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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...
At our three-day summer meeting in Stockholm, 13-15 June 2016, about 30 IPTC member delegates and 10 invited experts networked and discussed emerging issues and challenges affecting technology and the news industry. Read more...
IPTC's Summer Meeting takes place 13 June to 15 June in Stockholm. IPTC members, working groups and parties gather three times a year to discuss emerging industry topics, updates to standards and other IPTC projects. Read more...
The International Press Telecommunications Council's (IPTC) Photo Metadata Conference 2016, on May 26 in Zagreb (Croatia), will focus on how to "Keep Metadata Alive and Intact" throughout the life cycle of images. 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...
Metadata is of high value for many parties in the photo business: photographers, libraries, agencies, archives. But many consider this only in a very limited context, not across many transitions in a supply chain or for a longer period. Read more...
IPTC Releases Results of 2016 Social Media Sites Photo Metadata Test Read more...
A new version 2.22 of NewsML-G2 is now available as a Developer Release, and can be download from the Release Section of the IPTC Developer Site. This version enhances the existing global standard for multimedia news and events exchange by adding time delimiters for the planning of news coverage and clarifying the rating of news. Read more...