We have a couple of people interested in having contacts stored in your Fission account. Getting some sort of flexible schema in place is important for using across applications.
Here are some notes and links, please add more in the comments.
jCard: JSON format for vCard
vCard and vCal are funky formats, there is generally a move to have JSON versions of them, like this jCard version.
vCards.js
Create vCards to import contacts into Outlook, iOS, Mac OS, and Android devices from your website or application.
Yes … jCard for programmatic storage. Usually the pattern is creating vCard as universal interchange.
Fun fact: last time I checked, a selection of vCards can be bundled into one big vCard, that is somehow supported in the spec? That was something I experienced at least once.
Also: Apple has a setting where you can swap out default contact storage to not be theirs…
Yep, its a text file with BEGIN and END lines demarcating each vCard. When I switched from Android to iOS a few years back, I exported mine and loaded them up in my new phone to bring in my contacts.
