The launch of rNews 1.0, including schema.org alignment. Discussion of plans to expand Linked Data expressions for news

1. IPTCSemantic WebWorking Group Stuart Myles Associated Press 5th October 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 © 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 2

4. Linked Data for News

5. W3C semnews Community Group© 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 3

6. The Semantic Web and Linked Data Moving beyond a web of documents © 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 4 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.

7. Semantic Web and Linked Data http://bnode.org/media/2009/07/08/semantic_web_technology_stack.png

8. 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 © 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 6

9. ` rNews 0.5 -> 1.0 © 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 7 rNews 1.0 rNews 0.5 http://dev.iptc.org/rNews

10. Motion for a Vote Motion to the Standards Committee: To approve rNews Version 1.0 as specified in 20110923-DRAFT-rNews_1.0.zip © 2010 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 8

11. 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 © 2010 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 9

12. 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 We propose 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 Identify candidate resources, experiment with mappings Report findings at the London meeting © 2010 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 10

13. W3C semnews Community Group © 2010 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 11

14. Date and Place of Next Meeting London 19th – 21st March, 2012 Danke und auf Wiedersehen! © 2011 IPTC (www.iptc.org) All rights reserved 12