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How to contact IPTC on NewsCodes
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Please send mail to:
IPTC International Press Telecommunications Council
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Telephone number: +44 (20) 3178 4922
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Fax number: +44 (20) 7664 7878
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Michael Steidl is the Managing Director of IPTC.
Honor Craig-Bennett is the Chair of the NewsCodes Working Party at IPTC.
A contact form is available.
The NewsCodes Yahoo Forum is used to discuss usage and further improvement of the NewsCodes.
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