newsml - a revolution in news kaj wik siebert, research & standards
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NewsML -A Revolution in News
Kaj Wik Siebert, Research & Standards
What has changed?
• Information Overload Reuters Daily OutputReuters Daily Output
•13,000 stories13,000 stories
•2.0 - 2.5 million words in 24 2.0 - 2.5 million words in 24 languageslanguages
•400-600 pictures400-600 pictures
•23 hours of video 23 hours of video
•25-30 graphics 25-30 graphics
•2300 correspondents in 184 2300 correspondents in 184 bureaus serving 160+ countriesbureaus serving 160+ countries
What has changed?
• Information Overload
• Bandwidth
What has changed?
• Information Overload
• Bandwidth
• Common Standards
What has changed?
• Information Overload
• Bandwidth
• Common Standards
• Vast Audiences
NewsML Vision
• Accessible
– Metadata enable filtering and delivery of contextual news
NewsML Vision
• Accessible
– Metadata enable filtering and delivery of contextual news
• Media Independent
– All formats and media types recognised equally
– Structure consisting of parts and named relationships between parts
NewsML
NewsML Vision
• Accessible
– Metadata enable filtering and delivery of contextual news
• Media Independent
– All formats and media types recognised equally
– Structure consisting of parts and named relationships between parts
• Platform Agnostic
– To reach users at home, in the office or anywhere in between
NewsML
• 1998
– Discussions start in Reuters. Reuters NewsML DTD published internally
• 1999
– Reuters submits proposed NewsML specification to IPTC
Evolution of NewsML
• 2000
– IPTC forms steering and working groups to develop functional specifications and DTD for NewsML
• July 2000
– IPTC accepts NewsML version 1.0 beta
Evolution of NewsML
Evolution of NewsML
• October 2000
– IPTC formal ratification
How NewsML works
Main text Primary picture
Video clips
Sidebar
English
French
8000 x 6000
800 x 600
EQUIVALENTS
EQUIVALENTS
EQUIVALENTS
EQUIVALENTS
NewsML
Structure of a NewsML Document
• Catalog
– References external resources
– Links topics to elements
• Topic Set
– References to real-world things (people, places, companies etc.)
• NewsEnvelope
– Workflow information
• NewsItem
– Actual news content
What is a NewsItem?
NewsItem
NewsComponent
Descriptive metadataDescriptive metadata• Language• Genre• Context• Mention• Relates to• Of interest to
Content ItemContent Item(actual content)
oror(pointer to
the content)
AdministrativeAdministrative
metadatametadata• Publisher• Creator• Source• Contributor• History
Rights metadataRights metadata• Ownership• Usage rights
Type metadataType metadata• Mediatype
Physical metadataPhysical metadata Size, Height, Width,
Streaming, Duration, Resolution, Color
NewsLinesNewsLines HeadLines, ByLines, SlugLines,
Keywords
Multiple versions & alternatives
Multiple versions & alternatives
From NewsML Version 1.0 Functional Specification © 2000 IPTC
NewsML Toolkit
• Developed by David Megginson on behalf of Reuters and Wavo
• Available under terms of the Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPL) from:
http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/firstcontact/newsml-toolkit/
• Java based
• Simple API that enables access to the most important NewsML functions without any knowledge of XML or NewsML markup
• Comes with NewsML Explorer
NewsML Explorer
NewsML Explorer
• Demo
• Text + images
– Multiple NewsComponents
NewsShowcase (http://newsshowcase.reuters.com/)
NewsShowcase (http://newsshowcase.reuters.com/)
• Text + images
– Multiple NewsComponents
• Related or top stories
– Using linked list
NewsShowcase (http://newsshowcase.reuters.com/)
• Text + images
– Multiple NewsComponents
• Related or top stories
– Using linked list
• Multiple Languages
– Examples of English, Spanish, Arabic
NewsShowcase (http://newsshowcase.reuters.com/)
• Demo
Further Information
• IPTC
– http://www.iptc.org/
• NewsML Toolkit
– http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/firstcontact/newsml-toolkit/
• News Showcase
– http://newsshowcase.reuters.com/
• Me