On Sep 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Duncan Cragg wrote:
Hello uF list!I've got some questions on hCards used to represent a company... <disclaimer mood="friendly"> Nothing here should be constituted as a request for a new uF; I've read the hCard and vCard specs; I know about paving the cowpath, 80:20 and POSH; I've Googled as much as I can.. =0) </disclaimer> Right:- I would like a person hCard to have a pointer to the hCard of the company they work for in the 'org' bit: can I include or link to the company hCard? I can imagine separate company hCards for the main company and the specific 'organisation-unit' within it.
First, I assume the use case is: "given an hcard for the person, how can I find more contact info for that company?"
Unfortunately, there isn't any structure for company urls in vcard/ hcard. Creative solutions within the bounds of vcard compatibility would be nice. :)
- I would like my company hCards, conversely, to contain a list of [role->hCard] links - e.g. CEO: [link to CEO's hCard]; CIO: [link to CIO's hCard] - I know 'agent' exists, but this is different, and not in the hCard spec itself.
I assume the use case here would be a staff page like http:// technorati.com/about/staff.html ? A concrete example like that would be easier to talk about.
- I would like to have a full, official registered company name in a company hCard that differs from the public, friendly name - the spec says 'n' should be blank for company/organisation hCards, so where can the official name go? (the spec forces 'org' to be the same as the friendly name, of course) should I use fn/nickname resp? or abbr?
abbr might be appropriate here. My own hcards say "Technorati", when the company name is actually something like "Technorati, Incorporated" or something like that. Of course if you use abbr, only the full name would be extracted, then. Nickname might be an appropriate semantic. A quick look at Address Book.app shows that at least that application supports nicknames for companies.
- I would like to drop in a field for the ticker code: NASDAQ:MSFT, etc; also the SEDOL and ISIN codes. Similarly a field for sector, UK Companies House classification, etc. Shall I just go POSH, here? Use rel-tag? Any suggestions or precedents?
I'd say go POSH, but make sure that you put it inside the hcard's note so that you have useful fallback behavior.
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