hCard

To fuel the discussion on user homepages

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 (RFC2426) in XHTML, one of several open microformat standards.

See:

• http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
• Practical Microformats with hCard (from the 24 ways series)

A few links: (other links on the microformats wiki page)

• SmartZilla - a Firefox Extension that finds hCards on web pages and lets you add them to your addressbook.
• hCard creator

We could/should present personal user data in the form of hCard.

-- ArthurClemens - 29 Mar 2006

Excellent idea! I'm all for reusing standards.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 30 Mar 2006