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IPTC Third-party resources
This area contains third-party resources hosted by the IPTC.
This may be because the original creators do not host the information any more, and/or they have asked us to host this information on their behalf.
The IPTC provides these resources as a benefit to the community with no warranty or ownership claim, implied or expressed, related to the content.
- ANPA
- The original ANPA standards, particularly the ANPA Wire Service Guidelines, 1989 version
- BBC Ontologies
- The BBC ontologies, created in the early 2010s by the BBC, covering programme information, sport, news and more.
- Note that the BBC's version is once again avaiable at https://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/
- PA SNaP Ontologies
- The SNaP ontology for news content, originally created by the Press Association in the UK (now known as PA Media).
- FOAF
- The Friend-of-a-Friend ontology, as previously hosted at foaf-project.org.
- MWG (Metadata Working Group) Guidelines
- From 2008 to 2018, a group of vendors (Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony) collectively published a set of "Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata", aimed at explaining to software developers how fields should be mapped and converted between IPTC/IIM, XMP and Exif versions of fields that existed in more than one standard (for example, Copyright).
- These have mostly been replaced by the IPTC Photo Metadata Mapping Guidelines and the below specification documents are no longer maintained by the MWG. The site that hosts them was taken down in 2018.
- However, we link to the specifications here for historical purposes.
- Links are to copies of the files held by the Wayback Machine archive at archive.org.
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Page last edited on: 2023-09-22