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The latest version of our standards and recent news
IPTC STANDARDS UPDATE
| 8 July 2010 | Revised IPTC Photo Metadata Standard specification released, including IPTC Core 1.1 and IPTC Extension 1.1. Available for DOWNLOAD |
| 22 June 2010 | NewsCodes: the brand new Media Topic taxonomy is released, available in 5 different formats. |
| 5 May 2010 | EventsML-G2 1.5: an interim developer update of the standard for exchanging event and coverage planning data - DOWNLOAD - more on the Developer page |
| 5 May 2010 | NewsML-G2 2.6: an interim developer update of the standard for exchanging multimedia news and packages thereof - DOWNLOAD - more on the Developer page |
| 7 Dec 2009 | EventsML-G2 1.3: the annual update of the standard for exchanging event and coverage planning data - DOWNLOAD - more in the EventsML-G2 section |
| 7 Dec 2009 | NewsML-G2 2.4: the annual update of the standard for exchanging multimedia news and packages thereof - DOWNLOAD - more in NewsML-G2 section |
| 1 Dec 2009 | NITF Version 3.5 released: an update of the standard for marking up textual news content. Find more in the NITF section |
| 2 Nov 2009 | SportsML-G2 Version 2.1 spec documents updated: Find more in the SportsML section |
| 30 Apr 2009 | IPTC released two new NewsCodes vocabularies:one to identify the major World Regions and another one for EventsML-G2 to communicate the intended news coverage of an event. |
New IPTC-PLUS Toolkit for Adobe CS released
Brand new and hot: IPTC and PLUS have released a Photo Metadata Toolkit for Adobe CS3 to CS5 products on 15 July 2010.
It includes a User Guide for the already built-in IPTC panels of CS5 and adds IPTC Extension and PLUS fields to Adobe Bridge CS3 and CS4 by an easy to use IPTC-PLUS Metadata panel which comes with a comprehensive User Guide too.
Find more about it on and download it for free from the Toolkit page.
New Mirror is available
The April issue of our newsletter Mirror is out and covers:
Download and read it.
World’s major news players adopt IPTC G2
Five of the largest global news agencies have agreed to endorse and support the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) G2 family of news exchange standards. Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, dpa, the Press Association, and Thomson Reuters will support standards developed by the IPTC, that will provide news agencies, vendors, and customers around the world with a uniform method of exchanging multimedia news content.
Existing IPTC standards such as IPTC7901 and NITF have been implemented by many organizations around the world for many years. The availability of the new G2-Standards marks the first time the largest agencies have come together to publicly endorse an IPTC standard. Support from these major agencies means that the majority of the world's news content will be available to all their customers in a standard format. The extensibility and multimedia support built into the new G2-Standards will facilitate cost and speed to market advantages that were difficult to achieve previously.
Update of G2-Standards and NITF
The IPTC released updates of a couple of its standards in December:
- NewsML-G2, the standard for exchanging multimedia news and packages thereof, was updated to version 2.4
- EventsML-G2, the standard for exchanging event and coverage planning data, was updated to version 1.3
- NITF, the standard for article markup, was updated to version 3.5
Annual report Spectrum 2009 is out
Here it is again: our annual report Spectrum 2009 provides a comprehensive overview of what the IPTC achieved from summer 2008 to summer 2009. The 16 pages document is available for download.
The Spectrum covers the latest public release of the G2-Standards, the work on the Media Topics NewsCodes, provides an overview of all IPTC Working Parties and gives good reasons for becoming an IPTC member.
Enjoy it - and send any comments on our work by using the Contact form.
Newspaper Terms of North America document
Membership Q&A
