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Metadata Taxonomies for the News Industry
The IPTC not only provides news exchange formats to the news industry but also creates and maintains sets of concepts to be assigned as metadata values to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio- and video files and streams. This allows for a consistent coding of news metadata over the course of time - thus we call them IPTC NewsCodes.
The universe of NewsCodes is currently split into many different sets - taxonomies - for increased manageability as topics usually relate to a specific area. A taxonomy is also likely to be used exclusively in a specific metadata property of a news exchange format.
To provider an easy overview of our taxonomies further we grouped them into for main areas:
- Descriptive NewsCodes
This is a group of taxonomies to describe the content of news items properly. - Administrative NewsCodes
This is a group of taxonomies for proper administration of news items. - Transmission NewsCodes
This is a group of taxonomies with controlled values for the transmission process. - Exchange Format NewsCodes
This is a group of taxonomies with values to support specific functionalities of the different IPTC news exchange format standards. NewsML 1.x, NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 make use of this feature.
Find more details about our taxonomies on the Overview page.
If you want to see one of the IPTC taxonomies go and View NewsCodes.
NEWSCODES IN A NUTSHELL
NewsCodes is ...
... the brand name for IPTC's controlled vocabularies - or taxonomies - to be used to categorize news content.A controlled vocabulary or taxonomy
... is a set of terms to express a facet of news content. Facets could be e.g. the subject, the genre, the urgency ... A controlled vocabulary could be a flat list of terms or a hierarchical structure.
Subscribe to NewsCodes feed
A feed in the Atom 1.0 format is providing all changes to any of the IPTC NewsCodes