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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...
Following many change requests submitted by news organisations all over the world, the IPTC News in JSON Working Group is happy to announce the 1.2 version of its standard ninjs. Read more...
IPTC is pleased to release a new version of its widely used Photo Metadata Standard, version 2019.1. This version introduces the exciting new feature to mark regions within an image using embedded metadata, directly in the image file. Read more...
At the IPTC Meeting in Ljubljana Slovenia in Autumn 2019, we welcomed several new faces to IPTC working groups, the Board and voted in a new Chair! Read more...
This is part of a series of posts about the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2019. In Ljubljana. See separate posts about Day 1 and Day 2. Read more...
Day 2 of the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2019 was just as busy as Day 1: we heard from the IPTC NewsCodes Working Group, the AI Expert Group, and the News Architecture Working Group including updates on IPTC's work on trust and credibility projects. We also had updates from the Video Metadata Working Group, an update on IPTC's Rights work, and news from the Sports Content Working Group. Phew! Read more...