urban Body Men's Clothing] uses hCard for business locations and hCalendar for business hours.
* [http://www.iqair.us/ IQAir North America], uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.infoiasi.ro/ The website of the Faculty of Computer Science], "A. I. Cuza" University Iaşi, Romania uses hCard for each staff member.
* [http://www.finds.org.uk/ The Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum] hCards added to footer of every page and to contacts section. Working on adding more and getting it right.
* In [http://www.ideasfornet.com/ IdeasForNet.com - the ideas repository] hCards were implemented partially in the footer of each page, and more comprehensively in the contact and about pages.
* The [http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/ Centre of Canadian Studies] at the University of Edinburgh use hCards for contact information in the footer of their site.
* [http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/ Theatre Studies: European Theatre] at the University of Edinburgh use hCards for contact information on their home page
* [http://www.carolinemockett.com/design/about.aspx Caroline Mockett] has an hCard on her About Me page
* [http://wait-till-i.com Christian Heilmann] has a footer address using hCard
*[http://www.audience-response-rentals.com/ Audience Response System Rentals] uses hcard as a popup in the site accessibility area (lower right) for easy copy and paste of address by customers.
* [http://www.fischsolutions.com/ Fisch Internet Solutions] uses an embedded hCard and a vCard download to provide customers an easy way to contact them on their [http://fischsolutions.com/contactus.html Contact Us] section of the website.
* [http://www.micatholicconference.org/ Michigan Catholic Conference] uses hCard for contact information in the sidebar.
* [http://www.adambunn.co.uk/ Adam Bunn] provides contact details in the sidebar using hCard.
* [http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/10_10_06NotebookExpansionDock.html Belkin Press Releases] are using hCards for PR contacts and corporate offices.
* [http://mybank.com myBank.com] uses hCard for its listings of every branch of every FDIC-insured bank in the United States.
* [http://leftlogic.com Left Logic] uses hCard for embedded contact information.
* [http://inga-art.co.uk/artist Inga Scholes] uses hCard for contact information in the sidebar.
* [http://www.lussumo.com/ Lussumo] uses hCards on user profile pages in its open-source [http://www.getvanilla.com/ Vanilla] Discussions Forum software.
* [http://www.creative-ways.nl/ Ron Kok] uses hCards to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog. He also uses hCards in combination with XFN in his blogposts to refer to friends, and has an hCard for himself on every page on his blog.
* [http://tagg.no Tagg Media] uses hCard for [http://heine.tagg.no/contact.php contact information] and provide link to vCard download in the contact section.
* The article about the fictitious Matrix character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_%28The_Matrix%29 Thomas A Anderson in Wikipedia] is now marked up with hCard.
* [http://dconstruct06.madgex.com/ d.Construct 2006 Backnetwork] uses hCards for conference delegates (and provides the markup so that delegates can copy and paste cards into their own sites).
* [http://www.brown.edu Brown University] now uses hCard on the front page
* [http://www.wideblueyonderweb.co.uk Dunks at Wide Blue Yonder Web Design] has added hCard markup on his [http://www.wideblueyonderweb.co.uk/wbyw/pages/contact.htm contact page] and is looking to implement it on all past & future contact pages for clients.
* [http://southamptonrubberstamp.com Southampton Rubber Stamp Company] now has hCard markup with a vCard download link on every page.
* [http://barefoot-ceramics.com Barefoot Ceramics paint your own pottery studio] (in Newport, South Wales) has added hCard markup to its [http://barefoot-ceramics.com/find#address "Find"] page and other address instances. They hopes to implement hCalendar event lists as soon as an ics to hCalendar PHP class can be found or written.
* [http://dsingleton.co.uk/ David Singleton] has added a hCard to his blog.
* [http://www.thestreet.org.au The Street Theatre (Canberra, Australia)] has added hCard markup to its [http://www.thestreet.org.au/contact.htm Contact Us] page. hCalendar markup will soon be added for all of our performances.
* [http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS/personnel/henrich/index.php Henrich C. Pöhls] has marked up his about page using hcard, including his PGP-Key that is stored in an abbr title, using class=key.
* [http://www.yalf.de Yalf Webentwicklung] has [http://www.yalf.de/kontakt contact information] available as hCard (and vCard).
* [http://www.zeldman.com/about/ Jeffrey Zeldman]. Jeffrey Zeldman has marked up his about page using hcard.
* [http://WhereAreYouCamping.com Where Are You Camping]. hCards for all members and camps, employing the include pattern as well. AFAIK this is the first Burning Man related microformats implementation, not to mention addresses in Black Rock City.
* [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk Clackmannanshire Council ]. hCard is implemented for all contact details across the site, and for specific individuals such as elected members (Councillors).
* [http://www.webdirections.org Web Directions]. hCard is used as contact information for the conference, while speakers are marked up with hCard.
* [http://www.markthisdate.com/contactform.html MarkThisDate.com]. An hCard is implemented on our contact form. For our calendars hCalendars will follow as soon as possible.
* [http://www.msiinet.com/contact/ MSI Systems Integrators] has its "Contact MSI" page encoded with hCards.
* [http://www.coolblue.nl/ Corporate website of Coolblue BV]. hCards were implemented in both the footer of each page, and in the "News" section for press contact information.
* [http://www.besancon.fr/index.php?p=32 Official site of Besançon (France)] uses hCard for each page concerning the small towns surrounding Besançon.
* [http://2006.dconstruct.org/speakers/ d.Construct 2006 conference speakers list] is implemented using hCards.
* [http://local.yahoo.com Yahoo Local] now supports hCards for business and places in the search results
* [http://learningtheworld.eu/imprint/ Learning the World] has hcard information on the imprint, alas we didn't succeed to mark-up the work phone and fax numbers properly.
* The [http://www.fuckparade.org F’parade] website uses hCard, though I didn't find a type to distinguish mobile and landline phone numbers.
**Use <code>cell</code> for mobiles.
* [http://www.miranet.nl/contact.htm Miranet Webdesign] have added a hcard to their [http://www.miranet.nl/contact.htm 'contact' page]
* [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Ben Buchanan] has added a vCard to the [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/about/ 'About' page on The 200ok Weblog]
* [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core] has their contact information [http://www.radiantcore.com/contact/ available in hCard].
* [http://www.mikerumble.co.uk/ Mike Rumble] has [http://www.mikerumble.co.uk/contact.html uploaded his hCard].
* [http://www.saumag.edu/ Southern Arkansas University] has its contact footer encoded as hCard
* [http://main.uab.edu/ University of Alabama at Birmingham] has its contact footer encoded as hCard
* [http://www.capital.edu Capital University] has contact footer and bloggers' names encoded as hCard. Also, all page-specific contact information is encoded as hCards (see [http://www.capital.edu/Internet/Default.aspx?pid=67 Admissions] page for an example)
* [http://main.uab.edu/shrp/ UAB School of Health Professions] uses hCard in its contact footer
* [http://green.carisenda.com/ Stephen Stewart] has his hCard on the front page of his weblog ('You are here' section)
* [http://www.direction.es/ Direction] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://audiobank.tryphon.org AudioBank] uses hCard to display member informations.
* [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/speakers/ @media speakers] are marked up with hCard (photos depend on BASE tag support which makes this a good test case)
* [http://www.dougransom.com Doug Ransom] uses hCard for his financial advisory practice.
* [http://rubyandrails.org/usergroups/newcastle/members.html ncl.rb] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.snowinteractive.com/ Snow Interactive] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://flickr.com Flickr] now supports [[hcard|hCard]] and [http://gmpg.org/xfn XFN] on profile pages. See [http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/113866484/ screenshot of Flickr UI in Flock browser using Flocktails extension - March 17th 2006].
* [http://www.ndiyo.org/contact Contact information for the Ndiyo project]
* [http://www.pixelenvy.co.uk/ Pixel Envy] uses hCard for contact information on every page
* [http://stilbuero.de/contact/ Klaus Hartl] uses hCard in the sidebar for contact information (maybe easier to parse through delivering xhtml as xml).
* [http://charlvn.virafrikaans.com/contact Charl van Niekerk's hCard]
* [http://billy-girlardo.com/WP/ BillyBLOGirlardo] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ Hicksdesign] uses hCard for contact information.
* http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ - hCard in a press release for the press contact info
* http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/03/testing_out_mic.html - hCard with explanation
* [http://andy.ciordia.info/ it's my island], personal blog, hcard on the ''[http://andy.ciordia.info/pages/about_me About the Writer]'' page. [[User:Ciordia9|Andy Ciordia]]
* [http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/ Window on Woking], a local community site in the UK, uses hCard in the homepage of each member organisation and local Councillor.
* [http://ChunkySoup.net/ ChunkySoup.net] has redesigned using hAtom 0.1 and hCards on the entire site -- by [[User:ChrisCasciano|Chris Casciano]]
* [http://www.30boxes.com/ 30 Boxes],a social calendar application and digital lifestyle aggregator, automatically creates an hcard for you with your account. It is found under Settings > Syndication.
* [http://www.nearwhere.com/ Nearwhere.com] allow you to put an hcard on an interactive map.
* [http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent Ozar] added a [http://www.brentozar.com/contact.php contact] page hCard.
* [http://www.kerihenare.com/ Keri Henare] has rewritten his [http://www.kerihenare.com/contact/ contact] page hCard. Now using <code><object></code> instead of <code><img></code> for photo. (Thanks Brian Suda for updating the vCard converter)
* [http://michaelraichelson.com/contact/ Michael Raichelson] had an hCard on his contact page before SXSW, but never thought to add it here until Tantek requested it.
* [http://www.commoner.com/~lsimon/lindsey_simon_hcard.html Lindsey Simon] has added an hCard to his website as per Tantek's SXSW request for folks to try it
* [http://www.davidgagne.net/ David Gagne] has an hCard in his sidebar.
* [http://www.churchzip.com/map/ Churchzip.com/map] and [http://www.skiwhere.com/map/ Skiwhere.com/map], provide churches, hotels, and ski resorts on the same maps. Locations are formatted as hCards.
* All [http://www.iqdir.com/ IQ Directory Solutions] Yellow Pages web portals use [[hcard|hCard]] markup on listings. For example [http://www.yellowpages-cambodia.com/ Cambodia Yellow Pages] and [http://www.superpages.com.my/ Malaysia Super Pages]
* Ning's cloneable Group app uses fuzzy matching to map custom fields to [[hcard|hCard]] markup on its [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=person&action=view&content=JonathanAquino profile] pages.
* [http://claimid.com/factoryjoe Chris Messina' ClaimID hCard]
* [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard Chris Messina' hCard]
* [http://flock.com/about Flock About]
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html Agenda: W3C Technical Plenary Day, March 1 2006] has [[hcard|hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. ([http://www.w3.org/2006/03/01-TechPlenAgenda.html original here]).
* [http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ GrowSearch Launched (Press Release)] uses an hCard to provide Press Contact Point.
* The [http://www.arborday.org/ National Arbor Day Foundation] has started using hCards for their [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/communityforestry/index.cfm upcoming] [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/hazardtrees-treeplanting/ conferences].
* [http://www.multipack.co.uk The Multipack] has numerous hCards, especially on the [http://www.multipack.co.uk/members/ members page], as well as the next meeting information.
* [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/ Justin McDowell] used an hCard when [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/221332.html referring to a person in his blog post]
* [http://davecardwell.co.uk/cv/ Dave Cardwell] has included his hCard in his Curriculum Vitae.
* [http://blog.usweb.com/ Shaun Shull] has written a great post on [http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo How Microformats Affect SEO], and has included his [[hcard|hCard]] as one of the examples.
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/ Jesse Skinner] has written a simple [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard tutorial with examples]
* [http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html 2006 W3C Technical Plenary Week] has marked up the venue, contacts, and program committee members all with hCard.
* [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk AVF-Nexus] have a hCard on their [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk/contact/ contact page] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/ Andrew White] posted [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/my-hcard/ his hCard] and [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/62/microformats-the-should-have-been-obvious-web-dev-tool/ blogged about it].
* [http://www.2sheds.ru Oleg "2sheds" Kourapov] in his [http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/ blog] ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog X2V]) has turned personal profile into hCard ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/hcard.html X2V]) and his blogroll - into combination XFN/hCards ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/friends.html X2V])
* [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk Approved Design Consultancy] have a hCard on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/contact/ contact page] as well as on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/people/ people section] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Ben Buchanan] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin Morris] have [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2006/01/griffith-phonebook-adds-hcard-and.html implemented hCards and vCards] for the [http://www.griffith.edu.au Griffith University] [http://www.griffith.edu.au/find/content_phonebook.html online phone book]. Eg. [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=ben+buchanan&format=search Ben's vCard] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin's vCard]
* WWF-Australia [http://wwf.org.au/about/contactdetails/ contact details page]
* [http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl] used the hCard format on his [http://rasterweb.net/raster/contact.html Contact page] and his [http://rasterweb.net/portfolio/ Portfolio]
* [http://alexander-mette.de amette] uses the hCard format in a module of his TikiWiki powered blog
* [http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/ Oren Sreebny] has an hcard on his blog main index template
* [http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/ Patrick Tufts] has an hCard on his homepage.
* [http://ascii20.blogspot.com/ Mathias Kolehmainen and Jamie Taylor] have hCards on their weblog.
* [http://www.hoppsan.org/jamesb/blogger/ Barnaby James] has a hCard on his weblog.
* [http://esa-education.com/schools/map ESA Education] Uses hCards for their 100+ schools and each of the individual school sites.
* [http://www.thereisnocat.com/#vcard Ralph Brandi] has added an hCard to the sidebar of his weblog as a result of Tantek Çelik's portion of the Microformats presentation at SXSW 2006.
* [http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/ephone/ Pierce College] -- community college directory uses hCard on all individual directory entries.
* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/ the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006] have marked up all their [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/committee/ speakers with hCard].
* http://wikitravel.org/en/Singapore/Sentosa. Wikitravel is experimenting with hcard on its travel guides. This guide uses hcard for all its business listings. More info on http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel_talk:Listings.
* [http://www.musik-erber.de/ Musik-Erber] uses to present contact information at the sidebar
* [http://cdevroe.com/about/#contact Colin D. Devroe] uses hCard to display his contact information on his about page
* The ECS (Scool of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton) [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people People Pages] use vCard. Contact cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk if there's any bugs.
* [http://www.southwestern.edu/~ramseyp Pat Ramsey] has his contact information on his blog marked up with hCard. Contact [mailto:ramsey.pat@gmail.com ramsey.pat@gmail.com] if there are any bugs there.
* [http://www.vyre.com/company/contact-us/ VYRE] is a CMS development company with a "contact us" hCard
* [http://www.lefdal.cc/info.php Alf Kåre Lefdal] uses hCard in the markup of his contact information
* [http://www.pignwhistle.com.au/ Pig N Whistle, a chain of pubs in Brisbane, Australia] is using hcard to mark up all the contact pages for its outlets and head office
* [http://kollitsch.de/ Patrick Kollitsch] has built his personal Profil as hCard
* [http://www.audiophile.pl/ Car Audio] uses the hCard in his contacts section.
* [http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/dspar/ Harvard Business School] has hCards on their faculty pages
* [http://openmikes.org/ openmikes.org] uses hCards for open mike venue addresses in its listing detail pages.
* [http://www.intertecnollc.com/ InterTecno, LCC] publishes an hCard on the home page and contact page.
* [http://canaltcm.com/ver/sobre-tcm Turner Classic Movies TCM Spanish website] has published contact details as a hCard
* [http://rejuvenation.com/ Rejuvenation] is now using hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.mattash.com/contact/ Matthew Ash] uses the hCard in his contacts section.
* [http://yarmouthguide.com/business.php Yarmouth Guide] uses hCard for each business details page.
* [http://www.merchantcircle.com MerchantCircle] has embedded an hCard in every one of their 15+ million US business listings.
* [http://citizenspace.us/citizens Citizen Space Citizens] is a list of tenants for a coworking space in San Francisco. The issue was raised that ''nicknames'' are usually located in the middle of ''fn'', which is not valid as per the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-brainstorming#Implied_FN_from_N Implied_FN_from_N] rule. It seems that it should be possible, however, to include a ''nickname'' in the middle of an FN or even between a ''given-name'' and a ''family-name''.
** use: <code><nowiki><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Andy</span> "<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>" <span class="family-name">Mabbett</span></span></nowiki></code>. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 09:12, 16 Jan 2008 (PST) 

== Related Pages ==
{{hcard-related-pages}}

hcard-authoring

2006-09-24T22:46:44Z

DougRansom: How can you mark up who your admin assistant is?

<h1>hCard authoring</h1>

This page contains useful tips and guidelines for how to author [[hcard|hCards]], either from scratch, or by adding markup to existing content.

'''Goal:''' The goal of this document is to provide some good intuitive guidelines that should make it as easy and as quick as possible for any web author to create hCards or add hCard markup to existing content.

'''Audience:''' Web authors and designers. This document is written for easy consumption and understanding by any web designer who knows at least enough (X)HTML and CSS to use HTML class names on elements and write CSS selectors that apply styles to those class names. Please help with clarifying/simplifying this document accordingly.

'''Author(s):''' Tantek Çelik

__TOC__

== Creating new hCards ==

Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator], and for additional fields and properties (e.g. telephone numbers, instant messaging contacts), see the [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]] page.

== Adding hCard markup to existing content ==

=== Natural language hCard ===

See [http://adactio.com/journal/1122/ Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard].

=== Minimal Markup Changes ===

The important thing to keep in mind when adding hCard to existing content, is the fact that hCard was designed so that it could be added with minimal (most often no) changes to the existing presentation of the page. Thus keep this in mind: change as little markup as possible. If you want to fix various pages to be valid XHTML etc., that's fine.

In all cases below, where it says to add an element with class name of "xyz", if you can find an existing element that precisely surrounds the necessary content, then re-use that element and simply add the class name "xyz" to it (by adding it to the class attribute on the existing element, or by adding a new class attribute <code>class="xyz"</code> to elements without a class attribute).

=== Find People or Organizations ===

Start with looking for all mentions of people or organizations on a page. All of those are potential hCards. Even more so if they are linked to their respective URLs (e.g. home pages / blogs).

If a person (or organization, henceforth shortened to just "'''person/org'''") is mentioned several times on a page, consider marking up the mention which is the most detailed, definitive, or otherwise thorough as an hCard. Ideally you might want to mark up ''all'' instances of a person/org as hCards, but for now, just keep it simple and markup the most representative instance. (Perhaps the most "definitive" instance, which could also then be marked up with a <code><nowiki><dfn></nowiki></code> element around the name of the person/org for additional semantic XHTML goodness.)

=== Determine The Surrounding Element for Each ===

For each person/org that you want to turn into an hCard, find the smallest element that contains all the info about that person/org, and no info about any other person/org.

Add the class name "<code>vcard</code>" to that element.

If there is no such element (perhaps the nearest enclosing element contains more than one person/org), then add a <code><nowiki><span class="vcard">...</span></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki><div class="vcard">...</div></nowiki></code> that wraps the info about about that person/org and just that person/org.

The rest of the markup for this hCard MUST go ''inside'' that element with the class name "vcard".

=== The Importance of Names ===

The name is the one required property of hCard. Thus be sure to mark up the name of the person with the class name "fn". For names of people which are two simple words (text separated by space) and where the first word is their given name and the second word is their family name, the class name "fn" is sufficient. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn">Rohit Khare</span></div></nowiki></pre>

For people with middle names (e.g. "Håkon Wium Lie"), or with multi-word last names (e.g. "Thomas Vander Wal"), you must mark them up with the "n" property and its sub-properties "given-name" and "family-name", e.g.:
<pre><nowiki>
<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n" lang="no">
<span class="given-name">Håkon</span>
<span class="additional-name">Wium</span>
<span class="family-name">Lie</span>
</span></div>

<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n">
<span class="given-name">Thomas</span>
<span class="family-name">Vander Wal</span>
</span></div>
</nowiki></pre>

For organizations, be sure to put both the "fn" and "org" class names on the same element. Having those be the same is the hint to hCard consumers that the hCard represents an organization rather than a person. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn org">Technorati</span></div></nowiki></pre>

=== Representative URLs ===

One of the most common patterns for person/orgs in web content is the name of the person/org, hyperlinked to their definitive/preferred web site.

Blogrolls are a good example of this (see also [[xoxo|XOXO]]).

Since the class attribute takes a space separated set of class names, one can often markup the URL on the same element as the name, e.g.
<pre><nowiki><span class="vcard"><a href="http://theryanking.com" class="fn url">Ryan King</a></span></nowiki></pre>

=== Titles ===

If the person's job title is mentioned, mark it up with <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

Though typical vCards/hCards have only a single job title, if someone has several job titles listed say in a comma delimited list, just markup the whole lot of them with one big <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with multiple titles.

=== Other affiliations ===

As vCard seems to imply a model of a person only being associated with one organization (at least certainly that's how most [[vcard-implementations]] appear to be written), consider placing other affiliations and info about the person into <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code> elements. You can have more than one; converters will simply append them all in source order.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with additional affiliations (such as W3C Working Groups) marked up inside "note" elements.

Sometimes text in a document near a person/contact will explain *why* that person should be contacted. Such information is also useful to have in a "note" element.

View source on the [http://rbach.priv.at/repos/misc/microformatting/ETech2006/invite.html O'Reilly ETech 2006 invite] for examples of people with additional "For ... " reasons marked up as "note" elements.

=== Set the lang when different ===

In an English language document (<code>lang="en"</code>), be sure to markup the element surrounding any non-English names of people, companies, titles, notes etc. with a lang attribute with the appropriate value.

E.g. Spanish names in an english document should be marked up with (<code>lang="es"</code>) on their elements.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda], specifically Ignacio Marín, for an example of a person and org marked up with a <code>lang</code> attribute.

=== Phone Numbers ===
Add a few phone numbers like this:
<pre>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
tel:<span class="value">1-250-555-2142</span>
</div>

<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
toll free:<span class="value">1-800-555-1855</span>
</div>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
<span class="type">fax</span>
fax:<span class="value">1-250-555-2135</span>
</div>
</pre>
=== Geographic Coordinates ===

Add your geographic cooridinates:
<pre>
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">48.430092246</span>
<span class="longitude">-123.364348450</span>
</span></pre>

=== More tips and guidelines ===

Feel free to add more tips that experience has taught you while marking up hCards, even if all you add is a brief catch phrase that reminds you.

* How to note some text, so you can make a comment like who your admin assistant is.
* How to mark up TYPE in phone numbers. Is that done correctly above?
* More inline code examples, perhaps one for each section (suggestion from Cdevroe)
* (suggestion from brian) you mention blogroll, this might be out of scope, but you could mention that XFN and hCard can be interweaved - it is not one or the other
* ...

=== See Also ===

* [[hcard|hCard]]
* [[hcard-profile|hCard profile]]
* [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]]
* [[hcard-brainstorming]]
* [[hcalendar-authoring]]

hcard-authoring

2006-09-24T22:41:13Z

DougRansom: /* Geographic Coordinates */

<h1>hCard authoring</h1>

This page contains useful tips and guidelines for how to author [[hcard|hCards]], either from scratch, or by adding markup to existing content.

'''Goal:''' The goal of this document is to provide some good intuitive guidelines that should make it as easy and as quick as possible for any web author to create hCards or add hCard markup to existing content.

'''Audience:''' Web authors and designers. This document is written for easy consumption and understanding by any web designer who knows at least enough (X)HTML and CSS to use HTML class names on elements and write CSS selectors that apply styles to those class names. Please help with clarifying/simplifying this document accordingly.

'''Author(s):''' Tantek Çelik

__TOC__

== Creating new hCards ==

Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator], and for additional fields and properties (e.g. telephone numbers, instant messaging contacts), see the [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]] page.

== Adding hCard markup to existing content ==

=== Natural language hCard ===

See [http://adactio.com/journal/1122/ Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard].

=== Minimal Markup Changes ===

The important thing to keep in mind when adding hCard to existing content, is the fact that hCard was designed so that it could be added with minimal (most often no) changes to the existing presentation of the page. Thus keep this in mind: change as little markup as possible. If you want to fix various pages to be valid XHTML etc., that's fine.

In all cases below, where it says to add an element with class name of "xyz", if you can find an existing element that precisely surrounds the necessary content, then re-use that element and simply add the class name "xyz" to it (by adding it to the class attribute on the existing element, or by adding a new class attribute <code>class="xyz"</code> to elements without a class attribute).

=== Find People or Organizations ===

Start with looking for all mentions of people or organizations on a page. All of those are potential hCards. Even more so if they are linked to their respective URLs (e.g. home pages / blogs).

If a person (or organization, henceforth shortened to just "'''person/org'''") is mentioned several times on a page, consider marking up the mention which is the most detailed, definitive, or otherwise thorough as an hCard. Ideally you might want to mark up ''all'' instances of a person/org as hCards, but for now, just keep it simple and markup the most representative instance. (Perhaps the most "definitive" instance, which could also then be marked up with a <code><nowiki><dfn></nowiki></code> element around the name of the person/org for additional semantic XHTML goodness.)

=== Determine The Surrounding Element for Each ===

For each person/org that you want to turn into an hCard, find the smallest element that contains all the info about that person/org, and no info about any other person/org.

Add the class name "<code>vcard</code>" to that element.

If there is no such element (perhaps the nearest enclosing element contains more than one person/org), then add a <code><nowiki><span class="vcard">...</span></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki><div class="vcard">...</div></nowiki></code> that wraps the info about about that person/org and just that person/org.

The rest of the markup for this hCard MUST go ''inside'' that element with the class name "vcard".

=== The Importance of Names ===

The name is the one required property of hCard. Thus be sure to mark up the name of the person with the class name "fn". For names of people which are two simple words (text separated by space) and where the first word is their given name and the second word is their family name, the class name "fn" is sufficient. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn">Rohit Khare</span></div></nowiki></pre>

For people with middle names (e.g. "Håkon Wium Lie"), or with multi-word last names (e.g. "Thomas Vander Wal"), you must mark them up with the "n" property and its sub-properties "given-name" and "family-name", e.g.:
<pre><nowiki>
<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n" lang="no">
<span class="given-name">Håkon</span>
<span class="additional-name">Wium</span>
<span class="family-name">Lie</span>
</span></div>

<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n">
<span class="given-name">Thomas</span>
<span class="family-name">Vander Wal</span>
</span></div>
</nowiki></pre>

For organizations, be sure to put both the "fn" and "org" class names on the same element. Having those be the same is the hint to hCard consumers that the hCard represents an organization rather than a person. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn org">Technorati</span></div></nowiki></pre>

=== Representative URLs ===

One of the most common patterns for person/orgs in web content is the name of the person/org, hyperlinked to their definitive/preferred web site.

Blogrolls are a good example of this (see also [[xoxo|XOXO]]).

Since the class attribute takes a space separated set of class names, one can often markup the URL on the same element as the name, e.g.
<pre><nowiki><span class="vcard"><a href="http://theryanking.com" class="fn url">Ryan King</a></span></nowiki></pre>

=== Titles ===

If the person's job title is mentioned, mark it up with <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

Though typical vCards/hCards have only a single job title, if someone has several job titles listed say in a comma delimited list, just markup the whole lot of them with one big <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with multiple titles.

=== Other affiliations ===

As vCard seems to imply a model of a person only being associated with one organization (at least certainly that's how most [[vcard-implementations]] appear to be written), consider placing other affiliations and info about the person into <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code> elements. You can have more than one; converters will simply append them all in source order.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with additional affiliations (such as W3C Working Groups) marked up inside "note" elements.

Sometimes text in a document near a person/contact will explain *why* that person should be contacted. Such information is also useful to have in a "note" element.

View source on the [http://rbach.priv.at/repos/misc/microformatting/ETech2006/invite.html O'Reilly ETech 2006 invite] for examples of people with additional "For ... " reasons marked up as "note" elements.

=== Set the lang when different ===

In an English language document (<code>lang="en"</code>), be sure to markup the element surrounding any non-English names of people, companies, titles, notes etc. with a lang attribute with the appropriate value.

E.g. Spanish names in an english document should be marked up with (<code>lang="es"</code>) on their elements.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda], specifically Ignacio Marín, for an example of a person and org marked up with a <code>lang</code> attribute.

=== Phone Numbers ===
Add a few phone numbers like this:
<pre>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
tel:<span class="value">1-250-555-2142</span>
</div>

<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
toll free:<span class="value">1-800-555-1855</span>
</div>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
<span class="type">fax</span>
fax:<span class="value">1-250-555-2135</span>
</div>
</pre>
=== Geographic Coordinates ===

Add your geographic cooridinates:
<pre>
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">48.430092246</span>
<span class="longitude">-123.364348450</span>
</span></pre>

=== More tips and guidelines ===

Feel free to add more tips that experience has taught you while marking up hCards, even if all you add is a brief catch phrase that reminds you.

* How to mark up phone numbers (including *multiple* phone numbers - suggestion from Cdevroe)
* How to mark up TYPE in phone numbers
* More inline code examples, perhaps one for each section (suggestion from Cdevroe)
* (suggestion from brian) you mention blogroll, this might be out of scope, but you could mention that XFN and hCard can be interweaved - it is not one or the other
* ...

=== See Also ===

* [[hcard|hCard]]
* [[hcard-profile|hCard profile]]
* [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]]
* [[hcard-brainstorming]]
* [[hcalendar-authoring]]

hcard-authoring

2006-09-24T22:40:52Z

DougRansom: geotag

<h1>hCard authoring</h1>

This page contains useful tips and guidelines for how to author [[hcard|hCards]], either from scratch, or by adding markup to existing content.

'''Goal:''' The goal of this document is to provide some good intuitive guidelines that should make it as easy and as quick as possible for any web author to create hCards or add hCard markup to existing content.

'''Audience:''' Web authors and designers. This document is written for easy consumption and understanding by any web designer who knows at least enough (X)HTML and CSS to use HTML class names on elements and write CSS selectors that apply styles to those class names. Please help with clarifying/simplifying this document accordingly.

'''Author(s):''' Tantek Çelik

__TOC__

== Creating new hCards ==

Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator], and for additional fields and properties (e.g. telephone numbers, instant messaging contacts), see the [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]] page.

== Adding hCard markup to existing content ==

=== Natural language hCard ===

See [http://adactio.com/journal/1122/ Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard].

=== Minimal Markup Changes ===

The important thing to keep in mind when adding hCard to existing content, is the fact that hCard was designed so that it could be added with minimal (most often no) changes to the existing presentation of the page. Thus keep this in mind: change as little markup as possible. If you want to fix various pages to be valid XHTML etc., that's fine.

In all cases below, where it says to add an element with class name of "xyz", if you can find an existing element that precisely surrounds the necessary content, then re-use that element and simply add the class name "xyz" to it (by adding it to the class attribute on the existing element, or by adding a new class attribute <code>class="xyz"</code> to elements without a class attribute).

=== Find People or Organizations ===

Start with looking for all mentions of people or organizations on a page. All of those are potential hCards. Even more so if they are linked to their respective URLs (e.g. home pages / blogs).

If a person (or organization, henceforth shortened to just "'''person/org'''") is mentioned several times on a page, consider marking up the mention which is the most detailed, definitive, or otherwise thorough as an hCard. Ideally you might want to mark up ''all'' instances of a person/org as hCards, but for now, just keep it simple and markup the most representative instance. (Perhaps the most "definitive" instance, which could also then be marked up with a <code><nowiki><dfn></nowiki></code> element around the name of the person/org for additional semantic XHTML goodness.)

=== Determine The Surrounding Element for Each ===

For each person/org that you want to turn into an hCard, find the smallest element that contains all the info about that person/org, and no info about any other person/org.

Add the class name "<code>vcard</code>" to that element.

If there is no such element (perhaps the nearest enclosing element contains more than one person/org), then add a <code><nowiki><span class="vcard">...</span></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki><div class="vcard">...</div></nowiki></code> that wraps the info about about that person/org and just that person/org.

The rest of the markup for this hCard MUST go ''inside'' that element with the class name "vcard".

=== The Importance of Names ===

The name is the one required property of hCard. Thus be sure to mark up the name of the person with the class name "fn". For names of people which are two simple words (text separated by space) and where the first word is their given name and the second word is their family name, the class name "fn" is sufficient. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn">Rohit Khare</span></div></nowiki></pre>

For people with middle names (e.g. "Håkon Wium Lie"), or with multi-word last names (e.g. "Thomas Vander Wal"), you must mark them up with the "n" property and its sub-properties "given-name" and "family-name", e.g.:
<pre><nowiki>
<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n" lang="no">
<span class="given-name">Håkon</span>
<span class="additional-name">Wium</span>
<span class="family-name">Lie</span>
</span></div>

<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n">
<span class="given-name">Thomas</span>
<span class="family-name">Vander Wal</span>
</span></div>
</nowiki></pre>

For organizations, be sure to put both the "fn" and "org" class names on the same element. Having those be the same is the hint to hCard consumers that the hCard represents an organization rather than a person. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn org">Technorati</span></div></nowiki></pre>

=== Representative URLs ===

One of the most common patterns for person/orgs in web content is the name of the person/org, hyperlinked to their definitive/preferred web site.

Blogrolls are a good example of this (see also [[xoxo|XOXO]]).

Since the class attribute takes a space separated set of class names, one can often markup the URL on the same element as the name, e.g.
<pre><nowiki><span class="vcard"><a href="http://theryanking.com" class="fn url">Ryan King</a></span></nowiki></pre>

=== Titles ===

If the person's job title is mentioned, mark it up with <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

Though typical vCards/hCards have only a single job title, if someone has several job titles listed say in a comma delimited list, just markup the whole lot of them with one big <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with multiple titles.

=== Other affiliations ===

As vCard seems to imply a model of a person only being associated with one organization (at least certainly that's how most [[vcard-implementations]] appear to be written), consider placing other affiliations and info about the person into <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code> elements. You can have more than one; converters will simply append them all in source order.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with additional affiliations (such as W3C Working Groups) marked up inside "note" elements.

Sometimes text in a document near a person/contact will explain *why* that person should be contacted. Such information is also useful to have in a "note" element.

View source on the [http://rbach.priv.at/repos/misc/microformatting/ETech2006/invite.html O'Reilly ETech 2006 invite] for examples of people with additional "For ... " reasons marked up as "note" elements.

=== Set the lang when different ===

In an English language document (<code>lang="en"</code>), be sure to markup the element surrounding any non-English names of people, companies, titles, notes etc. with a lang attribute with the appropriate value.

E.g. Spanish names in an english document should be marked up with (<code>lang="es"</code>) on their elements.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda], specifically Ignacio Marín, for an example of a person and org marked up with a <code>lang</code> attribute.

=== Phone Numbers ===
Add a few phone numbers like this:
<pre>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
tel:<span class="value">1-250-555-2142</span>
</div>

<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
toll free:<span class="value">1-800-555-1855</span>
</div>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
<span class="type">fax</span>
fax:<span class="value">1-250-555-2135</span>
</div>
</pre>
=== Geographic Coordinates ===

Add your geographic cooridinates:
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">48.430092246</span>
<span class="longitude">-123.364348450</span>
</span>

=== More tips and guidelines ===

Feel free to add more tips that experience has taught you while marking up hCards, even if all you add is a brief catch phrase that reminds you.

* How to mark up phone numbers (including *multiple* phone numbers - suggestion from Cdevroe)
* How to mark up TYPE in phone numbers
* More inline code examples, perhaps one for each section (suggestion from Cdevroe)
* (suggestion from brian) you mention blogroll, this might be out of scope, but you could mention that XFN and hCard can be interweaved - it is not one or the other
* ...

=== See Also ===

* [[hcard|hCard]]
* [[hcard-profile|hCard profile]]
* [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]]
* [[hcard-brainstorming]]
* [[hcalendar-authoring]]

hcard-authoring

2006-09-24T22:39:34Z

DougRansom: phone number tips

<h1>hCard authoring</h1>

This page contains useful tips and guidelines for how to author [[hcard|hCards]], either from scratch, or by adding markup to existing content.

'''Goal:''' The goal of this document is to provide some good intuitive guidelines that should make it as easy and as quick as possible for any web author to create hCards or add hCard markup to existing content.

'''Audience:''' Web authors and designers. This document is written for easy consumption and understanding by any web designer who knows at least enough (X)HTML and CSS to use HTML class names on elements and write CSS selectors that apply styles to those class names. Please help with clarifying/simplifying this document accordingly.

'''Author(s):''' Tantek Çelik

__TOC__

== Creating new hCards ==

Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator], and for additional fields and properties (e.g. telephone numbers, instant messaging contacts), see the [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]] page.

== Adding hCard markup to existing content ==

=== Natural language hCard ===

See [http://adactio.com/journal/1122/ Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard].

=== Minimal Markup Changes ===

The important thing to keep in mind when adding hCard to existing content, is the fact that hCard was designed so that it could be added with minimal (most often no) changes to the existing presentation of the page. Thus keep this in mind: change as little markup as possible. If you want to fix various pages to be valid XHTML etc., that's fine.

In all cases below, where it says to add an element with class name of "xyz", if you can find an existing element that precisely surrounds the necessary content, then re-use that element and simply add the class name "xyz" to it (by adding it to the class attribute on the existing element, or by adding a new class attribute <code>class="xyz"</code> to elements without a class attribute).

=== Find People or Organizations ===

Start with looking for all mentions of people or organizations on a page. All of those are potential hCards. Even more so if they are linked to their respective URLs (e.g. home pages / blogs).

If a person (or organization, henceforth shortened to just "'''person/org'''") is mentioned several times on a page, consider marking up the mention which is the most detailed, definitive, or otherwise thorough as an hCard. Ideally you might want to mark up ''all'' instances of a person/org as hCards, but for now, just keep it simple and markup the most representative instance. (Perhaps the most "definitive" instance, which could also then be marked up with a <code><nowiki><dfn></nowiki></code> element around the name of the person/org for additional semantic XHTML goodness.)

=== Determine The Surrounding Element for Each ===

For each person/org that you want to turn into an hCard, find the smallest element that contains all the info about that person/org, and no info about any other person/org.

Add the class name "<code>vcard</code>" to that element.

If there is no such element (perhaps the nearest enclosing element contains more than one person/org), then add a <code><nowiki><span class="vcard">...</span></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki><div class="vcard">...</div></nowiki></code> that wraps the info about about that person/org and just that person/org.

The rest of the markup for this hCard MUST go ''inside'' that element with the class name "vcard".

=== The Importance of Names ===

The name is the one required property of hCard. Thus be sure to mark up the name of the person with the class name "fn". For names of people which are two simple words (text separated by space) and where the first word is their given name and the second word is their family name, the class name "fn" is sufficient. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn">Rohit Khare</span></div></nowiki></pre>

For people with middle names (e.g. "Håkon Wium Lie"), or with multi-word last names (e.g. "Thomas Vander Wal"), you must mark them up with the "n" property and its sub-properties "given-name" and "family-name", e.g.:
<pre><nowiki>
<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n" lang="no">
<span class="given-name">Håkon</span>
<span class="additional-name">Wium</span>
<span class="family-name">Lie</span>
</span></div>

<div class="vcard"><span class="fn n">
<span class="given-name">Thomas</span>
<span class="family-name">Vander Wal</span>
</span></div>
</nowiki></pre>

For organizations, be sure to put both the "fn" and "org" class names on the same element. Having those be the same is the hint to hCard consumers that the hCard represents an organization rather than a person. E.g.
<pre><nowiki><div class="vcard"><span class="fn org">Technorati</span></div></nowiki></pre>

=== Representative URLs ===

One of the most common patterns for person/orgs in web content is the name of the person/org, hyperlinked to their definitive/preferred web site.

Blogrolls are a good example of this (see also [[xoxo|XOXO]]).

Since the class attribute takes a space separated set of class names, one can often markup the URL on the same element as the name, e.g.
<pre><nowiki><span class="vcard"><a href="http://theryanking.com" class="fn url">Ryan King</a></span></nowiki></pre>

=== Titles ===

If the person's job title is mentioned, mark it up with <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

Though typical vCards/hCards have only a single job title, if someone has several job titles listed say in a comma delimited list, just markup the whole lot of them with one big <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code>.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with multiple titles.

=== Other affiliations ===

As vCard seems to imply a model of a person only being associated with one organization (at least certainly that's how most [[vcard-implementations]] appear to be written), consider placing other affiliations and info about the person into <code><nowiki><span class="title">...</span></nowiki></code> elements. You can have more than one; converters will simply append them all in source order.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda] for examples of people with additional affiliations (such as W3C Working Groups) marked up inside "note" elements.

Sometimes text in a document near a person/contact will explain *why* that person should be contacted. Such information is also useful to have in a "note" element.

View source on the [http://rbach.priv.at/repos/misc/microformatting/ETech2006/invite.html O'Reilly ETech 2006 invite] for examples of people with additional "For ... " reasons marked up as "note" elements.

=== Set the lang when different ===

In an English language document (<code>lang="en"</code>), be sure to markup the element surrounding any non-English names of people, companies, titles, notes etc. with a lang attribute with the appropriate value.

E.g. Spanish names in an english document should be marked up with (<code>lang="es"</code>) on their elements.

View source on the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html W3C Technical Plenary Agenda], specifically Ignacio Marín, for an example of a person and org marked up with a <code>lang</code> attribute.

=== Phone Numbers ===
Add a few phone numbers like this:
<pre>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
tel:<span class="value">1-250-555-2142</span>
</div>

<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
toll free:<span class="value">1-800-555-1855</span>
</div>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type">work</span>
<span class="type">fax</span>
fax:<span class="value">1-250-555-2135</span>
</div>
</pre>
=== More tips and guidelines ===

Feel free to add more tips that experience has taught you while marking up hCards, even if all you add is a brief catch phrase that reminds you.

* How to mark up phone numbers (including *multiple* phone numbers - suggestion from Cdevroe)
* How to mark up TYPE in phone numbers
* More inline code examples, perhaps one for each section (suggestion from Cdevroe)
* (suggestion from brian) you mention blogroll, this might be out of scope, but you could mention that XFN and hCard can be interweaved - it is not one or the other
* ...

=== See Also ===

* [[hcard|hCard]]
* [[hcard-profile|hCard profile]]
* [[hcard-examples|hCard examples]]
* [[hcard-brainstorming]]
* [[hcalendar-authoring]]

hcard

2006-06-12T01:01:53Z

DougRansom: Doug Ransom's HCard for financail advisory practice

<h1>hCard</h1>

hCard is a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCard is a 1:1 representation of the vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]) in XHTML, one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards.

Want to get started with writing an [[hcard|hCard]]? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator] to write up some contact information and publish it, or follow the [[hcard-authoring|hCard authoring tips]] to add hCard markup to your current contact page.

__TOC__

== Draft Specification ==

=== Editor ===
[http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik], [http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc.]

=== Authors ===
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik], [http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc]
* [http://suda.co.uk/ Brian Suda]

=== Copyright ===
{{MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2004}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to: my good friend [http://vadim.com/ Vadim] who introduced me to vCard ''many'' years ago, and if I'd only paid more attention then, perhaps I could have helped a lot of people avoid wasting a lot of time reinventing various standards wheels.

== Introduction ==
The vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]), has been broadly interoperably implemented (e.g. Apple's "Address Book" application built into MacOSX).

In addition, many bloggers identify themselves by name and discuss their friends and family. With just a tad bit of structure, bloggers can discuss people in their blog(s) in such a way that spiders and other aggregators can retrieve this information, automatically convert them to vCards, and use them in any vCard application or service.

This specification introduces the '''hCard''' format, which is a 1:1 representation of the aforementioned vCard standard, in semantic XHTML. Bloggers can both embed vCards directly in their web pages, and style them with CSS to make them appear as desired. In addition, hCard enables applications to retrieve information about such vCards directly from web pages without having to reference a separate file.

Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator], copy the HTML code it generates to your blog or website to publish your contact info.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Format ==
=== In General ===
The vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]) forms the basis of hCard.

The basic format of hCard is to use vCard object/property names in lower-case for class names, and to map the nesting of vCard objects directly into nested XHTML elements.

=== More Semantic Equivalents ===
However, for some properties there is a more semantic equivalent, and therefore they get special treatment, e.g.:
* <code>URL</code> in vCard becomes <code><a class="url" href="...">...</a></code> inside the element with <code>class="vcard"</code> in hCard.
* Similarly, <code>EMAIL</code> in vCard becomes <code><nowiki><a class="email" href="mailto:...">...</a></nowiki></code>
* <code>PHOTO</code> in vCard becomes <code><img class="photo" src="..." alt="Photo of ..." /></code> or <code><object class="photo" data="..." type="...">Photo of ...</object></code>
* <code>UID</code> in vCard simply becomes another semantic applied to a specific URL (or EMAIL) for an hCard.

=== Singular vs. Plural Properties ===

For properties which are singular (e.g. "N" and "FN"), the first descendant element with that class should take effect, any others being ignored.

For properties which can be plural (e.g. "TEL"), each class instance should create a instance of that property. Plural properties with subtypes (e.g. TEL with WORK, HOME, CELL) can be optimized to share a common element for the property itself, with each instance of subtype being an appropriately classed descendant of the property element.

==== Plural Properties Singularized ====

Since plural property names become their singular equivalents, even if the original plural property permitted only a single value with multiple components, those multiple components are represented each with their own singularly named property and the the property is effectively multivalued and subject to the above treatment of multivalued properties.

=== Human vs. Machine readable ===

If an <code><abbr></code> element is used for a property, then the '<code>title</code>' attribute of the <code><abbr></code> element is the value of the property, instead of the contents of the element, which instead provide a human presentable version of the value.

If an <code><a></code> element is used for one or more properties, it must be treated as follows:
# For the "PHOTO" property and any other property that takes a URL as its value, the <code>href="..."</code> attribute provides the property value.
# For other properties, the element's content is the value of the property.

If an <code><img></code> element is used for one or more properties, it must be treated as follows:
# For the "PHOTO" property and any other property that takes a URL as its value, the <code>src="..."</code> attribute provides the property value.
# For other properties, the <code><img></code> element's '<code>alt</code>' attribute is the value of the property.

If an <code><object></code> element is used for one or more properties, it must be treated as follows:
# For the "PHOTO" property and any other property that takes a URL as its value, the <code>data="..."</code> attribute provides the property value.
# For other properties, the element's content is the value of the property.

=== Value excerpting ===

Sometimes only part of an element which is the equivalent for a property should be used for the value of the property. This typically occurs when a property has a subtype, like TEL. For this purpose, the special class name "<code>value</code>" is introduced to excerpt out the subset of the element that is the value of the property. E.g. here is an hCard fragment for marking up a home phone number:

<pre><nowiki>
<span class="tel">
<span class="type">home</span>:
<span class="value">+1.415.555.1212</span>
</span>
</nowiki></pre>

This hCard fragment could be displayed as:

home: +1.415.555.1212

=== Property Exceptions ===

vCard has several properties which either do not make sense on, or are already implied within the context of a web page. This section explains what to (not) do with them.

# '''NAME''', '''PROFILE''', '''SOURCE''', '''PRODID''', '''VERSION''' properties as defined in Sections 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 3.6.3, 3.6.9 of RFC 2426. Content publishers MUST NOT use these properties in their hCards, and as such, hCard consumers/parsers MUST IGNORE these properties if they are found within an hCard. Instead. hCard to vCard converters SHOULD use the title of the page where the hCard is found (e.g. the <code><title></code> element in (X)HTML documents) to construct the NAME property, MAY output a PROFILE value of "<code>VCARD</code>" per RFC 2426, SHOULD use the URL of the page where the hCard is found to construct the SOURCE property (e.g. perhaps as a parameter to a URL/service that converts hCards to vCards), for an output vCard stream (e.g. a .vcf file). Only services/applications that output actual vCards should write the PRODID property, with the product identifier for said service/application. Similarly only such services/applications should write the VERSION property, with the value "3.0" (without quotes) per RFC2426 Section 3.6.9.

=== Organization Contact Info ===

If the "FN" and "ORG" properties have the exact same value (typically because they are set on the same element, e.g. class="fn org"), then the hCard represents contact information for a company or organization and should be treated as such. In this case the author MUST also NOT set the "N" property, or set it (and any sub-properties) explicitly to the empty string "". Thus parsers should handle the missing "N" property in this case by implying empty values for all the "N" sub-properties.

=== Implied "n" Optimization ===

Although vCard requires that the "N" property be present, the authors of the vCard specification (RFC 2426) themselves do not include "N" properties in their vCards near the end of the spec (p.38). This apparent contradiction can be resolved by simply allowing the "FN" property to imply "N" property values in typical cases provided in the spec. We do so explicitly in hCard.

If "FN" and "ORG" are not the same (see previous section), and the value of the "FN" property is exactly two words (separated by whitespace), and there is no explicit "N" property, then the "N" property is inferred from the "FN" property. For "FN"s with either one word see below, and for three or more, the author MUST explicitly markup the "N", except for the organization contact info case, [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Organization_Contact_Info see above] for that.

# The content of "FN" is broken into two "words" separated by whitespace.
# The ''first'' word of the "FN" is interpreted as the "given-name" for the "N" property.
# The ''second/last'' word of the "FN" is interpreted as the "family-name" for the "N" property.
# Exception: If the first word ends in a "," comma OR if the second word is a single character (optionally followed by a period "."), then the first word (minus the comma at the end if any) is interpreted as the "family-name" and the second word is interpreted as the "given-name".

This allows simplification in the typical case of people stating:
* given-name (space) family-name
* family-name (comma) given-name
* family-name (comma) given-name-first-initial
* family-name (space) given-name-first-initial (optional period)

=== Implied "nickname" Optimization ===

Due to the prevalence of the use of nicknames/handles/usernames on the Web in actual content published on the Web (e.g. authors of [[hReview|reviews]]), hCard also has an implied "nickname" optimization to handle this.

Similar to the implied "n" optimization, if "FN" and "ORG" are not the same, and the value of the "FN" property is exactly one word, and there is no explicit "N" property, then:

# The content of the "FN" is treated as a "nickname" property value.
# Parsers should handle the missing "N" property by implying empty values for all the "N" sub-properties.

Note: the hCard may have additional explicit "nickname" property values in addition to the implied nickname.

=== Implied "organization-name" Optimization ===

The "ORG" property has two subproperties, organization-name and organization-unit. Very often authors only publish the organization-name. Thus if an "ORG" property has no "organization-name" inside it, then its entire contents MUST be treated as the "organization-name".

=== Root Class Name ===

The root class name for an hCard is "vcard".

=== Property List ===

This is the list of properties (and subproperties, in parentheses, like this) in hCard, taken from vCard:

* fn, n (family-name, given-name, additional-name, honorific-prefix, honorific-suffix), nickname, sort-string
* url, email (type, value), tel (type, value)
* adr (post-office-box, extended-address, street-address, locality, region, postal-code, country-name, type, value), label
* geo (latitude, longitude), tz
* photo, logo, sound, bday
* title, role, org (organization-name, organization-unit)
* category, note
* class, key, mailer, uid, rev
==== type subproperty values ====

The 'type' subproperty in particular takes different values depending on which property it is a subproperty of. These 'type' subproperty values are case-INSENSITIVE, meaning "Home" is the same as "home", as well as multivalued, e.g. a tel can be home and preferred:
<pre><nowiki>
<span class="tel"><span class="type">Home</span> (<span class="type">pref</span>erred):
<span class="value">+1.415.555.1212</span>
</span>
</nowiki></pre>

The following lists are ''informative''. See RFC2426 sections 3.2.1 ADR, 3.3.1 TEL, and 3.3.2 EMAIL respectively for normative type values. They are repeated here for convenience. Default type subproperty value(s) is(are) first in each list and indicated in ALL CAPS. types may be multivalued.

* adr type: INTL, POSTAL, PARCEL, WORK, dom, home, pref
* tel type: VOICE, home, msg, work, pref, fax, cell, video, pager, bbs, modem, car, isdn, pcs
* email type: INTERNET, x400, pref, "other IANA registered address types"

=== XMDP Profile ===

See [[hcard-profile]] for the [http://gmpg.org/xmdp XMDP] profile of hCard which contains the above complete list of properties, with references to their RFC 2426 definitions.

=== Parsing Details ===

See [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]].

== Examples ==

This section is informative.

=== Sample vCard ===

Here is a sample vCard:

<pre><nowiki>
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Çelik;Tantek
FN:Tantek Çelik
URL:http://tantek.com/
ORG:Technorati
END:VCARD
</nowiki></pre>

and an equivalent in hCard with various elements optimized appropriately. See [[hcard-example1-steps| hCard Example 1]] for the derivation.

<pre><nowiki>
<div class="vcard">
<a class="url fn" href="http://tantek.com/">Tantek Çelik</a>
<div class="org">Technorati</div>
</div>
</nowiki></pre>

This hCard might be displayed as:

[http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik]<br />
Technorati

Note: The version information is unnecessary in hCard markup directly since the version will be defined by the profile of hCard that is used/referred to in the 'profile' attribute of the <head> element.

=== More Examples ===

See [[hcard-examples]] for more examples, including all examples from vCard RFC 2426 converted into hCard.

== Examples in the wild ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following sites have published hCards, and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc. If you have an hCard on your own page, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

=== New Examples ===
Please add new examples to this section.
* [http://www.dougransom.com Doug Ransom] uses hCard for his financial advisory practice.
* [http://rubyandrails.org/usergroups/newcastle/members.html ncl.rb] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.snowinteractive.com/ Snow Interactive] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://flickr.com Flickr] now supports [[hcard|hCard]] and [http://gmpg.org/xfn XFN] on profile pages. See [http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/113866484/ screenshot of Flickr UI in Flock browser using Flocktails extension - March 17th 2006].
* [http://www.ndiyo.org/contact Contact information for the Ndiyo project]
* [http://www.pixelenvy.co.uk/ Pixel Envy] uses hCard for contact information on every page
* [http://stilbuero.de/contact/ Klaus Hartl] uses hCard in the sidebar for contact information (maybe easier to parse through delivering xhtml as xml).
* [http://charlvn.virafrikaans.com/contact Charl van Niekerk's hCard]
* [http://billy-girlardo.com/WP/ BillyBLOGirlardo] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ Hicksdesign] uses hCard for contact information.
* http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ - hCard in a press release for the press contact info
* http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/03/testing_out_mic.html - hCard with explanation
* [http://andy.ciordia.info/ it's my island], personal blog, hcard on the ''[http://andy.ciordia.info/pages/about_me About the Writer]'' page. [[User:Ciordia9|Andy Ciordia]]
* [http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/ Window on Woking], a local community site in the UK, uses hCard in the homepage of each member organisation and local Councillor.
* [http://ChunkySoup.net/ ChunkySoup.net] has redesigned using hAtom 0.1 and hCards on the entire site -- by [[User:ChrisCasciano|Chris Casciano]]
* [http://www.30boxes.com/ 30 Boxes],a social calendar application and digital lifestyle aggregator, automatically creates an hcard for you with your account. It is found under Settings > Syndication.
* [http://www.nearwhere.com/ Nearwhere.com] allow you to put an hcard on an interactive map.
* [http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent Ozar] added a [http://www.brentozar.com/contact.php contact] page hCard.
* [http://www.kerihenare.com/ Keri Henare] has rewritten his [http://www.kerihenare.com/contact/ contact] page hCard. Now using <code><object></code> instead of <code><img></code> for photo. (Thanks Brian Suda for updating the vCard converter)
* [http://michaelraichelson.com/contact/ Michael Raichelson] had an hCard on his contact page before SXSW, but never thought to add it here until Tantek requested it.
* [http://www.commoner.com/~lsimon/lindsey_simon_hcard.html Lindsey Simon] has added an hCard to his website as per Tantek's SXSW request for folks to try it
* [http://www.davidgagne.net/ David Gagne] has an hCard in his sidebar.
* [http://www.churchzip.com/map/ Churchzip.com/map] and [http://www.skiwhere.com/map/ Skiwhere.com/map], provide churches, hotels, and ski resorts on the same maps. Locations are formatted as hcards.
* All [http://www.iqdir.com/ IQ Directory Solutions] Yellow Pages web portals use [[hcard|hCard]] markup on listings. For example [http://www.yellowpages-cambodia.com/ Cambodia Yellow Pages] and [http://www.superpages.com.my/ Malaysia Super Pages]
* Ning's cloneable Group app uses fuzzy matching to map custom fields to [[hcard|hCard]] markup on its [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=person&action=view&content=JonathanAquino profile] pages.
* [http://claimid.com/factoryjoe Chris Messina' ClaimID hCard]
* [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard Chris Messina' hCard]
* [http://flock.com/about Flock About]
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html Agenda: W3C Technical Plenary Day, March 1 2006] has [[hcard|hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. ([http://www.w3.org/2006/03/01-TechPlenAgenda.html original here]).
* [http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ GrowSearch Launched (Press Release)] uses an hCard to provide Press Contact Point.
* The [http://www.arborday.org/ National Arbor Day Foundation] has started using hCards for their [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/communityforestry/index.cfm upcoming] [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/hazardtrees-treeplanting/ conferences].
* [http://www.multipack.co.uk The Multipack] has numerous hCards, especially on the [http://www.multipack.co.uk/members/ members page], as well as the next meeting information.
* [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/ Justin McDowell] used an hCard when [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/221332.html referring to a person in his blog post]
* [http://davecardwell.co.uk/cv/ Dave Cardwell] has included his hCard in his Curriculum Vitae.
* [http://blog.usweb.com/ Shaun Shull] has written a great post on [http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo How Microformats Affect SEO], and has included his [[hcard|hCard]] as one of the examples.
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/ Jesse Skinner] has written a simple [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard tutorial with examples]
* [http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html 2006 W3C Technical Plenary Week] has marked up the venue, contacts, and program committee members all with hCard.
* [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk AVF-Nexus] have a hCard on their [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk/contact/ contact page] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/ Andrew White] posted [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/my-hcard/ his hCard] and [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/62/microformats-the-should-have-been-obvious-web-dev-tool/ blogged about it].
* [http://www.2sheds.ru Oleg "2sheds" Kourapov] in his [http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/ blog] ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog X2V]) has turned personal profile into hCard ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/hcard.html X2V]) and his blogroll - into combination XFN/hCards ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/friends.html X2V])
* [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk Approved Design Consultancy] have a hCard on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/contact/ contact page] as well as on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/people/ people section] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Ben Buchanan] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin Morris] have [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2006/01/griffith-phonebook-adds-hcard-and.html implemented hCards and vCards] for the [http://www.griffith.edu.au Griffith University] [http://www.griffith.edu.au/find/content_phonebook.html online phone book]. Eg. [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=ben+buchanan&format=search Ben's vCard] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin's vCard]
* WWF-Australia [http://wwf.org.au/about/contactdetails/ contact details page]
* [http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl] used the hCard format on his [http://rasterweb.net/raster/contact.html Contact page]
* [http://alexander-mette.de amette] uses the hCard format in a module of his TikiWiki powered blog
* [http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/ Oren Sreebny] has an hcard on his blog main index template
* [http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/ Patrick Tufts] has an hCard on his homepage.
* [http://ascii20.blogspot.com/ Mathias Kolehmainen and Jamie Taylor] have hCards on their weblog.
* [http://www.hoppsan.org/jamesb/blogger/ Barnaby James] has a hCard on his weblog.
* [http://esa-education.com/schools/map ESA Education] Uses hCards for their 100+ schools and each of the individual school sites.
* [http://www.thereisnocat.com/#vcard Ralph Brandi] has added an hCard to the sidebar of his weblog as a result of Tantek Çelik's portion of the Microformats presentation at SXSW 2006.
* [http://www.yellowpencil.com/contact/ Yellow Pencil] Using microformats to present company contact information
* [http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/ephone/ Pierce College] -- community college directory uses hCard on all individual directory entries.
* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/ the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006] have marked up all their [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/committee/ speakers with hCard].
* http://wikitravel.org/en/Singapore/Sentosa. Wikitravel is experimenting with hcard on its travel guides. This guide uses hcard for all its business listings. More info on http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel_talk:Listings.
* [http://www.musik-erber.de/ Musik-Erber] uses to present contact information at the sidebar
* [http://cdevroe.com/about/#contact Colin D. Devroe] uses hCard to display his contact information on his about page
* The ECS (Scool of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton) [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people People Pages] use vCard. Contact cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk if there's any bugs.
* [http://www.southwestern.edu/~ramseyp Pat Ramsey] has his contact information on his blog marked up with hCard. Contact [mailto:ramsey.pat@gmail.com ramsey.pat@gmail.com] if there are any bugs there.
* [http://www.meryl.net/ Meryl K. Evans] has a hidden hCard on her homepage.

=== Examples ===
* [http://thoughtport.blogspot.com/ Aiden Kenny] hasn't published his hCard yet, but he has [http://thoughtport.blogspot.com/2005/07/elemental-particles-of-web.html published his hCard icon]: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4224/444/320/AK-Hcard-icon.gif
* [http://thedredge.org Andy Hume] uses hCards to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog, e.g. his [http://thedredge.org/2005/06/using-hcards-in-your-blog/ blog post on "Using hCards in your blog"].
* [http://www.bidclix.com/ BidClix]'s [http://www.bidclix.com/AboutContact.html Contact BidClix] page has it's ''contact info'' marked up with an hCard.
* [http://suda.co.uk/ Brian Suda] has managed to embed a photo in [http://suda.co.uk/contact/ his hCard] through the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt data uri scheme] by converting the image to BASE64 code. View the Source to see how this is accomplished. [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http%3A//suda.co.uk/contact/ The X2V link] will extract the image and encode it for a vCard which will be displayed in some address book applications.
* [http://cinematreasures.org Cinema Treasures] uses hCard to markup venue information for 10,000+ movie theaters.
* [http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/events/ Dan Connolly's index of events and talks] has hCards for many of the people he has met at those events. In Mar 2006, he moved a bunch of hotel contact info from his PDA to this page; it's now up to 32 hCards.
* [http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/ Don Crowley] has published [http://www.crowley.nl/hcard.html his hCard] as well as a nifty hCard button: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png
* [http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php Douglas W. Clifton] added all types of contact information
* [http://eventful.com Eventful] publishes all of its venue information pages with embedded hCards.
* [http://www.iowamilitaryveteransband.com/members/ Iowa Military Veterans Band Contacts] - 95 hCards [http://weblog.randomchaos.com/archive/2005/10/24/Microformats/ marked up by Scott Reynen]
* [http://JackWolfgang.blogspot.com Jack L. Wolfgang II] has [http://jack.randomata.com/resume/ converted the addresses in his resume to hCards].
* [http://www.efas.fupl.asso.fr/efas/_Mathieu-Drouet_.html Mathieu Drouet] and [http://www.efas.fupl.asso.fr/efas/_Annie-Leger_.html Annie Leger] both have hCards
* [http://www.ndunn.com Neil Dunn] has published his rather [http://www.ndunn.com/2005/10/7/hCard good looking hCard]
* [http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/ Oliver Brown] has published his hCard.
* [http://www.paradigmproductions.org/contact/ Paradigm Productions] published a vcard as a ul (marked up by [http://www.linkingarts.com/ Peter Jacobson])
* [http://www.splintered.co.uk/ Patrick H. Lauke] has marked up [http://www.splintered.co.uk/about/ his contact info with hCard].
* [http://blah Paul Schreiber has published his hCard on [http://paulschreiber.com/about/?contact his about page].
* [http://paulschreiber.com/blog/ Paul Schreiber]'s [http://concerts.shrub.ca/ Sunnyvale House Concerts] site publishes hCards for upcoming artists, as well as an hCard for the page itself. In addition the [http://concerts.shrub.ca/shows Past Shows] page contains hCards for all past artists.
* [http://www.paulmichaelsmith.com/blog/hcard.htm Paul Smith] has created an hCard page which is Human Readable, and a link to X2V passing the same hCard page to generate a vCard.
* [http://www.windley.com/archives/2005/07/hcards_trying_o.shtml Phil Windley has published] [http://phil.windley.org/hcard.html his hCard].
* [http://www.go-curiosity.com/about.htm Piercarlo Slavazza] has published an hCard.
* [http://zooibaai.nl/ Rob Mientjes] has published his hCard on [http://zooibaai.nl/about/ his about page].
* [http://rbach.priv.at/Contact Robert Bachmann] has published his hCard and [http://rbach.priv.at/Images/hcard a button].
* [http://blah Scott Reynen has published his hCard on [http://www.randomchaos.com/document.php?source=scott_reynen his profile page].
* [http://www.stackframe.com/ StackFrame, LLC] has published [http://www.stackframe.com/people/ employee] and [http://www.stackframe.com/contact/ general] contact information as hCards.
* [http://www.wolfsreign.com Steven Ametjan] has published his hCard on [http://www.wolfsreign.com/about/ his about page].
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/syndicate/speakers-list.html Syndicate - Speaker List] as a set of hCards
* [http://tagcamp.org/index.cgi?ContactList TagCamp contact list]
* [http://tantek.com/log Tantek's Thoughts] includes an inline author hCard at the bottom of the page.
* [http://technorati.com/ Technorati]'s [http://www.technorati.com/about/ About page] lists their '''Media Contact'''
* [http://www.deadringerart.com/ The Brothers McDowell] have hCards at their Contact page.
* [http://twinsparc.com/ Twinsparc] put an hCard in the header and footer of all their pages.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/web2/speakers.html Web 2.0 Conference speakers page marked up with hCard]
* [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05] marked up all their [http://we05.com/presenters.cfm presenters with hCard].

=== Examples with some problems ===
* [http://gbraad.nl/ Gerard Braad] has published an example on his [http://gbraad.nl/site/?p=profile profile] page that is almost consistent with his original [http://gbraad.nl/files/gbraad.vcf vCard] file. Also progress is made for transforming his [http://files.gbraad.nl/foaf.rdf FoaF] file to a hCard encoded representation. (also done for my spouse:[http://spouse.gbraad.nl/site/?p=profile 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 --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 17:19, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://kinrowan.net/ Cori Schlegel] [http://kinrowan.net/blog/wp/archives/2005/07/08/a-problem-with-the-structured-blogging-plug-in-for-wordpress/ discusses how he has updated] [http://kinrowan.net/blog/contact 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') --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 15:15, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* The good ship [http://styrheim.com/test/leonid.html Leonid Miloslavskiy] spotted in the North Atlantic
** INVALID --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 00:50, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)
*** class="family" should probably be family-name
*** the "n" property is missing and the "n" optimization can't be applied
*** the first geo propery is empty, the second one is invalid (ie, it doesn't contain lat/long)
* [http://landsbank.fo/#hCard Landsbanki Føroya]
** INVALID - using embedded rdf/xml invalidly
* [http://chrischerry.name/blog/contact/ Chris Cherry's contact page with his hCard]
** WARNING - uses class="cell" instead of <span class="type">cell</span>
* [http://www.bath.ac.uk/contact/ 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. --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 14:29, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
** Error appears for external users only. Won't be fixed any time soon. -- [[User:PhilWilson|PhilWilson]] 00:03, 28 Jan 2006 (GMT)
* [http://richi.co.uk/blog/2005/12/structured-blogging.html Richi Jennings] has put up his attempt
** INVALID, missing FN --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 12:47, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://www.shiftingpixel.com/about/ shifting pixel photoblog] has published an hCard.
** "organization_name" should be "organization-name" (s/_/-/), otherwise good --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 14:01, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse hCards. If you have an hCard implementation, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.
* [http://kitchen.technorati.com/search Technorati Microformats Search] indexes [[hcard|hCard]], [[hcalendar|hCalendar]], and [[hreview|hReview]] as [http://tantek.com/log/2006/05.html#d31t1802 announced by Tantek].
** list of pages with indexing Issues so they can be looked into as to why data is not being extracted
** suda.co.uk/contact
** multipack.co.uk

* [http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/microformats/ Dreamweaver Extension suite] from the [http://webstandards.org/ Web Standards Project] enables the authoring of hCards from within Dreamweaver 8.
* [http://scooch.gr0w.com/ Scooch] is a slide show and presentation creator that generates a [[hCard]] for individual slide show authors and comment authors with a CSS button to parse and download via [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/ X2V]. Also uses [[hReview]] for slide ratings and [[rel-tag]] for categories.
* [http://blog.codeeg.com/2006/03/20/flock-tails-flocktails/ Flocktails] - port of Tails extension for Flock 0.5.12 that looks for hCards, hCalendar, xFolk and hReview and tosses them into a handy topbar
*[http://opensource.reevoo.com/2006/03/08/release-uformats-12/ uformats] is a ruby library that can parse [[hCalendar]], [[hCard]], [[hReview]] and [[rel-tag]]
* [http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension/ Tails is a Firefox Extension] that will display the presence and details of microformats ([[hcard|hCard]], [[hcalendar|hCalendar]], [[hreview|hReview]], [[xfolk|xFolk]]) on a webpage.
* [http://www.stripytshirt.co.uk/features/firefox/smartzilla Smartzilla is a Firefox Extension] that finds hCards on web pages and lets you add them to your addressbook.
* [http://placenamehere.com/TXP/pnh_mf/ pnh_mf] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports embedding hCard and other microformats in templates and blog posts. Written by [http://placenamehere.com/ Chris Casciano].
* There is [http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/68755089/ evidence of built-in hCard support in the Konqueror browser]. Specifically, Konqueror 3.5, in KDE 3.5 (kubuntu Breezy w/ update).
* There is [http://tagcamp.org/index.cgi?ContactList evidence of a kwiki plugin for hCards]. Update: the [http://svn.kwiki.org/cwest/Kwiki-hCard/ hCard kwiki plugin svn repository]. See the [http://microwiki.caseywest.com/index.cgi?hCard documentation of the hCard kwiki plugin].
* [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/ X2V] is a bookmarklet that parses hCard and produces a .vcf (vCard) stream. Note: needs to be updated as the spec is refined
* [http://www.stripytshirt.co.uk Duncan Walker] has built [http://www.stripytshirt.co.uk/features/firefox/smartzilla a Firefox extension] that gets hCard data from a webpage, uses Brian Suda's XSL (locally) to transform it to vcard format and opens the resulting .vcf file.
* [http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/ George] has written a [http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/greasemonkey_and_microformats.php Greasemonkey user script] that detects hCards and allows users to easily add them to their address book application. Relies on the X2V web service to do the conversion.
* [http://inside.glnetworks.de/ Martin Rehfeld] has updated the work of [http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com/ David Janes] and produced a [[Greasemonkey]] [http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/06/05/microformats-have-arrived-in-firefox-15-greasemonkey-06/ script] that finds many microformat elements, including hCards, and [http://blog.davidjanes.com/mtarchives/2005_08.html#003379 provides a popup menu of actions]. The hCard to vCard conversion is done internally within the script. ''This will work with FireFox 1.5+/GreaseMonkey 0.6.4+ now.''
* [http://diveintomark.org/ Mark Pilgrim] has also written an [http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/hcard/ hCard parser Greasemonkey user script]. It is self-contained and does not rely on the X2V web service.
* [http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2005/09/03/a-working-microformats-extension-to-simplexml/ Oliver Brown] has written an "extension" to [http://www.php.net/simplexml SimpleXML] that gives simple access to hCard information in PHP 5.
* [http://thedredge.org/ Andrew D. Hume] has built a system (Wordpress plugin?) for [http://thedredge.org/2005/06/using-hcards-in-your-blog/ using hcards in your blog] to represent people leaving comments on blog posts.
* The [http://tantek.com/microformats/hcard-creator.html hCard creator] is a very simple, yet illustrative, open source user interface / form / script which creates an hCard in real-time as you type in a set of contact information.
* [http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629.xslt rfc2629.xslt] now attempts to generate hCard information ([http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2629 RFC2629] is an XML format for authoring RFCs and Internet Drafts, see [http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html example document])
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/buddylist2hcards.html iChat buddy list to hCards] - Open source AppleScript to automatically convert one's buddy list in the MacOSX iChat AIM client into a valid XHTML 1.0 Strict list of hCards.
* [http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2001/palmagent/ palmagent] is a collection of palmpilot and sidekick tools. It includes X2V derivatives xhtml2hcard.xsl and toICal.xsl plus some [http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2001/palmagent/hcardTest.html hcardTest] materials
* [http://www.openpsa.org/ OpenPsa 2.x] CRM application uses hCard for all person listings. The widget is [http://www.midgard-project.org/midcom-permalink-922834501b71daad856f35ec593c7a6d reusable across Midgard CMS]
* [http://www.metonymie.com Emiliano Martínez Luque] has written an experimental [http://www.metonymie.com/hCard_extract/app.html hCard finder and structured search application] that finds hCards within a given set of URLs and returns the ones that match the specified search criteria.
* [http://randomchaos.com/microformats/base/ Microformat Base] is an open-source PHP microformat aggregation crawler, currently recognizing hreview, hcalendar, and hcard.

== Additional Applications ==
This section is '''informative'''.

There are numerous potential additional uses and applications for hCards on the Web. The following are merely a few thoughts and possibilities that folks have come up with:

* As an open standard/format for [http://www.gravatar.com/ Gravatars].
* Marking up individual authors of blog posts on a group blog
* Marking up people's names and URLs in a blogroll
* Any reference to people in blog posts (e.g. when citing them, or referencing them, or describing them, by name).
* ...

== References ==
=== Normative References ===
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ XHTML 1.0 SE]
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt vCard RFC2426]

=== Informative References ===
* [http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/rfc2426 HTML reformatted version of RFC2426]
* [http://w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 CSS1]
* [http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#hcard hCard term introduced and defined on the Web, 20040930]
* [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats FOO Camp 2004 Simple Semantic Formats presentation, 20040910]
* Contributed from http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCard.
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11 XHTML 1.1]

==== Specifications That Use hCard ====
* [[adr]]
* [[geo]]
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]
* [[hreview|hReview]]

==== Similar Work ====
* [http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceBetterPersonElement Atom PaceBetterPersonElement]
* [http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0054.html JEP-0054: vcard-temp]

== Related Pages ==
* [[hcard-faq|hCard FAQ]] - If you have any questions about hCard, check here, and if you don't find answers, add your questions!
* [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]] - Normatively details of how to parse hCards.
* [[hcard-issues|hCard issues]] - Please add any issues with the specification to the issues page.
* [[hcard-profile|hCard profile]] - The XMDP profile for hCard

This 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.

* [[hcard-brainstorming|hCard Brainstorming]] - where we are keeping our brainstorms and other explorations relating to hCard
* [[hcard-tests|hCard tests]] - a wiki page with actual embedded hCards to try parsing.

== Further Reading ==
* [http://www.digital-web.com/articles/microformats_primer/ Digital Web Magazine: Microformats Primer] by Garrett Dimon has a good intro to hCard
* [http://24ways.org/advent/practical-microformats-with-hcard Practical Microformats with hCard] by Drew McLellan
* [http://thedredge.org/ Andrew D. Hume] has written a blog post on [http://usabletype.com/articles/2005/usable-microformats/ usable microformats] which discusses hCard
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard Jesse Skinner's introduction to hCard]
* [http://blog.usweb.com/ Shaun Shull's] great post on [http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo How Microformats Affect SEO], including his [[hcard|hCard]] as an example.
* See also [http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html blogs discussing this page] and the [http://technorati.com/tags/hcard hCard tag]