Spring Meeting 2018
23 – 25 April, Athens (Greece)
(Version of 2018-05-22)
The meeting was held at
Divani Caravel Hotel
Vassileos Alexandrou 2, 16121 Athens – more about it in the web.
All presentations and other files used at this meeting are listed and can be downloaded below
(Be aware that the list is made of 2 pages, files of Wednesday afternoon at the top of page 1 and of Monday morning at the bottom of page 2. You can download all files at once by the blue Download box in the upper right corner – the size of the downloaded zip file is about 0.5 GB!! due to many image and video files.)
Minutes of the STA Committee held at the Spring Meeting are already available
Sunday, 22 April
Arrival of the participants.
(Board of Directors meeting in the afternoon)
Monday, 23 April
Morning sessions – 9:00 to 12:30
- 09:00 Opening, introduction of the participants
- 09:45 Introduction of the new IPTC Managing Director Brendan Quinn
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Discussion topic: Localization/Internationalization
- 11:45 NewsCodes Working Group: update on the complete review of the Media Topics taxonomy.
Lunch break (12:30)
Afternoon sessions – 14:00 – ~ 17:30
- 14:00 Presentation of the video production management using NewsML-G2 developed by Digital Production Partnership – presentation by Iain Smith, Product Manager, BBC.
- 14:45 Break
- 15:15 Video Metadata Working Group:
– recent work on auto-tagging of videos
– presentation of the Video Metadata Hub 1.2 draft - 16:00 ATC presents the Truly Media plattform
- 16:30 Discussion topic Trust in the Media (continued from previous IPTC meetings)
…. and a nice surprise for the outgoing Managing Director Michael Steidl - 17:30 Day closed
Tuesday, 24 April
Morning sessions – 9:00 to 12:30
- 09:00 Rights Expression Working Group: presentation of the draft of the RightsML 2018.1 standard, based on W3C’s ODRL Recommendation.
- 10:15 Break
- 10:45 Presentation of the EXTRA Plus project
- 11:00 Discussion topic: Challenges presented by the GDPR to media companies, including the impact on data used for journalistic work.
- 11:35 Algorithmic transparency
- 12:05 Thomson Reuters’ work on provenance
Lunch break (12:30)
Afternoon sessions – 14:00 – ~ 17:45
- 14:00 Sports Content Working Group: presentation and discussion of the work on sportsjs, a JSON format for sports data
- 14:45 Blockchain for secure licensing
- 15:05 Break
- 15:35 FactsMap: AI News (Artificial Intelligence News discovery), presentation by Angelo Marrara, ANSA
- 16:00 Presentation of the DEXTRA project
- 16:30 Overspill slot
- about 17:00 Why 15 years at IPTC was a great time – by Michael Steidl
- about 17:45 Working day closed
20:00 “Thank you” dinner with all Delegates and Michael Steidl, the current Managing Director who will retire soon after that meeting.
Wednesday, 25 April
Morning sessions – 9:00 to 12:30
- 09:00 Photo Metadata Working Group:
– preview on Photo Metadata Conference 2018
– introduction of an IPTC Photo Metadata <-> schema.org mapping
– introduction of the Get IPTC Photo Metadata web app
– summary of 14 years of Photo Metadata work (… which was started in Athens in spring 2004) - 09:45 Update on the JPEG 360 work (an ISO working group) IPTC has joined
- 10:05 Break
- 10:35 NewsML-G2 Working Group
- 11:05 Discussion with the new Managing Director Brendan Quinn about IPTC work and communication
Lunch break
Afternoon sessions – 14:00 – ~ 16:30
- 14:00 CERTH: Presentation of the inVid project
- 14:45 Break
- 15:15 Standards Committee
- Minutes of the meeting held on 8 November 2017
- Matters arising from the minutes
- Chair’s overview about recent activities
- Reports with requested votes from Working Groups
- Rights Expressions WG: RightsML 2018.1
- Video Metadata WG: Video Metadata Hub 1.2
- NewsML-G2 WG: NewsML-G2 2.27
- Any Other Business
- Date and place of the next meeting
- Minutes of this STA Committee are already available
- 16:30 Day and Meeting closed
Discussion Topics
- Localization / internationalization: how to manage news in different languages (also in countries with multiple official languages), how to translate categorization concepts, quality assurance of translations
- The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its impact on media companies. (The Rule will become effective on 25 May 2018 – see the IPTC discussion page about that topic.