OASIS MEMBER NEWS: IPTC The News Industry Standards Organization, Announces Work Program for End-to-End XML News Interchange

[Laura Walker <laurawalker@earthlink.net>]

IPTC, The News Industry Standards Organization, Announces Work Program for
End-to-End XML News Interchange

WINDSOR, England, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Major news industry organizations
are pooling their resources under the auspices of the IPTC to develop a
single XML-based standard for all aspects of news creation, storage and
delivery. 

At their recent meeting in Amsterdam, members of the IPTC agreed to revamp
their operating structure and establish a new work program, IPTC2000, which
will deliver an XML-based standard to represent and manage news through its
life-cycle, including production, interchange and consumer use. Entitled
NewsML, it is intended that the new framework standard will build on the
intellectual property invested in existing IPTC standards such as the
Information Interchange Model (IIM), News Industry Text Format (NITF) and
the IPTC's widely used Subject Classification Standard. Using Extensible
Markup Language (XML), it is intended that NewsML will draw appropriately
on existing and emerging W3C recommendations.
 
Three working groups have been established to develop the key components of
the program. These are News Structure and Management, News Text and News
Metadata.