The latest version of NewsML-G2, version 2.35 has been released, adding support for the status of events.

Approved by the IPTC Standards Committee at the IPTC Spring Meeting, on 16th May, the new version adds a property eventStatus which matches the equivalent property in ninjs that was added in version 3.0.

eventStatus, within the eventDetails block, describes the status of an actual event – as opposed to occurenceStatus, which conveys the status of how likely it is that a future event will occur, and coverageStatus, which conveys the planned news coverage of a news event.

The recommended controlled vocabulary for eventStatus is http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/eventstatus, which currently contains the terms “scheduled“, “in progress“, “completed“, “postponed” and “canceled“.

IPTC Catalog updated to version 41

The IPTC Catalog, the master list of internally- and externally-managed controlled vocabularies used and referenced by NewsML-G2, has been updated to version 41. It adds the PLUS Licence Data Format vocabulary, used extensively in IPTC Photo Metadata and now in other standards through the introduction of the Data Mining vocabulary.

The latest catalog is available at http://iptc.org/std/catalog/catalog.IPTC-G2-Standards_41.xml (note the plain http URL scheme. We don’t link directly to it here because clicking the link may trigger browser warnings about moving from https to http URLs.)

Find out more about NewsML-G2 2.35

All information related to NewsML-G2 2.35 is at https://iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.35/.

The NewsML-G2 Specification document has been updated to cover the new version 2.35.

Example instance documents are at https://iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.35/examples/. 

Full XML Schema documentation is located at https://iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.35/specification/XML-Schema-Doc-Power/

XML source documents and unit tests are hosted in the public NewsML-G2 GitHub repository.

The NewsML-G2 Generator tool has also been updated to produce NewsML-G2 2.35 files using the version 41 catalog.

For any questions or comments, please contact us via the IPTC Contact Us form or post to the iptc-newsml-g2@groups.io mailing list. IPTC members can ask questions at the weekly IPTC News Architecture Working Group meetings.

For more information, contact the IPTC News Architecture Working Group via the public NewsML-G2 mailing list.