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The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), based in
London
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,
United Kingdom
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, is a
consortium of the world's major
news agencies
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire, ...
, other news providers and news industry vendors and acts as the global
standards body
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpr ...
of the news media.
Currently more than 50 companies and organizations from the news industry are members of the IPTC, including global players like
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. ne ...
(AP),
Agence France-Presse (AFP),
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa) is a German news agency founded in 1949. Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is ava ...
(dpa),
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,
Getty Images,
Press Association (PA),
Reuters
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and ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''.
IPTC aims at simplifying the distribution of information. To achieve this technical standards are developed to improve the management and exchange of information between content providers, intermediaries and consumers.
IPTC is committed to open standards and makes all standards freely available to its members and the wider community.
The IPTC was established in 1965 by a group of news organisations including the
Alliance Européenne des Agences de Presse (EANA), American Newspaper Publishers Association (then ANPA, now
NAA
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* Naa Someswara, Indian science writer and T ...
), Fédération Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux (now
WAN-IFRA) and the North American News Agencies (a joint committee of
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. ne ...
,
Canadian Press and
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20t ...
) to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the world's press.
IPTC Standards
Photo metadata
The IPTC defined a set of
metadata properties that can be applied to images, part of a broader standard developed in the early 1990s and known as the
IPTC Information Interchange Model (IIM). Embedded IIM image information is often referred to as an "IPTC header". This basic set of metadata fields is branded as ''IPTC Core'', in 2008 a second set branded as ''IPTC Extension'' was developed.
The
Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) has largely superseded IIM's image file header structure, but the properties of the IPTC Core are synchronized between the technical structures of XMP and IIM by a vast majority of imaging software.
Because of its nearly universal acceptance among photographers — even amateurs — this is by far IPTC's most widely used standard.
IPTC NewsML-G2-Standards Family
Using XML and the W3C's model for the
Semantic Web, in 2008 IPTC launched a new series of standards that feature modular construction and many opportunities for embedding metadata. This allows developers to build applications that use only the parts of the IPTC NewsML-G2-Standards that are required by the customer, and that reduce programming costs by re-using XML and metadata modules. Further the NewsML-G2-Standards extend the scope of exchange formats beyond news content, they include event data and well organised information about persons, organisations, points of interest, geopolitical areas or abstract concepts.
These members of the family of standards are available now: NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2. Although they have different roles within the news industry they share much of the date model and the same XML coding.
NewsML-G2
NewsML-G2 acts as an envelope and organizer so that news providers can create single news items — text, photos, video or anything else — and bundle them into concise cohesive packages than can be automatically processed by web CMSs or newsroom systems. The content and relationships of the individual news items can be described using a rich set of
metadata.
NewsML-G2 is not a text or image mark-up format. For example, it does not contain paragraph or headline tagging. Rather, it is an envelope and organizer that does not, by itself, act as a content format. For text article formatting, IPTC mentions
News Industry Text Format News Industry Text Format (NITF) is an XML specification designed to standardize the content and structure of individual text news articles.
Usage
The NITF specification defines a standard way to mark up an article's content and structure, as wel ...
(NITF) or
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated.
While HTML, prior ...
as common examples.
NewsML-G2 is used by several large international
news agencies
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire, ...
, including Agence France-Presse, Associated Press,
Austria Presse Agentur, Deutsche Presse-Agentur,
Fourth Estate, Thomson Reuters, and others.
EventsML-G2
EventsML-G2 optimises the sharing of event information such as meetings, sports events, elections, and even rocket launches — virtually any announced activity that can be broadly classified as an "event." Using XML and metadata, EventsML-G2 allows news providers to create rich descriptions of events plus information about planned coverage, and then share that information with web sites, databases, newsrooms or other customers.
EventsML-G2 is not a calendaring standard, but rather a way for news agencies to share event information to populate their own calendars. The events need not have fixed starting or ending dates, nor do they even need to have a fixed length.
SportsML-G2
SportsML-G2 is a convenient way to share sports statistics in a concise, unambiguous way. All major sports are supported, and certain sports that are known for rich or especially complex statistics (such as
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
) can use special add-on modules. SportsML-G2 has found wide usage outside the news industry; among the user communities are sports teams,
fantasy sports
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leagues, sports betting firms and sports historians. SportsML-G2 is the newer sibling of
SportsML The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), based in London, United Kingdom, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, other news providers and news industry vendors and acts as the global standards body of the news media.
...
.
Version 2.0 of SportsML-G2 was released in October 2008.
NewsCodes
NewsCodes is the brand name of the set of
Controlled Vocabularies
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created and maintained by IPTC. One group of NewsCodes can be used to classify news content - regardless of the media type - and another set is used to support the functionality of IPTC's news exchange format standards.
Media Topics
The Media Topics is the IPTC's recommended controlled vocabulary for classifying media content by topic. Around 1,200 terms in a hierarchy describe the subject of news content in a generic, international way. The IPTC created Media Topics in 2010 as a successor to the IPTC'S previous subject taxonomy, SubjectCodes.
The Media Topics vocabulary is actively maintained by the IPTC NewsCodes Working Group. Updates are released every two to three months including new terms and clarifications to existing terms.
Translations of the Media Topics vocabulary are available in 12 languages and language variants:
American English (en-US), Arabic (ar), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), British English (en-GB), Danish (dk), French (fr), German (de), Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt-PT), Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans), Spanish (es) and Swedish (se).
NewsML 1
NewsML 1 is an XML standard developed by the IPTC to provide a media-independent, structural enveloping framework for multi-media news.
It has also been adopted as
Japanese Industrial Standards
are the standards used for industrial activities in Japan, coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA). The JISC is composed of many nationwide committees and pla ...
(JIS) X7201:2005.
Although superseded in 2008 by
NewsML-G2 The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), based in London, United Kingdom, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, other news providers and news industry vendors and acts as the global standards body of the news media.
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, NewsML 1 (as the original NewsML is now known) remains popular outside North America (especially in Asia) and IPTC plans to support this standard as ''NewsML 1.x'' indefinitely.
ninjs
ninjs standardizes the representation of news in
JSON - a
data interchange format. The format covers the data interchange by APIs and documents in
content management systems like search engines.
NITF - News Industry Text Format
News Industry Text Format News Industry Text Format (NITF) is an XML specification designed to standardize the content and structure of individual text news articles.
Usage
The NITF specification defines a standard way to mark up an article's content and structure, as wel ...
(NITF) is an XML specification published by the IPTC that is designed to standardize the content and structure of text-based news articles.
RightsML
RightsML is IPTC's
Rights Expression Language A Rights Expression Language or REL is a machine-processable language used to express intellectual property rights (such as copyright) and other terms and conditions for use over content. RELs can be used as standalone expressions (i.e. metadata usa ...
for news media and is based on
ODRL.
rNews
rNews is a standard for using semantic markup to annotate online news. It defines a data model for embedding machine-readable publishing metadata in web documents and a set of suggested implementations. Some properties of this standard have been adopted by
Schema.org
Schema.org is a reference website that publishes documentation and guidelines for using structured data mark-up on web-pages (called microdata). Its main objective is to standardize HTML tags to be used by webmasters for creating rich results (di ...
for its metadata schema.
SportsML
SportsML is an XML news exchange standard for sharing sports statistics in a concise, unambiguous way. All major sports are supported, and certain sports that are known for rich or especially complex statistics (such as
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
) can use special add-on modules. SportsML has found wide usage outside the news industry; among the user communities are sports teams,
fantasy sports
A fantasy sport (also known less commonly as rotisserie or roto) is a game, often played using the Internet, where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams composed of proxies of real players of a professional sport. These teams compete bas ...
leagues, sports betting firms and sports historians.
In June 2008, the IPTC approved
SportsML-G2 as a parallel standard to SportsML. Although SportsML-G2 is built from standardized XML modules that are used by other IPTC G2 standards, both standards effectively accomplish the same task.
IPTC 7901
IPTC 7901 is still a widely used format for plain text news, despite being 30 years old. It is a close relative of the
Newspaper Association of America North American standard
ANPA-1312, and uses similar control and other special characters to create a file that can be used to drive computerized news editing systems, photo typesetters or even
teleprinter
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machines.
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