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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 - that's the reason why 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 provide an easy overview of our taxonomies further we grouped them into four 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 IPTC's controlled vocabularies go and view NewsCodes.
If you want to use the brand new G2 Scheme Browser tool to download and manage locally the NewsCodes download the package and use it for free.
NEWSCODES IN A NUTSHELL
NewsCodes is ...
... the brand name for IPTC's controlled vocabularies to be used to categorise news content or to add functionality to the IPTC news exchange formats.A controlled vocabulary (or scheme)
... is a set of terms to express a facet of news content. Facets could be e.g. the subject, the genre, the urgency etc. A controlled vocabulary could be a flat list of terms or a hierarchical structure. In the context of the G2-Standards a vocabulary is called a 'scheme'.
Retrieve NewsCodes in many formats
IPTC NewsCodes can be downloaded from the IPTC CV server by vocabulary or by single concept. The download is available in different formats to better integrate with the Semantic Web - see >>>Use Scheme Browser tool
For downloading and the local management of NewsCodes on your computer the Scheme Browser tools is available - for free - DOWNLOADSubscribe to NewsCodes feed
A feed in the Atom 1.0 format is providing all changes to any of the IPTC NewsCodes