vCard occurs as file format standard for private information interchange, specifically electronic business cards. vCards come typically bound to e-mail messages, but may be exchanged within more ways, like on the World Wide Web. It could contain title & location tools, telephone number, URLs, logos, pic, & potentially audio clips.

A vCard or even Versitcard was originally proposed around 1995 by the Versit consortium, which consisted of Apple Computer, AT&T (later Lucent), IBM and Siemens. Within December 1996 ownership of the format was handed over to the Internet Mail Consortium, a trade association for corporations sustaining an interest inside Internet e-electronic mail.

vCard is accompanied by the projected standard for exchanging information just about forthcoming appointments known as vCalendar since superseded by iCalendar; the Internet Mail Consortium has issued the statement that it "hopes that all vCalendar developers take advantage of these new open standards and make their software compatible with both vCalendar 1.0 and iCalendar."

Version Two.Unity of the vCard standard is widely supported by e-mail clients. Version Three.Cypher of the vCard format is an IETF standards-track proposal contained in RFCs 2425 and 2426. A normally-utilized filename extension for vCards is .vcf.

An [http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0054.html XML VCard] format has been defined per Jabbering Programs Foundation & is around utilize by having technologies like Jabber and Light-Weight Identity. hCard is a 1:1 representation of vCard in semantic XHTML.

Example vCard content
Lastname_Firstname.vcf

BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 FN:Firstname Lastname N:Lastname;Firstname ADR;Act;PREF;QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;Footown 12345=0AFooland;Bar Street 99 LABEL;QUOTED-PRINTABLE;Function;PREF:Bar Street 99=0AFootown 12345=0AFooland TEL;CELL:+358-40-123456 Electronic mail;INTERNET:nobody@example.invalid UID: END:VCARD