Hi,
You can explore iCal by creating one yourself.
Go to Google Calendar. Create some events if you don't have any.
In the dropdown for this calendar, choose "Calendar settings".
Make public.
At the bottom of the page you will see Calendar Address and three icons for XML, ICAL and HTML.
Save to your computer and "view source".
This option is also available in Microsoft Outlook.
Of course, there is a difference between the formal standard and how it is inplemented by diffrent software vendors.
If you want to use a common implementation, you should explore how it's done by them. there is no sense inplannig to use a feature that is not implemented by popular vendors.
HTH
Hanan Cohen - Webmaster
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
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From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Andy Mabbett [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:59 AM
To: Hanan Cohen
Subject: Re: Events aggregation
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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