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Calendar and Scheduling Interoperability

Educause 2005, Orlando, Florida. Calendar and Scheduling Interoperability. Emerging Standards and Implementations. Calendar Pain Points?. Calendar systems are islands of data Monolithic systems limit client and server choice Cost of administration or licensing

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Calendar and Scheduling Interoperability

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  1. Educause 2005, Orlando, Florida Calendar and Scheduling Interoperability Emerging Standards and Implementations

  2. Calendar Pain Points? • Calendar systems are islands of data • Monolithic systems limit client and server choice • Cost of administration or licensing • Poor integration with mobile devices How about some Standards?

  3. What standards are available? • iCalendar for import/export • iMIP/iTIP for invitations • CalDAV for calendar access • Emerging standard • Great adoption already • 1 year of interoperability testing

  4. CalDAV goals/uses • Personal Calendar Access • Just like email access via IMAP • Group Calendars • Small workgroups can coordinate schedules • Scales down (low administrative overhead) • Organizational Calendars • See free-busy -- across organizations • Scales up (because HTTP scales)

  5. More uses • Course Schedules • Students can subscribe • Public Calendars • Arts programs, lecture series • Everyone can subscribe • Appropriate for mobile devices • May replace PC » mobile synch for some • Device talks directly to server

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