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 Request Discussion
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
Agent   Resolve
Example CURIE
vcard:Agent
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 Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov vcard
Zazuko Zazuko Prefix Server logo zazuko vcard
Providers

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