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IPTC Approves rNews Draft v 0.5 - Next Step Towards Production Version
BERLIN, June 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Draft version 0.5 of rNews, a standard model for embedding
machine-readable metadata in online news, was approved at the International
Press Telecommunications Council's Annual General Meeting in Berlin,
Germany. This version clarifies, simplifies and expands the rNews model and
incorporates much of the feedback that the IPTC has received about the first
draft. The IPTC is also releasing the recommended RDFa implementation for
rNews 0.5 and plans to provide mappings to other markup mechanisms, such as
HTML5 microdata and JSON. This will give publishers a choice of how to
implement the model, using the technologies that best meet their needs.
"rNews unlocks the value of publishing metadata for online news by
making it easy to apply in a standard way, using pure web technologies",
said Stuart Myles, Lead of the IPTC's Semantic Web Working Group and Deputy
Director of Schema Standards at the Associated Press. "The IPTC is happy to
see the significant interest generated by the first draft of rNews. We
pledge to bring the standard to production-readiness in the next few
months."
rNews was developed by the IPTC and further public feedback is welcome.
Specifications and best practices for implementation are available at
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews. The IPTC expects to release more draft versions
in coming months and aims to approve the first production release in October
2011.
rNews draft 0.5 was also presented at the SemTech conference in San
Francisco, USA, on 8 June 2011 and discussed by a wide audience there.
In addition, the Annual General Meeting of the IPTC, whose members
include major news agencies and news providers worldwide, approved updated
versions of the NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and NITF standards to enhance
business-to-business news exchange.
About the IPTC:
The IPTC, based in London, UK, is a consortium of the world's major news
agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and
maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by
virtually every major news organisation in the world.
Information on all IPTC standards such as the family of G2-Standards -
NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 -, NewsML 1, NITF, IIM, the Photo
Metadata standards and the NewsCodes together with a list of existing
members and information on how to join is available at http://www.iptc.org
Media contact:
Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing director
Phone: +44(20)3178-4922
Email: office@iptc.org
Source: IPTC
.
IPTC Approves rNews Draft v 0.5 - Next Step Towards Production Version
BERLIN, June 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Draft version 0.5 of rNews, a standard model for embedding
machine-readable metadata in online news, was approved at the International
Press Telecommunications Council's Annual General Meeting in Berlin,
Germany. This version clarifies, simplifies and expands the rNews model and
incorporates much of the feedback that the IPTC has received about the first
draft. The IPTC is also releasing the recommended RDFa implementation for
rNews 0.5 and plans to provide mappings to other markup mechanisms, such as
HTML5 microdata and JSON. This will give publishers a choice of how to
implement the model, using the technologies that best meet their needs.
"rNews unlocks the value of publishing metadata for online news by
making it easy to apply in a standard way, using pure web technologies",
said Stuart Myles, Lead of the IPTC's Semantic Web Working Group and Deputy
Director of Schema Standards at the Associated Press. "The IPTC is happy to
see the significant interest generated by the first draft of rNews. We
pledge to bring the standard to production-readiness in the next few
months."
rNews was developed by the IPTC and further public feedback is welcome.
Specifications and best practices for implementation are available at
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews. The IPTC expects to release more draft versions
in coming months and aims to approve the first production release in October
2011.
rNews draft 0.5 was also presented at the SemTech conference in San
Francisco, USA, on 8 June 2011 and discussed by a wide audience there.
In addition, the Annual General Meeting of the IPTC, whose members
include major news agencies and news providers worldwide, approved updated
versions of the NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and NITF standards to enhance
business-to-business news exchange.
About the IPTC:
The IPTC, based in London, UK, is a consortium of the world's major news
agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and
maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by
virtually every major news organisation in the world.
Information on all IPTC standards such as the family of G2-Standards -
NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 -, NewsML 1, NITF, IIM, the Photo
Metadata standards and the NewsCodes together with a list of existing
members and information on how to join is available at http://www.iptc.org
Media contact:
Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing director
Phone: +44(20)3178-4922
Email: office@iptc.org
Source: IPTC
.