International Press Telecommunications Council

The International Press Telecommunications Council ( IPTC) is the world association of newspapers and news agencies for the technical standardization of the message exchange.

Originally the IPTC was established in 1965 to protect the interests of the press and news agencies in the area of ​​telecommunications.

Today he owns all major news agencies, some national newspaper publishing associations and a number of software producers.

Developed by the IPTC standards (standards):

  • IPTC 7901: Standard for the exchange of texts, is today still primarily used by the agencies in Europe, was developed in 1979.
  • Together with the Newspaper Association of America ( NAA) was around 1991 the so-called IPTC -NAA standard - or better, the " Information Interchange Model" ( IIM ) - developed. In principle, suitable for all types of media, he was primarily known for its use in Adobe Photoshop wide.
  • NITF: First standard format of the IPTC, which built on XML. It is used primarily to exchange of texts.
  • NewsML: anabolic on XML standard format for the exchange of multimedia packages. Such a package can contain text, pictures, graphics etc..
  • G2 - Standards: A family of building on XML formats for both multimedia news and information about events (events) and for terms that d h. for the exchange of knowledge. This family includes the standards NewsML -G2, EventsML -G2 and G2 - SportsML.
  • Photo Metadata: Starting from the list of fields selected for Adobe Photoshop from the IIM / IPTC -NAA standard two metadata schemes have been developed: IPTC Core and IPTC Extension. These are technically based on the XMP standard for storing metadata.
  • News codes: taxonomies for categorizing media content = a binding collection of terms that prevents subjects are tagged with similar but not identical terms. The Verschlagwortungskatalog, IPTC thesaurus is available in several languages.
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