I’m currently researching tools that allow me to publish and maintain my schedule online. Features I need:

• integration with outlook
• automated synchronization (preferably 2way)
• standards support (iCal, vCal etc)
• public / private events

Of course there are wish list items like group scheduling, rss feeds, FOAF support, location-awareness. I believe that opening up my schedule for others to take a peak at is most useful (with the exception of some events that may be too private). Interestingly, there is a Semantic Web Calendar Agent that

provides interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM) Systems such as Microsoft’s Outlook. Schedules and events can be described on the web in RDF, using existing ontologies such as the Hybrid iCal-like RDF Schema or the Dublin Core ontology, and linked to individual’s contact information described, for example, at their home page.

its conveniently written by some of the guys from #foaf 🙂 There is also a RDF Calendar task force

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