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Becoming involved in IPTC means you have the power to influence and change global standards set by the world's foremost authority on information exchange among the news media.
Getting Involved
We have many opportunities for professionals who wish to contribute to the IPTC and its work. The most comprehensive: become a member. Membership is the backbone of the IPTC, and levels vary for both organisations and individuals. Additionally, several “working parties” and “working groups” focus on specific topic areas and standards. IPTC also hosts two member meetings a year, where its working parties discuss and develop their ideas to support information exchange and the rapid innovation of media and the news industry.
Working Group Meetings
In addition to the IPTC’s two member meetings held in Spring and Autumn each year, each of our working parties and groups hold regular online meetings. The purpose of these calls is to discuss developments and keep other participants informed of new information pertaining to that particular subject area. Descriptions of our working parties and groups, as well as call times, are given below. IPTC’s work structure/organisational chart also lists objectives of each, as well as group leaders.
Conference Call CalendarIPTC Work Structure Chart
News in JSON
This group focuses on ninjs, the IPTC's standard for content APIs and mobile apps.
It meets regularly to fine tune the standard and to devise support documents, implementation guides and to promote ninjs adoption in general.
Contact GroupBi-weekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every other Tuesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full scheduleNewsCodes
This group maintains controlled vocabularies known collectively as IPTC NewsCodes.
It focuses on the maintenance of the IPTC Media Topics and other controlled vocabularies for content categorization. It considers the creation of new ones when required.
Contact GroupBi-weekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every other Wednesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full scheduleNewsML-G2
This group maintains the global standards for describing and exchanging news and events data: NewsML-G2 and EventsML-G2.
It discusses and develops proposed changes to the standard, and provides supporting guidelines, documentation and examples to facilitate adoption. It is also responsible for promotion of the standard across providers, aggregators and consumers and liaises closely with the other IPTC Working Groups.
Contact GroupWeekly Conference Call
This group has a weekly conference call on Friday afternoons (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full schedulePhoto Metadata
This group maintains the global standard to describe pictures.
It discusses proposed changes to the standard, it works on guidelines and other help for people and companies using the standard and it organizes the annual Photo Metadata Conference. It is also responsible for reaching out to other organizations related to photo business.
Contact GroupBi-weekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every other Tuesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full scheduleRights Expressions
This group maintains RightsML, the rights expression language for the media industry.
It also collaborates with other organizations on related efforts, like ODRL.
Contact GroupWeekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every Wednesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full scheduleSports Formats
This group focuses on SportsML-G2.
It actively develops the standard and provides a vibrant community for the exchange of best practices and to share experiences implementing the standard.
Contact GroupBi-weekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every other Tuesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
View full scheduleVideo Metadata
This group develops IPTC Video Metadata.
It evaluates existing video metadata schemas and discusses options and considerations to harmonize them as it drives toward a draft later this year.
Contact GroupBi-weekly Conference Call
This group has a conference call every other Tuesday afternoon (GMT timezone) to discuss new information.
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