Semantic Calendaring - Linking: Author

Identifies a component author, which can be important when a single component can be modified by multiple collaborators.

Change Management

The iCalendar specification includes properties specific to change management, which includes CREATED, DTSTAMP and LAST-MODIFIED properties. These all provide temporal information regarding changes, but not individuals that made the changes.

Additional properties such as ORGANIZER and CONTACT provide some means to identify authors, but have their limitations regarding multiple collaborators.

LINK vs ORGANIZER vs CONTACT

The following table highlights the benefits of using a LINK of type author, vs other property types:

Feature	LINK	ORGANIZER	CONTACT
Multiple instances allowed	Yes	No	No
Label support	Yes	Yes (CN parameter)	No
Multi-lingual support	Yes	Yes	Yes

Examples

LINK;LINKREL="author";VALUE=URI:mailto:[email protected]