15y ago yesterday vCard 2.1 http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcard-21.txt, 13y ago vCard 3, 7y ago hCard, 1mo ago vCard 4: microformats.org/wiki/vcard for the history of vCard specifications. A good example of the evolution of a shared semantic vocabulary in the open, over many years and iterations.
going to invite-only #schemaorg workshop Wed., so @KevinMarks and I planned an open @microformats meetup Tue nt: http://plancast.com/p/7lfr come by and bring any/all thoughts/rants/raves about microformats, microdata, RDFa, HTML semantics, schema(.)org, OGP, etc. I want to help drive the development of these technologies in the open as I don't trust a Google+Microsoft duopoly to either get it right or act in the best interests of the open web. Previously: tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development
nice @W3Cconf site updates in response to public/private feedback: w3.org/conf is valid, semantic, and has #hCalendar!
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