The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is developing rNews – a new standard for embedding publishing metadata into online documents using RDFa or HTML5 Microdata. In this talk, @smyles, @kansandhaus and @agebhard, members of the IPTC, provide a look back at how rNews came into existence and advanced to what it is today, argue the business case for semantic markup and introduce us to rNews in its current state.
http://www.iptc.org
http://rnews.org
Given at Semantic Web Media Summit on Sept 14th, 2011
http://lanyrd.com/2011/semantic-web-media-summit/shhtp/
2. Hello!
§ Stuart Myles – @smyles
Lead of the IPTC Semantic Web WG &
Deputy Director of Schema Standards,
The Associated Press
§ Evan Sandhaus – @kansandhaus
Lead Architect, Semantic Platforms,
The New York Times Company
§ Andreas Gebhard – @agebhard
Managing Editor,
Getty Images
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8. The Problem of Structured Data
§ Modern Web Sites
Built with 3 Tier
Display
Architecture
• Data Tier: Database
Tier
Where Content Lives.
• Presentation Tier:
HTML Document that is
sent to user.
• Logic Tier: Software
Logic
that reads from the Data
Tier and outputs the Tier
Presentation Tier.
Data
Tier
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9. The Problem Of Structured Data:
Continued
Data Tier Logic Tier Display Tier
Label Type Value <html>
<head>
id number 1248069162607 <title>
Headline text New Web Code Draws Concern... New Web Code Draws Concern...
</title>
Byline text By TANZINA VEGA </head>
Date date 20101010 <body>
<div>
Body text In the next few years, a powerful... New Web Code Draws Concern...
Length number 1123 </div>
<div>
Tag text Privacy By TANZINA VEGA
Tag text Computers and the Internet </div>
<div>
Tag text Web Browsers October 10, 2010
</div>
<div>
In the next few years, a powerful...
</div>
</body>
§ Content very well structured on Data </html>
Tier, but all of this structure is lost in
translation to presentation tier.
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10. The Problem Of Structured Data:
Continued
<html>
Display Tier ?
<head>
<title>
New Web Code Draws Concern...
</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
=
New Web Code Draws Concern...
</div>
<div>
By TANZINA VEGA
</div>
<div>
§ Search engines, social
October 10, 2010 networks, aggregators and
</div>
<div> other sites only see the
In the next few years, a powerful...
</div> Display Tier, and cannot
</body>
</html>
leverage the underlying
structure of the data.
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22. The Way To rNews
§ June: Genesis of rNews - Evan at SemTech 2010
2010
§ November 5 - Rome: chartered
§ internal discussions about NYT draft
§ March 9 - Dubai: rNews 0.1
2011
§ lots of feedback, changes and additions
§ June 9 - Berlin: rNews 0.5
§ June 28: rNews 0.6
§ September 6: rNews 0.7 [aligned w/ schema.org]
§ October 7 - Vienna: rNews 1.0 22
27. Feedback we incorporated...
§ In Person
• 3 Meetups: New York, Berlin, London
• Over a dozen one-on-one meetings with leading media and
technology companies.
§ Online
• Rnews.org forum
• Numerous Blog Posts
§ In The Standard’s Community
• W3C Community Group
• Media Standards Trust
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28. Feedback we incorporated...
point
circle
latitude elevation
longitude polygon
altitude box
line
Geo
Location Coordinates
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36. How Can You Help Us Get to rNews 1.0?
§ Check out the rNews 0.7 spec
§ Mark up some pages using rNews
§ Extract rNews properties using your favourite distiller
§ Dream up The Next Metadata Killer App™
Let us know what you think
Let us know how we can help
@smyles • @agebhard • @kansandhaus
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