NewsML-G2

NewsML-G2 is an XML multimedia news exchange format standard of the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council.

As part of the IPTC G2-Standards family, NewsML-G2 acts as an envelope for one or more news items (such as a text article, a photo, or a video clip) or a structured package of links to news items, and contains metadata to describe the relationships between the items.[1] NewsML-G2 is a business-to-business standard that is intended to help news agencies create complex packages of multimedia news into a single cohesive bundle.

Unlike its predecessor, NewsML 1.x, NewsML-G2 uses standardized XML building blocks and metadata. These building blocks are used in other IPTC G2-Standards, so that system programmers can reuse their code.

Like NewsML, NewsML-G2 is not a text or image mark-up format; it has no way to mark paragraphs or headlines, for example. Instead, it is an envelope and organizer for one or more files of almost any type. For text article formatting, IPTC mentions News Industry Text Format (NITF) or XHTML as common examples.[2]

NewsML-G2 is used by several large international news agencies, including Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Austria Presse Agentur, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Thomson Reuters, and others.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "IPTC - NewsML-G2 - Introduction". IPTC. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "7.6 The Content". NewsML-G2 Implementation Guide (PDF) (5 ed.). IPTC. 2012. pp. 49–51.
  3. ↑ "IPTC - NewsML-G2 - Who's using it". IPTC. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "dpa stellt Produktion auf Datenformat NewsML-G2 um". http://www.dpa.de (in German). 8 October 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2014. External link in |website= (help)


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