1. IPTC Semantic Web Working Group
Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 11th June 2012

2. 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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3. rNews 1.0
Embeddable news metadata
• One data model
• Suggested implementations
– RDFa
– HTML5 Microdata
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews
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4. Promoting rNews
rNews and the ecosystem of community, tool builders and publishers,
a year after the standard’s release
https://speakerdeck.com/u/agebhard/p/the-state-of-rnews
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5. Promotional Meetings
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6. rNews Adoption
“The largest change [to schema.org] was the integration of the
IPTC/rNews vocabulary. Building on this model, we have been
encouraging public collaboration, discussion and debate on schemas
via the W3C Web Schemas community.”
http://blog.schema.org/2012/06/semtech-rdfa-microdata-and-more.html
• According to Bing and Google, around 7%-8% of the
crawled web is using schema.org markup
• Our own analytics indicate that a growing number of
news sites, large and small, are adopting rNews
properties
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7. rNews Adoption
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8. rNews and Tool Builders
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9. rNews Friending OGP
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10. rNews Evolution
• rNews 1.1 candidates
– Add article expiration property to data model
– Document implementation guides for JSON/JSON-LD, OGP…
– Update mapping of rNews to schema.org
– Consider feedback from implementations
• Publish rNews 1.1 in October
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11. W3C semnews Community Group
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12. 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 in HTML
http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/owlapi/http://dev.iptc.org/file
s/rNews/rnews_1.0_draft3_rdfxml.owl
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13. Date and Place of Next Meeting
Moscow * 22 - 24 October, 2012
Thank you and Goodbye!
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