| IPTC
UPDATE |
| 7 May 2008 |
The IPTC is seeking candidates as Editor on a contract-for-delivery basis.
The position requires international travel, web savvy and the skills to write articles for a worldwide audience of news industry leaders.
Application must be posted by 10 June 2008.
>>> download the full Contract Tender Offer |
| 25 Apr 2008 |
A draft specification for "IPTC Photo Metadata 2008" is released. Comments are welcome. |
| 24 Apr 2008 |
IPTC newsletter Mirror issue 146 is avialble with reports about the IPTC Spring Meeting in Beijing, including meetings with the Olympic Games organisers. |
| 22 Apr 2008 |
Join the second international Photo Metadata Conference - 5 June 2008, Malta (Europe)
Metadata are critical to photo business by providing important information about the image and by describing it properly. The maximum added value will only be achieved if the metadata are precise and reliable. How to achieve this will be discussed at this conference.
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| 4 March 2008 |
The IPTC endorses ACAP: The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) solves a widening variety of issues in a straightforward and robust manner, says a public statement issued by the Board of Directors. |
| 26 Feb 2008 |
The new family of IPTC G2-Standards is publicly available. Learn more about it and download the specs and documentation >>>
Read the Media Release: "Exchanging News Made Easy with IPTC G2-Standards"
Read the IPTC newsletter Mirror, issue 145, on the release of the G2-Standards. |
| 28 Nov 2007 |
New IPTC office address by 1 December 2007:
IPTC
20 Garrick Street
London WC2E 9BT
United Kingdom
Telephone number: +44 (20) 3178 4922
Fax number: +44 (20) 7664 7878 |
| 28 Aug 2007 |
New, updated version 18 of the
IPTC Subject NewsCodes are available >>> |
| 1 May 2007 |
SportsML version 1.8 released
- find more on the SportsML
web site |
| 1 May 2007 |
NITF version 3.4 released
- find more on the NITF
web site |
| IPTC
Standards - quick overview |
NewsML
1.x
NewsML-G2
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A method for packaging, relating,
and managing diverse pieces of media. Offers a
universal metadata approach to all sorts of specialised
content formats. |
| NITF |
A specialised format for marking
up news stories. Helps a publisher differentiate
a headline from a byline or paragraph, and also
helps a publisher mark up inline text entities,
such as organisations and people. |
| SportsML |
A specialised format for sports
scores, schedules, standings, and statistics. |
| EventsML-G2 |
EventsML-G2 is a standard for conveying event information in a news industry environment |
NewsCodes
(= metadata taxonomies) |
Controlled vocabularies of
terms of significance to publishers, all are branded
as "NewsCodes". Include
a taxonomy of subject codes, listings of roles
and genres
of news components, and ratings
for relevance, priority, urgency, and other characteristics. |
IPTC Core
Schema for XMP |
Set of metdata
primarily for photos to be used with Adobe's Extensible
Metadata Platform XMP. Successor to the "IPTC
(meta)data "
used to describe millions of professional digital
images. |
Legacy Standards
(but still widely in use) |
ANPA 1312 / IPTC
7901 – Fielded text format for news articles.
IIM (Information
Interchange Model) – Envelope format for
transmitting news text documents and photos
and defining the so called "IPTC headers" in
many photo files, inserted by Adobe Photoshop
and similar software. |
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What are the
IPTC G2-Standards?
A new family of news exchange
format standards arrived in early 2008,
using state-of-the-art Metadata and XML technology to combine rich functionality, easy of use, compactness and compatibility with the Semantic Web.
We invite you to join us in this ground-breaking effort.
The new suite, known as the IPTC G2-Standards,
is built from a set of specifications and XML components that can be shared in a modular way for maximum effectiveness. The first two IPTC G2-standards are
NewsML-G2 and
EventsML-G2
and more should follow in 2008.
For example,
NewsML-G2, the family's standard for general news,
will inherit some of its functionality from the
original NewsML 1.x: It can act as a sophisticated
wrapper for any news item of text, photos, graphics,
video or other media and it can be used for packaging
any combination of these items.
But NewsML-G2 will
make stronger use of IPTC's robust metadata taxonomy
suite, known as NewsCodes, and it will better interact
with other IPTC-G2 standards, such as EventsML-G2 or the upcoming SportsML-G2. It will contain hooks for managing
news items, and its flexibility will allow news
providers to choose whether to support all of the
IPTC G2-standards XML tags or a compact subset.
All
of this is being developed within IPTC's new modular
framework, so that programmers can spend less time
learning the nuts and bolts of specialized XML
standards and more time writing code for customers.
It's the cost-effective way of managing news, whether
for a web site, news aggregator, newspaper or television
station.
Want
to participate in IPTC G2-Standards development?
Click here.
Want to monitor or comment
on IPTC G2-Standards development? Click here to view a list of IPTC
committees and their electronic forums.
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The International Press
Telecommunications Council (IPTC) was
established to safeguard the telecommunications
interests of the World's Press.
Now its activities are primarily focussed on developing and publishing Industry
Standards for the interchange of news data.
At present the IPTC membership
is drawn mainly from the major news agencies around
the globe but it also has a strong representation
from newspaper publishers, system vendors and New
Media organisations.
The IPTC was founded in 1965 and is based in London, UK. |
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