Format
VCalendar format
Summary
- Name
- VCalendar format
- Identifiers
-
- PUID: fmt/387
- MIME: text/x-vCalendar
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
- Format encoding
- Text
- Note
- Specifications available at : http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiproddev.html
- File extensions
-
vcs - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
VCalendar format
- Description
- Header ASCII: BEGIN:VCALENDAR, followed at undefined point by VERSION:1.0 (version 1.0 signifies Vcalendar format, version 2.0 signifies Internet Calendaring and Scheduling format). Footer sequence ASCII: END:VCALENDAR
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
424547494E3A5643414C454E444152*56455253494F4E{0-2}3A312E30- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 4
- Byte Sequence
454E443A5643414C454E444152- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
-
Added format
VCalendar format: Outline entry added.
-
Added signature
VCalendar format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.