IPTC G2-Standards Add Power to the News Exchange
By Iptc, PRNESunday, December 6, 2009
LONDON, December 7 - New versions of IPTC G2-Standards improving the usability of multi-media
news exchange and including an extended guideline document to ease
implementation are released on 7 December 2009 and can be obtained from
www.iptc.org.
The 18 months since the first release of NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and
SportsML-G2 have showed that they covered white spots on the map of news
exchange formats: NewsML-G2 found a lot of followers in the video news
industry and they use it for delivering single items as well as more complex
packages. EventsML-G2 has drawn a lot of interest and first implementations
are automating a simple problem: how a news agency can tell its customers
when and how the agency will cover an important event. And SportsML-G2 adds a
completely new Tournament Structure as most sports use this style of
competitions.
"Seeing G2-Standards in an increasing number of production environments
emphasizes that they meet business requirements and provide latest technology
to make professional news compliant with many distribution channels," said
IPTC Chair Stéphane Guérillot of Agence France Press. "The IPTC and its
members are committed to improving the quality of the G2- Standards and to
share knowledge about Best Practices in different sectors of the news
industry."
The big annual update of G2-Standards delivers new specification
documents with an extended 'Guidelines For Implementers' document which
reflects a lot of hands-on experience from parties having already implemented
the standards. NewsML-G2 2.4 and EventsML-G2 1.3 provide more details about
the delivered content as it was requested by first users, while SportsML-G2
extended its finely grained attributes for ice hockey and American football
and further added a new data structure for tournaments.
The IPTC G2-family of standards provides text and multimedia formats that
are designed to make news exchange faster, cheaper and more accurate. The
three IPTC G2-Standards (NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2) form a
unified XML structure to encapsulate different types of news; a rich suite of
metadata is also available. The design makes the standards compatible with
the Semantic Web.
As with all IPTC products the specification and documentation packages
for the G2-Standards are available without cost from the IPTC website
www.iptc.org under the generous terms of the IPTC's Intellectual
Property Policy.
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 organization in the world. Information
on all IPTC standards such as the family of G2-Standards - NewsML-G2,
EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 -, the Photo Metadata standards, NewsML 1, NITF,
IIM and the NewsCodes together with a list of existing members and
information on how to join is available at www.iptc.org
Media contact:
Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing director
Phone: +44-20-3178-4922
Email: office@iptc.org
web: www.iptc.org
20 Garrick Street
London WC2E 9BT
United Kingdom
phone: +44-20-3178-4922
fax: +44-20-7664-7878
email: office@iptc.org
Media contact: Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing director Phone: +44-20-3178-4922, Email: office at iptc.org ; web: www.iptc.org 20 Garrick Street, London WC2E 9BT, United Kingdom. phone: +44-20-3178-4922, fax: +44-20-7664-7878, email: office at iptc.org .
