Semantic Exchange breakout

IPTC Spring meeting 2015New York City

Heather L. Edwards – Associated Press1https://www.flickr.com/photos/lost_in_the_library/14289803708/

Session format

• Introductory presentations from the community

•15 minutes each

•NY Times,Thomson Reuters, Conde Nast, AP

• Working session on Semantic Exchange

Open questions

• How do we manage rights and intellectual property?

• How will we share the mappings? (API? Github?)

• Are there issues or concerns about the current guidelines?

• How do MediaTopic:{providers} results work? Do we only provide close and exact?

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Past assumptions

• The IPTC would be responsible for distributing the mappings.

•Technical burden

•Maintenance requirements

•Responsibility for providers' IP

•Validation

• Providers would have to relinquish certain rights to participate.

Why treat SemEx differently?

1. IPTC defines the standard and criteria for compliance.

2. Providers implement standard and report participation.

• It's not up to the IPTC to police the implementations.

• All maintenance, data validation, and IP management stay with the provider.

Minimum criteria for participation

• Produce a mapping from the provider taxonomy to MediaTopics and make it available to customers in a machine-processable format.

• Best practice:

• Mapping should be provided as RDF or a G2 knowledge item.

• Mappings should be current as both MediaTopics and provider taxonomies change.

• Suggested methods:

• Publicly-posted mapping files

• Privately-posted mapping files

• Mappings directly in content

Thanks!!

Thanks to the organizing committee, presenters, and all participants!

Please join the Dev group to comment on changes in progress https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/iptc-newscodes-dev/

Next call: 26 March, 1500 CET / 1400 GMT / 1000 EDT

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