Editing VCard (section)

{{short description|File format standard for electronic business cards}}
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{{redirect|.vcf|the bioinformatics text file format|Variant Call Format}}
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{{Infobox file format
| name          = vCard
| icon          = 
| extension     = <code>.vcf</code>, <code>.vcard</code>
| mime          = text/vcard
| type code     = vCrd
| uniform type  = public.vcard
| owner         = Created by [[Versit Consortium]], all rights transferred in 1996 to [[Internet Mail Consortium]], all rights transferred in 2004 to CalConnect
| genre         = Electronic [[business card]]
| container for = Contact information
| contained by  =
| extended from =
| extended to   =
| standard      = {{IETF RFC|6350|link=no}}
}}

'''vCard''', also known as '''VCF''' ("Virtual Contact File"), is a [[file format]] standard for electronic [[business card]]s. vCards can be attached to [[e-mail]] messages, sent via [[Multimedia Messaging Service]] (MMS), on the [[World Wide Web]], [[instant messaging]], [[Near-field_communication|NFC]] or through [[QR code]]. They can contain [[Personal name|name]] and [[Address (geography)|address]] information, [[telephone number|phone numbers]], [[e-mail]] addresses, [[Uniform Resource Locator|URLs]], [[logo|logos]], [[photograph|photographs]], and audio clips.

vCard is used as a [[Electronic data interchange|data interchange]] format in [[smartphone]] contacts, [[personal digital assistant]]s (PDAs), [[personal information manager]]s (PIMs) and [[customer relationship management systems]] (CRMs). To accomplish these data interchange applications, other "vCard variants" have been used and proposed as "variant standards", each for its specific niche: [[XML]] representation, [[JSON]] representation, or [[HTML|web pages]].