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IPTC's Python library for creating manipulating and managing NewsML-G2 documents, python-newsmlg2, has reached version 1.0. Read more...
Software industry legend Tim Bray gave a resounding call to IPTC and to others working on media provenance and C2PA: his verdict was that while the specification and its implementation had issues, they were slowly being resolved and he lauded the project's goal of, in Tim's words, "making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth tellers to be believed". Read more...
The Media Provenance Summit brought together leading experts, journalists and technologists from across the globe to Mount Fløyen in Bergen, Norway, to address some of the most pressing challenges facing news media today. Read more...
The IPTC has joined the BBC (UK), YLE (Finland), RTÉ (Ireland), ITV (UK), ITN (UK), EBU (Europe), AP (USA/Global), Comcast (USA/Global), ASBU (Africa and Middle East), Channel 4 (UK) and the IET (UK) as a "champion" in the Stamping Your Content project, run by the IBC Accelerator as part of this year's IBC Conference in Amsterdam. Read more...
Google has announced the launch of its latest phone in the Pixel series, including support for IPTC Digital Source Type in its industry-leading C2PA implementation. Read more...
The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group is proposing a draft set of properties for recording details of images created using generative AI systems. The group presents a draft of these fields for your comments and feedback. After comments are reviewed the group intends to add new properties to a new version of the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard which would be released later in 2025. Read more...
The IPTC participated in a "design team" workshop for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)'s AI Preferences Working Group. Brendan Quinn, IPTC Managing Director attended the workshop in London along with representatives from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Meta, Adobe, Common Crawl and more. Read more...
The IPTC Video Metadata Working Group has released version 1.6 of its Video Metadata Hub standard, including terms for rights usage, language, and content created by Generative AI models. Read more...
The latest version of NewsML-G2, version 2.35 has been released, adding support for the status of events. Read more...