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NewsCodes Working Party

IPTC Summer meeting, 2 June 2015

Warsaw

Heather L. Edwards – Associated Press

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Agenda

1. Minutes of the last meeting held on 16 June 2014

(NCD1404.1)

2. Chair’s report

3. Wrap-up of the Semantic Exchange session on Monday

4. Discussion of current NewsCodes delivery formats

5. Any Other Business

6. Next meeting (26 – 27 October 2015, London, UK)

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Chair’s report

• Change requests

– New sports

– Clarifying ambiguous terms and descriptions

• Sports competition discipline policy

– Retired excessively-granular sports terms

– Proposed faceted newscodes for event-level data

• Semantic Exchange

– Hosted working session at Spring meeting

– NYT mapping serving as first test case for guidelines.

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SemEx wrap-up

• Recommended practices for mapping named entities will

be added to the SemEx standard.

• Minimum criteria: Produce a mapping from the provider

entity vocabulary to dereferenceable linked open data

resources and make it available to customers in a

machine-processable format.

• Best practices will include recommended criteria for

selecting LOD vocabularies for mapping.

• If participating members agree, IPTC may indicate which

vocabularies members have selected for mapping.

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NewsCodes delivery formats

Formats have proliferated as member’s requested new

options....

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Primary – CV server

cv.iptc.org

• Download formats:

• G2 knowledge items

• html

• RDF/XML

• RDF/TTL

• Display has improved, but hierarchy

is not very human-readable Scheme Browser

postview.iptc.org/site/NewsCodes/

• Downloadable package

• Developed by DPA

• Not maintained

Web-based viewer

show.newscodes.org

• GUI navigator

• Takes json input,

transformed from G2

• Developed by Michael

Excel

• G2 → csv → excel

• Very time-consuming

• Most user-friendly

NewsCodes delivery formats

• Increased rate of changes makes maintenance

impractical.

• Which formats are most useful?

– CV server html (cv.iptc.org)

– RDF/XML, RDF/TTL, G2

– Schema Browser (postview.iptc.org/site/NewsCodes/)

– Web-based viewer (show.newscodes.org)

– Excel/csv

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Thanks

Please join the Dev group to comment on changes in

progress https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/iptc-newscodes-dev/

Next call: 17 June, 1500 CEST / 1300 GMT / 900 EDT

Submit any change requests

http://dev.iptc.org/NewsCodes-Change-Request-Form

hedwards@ap.org @hl_edwards

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