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The IPTC NewsCodes Working Group has been very busy in the last six months. At the IPTC Spring 2020 Meeting, we announced three new language translations of our core Media Topics vocabulary, many term updates, and a new NewsCodes Guidelines document. Read more...
Previously, we shared that Google was making image credits and usage rights information more visible on Google Images. Google now displays information about image copyright and ownership details, alongside creator and credit info, when websites and photo-owners make that information available for Google to crawl. Since the announcement there has been steady growth in the amount images containing these embedded metadata fields, which in turn has helped drive greater user awareness of copyright for images on the internet. Read more...
At last week's Spring Meeting IPTC updated the News in JSON standard (ninjs) to version 1.3. The JSON schema of the new version can be accessed at https://www.iptc.org/std/ninjs/. Read more...
Last week IPTC did something we had never tried before: we ran a complete three-day member meeting virtually, using videoconferencing, which worked very well! Thanks to all our participants and presenters. Read more...
The agenda for the IPTC Spring Meeting (May 11 - 13 2020) has been announced, featuring a focus on news automation. Read more...
At the IPTC Autumn Meeting in Toronto in 2018, IPTC considered the issues of "trust and credibility" in news media. We looked at the existing initiatives and considered whether IPTC could contribute to the space. Read more...
In late February we pushed the latest update to Media Topics, IPTC's main controlled vocabulary for subject classification (also known as a taxonomy). Read more...
We were very much looking forward to our IPTC 2020 Spring Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, beautiful city on the Baltic Sea and home city of Brendan Quinn, Managing Director of IPTC. But unfortunately, circumstances mean that we can not hold the meeting in person this time. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have updated our popular Quick Guide to IPTC Photo Metadata and Google Images document to cover the planned updates to Google Image search that we announced last week. Read more...
We are excited to announce that the result of our latest collaboration with Google has been launched in a beta phase: Licensable Images. Read more...