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The IPTC has released a comprehensive set of sports controlled vocabularies as a supplement to the SportsML 3.0 sports-data interchange format, which was released in July 2016. These controlled vocabularies (CVs) are in the format of NewsML-G2 NewsML-G2 Knowledge Items plus RDF variants and are available on IPTC's CV server at http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes. Read more...
IPTC is looking for software developers to design, develop, document and test EXTRA, an open source rules-based classification engine for news. First preference will be given to applications received by 21st October 2016, and review will continue until the positions are filled. Read more...
The IPTC NewsCodes family of controlled vocabularies has a new member: Product Genre. Read more...
Interesting stats and info about the International Press Telecommunications Council's technical standards for exchange of news information: Read more...
It's an Olympic year for IPTC's SportsML 3.0 standard, the recently released update to the most comprehensive tech-industry XML format for sports data. Read more...
The NewsCodes Working Group of IPTC has completed mapping of the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata. Read more...
The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is close to finalizing a new recommendation for video standards: the IPTC Video Metadata Hub. Read more...
IPTC has secured funding and the foundation for language and technical requirements for its EXTRA Project - a rules-based classification system, as reported at IPTC’s Summer Meeting 2016 by Stuart Myles, project lead and IPTC Chairman of the Board. Read more...
The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) will use a grant from the first round of Google's Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund to build and freely distribute an initial version of EXTRA: The EXTraction Rules Apparatus, a multilingual open-source platform for rules-based classification of news content. Read more...