IPTC Semantic Web Working Group

Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 23rd October 2012

IPTC SemWeb Working Group

• Making use of Semantic Web technologies for news– Leverage technologies developed by others

• The work falls into two main areas:– Models

• Determine what aspects of news to represent– Formats

• The details of how to represent the news• Using RDFa, microdata, JSON, Linked Data …

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rNews 1.0

Embeddable news metadata• One data model• Suggested implementations

– RDFa– HTML5 Microdata

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews

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rNews 1.1 Change Requests

• Two formal requests for changes to rNews were submitted

• http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-11-Change-Requests-Home-Page

• Of these, one is being brought forward for approval as part of rNews 1.1

• The other is felt to require broader discussion

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“Expired spider” by aussiegallhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/322980012/

rNews 1.1: expires property

Add expires property of type xsd:DateTime to NewsItem• The date and time after which the NewsItem is no longer considered

valid by its publisher

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-11-CR-1002-news-item-expiry-date-and-time

• Many websites are only allowed to display content that they are republishing for a limited period of time

• This property could be used by rNews consumers to remove the news item from their cache of information

• Or as a trigger to come back and refresh information about the item

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rNews 1.1

MOTION – Standards Committee

MOTION (to the Standards Committee)

To Approve rNews version 1.1

as specified in

rNews_1.1_CR1002.pdf

As the latest Public Relase

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“My Solo Exhibition Artworks” by Off beat Mumhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/8007281@N08/3304410651/

References to Copyrighted Objects

• Request: Create a class for copyrighted objects which can be associated with the (news) content (Article etc.)

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-11-CR-1001-objects-with-copyright-referenced-by-the-content

• News content may reference copyrighted objects• Such as a photo or video of an artwork• Members of the Cultural Heritage community have

requested that changes be made to rNews to directly support this use case

• This request deserves broader discussion

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Promoting rNews

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https://speakerdeck.com/u/agebhard/p/rnews-embedded-metadata-in-online-publishing

W3C semnews Community Group

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rNews OWL

We’re hosting the rNews OWL discussion on the W3C semnews community group

http://www.w3.org/community/semnews/2012/05/15/draft-rnews-1-0-owl-ontology-feedback-requested/

• Current Draft rNews 1.0 OWL– RDF/Turtle: http://dev.iptc.org/files/rNews/rnews_1.0_draft3.ttl– RDF/XML:

http://dev.iptc.org/files/rNews/rnews_1.0_draft3_rdfxml.owl

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Date and Place of Next Meeting

Amsterdam 11 - 13 March, 2013

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