IPTC SpectrumNo 20 January 2006 IPTC - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR NEWS Taking Shape - NewsML 2 Architecture IPTC Nominating Members Agence France Presse (afp) - France - www.afp.com ANSA - Italy - www.ansa.it Associated Mediabase Limited -UK-www.mediabase.co.uk Austria Presse Agentur (APA) - Austria - www.apa.at BBC Monitoring - United Kingdom - www.monitor.bbc.co.uk Business Wire - USA - www.businesswire.com CCNMatthews - Canada - www.ccnmatthews.com CNW Group Ltd - Canada - www.newswire.ca Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) - Germany - www.dpa.de Dow Jones & Company - USA - www.dowjones.com European Alliance of News Agencies - Europe - www.pressalliance.com Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK) - Japan - www.pressnet.or.jp Keystone - Switzerland - www.keystone.ch KUNA Kuwait News Agency - Kuwait - www.kuna.net.kw Kyodo News - Japan - www.kyodo.co.jp Newspaper Association of America (NAA) - USA - www.naa.org ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company) - Austria - www.orf.at PA News Ltd -UK-www.pa.press.net PR Newswire -UK-www.prnewswire.co.uk Reuters Limited -UK-www.reuters.com SDA/ATS - Switzerland - www.sda-ats.ch The Associated Press (AP) - USA - www.ap.org The New York Times Company - USA - www.nytimes.com Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) - Sweden - www.tt.se TMNEWS-APCOM - Italy - www.apcom.it United Press International (UPI) - USA - www.upi.com World Association of Newspapers (WAN) - International - www.wan-press.org Xinhua News Agency - China - www.xinhua.org IPTC Associate Members AFX News Ltd -UK-www.afxnews.com Agence de Presse Belga - Belgium - www.belga.be Agencia EFE - Spain - www.efe.es Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) - The Netherlands - www.anp.nl ANA, Athens News Agency - Greece - www.ana.gr AS Norsk Telegrambyrå - Norway - www.ntb.no Atex Media Command - Australia - www.atex.com Athens Techology Center - Greece - www.atc.gr BVPA - Germany - www.bvpa.org Canadian Press - Canada - www.cp.org CCI Europe - Denmark - www.ccieurope.com Cepic - Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage - Europe - www.cepic.org EAST Co Ltd - Japan - www.est.co.jp/english/index.html EBU - European Broadcasting Union - Europe - www.ebu.ch Eidos Media Srl - Italy - /www.eidosmedia.com eRoket.com - USA - www.eroket.com Fingerpost Ltd -UK-www.fingerpost.co.uk Harris and Baseview - USA - www.harrisbaseview.com HINA - Croatia - www.hina.hr IFRA - Germany - www.ifra.com ITAR-TASS - Russia - www.itar-tass.com La Reppublica - Italy - www.repubblica.it Magyar Távirati Iroda Rt (MTI) - Hungary - www.mti.hu Mainstream Data Inc. - USA - www.mainstreamdata.com News Engin, Inc. - USA - www.newsengin.com NewsLink -UK-www.newslink.co.uk RelaxNews - France - www.relaxnews.com Ritzau Bureau I's - Denmark - www.ritzau.dk RivCom -UK-www.rivcom.com Suomen Tietotoimisto Oy - Finland - www.stt.fi XML Team Solutions Inc. - USA - www.xmlteam.com 2 IPTC Spectrum January 2006 International Press Telecommunications Contents Council Chairman: Stéphane Guérillot Honorary Treasurer: Organisation Henrik Stadler Vice Chairmen: Development and Consolidation 4 Walter Baranger; Geoffrey Haynes; IPTC Membership 5 Rudi Horvath; John Iobst; IPTC Standards 6 Peter Müller; Hitoshi Saito. Management Committee 7 Managing Director: Klaus Sprick 7 Michael Steidl Editor: News Standards Summit 2005 8 Hugh Johnstone Challenge and Response 10 Published by the PR Committee International Press Making News 9 Telecommunications Council Royal Albert House Sheet Street Standards Windsor Berkshire SL4 1BE Starting from the Basics 12 England NewsML 2 Architecture Goals 13 Tel: +44(0)1753 705051 Fax: +44(0)1753 831541 NewsML 2 Architecture E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Designing the Framework 14 NAR Metadata Handling 15 Web Portal: www.iptc.org Power Conformance 16 Contributors 17 Cover NAR Working Groups 17 NewsML 1 Maintenance A Proven Success 18 Package Item NewsML 1 Applications 19 for the NewsML 2 Architecture depicted as a NewsCodes stylised UML (Unified Modelling Language) Public Codes 20 diagram. See page 14 Automated Categorisation 21 for more details. This diagram is taken from Rev 12 of the NAR V1.0 News Content Model. Ready to Process 22 Working Groups 23 News Industry Text Format Well Proved 24 This issue of the IPTC Spectrum has hyperlinks for web addresses (in blue) and for page references (in red). IPTC Spectrum January 2006 3 ORGANISATION ORGANISATION ORGANISATION Development and consolidation Recent activities have helped a more fundamental approach consolidate IPTC’s position as would be appropriate. Further con- the leading source of news ex- sideration resulted in a set of pro- change standards and laid the posals that were considered by a foundations for the develop- special teleconference meeting of ment of a new family of stan- the Standards Committee, held in dards that will offer a high level early January 2005. This meeting of interoperability. resulted in a decision to change Aims of IPTC can be summa- the Working Party structure and re- rised as being “To establish and focus development efforts on a maintain an open, apolitical inter- new architecture for news stan- national forum to promote and en- dards. able the exchange of news information in an efficient manner, NewsML 2 Architecture while maintaining the highest tech- Now known as the NewsML 2 Ar- nical quality. At the same time tak- chitecture (NAR) this is intended to ing advantage of the advances in provide a single generic model for As an organisation IPTC telecommunication and computing exchanging all kinds of news infor- is run by a Management technology”. In applying these mation, and provide a common Committee and Chair aims the growing importance of the base for all new IPTC standards. elected annually at a World Wide Web has become a This model is based on a view of formal Annual General major consideration so there has the relationships between news Meeting by the been increasing interest in sys- (and topics) and the real world - nominating members. tems for multimedia news and on- further details on the concepts un- The Committee act as line publishing. derlying the NewsML 2 Architec- Directors of the ture are included in the Standards company and are Fundamental; approach pages. responsible for The decision to start work on a suc- Established standards - such as development of the cessor to NewsML 1 (which is now the NITF and SportsML are not di- organisation. Day to day over five years old) was taken early rectly involved in the NAR, so the operations are overseen in 2004 with production of a busi- established user bases will not be by the Managing ness requirements document. At affected, and appropriate develop- Director. the same time work was underway ment work will continue. However it Chair: on EventsML, while there was also is envisaged that future major re- Stéphane Guérillot (AFP) an increasing appreciation of developments taking Honorary Treasurer: place in the underlying Henrik Stadler (TT) XML technology. By the time of the Vice-Chairs: Walter Baranger (New York Autumn 2004 Meeting it Times Inc) had become apparent that Geoffrey Haynes (AP) Rudi Horvath (APA) John Iobst (NAA) Peter Müller (SDA/ATS) Hitoshi Saito (NSK) Retiring Chairman John Managing Director: Iobst (right) congratulates Michael Steidl the incoming Chairman Stéphane Guérillot (left) at Web portal: the Annual General www.iptc.org Meeting. 4 IPTC Spectrum January 2006 ORGANISATION ORGANISATION ORGANISATION leases of these standards will be designed to integrate into the NewsML2 family of standards. Common structure Use of the NAR will give IPTC stan- dards a common structure and style which will make them easier to implement and understand. The design is modular with common components, management rules and processes that can be reused as appropriate. Steps have also been taken to establish a common XML Schema Style for all IPTC standards, again helping to rein- force the fact that they are part of a family of standards. Metadata handling The news industry is a major source of information, and proba- Progress Demonstration and discussion are bly one of the largest users - and Concentrating the available re- an important feature of Meetings, creators - of metadata, and an im- sources has resulted in rapid prog- helping to ensure that delegates portant feature of the NAR is a new ress, and by the end of 2005 the have a detailed understanding of way of expressing metadata. The NewsML 2 Architecture was suffi- how the work is proceeding. Here Mischa Wolf explains some NAR has been designed to be ciently advanced for a first Experi- aspects of the metadata approach compatible with the Semantic Web mental Phase to start. This is that is being adopted in the of the W3C and steps have been intended to help ensure that the NewsML 2 Architecture. taken to ensure it can be used with NAR will meet users practical re- the underlying Resource Descrip- quirements, and help refine the tion Framework (RDF). However it technical specification. nalised. It will then be possible to is important to note that the imple- It is hoped that results from the move on to detailed development mentation of metadata in the NAR first Experimental Phase will be of the first of the new standards - a does not require any knowledge of available for consideration at the general news markup standard as RDF. Spring 2006 Meeting (to be held at a successor to NewsML 1 and the end of March 2006) so the NAR EventsML - which should take Timescale Technical Specification can be fi- place during 2006. The decision to redirect efforts into the NewsML 2 Architecture has ex- tended the original timescale for development of the first members IPTC Membership of the new IPTC standards family - but it will also ensure that future embership of IPTC now includes a wide range of standards work will be easier and Morganisations representing different aspects of the news quicker.