The IPTC Semantic Web Working Group is working on two main areas: models to determine how to represent aspects of news semantically, and formats for representing the news using semantic web technologies like RDFa, microformats, and linked data. At this meeting, they will discuss rNews 1.0, expanding their linked data for news, and the W3C semnews community group. Their goals are to promote better tools for working with news on the web by adding semantic metadata to news in HTML formats and connecting related news data across the web using URIs, HTTP, and RDF.

1. IPTC
Semantic Web
Working Group
Stuart Myles
Associated Press
5th October 2011

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, microformats, Linked Data, microdata
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3. IPTC’s Semantic Web Agenda
At this meeting we will discuss
• rNews 1.0
• Linked Data for News
• W3C semnews Community Group
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4. The Semantic Web and Linked Data
Moving beyond a web of documents
To a web of data
Semantic Web technologies
extend today’s web with
• machine readable information
• links between data and services
Also known as “The Giant Global Graph”, “Web 3.0”, “A Web of Things” …
There are different theories about what it is and how to get there.
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5. Semantic Web and Linked Data
http://bnode.org/media/2009/07/08/semantic_web_technology_stack.png

6. rNews: News Metadata in HTML
• One goal
– Promote the creation of better, more accurate tools for working
with news on the web
– By adding news metadata to HTML
• (At least) three approaches
– Microformats
• conventions for using standard HTML
• to add labels to indicate the meaning of markup
– RDFa
• alter your HTML document to use non HTML attributes
• to insert RDF triples to indicate the meaning of markup
– Microdata
• a proposed set of structures within HTML5
• to associate name value pairs with scoped items in HTML
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7. rNews 0.5 -> 1.0
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rNews 0.5 rNews 1.0
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8. Motion for a Vote
Motion to the Standards Committee:
To approve
rNews Version 1.0
as specified in
20110923-DRAFT-rNews_1.0.zip
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9. Linked Data for News
• IPTC NewsCodes available as Linked Data
– Connect related data across the web using URIs, HTTP & RDF
• Followed the Linked Data principles, as specified by TBL
– Use URIs as names for things
– Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
– When someone looks up a URI, provide useful
information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)
– Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more things
http://www.iptc.org/site/NewsCodes/NewsCodes_Retrieval_in_Different_Formats
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10. More Linking
• The current IPTC Linked Data only links between IPTC
NewsCodes
– We’ve experimented with mapping to DBpedia
– We’ve discussed mapping with Freebase
• We propose to explore linking to non-IPTC resources
– Make the IPTC NewsCodes linked data more useful
– Potential for IPTC to become a “hub” in the Linked Data network
– Identify candidate resources, experiment with mappings
– Report findings at the London meeting
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11. W3C semnews Community Group
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12. Date and Place of Next Meeting
London
19th – 21st March, 2012
Danke und auf Wiedersehen!
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