iCalendar has a "category" property, which takes multiple values.
On 18 June 2012 23:05, Richard Light <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> iCalendar would encode the basic "where and when" of an event, but Ruth has
> come back with some additional information which C24 need (free-to-attend;
> event type, etc.) How would that work with hCalendar? Could it accommodate
> concepts from a different "namespace"? If not, I guess we would be looking
> at RDFa as an implementation framework.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 18/06/2012 17:39, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>> On 18 June 2012 14:47, Ruth Harper<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> There isn't a standard way to collect and distribute events data
>>
>> Oh yes there is: the iCalendar standard:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iCalendar
>>
>> If each institution marks up its events, on its own website, with the
>> hCalendar microformat:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hCalendar
>>
>> then they can be parsed as iCalendar events by freely available tools,
>> and read into databases/ calendar apps, for reuse elsewhere.
>>
>> Events can also be published in RDFa/ microdata/ as Linked Data, using
>> iCalendar parameters, or as separate iCalendar files, but hCalendar
>> offers a low barrier-of-entry. It used by, for example, Upcoming, and
>> is also recognised by Google for their search indexes.
>>
>> I'm happy to expand on this here, or to offer assistance to
>> organisations wishing to implement it.
>>
>
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