IPTC Semantic Web Working Group

Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 21st October 2013

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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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rNews

Embeddable news metadata• One data model• Suggested implementations

– RDFa– HTML5 Microdata

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews

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rNews 1.2

Add Storyline as a Class to rNews as a subClass of rnews:Concept

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-12-CR-1003-add-storyline

Storyline metadata is often expressed via webpages

Adding it to rNews will make it machine readable

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Storylines

http://www.slideshare.net/logomachy/iptc-presentation-about-the-storylines-data-model

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline/2013-05-01.html

http://www.slideshare.net/jeremytarling/the-storyline-ontology

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Storylines

"The News Storyline Ontology is a generic model for describing and organising the stories news organisations tell. The ontology is intended to be flexible to support any given news or media publisher's approach to handling news stories. At the heart of the ontology, is the concept of Storyline. As a nuance of the English language the word 'story' has multiple meanings. In news organisations, a story can be an individual piece of content, such as an article or news report. It can also be the editorial view on events occurring in the world."

From BBC's Storyline ontology http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline/2013-05-01.html

For more, see Robin Pembrooke's Storyline blog post http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Storyline

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Storylines in rNews

• rnews:Storyline properties– rnews:description– rnews:name– rnews:slug

• Add rnews:slug (a new property) to rnews:NewsItem

• We have also discussed this change with Schema.org

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-12-CR-1003-add-storyline

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rNews

MOTION – Standards Committee

MOTION (to the Standards Committee): To approve rNews version 1.2

as specified byrNews_1.2_CR-1003-add-storyline.pdf

W3C semnews Community Group

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Date and Place of Next Meeting?

Istanbul March, 2014

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