IPTC Semantic Web Working Group Summer 2012

IPTC Semantic Web Working Group

Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 11th June 2012

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 1.0

Embeddable news metadata• One data model• Suggested implementations

– RDFa– HTML5 Microdata

http://dev.iptc.org/rNews




Promoting rNews


rNews and the ecosystem of community, tool builders and publishers, a year after the standard’s release

https://speakerdeck.com/u/agebhard/p/the-state-of-rnews



Promotional Meetings


rNews Adoption

“The largest change [to schema.org] was the integration of the IPTC/rNews vocabulary. Building on this model, we have been encouraging

public collaboration, discussion and debate on schemas via the W3C Web Schemas community.”

http://blog.schema.org/2012/06/semtech-rdfa-microdata-and-more.html

• According to Bing and Google, around 7%-8% of the crawled web is using schema.org markup

• Our own analytics indicate that a growing number of news sites, large and small, are adopting rNews properties


http://blog.schema.org/2011/09/extended-schemaorg-news-support.html



http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas




rNews Adoption


rNews and Tool Builders


rNews Friending OGP

Photo: "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" laughingsquid.com. 9

http://laughingsquid.com/

rNews Evolution

• rNews 1.1 candidates– Add article expiration property to data model– Document implementation guides for JSON/JSON-LD, OGP…– Update mapping of rNews to schema.org– Consider feedback from implementations

• Publish rNews 1.1 in October


W3C semnews Community Group


rNews OWL

• We’re hosting the rNews OWL discussion on the W3C semnews community group

http://www.w3.org/community/semnews/2012/05/15/draft-rnews-1-0-owl-ontology-feedback-requested/• Current Draft rNews 1.0 OWL in HTML

http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/owlapi/http://dev.iptc.org/files/rNews/rnews_1.0_draft3_rdfxml.owl


http://www.w3.org/community/semnews/2012/05/15/draft-rnews-1-0-owl-ontology-feedback-requested/




http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/owlapi/http:/dev.iptc.org/files/rNews/rnews_1.0_draft3_rdfxml.owl




Date and Place of Next Meeting

Moscow * 22 - 24 October, 2012

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IPTC Semantic Web Working Group Summer 2012

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