The document discusses the IPTC Semantic Web Working Group's efforts to leverage semantic web technologies for representing news content. Their work focuses on developing models for the aspects of news to represent and formats for encoding the news using semantic web standards like RDFa, microformats and Linked Data. The group also provides updates on their rNews specification for adding metadata to HTML news articles and their work to publish IPTC NewsCodes and link them to other datasets according to Linked Data principles. They announce plans to further expand these linking efforts and to participate in the W3C semnews Community Group. The next meeting is scheduled for June 2012 in New York.

1. IPTC Semantic Web
Working Group
Stuart Myles
Associated Press
18th March 2011

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, microformats, Linked Data, microdata
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3. IPTC’s Semantic Web Agenda
At this meeting we will discuss
• Update on rNews since 1.0
• Linked Data for News
• W3C semnews Community Group
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4. The Semantic Web and Linked Data
Moving beyond a web of documents
To a web of data
Semantic Web technologies
extend today’s web with
• machine readable information
• links between data and services
Also known as “The Giant Global Graph”, “Web 3.0”, “A Web of Things” …
There are different theories about what it is and how to get there.
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5. Semantic Web and Linked Data
http://bnode.org/media/2009/07/08/semantic_web_technology_stack.png

6. rNews: News Metadata in HTML
• One goal
– Promote the creation of better, more accurate tools for working
with news on the web
– By adding news metadata to HTML
• (At least) three approaches
– Microformats
• conventions for using standard HTML
• to add labels to indicate the meaning of markup
– RDFa
• alter your HTML document to use non HTML attributes
• to insert RDF triples to indicate the meaning of markup
– Microdata
• a proposed set of structures within HTML5
• to associate name value pairs with scoped items in HTML
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7. Update rNews 1.0
• rNews 1.0 approved 2011/10
• Update from New York Times
• Who else is adopting rNews?
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8. rNews Next Steps
• Market rNews to drive adoption
– Identify opportunities to promote rNews (and the IPTC)
– Create tools for validating rNews implementations
• Continue to work with rNews consumers and producers
– Update mapping of rNews to schema.org
– Consider feedback from implementations
• Publish rNews 1.1 in summer, if required
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9. Linked Data for News
• IPTC NewsCodes available as Linked Data
– Connect related data across the web using URIs, HTTP & RDF
• Followed the Linked Data principles, as specified by TBL
– Use URIs as names for things
– Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
– When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information,
using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)
– Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more things
http://www.iptc.org/site/NewsCodes/NewsCodes_Retrieval_in_Different_Formats
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10. More Linking
• The current IPTC Linked Data only links between IPTC
NewsCodes
– We’ve experimented with mapping to DBpedia
– We’ve discussed mapping with Freebase
– Wikipedia announced Wikidata
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
• We proposed to explore linking to non-IPTC resources
– Make the IPTC NewsCodes linked data more useful
– Potential for IPTC to become a “hub” in the Linked Data network
– Identified Freebase as candidate, experiment with mappings
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11. W3C semnews Community Group
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12. Date and Place of Next Meeting
New York
11 - 13 June, 2012
Thank you and Goodbye!
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