Registry Virtual Contact File

vCard is a specification developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the description of people and organisations

Prefix: vcard
Keywords: ontology people
Links: Homepage OWL RDF Request Discussion

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: Agent Resolve
Example CURIE: vcard:Agent

Contacts

Contact: Renato Iannella 0000-0001-5547-3508 riannella
Contributor: creator Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (2): NFDI4Culture Collection NFDI4Earth Collection

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix	Curate
LOV	`lov`	`vcard`
Zazuko	`zazuko`	`vcard`

Providers

Suggest

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Agent is used to demonstrate the providers available for Virtual Contact File. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
Virtual Contact File	`vcard`	http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Agent
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/vcard:Agent

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0-1.0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("vcard")
'Virtual Contact File'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("vcard")
'https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("vcard")
'https://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns'

Get the RDF download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_rdf_download("vcard")
'https://github.com/zazuko/rdf-vocabularies/raw/refs/heads/master/ontologies/vcard/vcard.nq'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("vcard")
'Renato Iannella'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("vcard")
'r@iannel.la'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("vcard")
'riannella'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("vcard")
'0000-0001-5547-3508'