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This page is dedicated to the ongoing development of IPTC standards.

All material provided on this page is considered as to be "under development" - hence not intended for implementation in a production environment. On the other hand the IPTC encourages all developers and software vendors reviewing any upcoming IPTC technology and sending comments.

* News Architecture
A generic framework for all future news exchange standards from the IPTC G2 Family of Standards.
Specific news exchange standards:
* NewsML-G2
* SportsML(-G2)
* EventsML-G2
* NITF (for G2)

News Architecture (NAR) for G2-Standards:
The structure part of the NAR specifications has been approved by the IPTC on 30 May 2007.

To learn more about the NAR go to www.iptc.org/NAR

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

NewsML-G2:
Work on the successor to NewsML 1.x (see www.newsml.org) commenced in spring 2004. Currently the work is focussed on the implementation by making use the new News Architecture framework.

An Experimental Phase 1 package of NewsML-G2 is available for public evaluation until 31 August 2007:
- DOWNLOAD the package
- Review individual specification documents in
http://www.iptc.org/std-dev/NewsML-G2/1.0/specification/
- more about the Experimental Phase 1 is available in this document.

SportsML (-G2): (see also www.sportsml.org)
SportsML 1.8 was approved at the Autumn 2006 IPTC meeting and is publicly available.
The SportsML Working Group currently develops a variant of SportsML which will fit into the technical framework of the G2-Standards.

EventsML-G2: (see also www.eventsml.org)
The IPTC started developing this standard to exchange event information in 2004 and as a first result the Business Requirements Document (rev 4) was published in June 2004.
Currently the work is focussed on the implementation by making use the new News Architecture framework.

An Experimental Phase 1 package of EventsML-G2 is available for public evaluation until 31 August 2007:
- DOWNLOAD the package
- Review individual specification documents in
http://www.iptc.org/std-dev/EventsML-G2/1.0/specification/
- find some examples in
http://www.iptc.org/std-dev/EventsML-G2/1.0/examples/
- more about the Experimental Phase 1 is available in this document.

NITF: (see also www.nitf.org)
NITF version 3.4 was approved at the Autumn 2006 IPTC meeting and is available on the NITF web site.
The NITF Working Party is currently developing a variant of NITF which can be used to mark up textual content of any G2-Standard.

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