The IPTC Semantic Web Working Group is working to leverage Semantic Web technologies like RDFa and microdata to represent news content. Their work involves determining the aspects of news to represent in models and specifying formats to represent the news metadata. They have developed rNews 1.0 as an embeddable news metadata standard that can be implemented using RDFa or HTML5 Microdata. They are working to promote adoption of rNews and are considering feedback to develop rNews 1.1, planned for release in October.

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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