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	This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard. See also [[history-of-microformats]].		This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard. See also [[history-of-microformats]].

Tantek: /* September 10th FOO Camp */ note September 11th HTML For Calendars session

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September 10th FOO Camp: note September 11th HTML For Calendars session

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	After brainstorming and marking up a few documents with Kevin Marks, and seeing that the use of those properties "worked", I asked folks for possible names. hCard seemed to be a reasonable "working name" and it stuck. Ray Ozzie was among the folks at FOO Camp 2004 (which occurred before Ray went to Microsoft) that I bounced the idea of hCard off of, and he said it seemed like a good idea to him.		After brainstorming and marking up a few documents with Kevin Marks, and seeing that the use of those properties "worked", I asked folks for possible names. hCard seemed to be a reasonable "working name" and it stuck. Ray Ozzie was among the folks at FOO Camp 2004 (which occurred before Ray went to Microsoft) that I bounced the idea of hCard off of, and he said it seemed like a good idea to him.

			=== September 11th FOO Camp ===
			* [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?HTMLForCalendars FOO Camp 2004 HTML For Calendars discussion, 2004-09-11]

			Similarly I participated in the "HTML For Calendars discussion" discussion the next day at FOO Camp, where I proposed a similar approach - that of just using HTML class names for iCalendar properties, which became hCalendar.

	The development of hCard (and similarly [[hcalendar\|hCalendar]], as I conceived the two pretty much simultaneously due to similar discussions) very much drove the "research previous existing formats" portion of the [[process]].		The development of hCard (and similarly [[hcalendar\|hCalendar]], as I conceived the two pretty much simultaneously due to similar discussions) very much drove the "research previous existing formats" portion of the [[process]].

Tantek: entry-toc, see also

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entry-toc, see also

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	This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard. See also [[history-of-microformats]].		This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard. See also [[history-of-microformats]].
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	* Ray Ozzie (who was at the FOO Camp where I came up with hCard, and who subsequently joined Microsoft via acquisition) unveiled and demonstrated his team's "Live Clipboard" innovation at O'Reilly's Etech conference in San Diego, California which implemented hCard and hCalendar. I believe Rohit Khare has HD video of the demo.		* Ray Ozzie (who was at the FOO Camp where I came up with hCard, and who subsequently joined Microsoft via acquisition) unveiled and demonstrated his team's "Live Clipboard" innovation at O'Reilly's Etech conference in San Diego, California which implemented hCard and hCalendar. I believe Rohit Khare has HD video of the demo.

	~~----~~		== see also ==
	~~Return to~~ [[hcard\|hCard]].		* [[hcard\|hCard]]
			* [[history]]

Tantek: grammar, tense update

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	* [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats FOO Camp 2004 Simple Semantic Formats presentation, 2004-09-10]		* [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats FOO Camp 2004 Simple Semantic Formats presentation, 2004-09-10]

	The decision to base hCard on vCard was an explicit decision. In fact, the concept of reusing the vCard schema ~~but~~ in semantic (X)HTML predated even the name "hCard" (as all format efforts should, that is, the concept should be defined before the name).		The decision to base hCard on vCard was an explicit decision. In fact, the concept of reusing the vCard schema in semantic (X)HTML predated even the name "hCard" (as all format efforts should, that is, the concept should be defined before the name).

	It started more as [[POSH]] actually (in concept obviously, not in name, since [[POSH]] itself wasn't adopted as a term until 2007), that is, I asked rhetorically in September of 2004 at FOO Camp, what if we used the properties from vCard as class names in semantic HTML?		It started more as [[POSH]] actually (in concept obviously, not in name, since [[POSH]] itself wasn't adopted as a term until 2007), that is, I asked rhetorically in September of 2004 at FOO Camp, what if we used the properties from vCard as class names in semantic HTML?

	It was an easy decision to make at the time (and still now) because vCard is by far the most dominant contact information standard/schema in existence in terms of raw quantity of data and in terms of implementations. Though ~~if trends continue~~, hCard ~~may actually~~ eclipse vCard in terms of raw numbers of items published by sometime in 2008.		It was an easy decision to make at the time (and still now) because vCard is by far the most dominant contact information standard/schema in existence in terms of raw quantity of data and in terms of implementations. Though since introduction, hCard appears to have eclipse vCard in terms of raw numbers of items published on the Web sometime in 2008.

	After brainstorming and marking up a few documents with Kevin Marks, and seeing that the use of those properties "worked", I asked folks for possible names ~~and~~ hCard seemed to be a reasonable "working name" and it stuck. Ray Ozzie ~~(before he was at Microsoft)~~ was among the folks at FOO Camp that I bounced the idea of hCard off of, and he said it seemed like a good idea to him.		After brainstorming and marking up a few documents with Kevin Marks, and seeing that the use of those properties "worked", I asked folks for possible names. hCard seemed to be a reasonable "working name" and it stuck. Ray Ozzie was among the folks at FOO Camp 2004 (which occurred before Ray went to Microsoft) that I bounced the idea of hCard off of, and he said it seemed like a good idea to him.

	The development of hCard (and similarly [[hcalendar\|hCalendar]], as I conceived the two pretty much simultaneously due to similar discussions) very much drove the "research previous existing formats" portion of the [[process]] ~~as well~~.		The development of hCard (and similarly [[hcalendar\|hCalendar]], as I conceived the two pretty much simultaneously due to similar discussions) very much drove the "research previous existing formats" portion of the [[process]].

	=== September 30th hCard blogged ===		=== September 30th hCard blogged ===

Tantek at 23:25, 28 June 2007

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	This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard.		This page documents the history of [[hcard\|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard. See also [[history-of-microformats]].

	Author: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek]		Author: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek]

Tantek: drafted from notes in email and more off the top of my head.

2007-06-28T23:21:29Z

drafted from notes in email and more off the top of my head.

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<h1>hCard History</h1>

This page documents the history of [[hcard|hCard]] and thus hopefully can help answer questions about its origins, original design, context, intentions etc. It's by no means complete, but at least provides a rough outline of significant events in the history of hCard.

Author: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek]

__TOC__

== 2004 ==

=== September 10th FOO Camp ===
* [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats FOO Camp 2004 Simple Semantic Formats presentation, 2004-09-10]

The decision to base hCard on vCard was an explicit decision. In fact, the concept of reusing the vCard schema but in semantic (X)HTML predated even the name "hCard" (as all format efforts should, that is, the concept should be defined before the name).

It started more as [[POSH]] actually (in concept obviously, not in name, since [[POSH]] itself wasn't adopted as a term until 2007), that is, I asked rhetorically in September of 2004 at FOO Camp, what if we used the properties from vCard as class names in semantic HTML?

It was an easy decision to make at the time (and still now) because vCard is by far the most dominant contact information standard/schema in existence in terms of raw quantity of data and in terms of implementations. Though if trends continue, hCard may actually eclipse vCard in terms of raw numbers of items published by sometime in 2008.

After brainstorming and marking up a few documents with Kevin Marks, and seeing that the use of those properties "worked", I asked folks for possible names and hCard seemed to be a reasonable "working name" and it stuck. Ray Ozzie (before he was at Microsoft) was among the folks at FOO Camp that I bounced the idea of hCard off of, and he said it seemed like a good idea to him.

The development of hCard (and similarly [[hcalendar|hCalendar]], as I conceived the two pretty much simultaneously due to similar discussions) very much drove the "research previous existing formats" portion of the [[process]] as well.

=== September 30th hCard blogged ===
* [http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#hcard hCard term introduced and defined on the Web, 2004-09-30]

I blogged this a bit at the time: <cite>[http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d30t1725 "Semantic XHTML" slides posted]</cite>.

== 2005 ==
=== June 20th contributed to microformats.org ===
* Contributed from http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCard 2005-06-20 with the launch of microformats.org.

== 2006 ==
=== Live Clipboard introduced with hCard support ===
* Ray Ozzie (who was at the FOO Camp where I came up with hCard, and who subsequently joined Microsoft via acquisition) unveiled and demonstrated his team's "Live Clipboard" innovation at O'Reilly's Etech conference in San Diego, California which implemented hCard and hCalendar. I believe Rohit Khare has HD video of the demo.

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Return to [[hcard|hCard]].