The latest on the Semantic Exchange - IPTC's new standard for taxonomy integration between providers. March 2015

1. Semantic Exchange breakout
IPTC Spring meeting 2015
New York City
Heather L. Edwards – Associated Press
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2. Session format
• Introductory presentations from the community
•15 minutes each
•NY Times,Thomson Reuters, Conde Nast, AP
• Working session on Semantic Exchange

3. 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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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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
hedwards@ap.org @hl_edwards