vCard
Sign in to saveAlso known as .vcf, .vcard, Virtual Card Format
vCard, also known as VCF ("Virtual Contact File"), is a file format standard for electronic business cards. vCards can be attached to e-mail messages, sent via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), on the World Wide Web, instant messaging, NFC or through QR code. They can contain name and address information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, and audio clips.
Key facts
- File format.name
- vCard
- File format.extension
- .vcf, .vcard
- File format.mime
- text/vcard
- File format.type code
- vCrd
- File format.uniform type
- public.vcard
- File format.owner
- Created by Versit Consortium, all rights transferred in 1996 to Internet Mail Consortium, all rights transferred in 2004 to CalConnect
- File format.genre
- Electronic business card
- File format.container for
- Contact information
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Related formats
- Example
- Properties
- See also
- References
- External links
vCard, also known as VCF ("Virtual Contact File"), is a file format standard for electronic business cards. vCards can be attached to e-mail messages, sent via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), on the World Wide Web, instant messaging, NFC or through QR code. They can contain name and address information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, and audio clips.
vCard is used as a data interchange format in smartphone contacts, personal digital assistants (PDAs), personal information managers (PIMs) and customer relationship management systems (CRMs). To accomplish these data interchange applications, other "vCard variants" have been used and proposed as "variant standards", each for its specific niche: XML representation, JSON representation, or web pages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vCard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.