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...

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The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) released the new Video Metadata Hub Recommendation (VMHub), a comprehensive solution for video metadata management that allows exchange of metadata over multiple existing standards. 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...

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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...

Mittmedia and Journalism++ Stockholm, two news organizations in Sweden, are successfully developing and incorporating AIPs, automation tools and robots into workflows to enhance to the capabilities of newsrooms, as reported at the International Press Communications Council’s (IPTC) Spring Meeting 2016. Read more...