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Subject: OASIS MEMBER NEWS: IPTC and RivCom collaborate to advance News Industry XML Initiative
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Rivers [mailto:adrian.rivers@rivcom.com] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:12 AM Subject: OASIS MEMBER NEWS: OASIS members IPTC and RivCom collaborate to advance News Industry XML Initiative April 5, 2000 PRESS RELEASE OASIS members IPTC and RivCom collaborate to advance News Industry XML Initiative NICE, France - The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the news industry's technical standards body, has appointed RivCom consultant Daniel Rivers-Moore to assist with the development of its latest XML initiative, NewsML. NewsML is an XML encoding for news which is intended to be used for the creation, transfer and delivery of news. It is part of the IPTC 2000 initiative launched last fall to develop an XML-based framework for structuring and managing news objects in a multimedia environment. NewsML is media independent, and allows equally for the representation of the evening TV news and a simple textual story. Specifically, NewsML provides the following features: * all formats and media types recognised equally * facilitates the development of news items * collections of news items * named relationships between news items * structure consisting of parts and named relationships between parts * alternative representations of the same part * explicit inclusion, inclusion by reference and exclusion of parts and alternatives * attachment of metadata from standard and non-standard schemes. RivCom's Daniel Rivers-Moore has been commissioned to assist with the further development of NewsML, and will write the NewsML DTD and related documentation. The goal is to have a draft ready for review for the IPTC Annual General Meeting in early July in Geneva. Daniel will work closely with two IPTC NewsML working parties, the News Structure and Management group and the News Text group to ensure the efficient and timely delivery of this important specification. About IPTC The International Press Telecommunications Council was established in 1965 to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the World's Press. Since the late 1970s its activities have primarily focussed on developing and publishing Industry Standards for the interchange of news data. At present the IPTC membership is drawn mainly from the major news agencies around the globe but also it has a strong representation from Newspaper publishers as well as some vendors. See www.iptc.org <http://www.iptc.org> for further information. About RivCom RivCom has a decade of experience in helping large organizations publish structured information. Today the company specialises in the provision of consultancy, training and solutions to help organizations use XML to unblock enterprise information. RivCom has been a member of OASIS since 1995 and has participated in several OASIS Technical Committees. RivCom has been a member of W3C since 1998 and has participated actively in the XSL Working Group. RivCom was software lead in the European XML/EDI Pilot Project that during 1999 evaluated the ability of the XML family of standards to deliver applications that meet the needs of eBusiness and EDI (electronic data interchange). See www.rivcom.com <http://www.rivcom.com> for more information. About Daniel Rivers-Moore Daniel Rivers-Moore has been Technical Director of RivCom throughout the company's existence. He participated in the development of the XML specification as an Invited Expert to the original XML Special Interest Group (the advisory forum that surrounded the XML Working Group during the development of the specification). He is Joint Project Leader of the STEP/SGML harmonization initiative under ISO, that is exploring ways of bringing together the SGML family of standards (including its XML sub-family) and the STEP standards that are used for the management and interchange of large-scale industrial and manufacturing data. Daniel has participated in the EPISTLE Data Modelling Group, which advises the European process industries on good practice for data modeling and developed the EPISTLE Core Model which serves as the basis for asset information management throughout the lifecycle of industrial processing plants. Currently Daniel is coordinating the KnoW (Knowledge on the Web) initiative, which brings together industry, publishers, academics, software product and service providers and standards bodies, to explore the way forward for combining disparate kinds of information on the Web in the XML era. See www.rivcom.com/about/staff.htm#daniel <http://www.rivcom.com/about/staff.htm#daniel> for more information. For more information, contact: David Allen, managing director of the IPTC, at ho73@dial.pipex.com <mailto:ho73@dial.pipex.com> or Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies of RivCom, at daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com <mailto:daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com> # # #
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