How should vCards be encoded in the RLLOMAP records exchanged using the OAI-PMH?
This is a non-trivial question to answer… but the following points should be noted: • You must use the FN and N vCard elements, enclosed between BEGIN:VCARD and END:VCARD. • The VERSION element should be set to 3.0. • If necessary and/or known, use the ORG element to indicate the affiliation of the person. • Additional vCard elements may be used (see the next question) but it is recommended that the total number should be kept to a minimum for the sake of simplicity. • Separate vCard components with a newline (a CRLF pair, except when the first character of the following line is a space or a tab) and escape semicolons, colons and commas thus: \;, \: and \, where these characters appear in a component value. • Within the N element, semicolons are field delimiters and should not be escaped. Commas are used as list seperators and should not be escaped unless part of a value such as ORG:Pugwash\, Bates and Cabinboy Ltd.. • A vCard component may be folded over multiple lines by starting t
