Using NewsML-G2

Quick Start with NewsML-G2

• Comprehensive Implementation Guidelines cover the basics of major media types text, pictures and video plus packages of news, further many and more complex use cases.
• A guideline for mapping metadata between NewsML-G2 and the IPTC Photo Metadata standard – back and forth.

More information on the latest Catalog file covering IPTC’s controlled vocabularies for NewsML-G2 can be found on this page

Many controlled vocabularies which may be used with NewsML-G2 are available on the IPTC Controlled Vocabulary Server.

Specification documents

• HTML specification document – version 2.35
• NewsML-G2 Release including XML Schema – version 2.35

These specification documents of all recent versions are available in the NewsML-G2 section of the IPTC Developer site.

Support

The IPTC Developer Site provides technical information about NewsML-G2.

The NewsML-G2 Generator is a demonstrator that shows how NewsML-G2 documents can be constructed with sample information specified using a web form. Users can choose whether to use the QCode format or URIs for controlled vocabulary values, and to use either NITF or XHTML as the format for the example embedded text story.

The NewsML-G2 Users Forum is used to share experiences, raise questions and recommend and discuss changes to the NewsML-G2 standard. It also connects publishers who use NewsML-G2 and vendors who create tools that process NewsML-G2 documents.