Re: Calendar Data Exchange

From: Nate Vack <njvack_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:04 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Cloutman, David
<DCloutman_at_co.marin.ca.us> wrote:

> What about xCal (iCalendar based XML format)? Does anyone use this
> technology? It is possible to do it with Atom Feeds? Other ideas?

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned hCalendar -- essentially, an
xHTML port of iCalendar's data format.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

I'd suggest iCal for widest-possible interop, and hCal for the 'markup
that's both human and computer-readable' end of things.

Cheers,
-Nate
Received on Thu Sep 18 2008 - 12:14:07 EDT