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We are proud to announce that Camera Bits, Mobius Labs, Microsoft, Smithsonian, CBC and many others will be presenting at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference next week, Thursday 10th November. With a theme of Photo Metadata in the Real World, the event is free for anyone to attend. Register here for the Zoom webinar to receive details before the event. Read more...
The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group is proud to announce the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2022. The event will be held online on Thursday November 10th from 15.00 - 18.00 UTC. Read more...
Last week the IPTC held its Autumn Meeting 2022, with over 70 attendees from over 20 countries attending the three-day online event. Read more...
Alamy, a stock photo agency offering a collection of over 300 million images along with millions of videos, has recently launched a new Partnerships API, and has chosen IPTC's ninjs 2.0 standard as the main format behind the API. Read more...
Family Tree magazine has published a guide on using embedded metadata for photographs in genealogy - the study of family history. Read more...
Following on with our quarterly update cycle, the IPTC NewsCodes Working Group has released the Q2 2022 update of IPTC NewsCodes, including updates to the Media Topic, Subject Code, and Digital Source Type vocabularies. Read more...
At the IPTC Spring Meeting in May 2022, IPTC's Standards Committee voted to approve ninjs 1.4, the latest version in the 1.x track of IPTC's standard for news content in the JSON format. Read more...
The IPTC took part in a panel on Diversity and Inclusion at the CEPIC Congress 2022, the picture industry's annual get-together, held this year in Mallorca Spain. Read more...
Where else can you hear about the difficulties of examining photo metadata in NFTs, see a lifelike image of a human being generated from pure data before your eyes, see how Wikidata can be used to take semantic fingerprints of news articles, and discover that an hour is nowhere near long enough to discuss simplifying machine-readable rights? Nowhere but the IPTC Meeting, of course! And this year's Spring Meeting was the venue for all of this and much more. Read more...