Microdate markup

Event

[Event itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"]   

Title   	    (itemprop="name")
URL 		      (itemprop="url")
Image 		    (itemprop="image")
description 	(itemprop="description")
Start Date 	  (itemprop="startDate" content="ISO 8601 date format")
End Date	    (itemprop="endDate" content="ISO 8601 date format")

[Venue 	(itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place")]
      Name 	(itemprop="name") 
      URL 	(itemprop="url")

      [Address (itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress")]
            Street Address 	(itemprop="streetAddress)
            City/Town     	(itemprop="addressLocality")
            Region        	(itemprop="addressRegion")
            Postal Code   	(itemprop="postalCode")

            [Country (itemprop="addressCountry" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Country")]
                              Country (itemprop="name")
            [/Country]

      [/Address]

[/Venue]

[Contact-Point    (itemprop="ContactPoint" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ContactPoint")]
                 		Email     (itemprop="email")
                 		Telephone	(itemprop="telephone")
[/Contact-Point]

[/Event]

News

[NewsArticle itemscope  itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle"]

Title  (itemprop="name")
Teaser	(itemprop="description")
URL		(itemprop="url")
Image	(itemprop="image")

	[Article itemscop itemtype="Article"]
		Body	(itemprop="articleBody")
		Section (itemprop="articleSection") 	(a tax. reference to the location taxonomy)
	[/Article]			
	
	[CreativeWork itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"]
		Byline			(itemprop="alternativeHeadline")
		Published on 	(itemprop="dateCreated")
		Modified on		(itemprop="dateModified")
	[/CreativeWork]

[/NewsArticle]

RDFa 1.1 Lite equivalent

[Event vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Event"]

Title (property="name")
URL (property="url")
Image (property="image")
description (property="description")
Start Date (property="startDate" content="ISO 8601 date format")
End Date (property="endDate" content="ISO 8601 date format")

[Venue (property="location" vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Place")]
Name (property="name")
URL (property="url")

[Address (property="address" vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="PostalAddress")]
Street Address (property="streetAddress)
City/Town (property="addressLocality")
Region (property="addressRegion")
Postal Code (property="postalCode")

[Country (property="addressCountry" vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Country")]
Country name (property="name")
[/Country]
[/Address]
[/Venue]

[Contact-Point (property="ContactPoint" vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="ContactPoint")]
Email (property="email")
Telephone (property="telephone")
[/Contact-Point]

[/Event]

Useful reading

http://schema.org/
http://manu.sporny.org/2012/mythical-differences/
http://lin-clark.com/blog/drupal-8-now-has-schemaorg-rdf-mappings-dont-pop-champagne-yet
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-drupalhtml5/