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ICalendar

The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, and together with its associated standards has been a cornerstone of the standardization and interoperability of…

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Internet media type
text/calendar
Open format?
Yes
Type of format
Calendar data exchange

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ICalendar

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples79
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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ICalendar

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related to External links · 19
ICalendar → An Introduction, CalConnect, Calendar AvailabilityRFC, Event Publishing Extensions, Extensions, Internet Calendaring, Message-Based Interoperability Protocol, New Properties, Relationships, Resources, RFC, Scheduling, Scheduling Core Object Specification, Support, The JSON Format, The XML, Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol, VALARM, XML Representation
related to history · 14
ICalendar → After, Anik Ganguly, Calendaring, Derik Stenerson, Frank Dawson, IMC, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Mail Consortium, Lotus Development Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Open Text Corporation, RFC, Scheduling Working Group, September
related to Design · 13
ICalendar → Actual, Apple Macintosh, By, CR, Each, Email, HTTP, LF, Lines, MIME, The, UTF-8, Where
related to Other representations · 3
ICalendar → JSON, RFC, XML
Filename extension · 1
ICalendar → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .ical, .ics, .ifb, .icalendar
Internet media type · 1
ICalendar → text/calendar
Open format? · 1
ICalendar → Yes
Standard · 1
ICalendar → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…
Type of format · 1
ICalendar → Calendar data exchange
is a · 1
ICalendar → Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object

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calendar data rfc standard used internet calendaring time event format scheduling type ical extension file using software information representation busy

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ICalendarFilename extension.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .ical, .ics, .ifb, .icalendar1.00infobox
ICalendarInternet media typetext/calendar1.00infobox
ICalendarOpen format?Yes1.00infobox
ICalendarStandard.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
ICalendarType of formatCalendar data exchange1.00infobox
ICalendaris aCalendaring and Scheduling Core Object0.90text
eventsinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text
to-dosinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text
journal entriesinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text
and free/busy informationinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text
and together with its associated standards has been a cornerstone of the standardizationinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text
interoperability of digital calendars across different vendorsinstance ofis a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information0.80text

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