The basic goal of the News Architecture is to provide a single generic model for exchanging all kinds of newsworthy information, thus providing a common framework for the new IPTC G2 Family of Standards for news exchange.

The IPTC has decided to develop new family of news exchange standards - the G2-Standards - and the development of the "News Architecture" is the first major milestone, it should be fully completed until 2007.

After having developed the major parts of this framework in 2006 the IPTC started to develop a set of G2-Standards for conveying different types of content. They will be successors to the current versions of NewsML 1.x, SportsML 1.x. Further to that a standard for exchanging event information - EventsML - is also be developed at this stage.

After an "Experimental Phase 1" (EP#1) in winter 2005/2006, another EP#2 in summer 2006 and a final Release Candidate (RC) review in early 2007 the structures of the News Architecture 1.0 were approved by the IPTC on 30 May 2007. This includes the data model and all properties but excludes the Processing Model.

You may download the NAR 1.0 package, a ZIP file containing these individual documents (which may be obtained by the highlighted links):

• A model specification of the NAR:
  - the Core Model specification 1.0 (v 16)
  - the Power Extension specification 1.0 (v 16)
• An implementation in W3C XML Schema files - document version is 0.16
  and a documentation of the XML Schemas for the five items plus the News Message at the Core Level and the Power Level.
• A Glossary document for the NAR
• As supplemental material:
  - a "catalog" file (XML) with URIs and recommended aliases for IPTC maintained metadata code schemes
  (still a draft version)

  An Errata page regarding the specification documents is available at: http://www.iptc.org/goto?NAR1.0Errata

After the experimental phase of the two G2-Standards - NewsML-G2 and EventsML-G2 - a minor update 1.1 of the NAR was approved in mid-October.
You can download the draft-specifications which have been approved only with a minor modification at:
http://www.iptc.org/std-dev/NAR/1.1/DRAFT-NAR_1.1_RC.zip

In future the NAR model and specifications will be part of the specification document of a G2-Standard. The documents for NewsML-G2 1.0 and EventsML-G2 1.0 should be available in February 2008.

To discuss the News Architecture, and to review and add contributions please join this Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsml-g2

Complementary documents:
Business Requirements Document (rev 1) - created in November 2004 for a successor to the "NewsML 1.x" standard. After that date the IPTC decided to start working on an generic framework, but the Business Requirements document is still considered as relevant except for implementation specific details.