[VCARDDAV] Proposal: Eduction

[Renato Iannella <[e-mail]>]

I would like to propose to add the EDUCATION field to vCard.

A person's educational background is an important part of their identity and career and is captured by many online professional services (such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, Xing etc)

I have attempted to represent the new field below (but I did not do a good job of the ABNF!)
There are other subfields that could be considered,such as the years attended at the institution.

Cheers

Renato Iannella
http://renato.iannella.it


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6.6.7.  EDUCATION

   Purpose:  To specify the educational background of the individual represented by this vCard.

   Value type:  A single text value.

   Cardinality:  (0,n)

   Special notes:  The TYPE parameter MAY be used to characterize the
      level of education.  The understood types are:

      *  "primary" means elementary education consisting of the first 5–7 years of formal structured education.

      *  "secondary" means high school level education

      *  "tertiary" means higher university or college education leading to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees

      *  "adult" means less formal educational services, such as trade courses

      Other types may be registered to IANA as described in
      Section 10.2, and private extensions may be used.

    ABNF:

     EDUCATION-param = "VALUE=text" / language-param / pid-param / pref-param
                / type-param / altid-param / any-param
     EDUCATION-param-text = "VALUE=text" / language-param

     EDUCATION-param =/ pid-param / pref-param / altid-param / type-param
                    / any-param

     type-param-education= "primary" / "secondary" / "tertiary" / "adult"
                       / iana-token / x-name
       ; type-param-education MUST NOT be used with a property other than
       ; EDUCATION.

   Examples:

   EDUCATION;TYPE=tertiary:Bond University
   EDUCATION;TYPE=adult:Billie's Music School
 
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